Symposium on Accessible Digital Curriculum Resources for Children and Young People with Additional Support Needs
Wednesday, 8th March, 2006
Radisson SAS Hotel, Edinburgh
Many pupils have difficulty accessing printed material and recording work, as a result of sensory, physical, communication or learning disabilities. The law now requires local authorities and other responsible bodies to “improve communication and the delivery of school information with pupils with disabilities”. This ‘school information’ includes any material given to pupils, from handouts and worksheets, to textbooks and examination papers, and “responsible bodies should ensure that any information that is important to enable pupils to learn or to be able to participate in school activities can be provided in an alternative form if the pupil may have difficulty reading information in standard written form”.
One of the ways to achieve is by providing resources in digital format, for example: ‘talking’ books on computer; scanned textbooks; worksheets in Word format; examinations in PDF; audio books in MP3 and DAISY format.
This Symposium will bring together local and central government, commercial firms, publishers and voluntary organisations, to discuss how digital versions of curriculum resources can be created and accessed by pupils with additional support needs.
The Symposium will address:
- legal obligations on schools and local authorities
- examples of accessible digital resources in practice
- digital formats available (e.g. PDF, Word, HTML, DAISY, MP3 etc)
- copyright and dissemination of digital resources
The speakers include:
- Professor Sheila Riddell, University of Edinburgh
- Stuart Robertson, Learning and Teaching Scotland
- Richard Orme and Jamie Cuthbertson, RNIB
- Jim MacNeilage, Copyright Licensing Agency
- Rosetta Macleod, Scottish Schools Digital Network
- Ian Litterick, iANSYST
- Iona Bradley, Harcourt Education
- Heather Fisken, Disability Rights Commission
- CALL Centre staff
The Symposium will attract policy makers and other senior managers in national and local government and agencies, relevant voluntary organizations, and publishers and suppliers.
The Symposium is funded by the Scottish Executive Education Department.
Registration from 09:00
Programme starts 09:30 to 17:00
Lunch will be provided.
There is no charge for participation.
Radisson SAS Hotel, Edinburgh80 High Street, The Royal MileEdinburgh, EH1 1THTelephone: 0131 557 9797
http://www.edinburgh.radissonsas.com
The day is being organised by The CALL Centre.
For more information about who we are, follow this link
The CALL CentreThe University of Edinburgh, Paterson’s Land,Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, EH8 8AQTelephone: 0131 651 6236
E-mail: info@callcentrescotland.org.uk
http://www.callcentrescotland.org.uk
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