Programme
9.30 Registration and Coffee
10.00 Anna Rourke – Manager ACE Centre North - An update on ACE Centre North and the new initiative ‘Computers for Pupils’ (CFP).
10.30 Alli Gaskin ( S<) and Rebecca Checkley (S<) – Using High Tech AAC with children with Autism
Alli and Rebecca will introduce their pilot project and current research exploring the impact of high tech AAC on the language and communication of children with autism.
11.15 Coffee
11.30 Pauline Holbrook – Specialist schools and Academies Trust - ‘Special Schools as Specialist Schools’, Specialisms available to special schools, Advantages of becoming a specialist school, How expertise in communication and interaction can be integrated into specialist status, What help is available and how to access it
12.30 Lunch
1.30 – 2.30 p.m. A. Neil Hansen – Life Skills - Environmental Control Systems in schools
1.30 - 2.30 p.m. B. How to create Cause and Effect and Choice Making Activities in PowerPoint
2.30 – 2.40 p.m. Coffee
2.40 – 3.40 p.m. C. Alison Matthews – Adult Learning Disability
2.40 - 3.40 p.m. D. Talk About - An introduction to some of our new high and low tech resources to support shared reading using AAC
3.45 Andy Banns – ACE Centre North - What’s New – Hardware and Software
4.00 Close
Presentations PDF Files - These may take a little time to download.
Using High Tech AAC with children with Autism
‘Special Schools as Specialist Schools’
How to create Cause and Effect and Choice Making Activities in PowerPoint