Sally Paveley

ICT/SEN Consultant, The Advisory Unit: Computers in Education

Sally Paveley is employed by The Advisory Unit: Computers in Education as an ICT/SEN consultant. She has taught in schools for students who have severe learning difficulties and was an advisory teacher for Information Technology and Special Needs in the London Borough of Hounslow before she joined the Advisory Unit in 1990.

Sally is an established consultant in the field of ICT and special needs. She has contributed to a variety of national and regional seminars and conferences and is an experienced training provider. She runs in-service training courses for teachers throughout the year at the Advisory Unit's Centre in Hatfield, she also provides advice and on-site training for schools.

Another aspect of Sally's work at the Advisory Unit is involvement in the development of educational software, materials and publications. The most recent of these include:

'Concept Plus' - a software package that enables teachers create overlays to use on screen or with an overlay keyboard to support a range of learning needs.

'Getting Started with Symbols' pack - the outcome of a 2 year project, supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, exploring the use of symbols with adults who have learning difficulties.

Materials describing the development of multimedia resources for students with profound and multiple learning difficulties for the 'IT Support for All' Pack as part of the DfEE funded Curriculum IT Support for Special Educational Needs.

Sally has recently contributed a chapter to Blamires (ed): 'Enabling Technology for Inclusion'.

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