Help for Learners with Literacy Difficulties
Posted by Claire Harrison on the 19th May, 2017
We’re finishing off our week of blogging about National Digital Learning Week 2017 by considering some of the ways Assistive Technology can help learners with literacy difficulties. As a former children’s bookseller I’m a big fan of children’s literature and m...
Learners with Physical Support Needs
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 18th May, 2017
In today's blog for National Digital Learning Week 2017 we are thinking about learners with physical support needs. Assistive Technology has opened up a world of opportunities for people with physical support needs. Electronic assistive technologies are also becoming much more readily avail...
Supporting learners with early level communication
Posted by Gillian McNeill on the 17th May, 2017
Today’s blog for National Digital Learning Week 2017 focuses on supporting communication. Last week at CALL we delivered a course on how to use iPads to support learners to develop their communication. We can and have provided a number of courses on this topic - this one focussed on using phot...
Lead your students to success!
Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 16th May, 2017
How do we learn about the technology that can support students with Additional Support Needs, disabilities or sensory impairment? There is very little offered in Initial Teacher Education or Post Graduate education programmes so new teachers, who are familiar with and confident in the use...
National Digital Learning Week
Posted by Craig Mill on the 15th May, 2017
Today is the start of National Digital Learning Week 2017. This year the theme of the week is ‘Digital Difference’ and throughout the week the CALL team are going to post blogs about how digital technology can make a difference to learners with additional support needs. In the...
Research Priorities for Learning Disabilities
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 12th May, 2017
Do you have learning difficulties? Do you know, or support somebody with learning difficulties? What research needs to be done to help improve the lives of people with learning difficulties? We were approached recently by Ai Keow Lim, a researcher from Edinburgh University's SMC Research Centre ...
Technology Discovery Day and Consultation
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 12th May, 2017
Augmentative Communication in Practice: Scotland are organising a free event for adults (aged 16 and over) in Scotland who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) to express themselves. It will take the form of a Technology Discovery Day, combined with a Consultation Session and will be...
A Symbol for Communication Access?
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 5th May, 2017
[INFORMATION FROM COMMUNICATION MATTERS] People with communication difficulties don’t always get the support they need in the community. It would help if we had a UK symbol for businesses and organisations to show that they can support people with communication difficulties. Busines...
Single and Multi-Message Posters Now Available
Posted by Claire Harrison on the 4th May, 2017
Do you have BIGmacks, talking buttons or Step-by-Steps lurking dustily at the back of a cupboard in your classroom? Are you confused about the difference between a Smooth Talker and a QuickTalker S? Do you have no idea what any of these are, let alone how and why you would use them?! If so, our...
Tom Hardy-There's a Bear on My Chair symbol resources
Posted by Joanna Courtney on the 28th March, 2017
As many of you out there with young children will know, actor Tom Hardy has been causing quite a stir by reading the Mother’s Day bedtime story on C-Beebies! If you missed it, you can watch Tom reading Ross Collins’ Bookbug Picture Book Prize nominated story ‘There’s a ...
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