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Paul Nisbet

New symbolised Oxford Reading Tree books from Help Me Read

Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 21st February, 2011

A few years ago Aileen MacIntyre, who teaches at Croftcroighn School in Glasgow, produced some 'symbolised' versions of Oxford Reading Tree books for pupils in the school who were struggling to learn to read. Aileen's books and work was featured in Examples of Best Practice in the 2007 Books for A...

Burns needs a \'barry\' voice!

Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 25th January, 2011

Today is Burns Night and so we'll all be reading, reciting and singing songs from the bard. You can even download a free App to help you remember the words and find out what they mean (See An App's an App for a that). So, I was thinking, what about children who use voice output communication aid...

Seeing Ear digital library now open to all print disabled people!

Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 20th January, 2011

The Seeing Ear library is a free online library with about 2,300 books in digital format. Until recently only visually impaired or physically disabled people, or staff  working them, could join, but Seeing Ear has a new CLA licence which means that it can now be used by any person with a prin...

Report on 2010 digital papers

Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 7th January, 2011

A report on the use of digital papers in 2010 is now available for download. The report contains a lot of interesting (well, to me, anyway) statistics and feedback from staff who used the papers last year. In 2010, 101 centres made 2000 requests for digital papers on behalf of 675 candidates...

Manfred the Baddie rides again!

Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 22nd November, 2010

During November 2010, all Primary 1 children in Scotland will receive a free copy of Manfred the Baddie from the Scottish Book Trust. Manfred won the 0-7 age category of the Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children's Books last year, and over 11,000 children voted in this age group. The books will ...

Accessible copies of 2010 Royal Mail Award Shortlist

Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 18th November, 2010

We are pleased to say that we will soon be able to provide accessible digital copies of the nine books shortlisted for the 2010 Royal Mail Book Awards. The books have been produced in cooperation with the publishers and The Scottish Book Trust. Last year over 31,000 children were involved in the a...

2010 SQA Digital Question papers now available

Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 8th November, 2010

SQA have made all the 2010 adapted digital papers available on the SQA web site. There are over 400 papers covering a wide range of subjects. These past papers are ideal for revision and practice, for pupils who are going to be sitting prelims with digital papers, or are intending to 'go digital'...

Electronic textbooks from RNIB

Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 14th September, 2010

Over 100 textbooks (mainly for the English curriculum) and novels in Word 2003 format are now available from RNIB. The books were produced as a result of the Accessible Resources Pilot project led by Dolphin and Inclusive Technology. There is a list of the books available on the RNIB web site. T...

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...

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