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Special Educational Needs, Gifted and Talented, Ethic Minority Achievement

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SEN General
Advisory Centre for Education (ACE) ACE Advisory Trust The Oxford ACE Centre is an independent charity which provides a focus for the use of technology with the communication and educational needs of young people with physical and communication difficulties. ACE Centre North The ACE Centre North is a sister charity to the Oxford ACE Centre. It provides assistive technology and augmentative communication services, including assessments and training, to assist individuals with physical and/or communication difficulties in the North of England. Braille for maths Teaching math to visually impaired children BECTA Lists (SENCo Forum) The senco-forum is for Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators (SENCOs)and others who support pupils with special educational needs. There are currently around 1,000 members. An average of 300 messages are sent to participants each month. Contact a Family Every day over sixty children in the UK are born or diagnosed with a serious disability and the vast majority of them are cared for at home. Contact a Family (CaF) is the only UK charity providing support and advice to parents whatever the medical condition of their child. CENMAC CENMAC provides support and advice on using Information Technology to improve the communication and learning of children and young people with physical disabilities. Chatback Trust CHATBACK was set up in 1986 by the present Director, Tom Holloway, to provide an electronic mail (email) facility for up to 100 schools in the UK and abroad. Most are special schools, all cater for children who have some mental or physical difficulty with communicating. DfEE Disabled Living Foundation company links suppliers Dyslexia Institute The official site of the Dyslexia Institute. 'Recognising the Dyslexic Child' and the Fact File probably the most useful. DRM Guide to disability and SEN resources on the WEB Disability Resources Monthly is an American organisation. Their website has links to "thousands of the best disability resources on the Internet". Worth a look. ERIC - Educational Resources Information Centre Educational Sites on the Internet An independent site, which is regularly updated. It has a large selection of links for teachers, SEN, dyslexia and disability. iANSYST Ltd. Site to buy dyslexia aids. Inclusion Part of the National Grid for Learning. It is a Inclusion is a free, searchable catalogue of on-line resources that support teaching professionals, parents and carers in meeting individual learning needs. Inclusive Technology Special needs Keyboard Training Programme Special needs and ICT. Kingsbury School Kingsbury School, Skelmersdale and Ormskirk, Lancashire, is a small UK state school serving the needs of pupils aged from 2 to 19 with Autism, SLD and PMLD (severe and profound cognitive disabilities). Their website is well worth a visit. It is media-rich, making extensive use of Flash and MS Agent technologies. There are interactive games, downloads (of policy and planning documents and Flash activities), homepages for each of the pupils, as well as information about the school. Excellent! LC Technologies Disability-related Links MultimediaEnablingTechGroup Individual learning needs and IT National grid for learning NASEN National Association for Special Educational Needs. Research a Disease The SEN Code of Practice SCET SCET homepage Self Esteem Advisory Service Everything you ever wanted to know about building self esteem in children, adults and yourself - All in one place. Come and visit us. Free articles, Q+A service and more... SENteachers.co.uk This site is dedicated to those working as Special Educational Needs (SEN) teachers and those who may seek to recruit and employ them such as; recruitment agencies, special schools, primary & secondary schools, pupil referral units, community homes, hospital schools or youth custody centres. Special Educational Needs Coordinators (SENCo�s) may also find this site of interest. There is also an online forum where those looking for jobs, staff, advice & support, as well as wanting to exchange ideas and resources with those in similar positions, can do so freely anytime. Solutions for Specific Learning Difficulties Special Education Plaza Special Education Resources on the Internet Special Educational Needs Explanatory Menu Canterbury Christ Church University College, Special Needs Research and Development Group. Special Educational Needs SENCO Information Trafford Learning Support Service Links, differentiated worksheets (including some for KS3 pupils) and other useful stuff. Worth a visit. TFH TFH is a company selling a variety of items to serve the needs of children and adults with special needs. They specialise in "special needs toys". Wales Extra Link homepage Yahoo Society and Culture - Disabilities & Children
SEN and ICT
BECTa British Computer Society disability Centre for Assistive Technology, University of Buffalo CHATBACK Trust Closing the Gap Computer Technology in Special Education and Rehabilitation Crick Computing Software for literacy and access & communication. Dyslexia.com Dyslexia.Com is a site which aims to help people with dyslexia make the most of their abilities by using technology. There is advice on the choice and use of a wide range of software and hardware as well as other more general advice. ICT Levels including P Levels, broken down into achievable targets for pupils with Special Needs. From Trafford LEA's LSS. NCET - Special Educational Needs IT NTS NTS computer systems and dreamwriter product line, portable education computers. REM (Rickitt Educational Media) Education software RESOURCE Software primarily for schools SCET Sherston Sherston on line, educational software. SEMERC Granada learning and SEMERC software, hardware and info for special needs in education. Sight and Sound Computer solutions for the visually impaired. Stephen Bostock - IT and Special Educational Needs Keele University Topologika Software for education. TYPEQUICK - The Computer Based Touch Typing Tutor Widgit Hardware, software etc for handheld computing devices. W.W.W.4 Teachers Xavier Xavier educational software
SEN Learning Support
All Lewisham Autism Support Applied Behaviour Analysis or Lovaas based approaches Asperger's Syndrome Resources Autism A sample issue of a social stories magazine Autism UK discussion group Autism Research Unit Biz-ed Study Skills Worksheets listing Blessed with Dyslexia "When I learned in my 7th grade Special Ed Class, Albert Einstein was dyslexic, I quit being ashamed of my disability; it gave me a sense of pride I never experienced before. I didn't know exactly what he did, I just knew that the same people who made me feel inferior, thought he was a "genius"." British Dyslexia Association The BDA is the national organisation for dyslexia in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Communication Aids for Language and Learning Call Centre Edinburgh University Daily Grammar English grammar and new words. If you register (free) they send a daily email with daily words and pages for grammar...mind you it's as much for grown ups as children: fascinating the explanation of the grammar sometimes... Developmental Dyspraxia Dyslexia Resources. Dyspraxia Foundation Dyspraxia foundation, recognising developmental co-ordination disorders. Educational Kinesiology and Brain Gym Educational Kinesiology teaches specific movements of the body that can improve mind function. It uses techniques such as repatterning, which is the integration of the left and right hemispheres of the brain through specific movements; stress release techniques; and balancing the energy/meridian system of the body. Farmyard Index gifted Children Gifted & Talented Children Grammar Gorrilas Special Needs pupils working on sentence construction will enjoy this playful site, which employs cute graphics in a game that tests knowledge of grammar terms and improves overall literacy. The game is helpfully differentiated into Beginners and Advanced stages, with pupils aiming to feed the Grammar Gorillas by correctly identifying nouns, verbs and other parts of speech. ( It also has some maths games) HELP Read web page Internet Resources for Language Teachers and Learners Kurzweil Educational Systems Language manual for children with autism, Asperger's syndrome and related developmental disorders LD Resources Etext on line (books on line) Makaton For the use of symbols in communication and literacy. National Autistic Society site Society for the Autistically Handicapped Somerset Autistic Support Group Spellaroo Presented with fun cartoons, Spellaroo is a motivating way to help Key Stage 3 pupils with their spelling. Particularly appropriate for Special Needs pupils, Spellaroo asks pupils to pick out the incorrectly spelled word from a sentence, encouraging pupils to self-check their own work. textHELP! Web Site Wales Extra Link homepage Words Worldwide and KeySpell
SEN Motor Skills
Crick Software for Education & Access Disabled Living Foundation Dyspraxia Foundation Dyspraxia foundation, recognising developmental co-ordination disorders. Lefthand Education Widgit Software Home Page
SEN Visual & Auditory Impairment
Blind links Blind resources in Japan (English) Bookmania Visually Impaired Bookshop College of Optometrists in Vision Development Deafsign This is a superb resource devoted to deafness and British Sign Language (BSL). There is a wealth of information of interest to anyone who has any interaction with deaf people (ie all of us), forums, games, a variety of interactive finger spelling translators (eg. you can type in a phrase and see the sequence of finger spelling or set the keyboard to show the hand sign for the letter you type). Of course, BSL is much more than simply spelling words and there is information on the site about a BSL teaching pack, which includes a book and CDRom. Dolphin Computer Access IntelliTools Inc. LD Resources texts MegaVision - Magnifying Screens National Library for the Blind New York Institute for Special Education RNIB Sight & Sound Technology The Screen Magnifiers Homepage USA Organisations serving persons with visual impairments Washington University
Psychology
Centre for Applied Psychology, Newcastle School Psychology Resources Online - Sandra Steingart,Ph.D. An excellent links site for researching information about psychology in education. There is a large section dealing with specific disorders and lots of links to other useful relevant sites. Sandra Steingart is an Ed.Psych. in Baltimore.
University & Government Departments
Keele University Cardiff University Homepage UK Sensitive Map - UK Universities LINKS University of Wales Swansea Welcome To Ofsted WJEC Education and Employment Committee Home Page
Ethnic Minority Achievement
The Standards Site EMAS pages This is the DfES's own advice site for schools and LEAs. There is lots of useful advice and guidance here. Probably a first port of call for anyone involved in EMAS.

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