Roger Bates

Information Director, Inclusive Technology

Roger worked in special schools including schools catering for learning difficulties, physical and sensory difficulties and behavioural difficulties.

In 1981 he began to be seconded to various IT projects involving software development, school advisory work and training teachers in the application of IT in the classroom.

In 1986 he became manager of the Northern ACE Centre (Aids to Communication in Education), one of two national centres working to support and develop the use of IT to help learners with physical and communication difficulties.

During his time at the Northern ACE Centre, Roger was responsible for developing numerous national and regional courses on the use of IT with pupils with communication difficulties. The Centre also played a key role in supporting teachers and schools in the development of their own assessment services by developing a set of training materials.

As Information Director of SEMERC, Roger created the on-line SEN resource SENSOR for BT. This was later replaced by the Inclusive Technology authored Octopus SEN site. Roger is responsible for Inclusive Technology's web site. This is the largest open access Special Needs/IT site in the world, which scores some 3,500 hits per day.

Roger has also developed Inclusive Technology's consultancy service, which provides information and training for schools, local education authorities and ICT companies. As part of this consultancy work he wrote the current RM Special Needs Handbook.

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