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Remember! This is not a definitive list of available courses - choose one from below, one from our in CALL list or create your own. Click here to use the enquiry form to let us know what you want.
ICT and Additional Support Needs - An overview of supportive hardware and software approaches. This course is suitable for staff who may be new to working with students with additional support needs, and who would welcome an introduction and overview of useful resources, such as software providing picture / symbol support, speech feedback, alternative accessing devices.
ICT & Dyslexia - ICT to support pupils with reading and writing difficulties; using talking word-processors, and other software and hardware aids to support teaching and learning for dyslexic students. ICT & Numeracy - An opportunity to review various software tools to support students with numeracy issues.
Additional Support Needs: Software Awareness - This is a unique opportunity to view and review a range of software to support various aspects of the curriculum. Morning will be spent viewing demonstrations of software; those staying on for afternoon will get hands-on time to review selected software themselves.
Fun with PowerPoint - How to make personalised and motivating resources in PowerPoint, for pupils who are very young or have complex Additional Support Needs, perhaps using single switch or touch screen access, using photos, images from the internet, music, recorded speech, animation etc.
Cloze Pro - An exciting program from the Clicker stable which allows staff to quickly create personalised on-screen ‘fill in the blank’ resources, allowing students with Additional Support Needs (and indeed ALL students!) to complete worksheets and to record their work.
Clicker 4 (Introductory, or ‘Moving On’ Level) - These courses cover the variety of uses for Clicker 4 to support pupils to develop their literacy skills or enable them to access the curriculum. Participants will use the program to work with grids, covering a number of curricular areas and to create their own.
Clicker 5 - An introduction to the latest version of Clicker. Clicker 5 is more advanced than Clicker 4, taking advantage of the latest technologies. The interface will be familiar to those used to Clicker but has many enhancements that make creating grids even easier.
BoardMaker - An introduction to (or chance to brush up) your confidence and skills in creating PCS symbol resources. These symbols are being used more and more to support pupils with communication difficulties in both mainstream and special school settings. The software (approx £85 per CD) can be included in the cost of the course if required.
Intellikeys and Overlay Maker - An Intellikeys board along with appropriate software can provide access to the curriculum for pupils with a visual impairment or those with difficulty accessing a standard mouse and keyboard. This course will look at making and adapting overlays for use with a range of programs.
Making and Adapting Accessible Resources in Intellitalk II - Intellitalk II is more than just a talking word processor. This course will look at creating materials using the features of Intellitalk II which provides on-screen palettes, overlays and (auditory) scanning displaying both text and graphics.
Early Communication in Children with Additional Support Needs - The importance of visuals (pictures, photos, signing, symbols) to encourage communication and support language development in young children with Additional Support Needs.
Creating Communication Opportunities - There are different ways to handle a communication scenario. Your technique might involve silent compliance. It might involve a question, and a Yes/No answer. This course looks at a wide range of techniques to make every situation as communicative as possible.
Using Symbols and Basic Communication Aids - Ideas and examples for using picture and symbol materials and the simplest voice output communication aids (VOCAs with from one to about 12 or 20 max recorded messages) which can be effective group / class resources as well as personal aids (or, ‘50 things to do with a BIGMack’).
Personal Communication Passports - Passports provide a practical, person-centred way to share key information for people who cannot easily speak for themselves. This course considers the processes involved in gathering information and looks at ways to create a Passport, including the use of Templates.
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