SENSwitcher is a suite of programs designed to help teach early ICT skills to people with profound and multiple learning difficulties, those who need to develop skills with assistive input devices and very young children new to computers. It is, we believe the first time anyone anywhere has developed an online switch enabled application which targets ICT skills from purely experiential through cause and effect, switch building, timed activation, targeting and row scanning.
The program can be run directly from this web site using a standard 56.6kbps modem, or downloaded for use on stand alone PC or Macintosh computers. Programmed by Inclusive Technology, a world leading developer of software for special needs, it uses the latest Macromedia Flash technology to deliver 132 high quality animated activities which can be operated by a wide range of input devices.
SENSwitcher has been designed as a progressive teaching and assessment tool and is accompanied by an 18 page set of teachers notes together with assessment records, developmental skills progression models and small step checklists linked to the QCA P Levels for ICT. These documents are available FREE from the download area.
The program is available FREE to teachers, parents, care workers, if fact anyone who wants to use it. We hope you and your children enjoy it.
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SENSwitcher Program and Documentation
© Northern Grid for Learning 2001
www.northerngrid.org
Documentation and Teachers' Notes
Ian Bean
Priory Woods School
ianbean@ntlworld.com
