Supporting Creativity
Posted by Craig Mill on the 20th October, 2015
CALL Scotland is pleased to announce the release of a new resource; ‘iPad Apps to Support Creativity’. The resource is available as a free download from the CALL Scotland website. Based on ten categories, the infograph offers apps to support a range of curriculum activities as ...
National Braille Week event
Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 9th October, 2015
Dennis Robertson, MSP for Aberdeen West, welcomed everyone to the 'Dots to Digital' event at the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday night. This was a celebration as part of National Braille Week (October 5-11) and highlighted the continued use of Braille as a tactile system...
Help to improve Stuart's and Heather's speech!
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 9th October, 2015
Earlier this week colleagues commented that the Stuart computer voice pronounces some words incorrectly - "cereal" and "lasagne" were mentioned and sure enough, these words do sound weird. It is possible to change the pronunciation of individual words, and so we are looking ...
Scottish Children's Book Awards symbol resources
Posted by Joanna Courtney on the 8th October, 2015
The shortlisted titles for this year's Scottish Children's Book Awards were announced on August 28th by the Scottish Book Trust. The Bookbug books are Mouse's First Night at Moonlight School by Simon Puttock and Ali Pye, Wanted! Ralfy Rabbit Book Burglar by Emily Mackenzie Neve...
CALL's Eye Gaze Software Curve
Posted by Joanna Courtney on the 8th October, 2015
We are excited to announce the launch of our newest education resource, CALL's Eye Gaze Software Curve, which we hope will be a useful tool in supporting practitioners already working with Eye Gaze users and those about to embark on implementing this access method. The Software Cu...
Cerebral Palsy Conference, Glasgow
Posted by Allan Wilson on the 29th September, 2015
Bobath Scotland have a couple of interesting events coming up in Glasgow next month. First of all, on Wednesday 7th October they are holding their Annual Conference in the Radisson Blu hotel, Argyll Street, Glasgow to mark World Cerebral Palsy Day. This event is free and open to all. It will provide...
Learn about speech recognition and dictation
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 22nd September, 2015
If you are working with learners who have difficulty writing or spelling, you need to learn about speech recognition. Speech recognition software is now much, much better that it was in the past, and it's also built in free to mobiles and tablets. If you've tried it before but not had much s...
Shirley joins the CALL Scotland team
Posted by Shirley Lawson on the 15th September, 2015
Shirley Lawson has joined the team on secondment from her post of Education Support Officer at East Lothian Council. Shirley graduated from Moray House with a PGDE in Primary Education in 2007 and had a successful NQT year at East Linton Primary School engaging and motivating her Primary 4 pup...
Where's Ceitidh?
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 8th September, 2015
As is often the case with projects, there has been a bit of slippage in the development timetable of the Scottish Gàidhlig computer voice. Three quarters of the recording are complete, the first 'build' has been created by CereProc, and the recording should be finished by the end o...
New resource Severe and Profound Learning Needs
Posted by 4 on the 31st August, 2015
The South Lanarkshire Framework for Supporting Pupils with Severe and Profound Learning Needs is an interesting and useful document aimed at supporting teachers and support assistants. Although a new term, 'Severe and Profound Learning Difficulties' is helpfully descriptive and should...
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