ICTS Trainers and Administrators : Profiles
 Richard Walter
Email address:
richard.walter@inclusive.net
Class Teacher and IT Co-ordinator at Meldreth Manor
School
"I am a class teacher and IT co-ordinator at Meldreth Manor
School, a Scope school for children and young people with
severe/profound/complex learning difficulties and physical/medical disabilities
aged between 7 and 19 years old. I have constructed programs of study allowing
a recordable progression to ICT for children with profound and multiple
learning difficulties. I have run regular training sessions as part of the
Advanced Diploma Course at the Cambridge Institute.
I have contributed to several books on ICT and SEN, and a
number of journals. I am a founder member of the SENIT forum, an internet forum
for teachers and specialists in supporting ICT and special educational needs. I
have helped devise, assess and test computer software and hardware for SEN. I
have used the internet extensively as a tool for teaching pupils with PMLD and
I have devised a site which is accessible for switch users and people with
sensory and cognitive difficulties. The school internet website has won the
Microsoft Road Ahead prize, the Becta special needs site award and the Childnet
award.
I have run training sessions abroad and in several centres
in Britain on SEN and the use of the Internet.
I teach in classes throughout the school everyday with
pupils with severe/profound and multiple learning difficulties. I am used to
integrating ICT in the whole curriculum and daily teaching for our pupils and
supporting staff in their daily practical use of ICT in the classroom."
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