ICTS Trainers and Administrators : Profiles
 Roger Bates
Email address:
roger.bates@inclusive.net
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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