Looking at resources to support autism and visual impairments, and a visit to the Portland College multisensory white room. Full details of the forum on our Moodle site at http://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=113

3. Accessibility and Inclusion Forum
14 March 2013
www.rsc-em.ac.uk Martin Cooke ILT Advisor RSC EM

4. Programme
(flexible to take account of input, collaboration and networking)
10.05 Plan B: explain your idea using only Martin Cooke
the 1000 most used words
10.45 apps and resources Matt Harrison
11.20 break
11.30 Jisc RSC update Martin Cooke
12.00 How we created The White Room Sally Edwards
12.20 Visit the White Room
1.00 Lunch

5. is 114 x smaller than
but it is also 114 x closer

6. explain your idea
Can you explain an idea
using only the 1000 most used words?
http://splasho.com/upgoer5/
eg: love Inception PhD thesis
It makes you really think about the text
more inclusive
a fresh approach
teaches me to avoid metaphor

7. explain your idea
Most of us have one of these. We watch it. There is never
anything good on. Well, there was something good on last
Sat if you come from the same place as me.
If you still haven't got it. I'm on about something to look at and
watch things on, find out what is going on around us, make us
laugh, cry and fall asleep.
The best thing to watch on this is something with lots of men
and a ball. This is what I was on about at the start. We got
three more than them. One more like this and we will go away
from home to some strange places.
Matt Harrison

8. online events and webinars
Technology to support autistic learners
Leeds Met
17 April 2013
http://goo.gl/TerfW
Linkage research into immersive tech for ASD with
Seeper, Lincoln Uni and King’s College.
hoping to input to the Leeds event
Seeper
http://seeper.com/
Babble: an audio-visual synthesizer
http://seeper.com/babble/
also
How to use Moodle to support ASD

9. resources on the RSC Moodle
Accessibility courses
http://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/course/category.php?id=11
Xerte for beginners
http://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=204
Resources from Accessibility Forums
http://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=113
esafety webinars
http://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=185

10. some links for LD and autism
esafety for Learning difficulties and autism
http://goo.gl/uQS2D
guide to help parents of schoolchildren with learning difficulties and autism.
A collaboration from Cerebra, Mencap and Ambitious about Autism, aims to
help parents limit negative experiences online. Also resources and links.
Autism and educ assessment
http://goo.gl/IG62y
Ability Net doc on autism and computers
Transition Toolkit
http://www.autismeducationtrust.org.uk/sitecore/content/AET2/Home/Resources/Transition%20toolkit.aspx

11. some links for LD and autism
Somantics suite of therapeutic applications that use touch, vocalisation and gesture inputs
to
capture and augment communication
http://somantics.org/
ReacTickles Magic
http://reactickles.org/
iPad
http://jisc-rscsw.ning.com/video/the-ipad-and-autism-one
http://www.scribd.com/doc/47441495/Jeremy-Brown%E2%80%99s-App-Recommendations-for-Students-with-Autism
http://www.slideshare.net/rscsw/technology-supporting-autism?from=new_upload_email
Autism Xpress
Predictable
Grid Player
Tobii Sonoflex

12. some links for LD and autism
Conover Company Social Skills Sampler
A must see. US but excellent videos for ASD social skills
Dragon Dictation
Autism Pro Lite
free app for tracking.
categories include:
happiness, stress, activity level, sensory arousal, weather and mood note. can be
graphed and recorded on a calendar. Share individual events or screens with team
or medics.
For Windows
MyStudyBar
www.eduapps.org
A suite of OS apps and utilities run off a pen drive.
Xmind, magnifier, ruler, colour and font setting,
text to speech and others.
Free download

13. http://www.ark-hive.co.uk

14. Jisc FES Accessibility and Inclusion Projects
DART 2 Discover Jisc
SE ISP Consortium
Theme
Access and
Inclusion
Henshaws College
City Lit
West of England
Lancashire Adult College for Blind
and Community and Partially
Learning Service Sighted Young
People

15. DART2
http://briteblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/guest-blog-disseminating-assistive-roles-and-technology/
Includes some
• Teaching
• Technical
• Learning support
• therapy

16. Complex needs CPD
ipad for learning difficulties
http://www.education.gov.uk/complexneeds/modules/Module-1.4-Quality-of-life/All/m04p085cd.html

17. iCALL guide to the iPad

18. iCALL guide to the iPad
http://www.callscotland.org.uk/Resources/Books/iPads-for-Communication-Access-Literacy-and-Learning/
The book includes chapters on:
* Getting to grips with the iPad
* Apps to support teaching & learning
* Accessibility Options
* iPad Accessories
* iPad Resources
* iPad in Assessments and Exams
* Managing & Implementing the iPad
* Glossary of Terms
* iPad Management using iTunes: some useful tips

19. iPad Guided Access
http://gallery.mailchimp.com/f81ad324bce5fc21b0aa94283/files/guided_access.pdf
help to set the learner free to concentrate on one feature or app
iOS6 includes a way of shutting off
areas of the tablet
TherapyBox step-by-step guide
to iOS6 features.
aimed at support for learners with autism
but there may be benefits for those with motor impairments.
• turn off touch
• make the home button inactive
• mask areas of the screen to prevent use

20. ipads for music therapy
Many of these music apps are free so worth investigating.
Essential iPad Apps for Music Therapists
http://www.musictherapymaven.com/guest-post-essential-ipad-apps-for-music-therapists/
music apps for therapy
http://touchmusictherapy.co.uk/apps/

21. apps for music therapy

22. Switch access to iPads
http://www.closingthegap.com/media/solutions/articles/2012/12/1931/1931.pdf

23. facely

24. is x smaller than
but it is also x closer

25. BYOD
Bring Your Own Device
Do you find technology intractable, unbending and uncaring?
Don’t give up – it can be liberating, empowering and enabling.
Witness the revolution in mobile accessibility for many disabled people.
BYOD is designed to make life more easy. Many providers have
addressed the issue and are looking at ways of sustaining
infrastructure projects with a view to including some access for
learner devices.
Sal Cooke on the JISC blog
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/techdistools/

26. Accessible Moodle
Thornbeck College case study
http://www.excellencegateway.org.uk/node/23602
•more interactive learning experience
•Encourages independent learning
•Learners access learning materials at home and college
•immediate constructive feedback on completion of activities.
•Feedback is centralised allowing reviewing of goals.
•Development of embedded ILT skills along with vocational content
•Can be used with assistive technology, allowing greater independence
•computers for vocational and academic, not just personal

27. Accessible Moodle: easy read
Point and Insite are products from Widgit which
can be used on websites and as plug-ins to Moodle
Making Moodle courses with Widgit symbol access
Here is a demo Moodle course with examples
http://moodle.widgit-online.com
As you roll over each word a Widgit symbol is
revealed.

29. From A Makaton AUP used by Hinwick Hall College

30. created in SymWriter

31. plain English policies
EDI policies in plain English, easy read or symbols
Your AUPs and Equality and esafety policies need to be
understood by learners.
Please share your examples.
Here is one from the RNIB College website:
http://www.rnibcollege.ac.uk/equalityanddiversity.html
and Derwen College
http://www.derwen.ac.uk/information/equal-opportunities-single-equality-scheme.html

32. accessyoutube.org.uk

33. xerte 1.9
www.xerte.org.uk
xerte on the iPad
Examples
Xerte version
http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/play.php?template_id=147
html version
http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/play_html5.php?template_id=147

34. xerte
http://xerte.techdis.palepurple.co.uk/play_36
http://itq.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_6

36. Present.me
http://present.me/

37. JISC RSC Toolbox
available for loan
o Wireless keyboard and mouse
o USB camcorder
o MyStudyBar on a pen drive
o Digital keyring - for reminders
o Digital pen for recording notes with synced audio
o voice recorder with integrated speech recognition
o Games console with educational software
o Electronic Dictionary Bookmark
o iPad 1
A laptop loaded with Windows 7 and specialist software
·

38. JISC RSC esafety offer
https://eresponsibility.pbworks.com

40. Ealing,
Hammersmith and
West London
College
http://goo.gl/EslTx

42. email: martin.cooke@rsc-em.ac.uk
RSC Moodle
http://moodle.rsc-em.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=80