techability webinar Archives

SpecialEffect: Accessible gaming (webinar)

SpecialEffect provide video game access to individuals with physical disabilities through means of specialised equipment, including controllers, joysticks and switches. This webinar looks at how they do it.

3D printing (webinar)

3D Printing enables individuals with disabilities to have custom made items created for them.

Envision: Speaking out the visual world (webinar)

Envision join us to talk about their range of solutions for blind and visually impaired users.

Grid 3 for learning and independence

This session will explore grid sets that can be used in the classroom to support communication and learning.

Funding for Assistive Technology

In this webinar we’ll talk about where to get funding, how to show the value of the technology and how this impacts on assessments and other interventions.

Accessible photography

Photography is a great activity to run whether it is for leisure, study or work. This webinar will help you with some ideas to make it more accessible.

Grid 3: symbol vocabularies

Grid 3 is a complete communication solution that enables people to have a voice, control their environment and live more independent lives. This webinar introduces the package and the vocabularies available.

SpeakUnique

SpeakUnique develop state-of-the-art voice banking technology, allowing people to create high-quality, personalised synthetic voices. This webinar will be an opportunity to find out more about what is involved and how to access this service.

Captions for video

Adding text to your video calls or recordings can improve accessibility for a wide range of disabilities, it is good practice and can help when sound issues occur. There have been many advances in recent years and this webinar will bring you up to speed and give you a number of options and considerations.

Read&Write: literacy support

Read&Write is a literacy support tool that offers help with everyday tasks like reading text out loud, understanding unfamiliar words, researching assignments and proofing written work. Patrick McGrath, Head of Education Strategy at Texthelp, will take us through the key features and be on hand to ask any questions you might have.

Assessment

This webinar will give you the knowledge and techniques for assessment drawing upon real life examples. We will share useful paperwork with you and let you know who you can go to for external assessments.

Clicker 8: Improving literacy

In this webinar about Clicker 8, Charlotte Blacker, from Crick Software, will teach you how to use the word processor, access the free resources available through Learning-Grids and develop ideas for different ways of using Clicker to support a range of needs in the classroom.