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Paul Nisbet

Learning at home - text to speech

Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 22nd April, 2020

On Monday, Scottish Government published guidance for home learning and suggested that parents should look on our web site to find out about tools to help, such as 'overlays and text to speech'. Yesterday I posted about colour overlays. Today here's an introduction to text-to-speech. Why...

Learning at home - coloured overlays and text to speech

Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 21st April, 2020

Guidance from Scottish Government published yesterday suggested that parents should look on our web site to find out about tools to help with home learning, such as 'overlays and text to speech'. Here's where to find the information on overlays. We'll do text to speech tomorrow. Why ...

Survey shows how families are coping with the impact of Covid-19

Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 17th April, 2020

Connect are running an online survey to gather the voices of parents and carers and the findings after one week give us insight to how families across Scotland are coping with the impact of Covid-19. On Wednesday 1st April, Connect (formerly the Scottish Parent Teacher Council) launched a survey ask...

Free games-based Inclusive Software for use at home

Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 7th April, 2020

Playing games is (or should be) fun, motivating and sociable. Here are some offers of games-based digital learning for use at home during Covid-19 school closures.  Sumdog Sumdog offers online maths and spelling games-based practice tool that can be used to support home learning during school c...

Free Software for use at home

Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 31st March, 2020

Students with additional support needs can get popular assistive software for use at home during the Covid-19 situation. Read more to find out about some really great software and apps that are available to you. Clicker and DocsPlus Clicker and DocsPlus are well known writing tools with versions for...

SQA publish information on Assessment Arrangements for the 2019 diet

Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 2nd March, 2020

SQA have published information on the number of requests for Assessment Arrangements in last year's external examinations. It gives an indication of the methods of support that candidates with disabilities or additional support needs are asking to use in exams. The breakdown of requests for diff...

A great example of the power of Immersion Reading Technology

Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 24th February, 2020

Amanda Warren, who is a Dyslexia Tutor, has written a fascinating post about how Immersion Reading has opened up books and reading for her son, who is dyslexic. Amanda writes that her son was diagnosed with dyslexia, poor working memory and extremely slow processing at age 10. In school he has been ...

Scottish Voices are in Snap Core First for Windows

Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 10th February, 2020

Tobii DynaVox's Snap Core First for Windows communication app can now speak Scottish!  We're very pleased that the latest version of Snap Core First for Windows can now use the free Scottish computer voices. Previously, we were limited to the Windows 10 voices within Snap Core, but this...

2019 Digital Papers Focus Group and Past Papers

Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 20th January, 2020

On this Blue Monday what could be more uplifting than thinking about the upcoming exams in May? You'll be excited that the 2019 digital question papers are now available from the SQA web site, and to help us plan for using technology in examinations, I've picked out a few key points from the...

Anyone up for a game?

Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 16th December, 2019

As well as noble and worthy activities like communication and access to education, technology can of course also be used for having fun and playing. If you are interested in accessible computer gaming, read on. Just in time for Christmas! Recently I've been researching options for playing comput...

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