towards an autism strategy for scotland
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 10th September, 2010
The Scottish Government, working in partnership with the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Reference Group, have developed a draft Scottish Autism Strategy. The Strategy sets out what the Scottish Government in partnership with users, carers and professionals proposes to do to meet the needs of...
Boardmaker 6 Plus! (again)
Posted by 14 on the 9th September, 2010
CALL has previously alerted folk to the cheap deal on Boardmaker software available through LTS, for Scotland. Since LTS revamped their web site, the page link we gave before has become defunct. Look here for current prices It's rumoured that the deal may 'run out' once a ceiling...
reading web pages (revisited)
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 31st August, 2010
During the early part of 2009 we spent some time comparing different text-to-speech utilities that could be be used to read text aloud from web sites and published our conclusions in our Reading the Web information sheet. At the time, we found the best option was to use the free Click Speak utilit...
Communication Matters!
Posted by 14 on the 24th August, 2010
Anybody who is interested in augmentative communication for their pupils, clients or family member needs to be aware of the annual Communication Matters (CM) Symposium. This is a UK-wide conference - actually becoming increasingly international - held every September (26-28 September, this year, i...
Dyslexia Scotland Education Conference Saturday 25th September
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 27th July, 2010
If you teach or support children and young people with dyslexia, you will be interested in the Dyslexia Scotland Education Conference which this year will be held on Saturday 25th September at the Edinburgh Conference Centre at Heriot-Watt University. The theme of the conference is "Innovative ...
Accessible Formats from your local library
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 16th July, 2010
Forbes Smith, who is coordinating a working group looking at provision of accessible formats in East Dunbartonshire, emailed recently to say that East Dunbartonshire Library Service now has a service for providing downloadable audiobooks. So far they have over 560 titles available for immediate do...
a most curious detour
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 14th July, 2010
We were recently in contact with a member of staff from an adult day centre in Edinburgh. One of his clients, Stuart Hepburn has just finished writing a book, A Most Curious Detour, which describes his experience of becoming disabled as a result of a massive stroke in 2005. The stroke left him paral...
Tah dah! CLA Print Disability Licence is now available!
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 12th July, 2010
On 28th May we blogged that the CLA announced a new Print Disability Licence to replace the 'VIP' licence, and today we received our copy of this new licence. Why is this good news? Well, the Print Disability Licence is for: "an educational establishment or a body that is not conducted for ...
consultation on legislation for pupils with disabilities in scottish schools
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 9th July, 2010
The Scottish Government has launched a consultation on Secondary Legislation arising from The Equality Act 2010.The consultation seeks views on new rules of procedure for the Additional Support Needs Tribunals for Scotland (ASNTS), to enable them to hear disability claims (discrimination, harassme...
Secure social networking site for people with learning disabilities
Posted by 14 on the 6th July, 2010
Came across Special Friends Online - looks interesting as a way of helping children and adults with learning difficulties to be part of international social networking communities - but safely. They've invented 'Smiley Talk' a way of interacting, on the site, for people who can't spell/use ...
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