Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 8th January, 2018
CALL Scotland's webinars are a valuable opportunity for relevant, practical FREE Professional Learning on the topic of inclusive digtal technologies. What you learn from these webinars could enhance your teaching methods and thus increase the learning opportunities for your students ...
Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 4th January, 2018
Dictate is a speech recognition add-on for Microsoft Office products. Once installed, you can talk aloud in Word, Outlook Mail and PowerPoint and have your words automatically transcribed into the selected field. Is it any good and how does it compare to software such as Dragon Naturally Speak...
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 3rd January, 2018
Professor Lani Florian, Bell Chair of Education, The University of Edinburgh, will be delivering a Public Lecture, entitled 'On the Presumption of Mainstreaming: Ideals and Reality' at 5 pm on Tuesday 16th January 2018. The lecture will be given in the Godfrey Thomson Hall, Moray House Schoo...
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 11th December, 2017
The Communication Trust has been funded by the Department for Education to conduct a research project on the effective teaching of literacy for pupils who use Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). Part of the project is a national survey around practices and experiences for any...
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 8th December, 2017
I had a phone call this week from an adult with dyslexia wanting to use text-to-speech with the Kindle app to help him read books on an Android tablet. You would expect this to be relatively straightforward, but it took over two hours of investigation and I'm still not sure that I found the '...
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 7th December, 2017
We have been asked to pass on information about a survey into how decisions are made about selecting an appropriate App for somebody who needs to use augmentative and alternative communication to express themselves. The survey, organised by James Northridge from the University of Massachusetts...
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 4th December, 2017
Does anybody in a secondary school in Scotland have a pupil who is using a Reader Pen / Exam Pen to help them read text independently? Has this pupil used the Pen to sit prelims, or SQA assessments? Jim Bowen from Scanning Pens is desperately looking for case studies illustrating the use of Reader /...
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 1st December, 2017
Over the past few years I’ve occasionally reflected on the range of switch accessible toys available for children with complex additional support needs. Companies like Inclusive Technology, TFH, SpaceKraft and Liberator have some excellent toys available, but many have become increasingly comp...
Posted by Joanna Courtney on the 30th November, 2017
As part of Book Week Scotland, Scottish Book Trust gifts every P1 child with 3 books, which make up the short-list for the Bookbug Picture Book Prize. If you'd like your learners with ASN and communication difficulties to fully take part and then vote before the deadline on 8th December&nbs...
Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 6th November, 2017
My presentation at last week’s ASN Provision in Education: Priorities, Potential and the 10-Year strategy was about the assistive and communication technology expertise that CALL Scotland has and shares nationally and how this directly corresponds to the services within scope that have b...
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