Giving your Kindle App a Voice
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 15th February, 2017
Text to speech has been available for some Kindle book readers for a number of years, but if you wanted to add this feature to the Kindle apps for a Windows or Mac computer, this involved an incredible amount of faffing about. All this has changed with the latest versions of the apps, available from...
Technology and Dyslexia: half day seminar
Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 31st January, 2017
The CALL Scotland team will be sharing their knowledge and expertise of a wide range of hardware, software and apps that can support dyslexic learners at a half day seminar on 23rd March at the University of Edinburgh. The use of assistive technology can help raise attainment for students with addit...
Additions to the CALL Library
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 31st January, 2017
CALL Scotland has a small library space in our offices at the Moray House School of Education in Edinburgh. The CALL library includes books, journals, conference papers, DVDs, videos on: Augmentative and Alternative Communication Symbol sets Assistive Technology ICT for Education iPads and Mobile D...
New Resources from SENICT
Posted by Claire Harrison on the 27th January, 2017
Many of you who work with learners who use switches as an access method will be familiar with Ian Bean, who over the years has produced many fabulous switch accessible activities. I’m sure I only have to mention ‘The Dancing Hippo’ and you’ll find yourself absent-mindedly hum...
Seeking Participants for Learning Disability Research Workshop
Posted by Gillian McNeill on the 23rd January, 2017
Are you interested in influencing new research into learning disability? Are you a service user, parent or carer with experience of learning disability? Participants are being sought for a research priority-setting workshop to be held in March, in London. The purpose, to identif...
Scottish Teenage Book Prize 2017
Posted by Claire Harrison on the 19th January, 2017
The Scottish Teenage Book Prize is a new award from the Scottish Book Trust. The award celebrates the best of fantastic Scottish teen fiction. There is still time to register, so be sure to log onto the book trust website and cast your vote. You have until 17th February to vote for your favourite bo...
CALL Scotland meets Bookbug Prize Authors
Posted by Gillian McNeill on the 17th January, 2017
It’s not every day we get the chance to get up close and personal with the authors of picture books that our children love to read, but this great opportunity fell to me last week at the Bookbug Picture Book Prize Reception. This event was hosted in Edinburgh by the Scottish Book Trust (SBT) w...
Webinars for Professional Learning
Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 13th January, 2017
Our webinars are the perfect way to learn something new and to use this knowledge practically to support your students with additional support needs. They are specifically designed to be short (20-30 minutes) and timetabled for 4pm to allow teachers to not be overloaded at the end of a busy school d...
Bookbug Picture Book Prize winner announced!
Posted by Joanna Courtney on the 12th January, 2017
The winner of the first Bookbug Picture Book Prize 2017 is Shark in the Park on a Windy Day by Nick Sharratt. Well done to Nick! Around 19,000 children across Scotland voted in the competition and the three nominated books were gifted to every p1 child in Scotland in the Bookbug P1 Family Bag d...
Claire Harrison joins the CALL Scotland Team
Posted by Claire Harrison on the 12th January, 2017
I have just joined the CALL Scotland team to take up the post of Development Officer for Assistive Technology and Complex Additional Support Needs. I graduated from the University of Strathclyde in 1997 with a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) and have spent the last 15 years teaching lea...
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