High speed Internet connection could have a real beneficial effect on the use of the Internet with SEN students. The present situation is not particularly useful to these students because of the slow access speeds. Most web pages are limited to still images and text. True multimedia Internet experiences may still be some way off and may never be able to complete with the speed of CD ROM's but things are changing fast. Satellite access is already with us and with local caching does enable full screen video. The potential for the development of SEN materials is enormous and if the high speed Internet access does anything it should promote inclusion as specialist software will be available anywhere there is Internet access.
Another application you may want to download is a small content free piece of software developed by a Teesside University student while on placement at Abbey Hill School Technology College.
PMLD Cause and effect software (Freeware) Help files
and instructions
Download the software from here.
The file is a 2.0Mb zip archive