Useful Web sites

This list of sites has been compiled from the Training Units. Here the sites are sorted alphabetically. For sites relevant to particular topics, please look at the Appendices in the Units themselves.

Suppliers' sites are listed seperately.

Remember, you can always use the search page.

A . B . C . D . E . F . G . H . I . J . K . L . M
N . O . P . Q . R . S . T . U . V . W . X . Y . Z

A

AAC Intervention - lots of ideas for working with pupils at this American site. www.aacintervention.com

Adaptive Technology Resource Centre - creative solutions for users of adaptive technology in education. www.utoronto.ca/atrc

Advisory Unit: Computers in Education – this company’s Web site has a Concept Keyboard Exchange with free downloadable resources to use with their Concept Plus program. www.advisory-unit.org.uk

Afasic – promotes understanding, acceptance, equal opportunities and the inclusion into society of pupils and young adults with speech and language impairments. www.afasic.org.uk

Alliance for Inclusive Education – a Web site that describes this organization’s campaign for inclusion www.btinternet.com/~allfie

Apple Computers Education Disability Resources Web page. www.apple.com/accessibility

Assessment Centres – these centres have their own Web sites:

AbilityNet – www.abilitynet.org.uk

ACE Centre Advisory Trust – www.ace-centre.org.uk

ACE Centre-North – www.ace-north.org.uk

CALL Centre – callcentre.education.ed.ac.uk

CENMAC – www.cenmac.com

B

BBC Education Betsie Site – for text only versions of the BBC Web pages. www.bbc.co.uk/education/betsie

BBC Online Education – starting point for resources and links to other Web sites. www.bbc.co.uk/learning

Becta (The British Educational Communications and Technology agency) – information on ways of using ICT in education. www.becta.org.uk

Becta Special Needs and Inclusion area – lots of information about using ICT to support learners with special needs, including links to the archives of useful mailing lists. http://inclusion.ngfl.gov.uk

British Association of Teachers of the Deaf (BATOD) – a Web site for teachers of Hearing-Impaired pupils. www.batod.org.uk

British Dyslexia Association (BDA) – information on resources, local support and publications. www.bdadyslexia.org.uk

British Epilepsy Association – information about the services provided by the association, and Beach Park, an area for pupils. www.epilepsy.org.uk

British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD) – information and resources to raise awareness of Learning Disabilities. www.bild.org.uk

C

CALL Centre – callcentre.education.ed.ac.uk

Caroline Musselwhite - AAC intervention with many useful resources. aacintervention.com

Cbeebies – exciting games from the BBC, several of which have been made switch accessible by Inclusive Technology Ltd. www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies

Center for Applied Special Technology – includes details of the Bobby Web tool for checking accessibility. www.cast.org

Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education (CSIE) Inclusion page – advice and information on the work of the CSIE in promoting inclusive education. inclusion.uwe.ac.uk

Channel 4 Learning – online support for Channel 4 Schools’ television programmes. www.channel4.com/learning/

Check the Map - This site makes it easy for everyone to find out what services there are for people with Learning Difficulties in their area – just click the map or type in a postcode.  www.checkthemap.org

Closing the Gap – the online version of the US journal that promotes the use of computer technology in special education. www.closingthegap.com

Communication Matters – information and links about the Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) needs of people with severe communication difficulties. www.communicationmatters.org.uk

Contact a Family – support and advice for parents and a directory giving information on over 1,000 rare syndromes and disorders www.cafamily.org.uk

Creative Communicating – ideas and resources for pupils with disabilities. www.creativecommunicating.com

Crick Software – this company’s site has free downloadable resources on their Clicker Grids for Learning page for users of the Clicker program. www.cricksoft.com

D

David Fulton Publishers – spooecialize in books about teaching in special education. www.fultonpublishers.co.uk

Deaf@x Trust – includes information on using technology with hearing impaired pupils. www.deafax.org

Disability Net - information service, forum, shopping and resource database for the UK. www.youreable.com

DfEE Special Needs – information on legislation, organizations and projects. www.teachernet.gov.uk/wholeschool/sen

Down Syndrome Educational Trust – the Web site offers advice and information for parents and professionals caring for individuals with Down Syndrome. www.downsed.org

Down Syndrome Information Network - offers a range of information resources and online services to the international Down syndrome community. www.down-syndrome.net

Dyslexic.com – a Web site from the Iansyst Company that contains particularly useful information on dyslexia www.dyslexic.com

Dyspraxia Foundation – a Web page with information about dyspraxia and the support available. www.dyspraxiafoundation.org.uk

E

Education Unlimited – news items and articles on educational topics developed by the Guardian/Observer newspapers. http://education.guardian.co.uk

EduWeb – now LearningAlive - curriculum support site from RM, parts of which are free to access. www.learningalive.co.uk

Enabling Education Network (EENET) – an information sharing network aiming to support and encourage inclusion. www.eenet.org.uk

F

Forest Bookshop – Web site of specialist publishers in the area of deafness and deaf issues. www.forestbooks.com/system/index.html

Frank Wise School – another clearly presented Web site that presents information about the school. www.frankwise.oxon.sch.uk

H

Hands and Eyes Newsletter – this online newsletter includes ready to use art and learning activities for visually impaired pupils. These have been developed by a teacher for the visually impaired for use in an inclusive classroom. home.earthlink.net/~vharris/index.htm

High Furlong School - an innovative, award-winning web site with a special emphasis on developing Careers Education, Work Experience, Key Skills and Personal and Social Education for all its students. www.kencomp.net/hfs/

I

Inclusion – a free, searchable catalogue of online resources to support teaching professionals, parents and carers in meeting individual learning needs. inclusion.ngfl.gov.uk

Inclusive Technology – this company’s Web site has useful information pages on topics of interest to teachers of pupils with special educational needs www.inclusive.co.uk

IntelliTools – this company’s site has a free Activity Exchange where resources made with their products can be downloaded free of charge. www.intellitools.com

Internet and Special Schools – an alphabetical list of Web sites created by special schools and Pupil Referral Units. www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/education/links/sldlinks/ko.htm

ISAAC - an international organization linking people interested in AAC throughout the world. www.isaac-online.org

ISEC 2000 – a Web site that gives information about the International Special Education Congress in Manchester July 2000 www.isec2000.org.uk

ISEC 2005 – Information regarding the International Special Education Congress in Glasgow August 2005 www.isec2005.org.uk

L

LD OnLine – an American interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers and pupils www.ldonline.org

LearningAlive - curriculum support site from RM, parts of which are free to access. www.learningalive.co.uk

Linda Burkhart - information on using technology as a tool for education and communication. www.lburkhart.com

Literacy Center - An education centre that specializes in assisting individuals with their efforts to meet their literacy potential. www.the-literacy-center.com

M

Mailbase – a directory of discussion lists primarily for the UK higher education community www.jiscmail.ac.uk

MAPE (Micros and Primary Education) - curriculum support now part of NAACE. www.mape.org.uk

Meldreth Manor School – this prize-winning site allows the visitor to choose between multimedia, text-only and switch-accessible versions. http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/meldreth

Microsoft Accessibility – information on accessibility tools for their products. www.microsoft.com/enable/

N

National Association for Special Educational Needs – the NASEN Web site gives information about its activities. www.nasen.org.uk

National Autistic Society – information on autistic spectrum disorders and the services provided by the NAS www.nas.org.uk

NCIP - Association with useful information, advice on classroom applications, and reviews of software. www2.edc.org/NCIP

National Deaf Children’s Society (NDCS) – information on childhood deafness. www.ndcs.org.uk

National Grid for Learning – a collection of resources brought together by the UK Government. The Schools area has a Special Needs section. www.ngfl.gov.uk

P

Picture Exchange System (PECS) - information about specialized use of pictures and symbols with children with communication difficulties associated with autistic spectrum disorders. www.pecs.org.uk

Priory Woods - www.priorywoods.middlesbrough.sch.uk

Q

Qualifications and Curriculum Authority – an overview of curriculum, assessment and qualifications. www.qca.org.uk

Quest – allows pupils to explore items from the Natural History Museum by clicking on pictures and symbols. www.nhm.ac.uk/kids-only

Questions Publishing Online – this Web site has a search facility that enables you to find articles published in Question’s group of journals, as well as descriptions of relevant books. www.education-quest.com

R

Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) – a large Web site with plenty of information about visual impairment itself and ways of supporting learners with low vision. www.rnib.org.uk

S

Scope – information on services for people with cerebral palsy. www.scope.org.uk

SENSE – a Web site that promotes awareness of deaf-blindness and offers support services. www.sense.org.uk

Sickle Cell Society – as well as information about Sickle Cell Disease, this site has Planet Sickle pages for pupils who have the condition. www.sicklecellsociety.org

Simon's Raising Achievement Web site – a Web site developed and maintained by a Learning Support teacher to share resources that he has found useful. www.simonmidgley.co.uk

Special Education Exchange – this is a resource for educators, professionals, parents, consumers, pupils or anyone with an interest in special education. www.spedex.com

Special Education Technology, British Columbia - useful downloadable resources for IntelliKeys, Boardmaker, etc. www.setbc.org

T

Teaching Math to a Visually Impaired Pupil – this site gives examples of how a teacher can teach maths to a visually impaired pupil. It gives comprehensive information and examples of how to teach various aspects of mathematics from graphs to quadratic equations. www.tsbvi.edu/math

Times Educational Supplement – an online version 0f the educational newspaper. www.tes.co.uk

Trace Center – includes details of Universal Design Principles and Guidelines. www.trace.wisc.edu/world/gen_ud.html

U

UNESCO Salamanca Statement – text of the inclusive education framework adopted at the 1994 Salamanca conference can be found by typing Salamanca Stament into the search engine on the Unesco website. www.unesco.org

V

V I Guide – this site is a guide to Internet resources about visual impairments for parents and teachers. It has pointers to other Web sites concerned with Access Technology, services, organizations, research, education and leisure. www.viguide.com

W

WAACIS - Wigram Augmentative and Alternative Communication for Internet Surfers. www.waacis.org.uk

Widgit Software – the special needs section of this company’s Web site has lots of useful information. www.widgit.com

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Guidelines for Accessible Web Authoring. www.w3.org

X

Xplanatory – pages of resources, information and ideas developed and maintained by the Special Needs Research and Development Centre at Canterbury Christ Church College of Higher Education. http://education.cant.ac.uk/xplanatory

Y

YAACK (AAC connecting Young Kids) - Introduction to Augmentative communication with a number of useful links. www.pediatricservices.com/prof/prof-30.htm

If there are any other sites you would like to see on these pages, please email us.

This ICTS website is maintained by Inclusive Technology.