ICTS Trainers and Administrators : Profiles
 Ros Chapman
Email address:
ros.chapman@inclusive.net
Independent Special Needs ICT Consultant
Ros Chapman is a Special Needs ICT Consultant. She taught in
Primary School for a short time, before turning to Special Education where she
taught in an MLD School for 7 years. She established the first SEN/IT outreach
service in SW Hertfordshire before moving full time into the Advisory Service
in Bucks. She carried out assessments of children right across the physical and
learning difficulty spectrum, advising the LEA on suitable IT equipment and
programs to purchase. Her bid to NCET (now Becta) ensured that Buckinghamshire
was one of the first four LEAs in the SENCo Forum Project. She has run numerous
Training Courses to support staff who teach SEN children and has addressed many
groups including visitors to the BETT Exhibition.
She took a one year contract at the University of
Hertfordshire, teaching B Ed and PGCE students. She tutored on the B Ed SEN
Short Course, and supervised the ICT assignment for the PGCE Course, at Kings
College, London.
Ros considers her most significant contribution to the SEN
ICT world to be the Keyboard Strategy, which she created in 1996, which enables
students (and staff!) to learn the positions of the keys on the QWERTY keyboard
in a maximum of 3 weeks. The strategy is used in many areas of Great Britain,
in Australia and Sweden (where it was translated into Swedish and placed on the
Education Department's SEN Website). An article about the strategy was
published in the MAPE Journal. Ros has written two chapters for a book for the
BDA (as yet unpublished) and an article for Nursery Equipment on Computers in
the Nursery.
Ros became an Independent Special Needs ICT Consultant in
1998. She has a considerable Resource Centre with a wide range of access
devices, equipment, programs and user guides which she hopes to move to new
premises next year. Ros is a Window Box Partner, a Widgit Contact and Trainer,
a Clicker Centre, and Inclusive Technology Centre, a SEMERC Centre and carries
a full range of programs from many other software houses. She is a Member of
the Institute of IT Trainers, NAACE, MAPE and NASEN.
She is involved in Charity work and has a keen interest in
craft work and woodturning.
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