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As Paralympians inspire us in Rio, showing us their determination to develop their skills to compete at the highest levels in their chosen sport.

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We're The Superhumans | Rio Paralympics 2016 Trailer

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Mike Thrussel at Henshaw College has created a range of fantastic tools to support learners as they search/play Youtube videos (also great for classroom presentation of Youtube videos), searching for creative commons images and a very useful text to speech tool.

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Web Hosting from Just Host. Professional Web hosting services with free domain name, unlimited web hosting space and unlimited bandwidth.

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The Education and Training Foundation's SEND Exhibition site provides access to the latest news, reports and effective practice around SEND.

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Special Educational Needs and Disability

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The Right Place - a new resource from ETF and Mencap - This new free learning module will help ensure learners with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) are on the most meaningful work placements. Primarily for IAG providers, teaching staff and managers - it will help you to provide effective support to both the young person on placement and the employer.

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Enhancing staff support for learners with disabilities

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Enhancing staff support for learners with disabilities

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Training for all staff should include more than just disability awareness. Inclusive practice is good practice - it reduces barriers for disabled learners but also provides positive benefits for all other learners.

Providing training and ongoing support for teaching staff will enable them to become more confident in using technology to enhance and enrich their practice.

If the technology is deployed across the organisation, and there is a commitment to promote its use, then there needs to be staff training as part of the induction process. We also recommend tutorials be made available so that people can access them at a time and situation that is convenient for them.

This guide looks at specific areas to develop for the different roles in an organisation. We also explore what you can do to support disabled learners, and who to work with to improve that support. We offer training and consultancy in all these areas - speak to your account manager for more information.

You can also find information on specific disabilities and how technology can support those needs in our guide on ' Meeting the requirements of learners with special educational needs.'

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Enhancing staff support for learners with disabilities

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Training for all staff should include more than just disability awareness. Inclusive practice is good practice - it reduces barriers for disabled learners but also provides positive benefits for all other learners. Providing training and ongoing support for teaching staff will enable them to become more confident in using technology to enhance and enrich their practice.

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Why hire a disabled person? Supporting accessible and inclusive apprenticeships.

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Advancing equality for disabled learners in workplace learning

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Advancing equality for disabled learners in workplace learning

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Grantham College's ECU project explored ways to advance equality for disabled learners through apprenticeships. They produced a brochure aimed at encouraging and supporting businesses to employing young people with Learning Difficulties or Disabilities.  It features four case studies of apprentices who are Learners with Learning Difficulties or Disabilities.
This is one of a number of projects which was focused on this theme they can be found in the Project's area of the Equalities Toolkit website.

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Advancing equality for disabled learners in workplace learning | Equalities Toolkit

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The brochure is aimed at encouraging and supporting businesses to employing young people with Learning Difficulties or Disabilities. It features four case studies of apprentices who are Learners with Learning Difficulties or Disabilities.

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Succeeding at college - supporting young people with autism. Spring to Equalities webinar.
Note: at times during the webinar you may need to move the video forward using the timeline, as there were a few technical problems.

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Temple University Collaborative On Commmunity Inclusion

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Christa McAuliffe Online School of Arts & Sciences

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Succeeding at College - Supporting young people with autism - Spring to Equalities webinar

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Recording of the Ambitious about Autism online session on 5 May 2016: Succeeding at College: Supporting young people with autism to go to college and achieve Fewer than one in four young people with autism access any form of education once they leave school.

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Rebecca Burgess sees a problem with the way many people perceive the autism spectrum. Her resolution? The comic below which gets rid of the linear autism spectrum image (i.e. you’re either “not autistic, “very autistic” or somewhere in between) and replaces it with a round spectrum full of several traits or ways the brain processes information.

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Rebecca Burgess sees a problem with the way many people perceive the autism spectrum. Her resolution? The comic below. The Tumblr user debuted " Understanding the Spectrum " (below), which gets rid of the linear autism spectrum image (i.e. you're either "not autistic, "very autistic" or somewhere in between) and replaces it with a round spectrum full of several traits or ways the brain processes information.

"I want people to understand that autistic people don't all fit a stereotype, and show people the consequences of stereotyping," Burgess, from the U.K., told The Mighty in an email. "[Stereotyping leads to] underestimating the skills of autistic people or not believing someone [who is on the spectrum]."

The comic, which she released in April for Autism Acceptance Week, has earned her messages from autistic people, parents and teachers, thanking Burgess for helping them explain the spectrum in a more accurate way.
Take a look at "Understanding the Spectrum" below, and let us know how you would describe the spectrum to someone unfamiliar with autism in the comments at the bottom.

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Comic Redesigns the Autism Spectrum to Crush Stereotypes

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Rebecca Burgess sees a problem with the way many people perceive the autism spectrum. Her resolution? The comic below. The Tumblr user debuted " Understanding the Spectrum " (below), which gets rid of the linear autism spectrum image (i.e.

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Developing person centred plans and a wiki tool that can support this.

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Uploaded by RIX Research and Media on 2015-09-11.

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Hackney Learning Trust trained ten deaf awareness ambassadors to engage with and support hearing impaired, deaf with speech and profoundly deaf learners to access mainstream adult community learning classes in Hackney.

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Hackney ECU/SFA Good Practice Fund project (2014/15)

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British Sign Language and Improving Services for d/Deaf learners

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British Sign Language and Improving Services for d/Deaf learners

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This project was developed to motivate and support the learning and skills sector to develop their awareness of d/Deaf learners and their needs; improve the sector’s capability and capacity to meet these needs and adjust the learning environment so that it becomes more inclusive; and ensure that, just like other learners, d/Deaf learners have an equal chance to enjoy and achieve their full potential in education.

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import-pdf:14644 | Special Educational Needs and Disability

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Imogen Heap talks about the gloves that will “change the way we make music”.

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The gloves that will "change the way we make music", with Imogen Heap

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This movie has been nominated for a Webby Award! Please vote for it here:http://bit.ly/1ckuTK6 See more architecture and design movies on dezeen.com/movies In this exclusive video interview, musician Imogen Heap demonstrates the electronic gloves that allow people to interact with their computer remotely via hand gestures.

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Accessible and inclusive electronic and hard copy documents: The basics

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Accessible and inclusive electronic and hard copy documents: The basics

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The guidelines are based on the simple principle that you want people to access your provision and read your information and ‘people’ include deaf and disabled people.

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Commissioned by AELP definition, as the lead for the Excellence in Leadership, Management and Governance (ELMAG) partnership, for the Education and Training Foundation, the national network of (sector) equalities networks created these guidelines to help ELMAG providers produce more accessible and inclusive documents.

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Use the evaluation tool to assess the quality of proposed/existing Teaching and Learning resources; one of the measures is accessibility

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An Evaluation Tool for Content: Access to the Tool and Supporting Resources

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This webinar explores how to make the best use of technologies to support learners with mental health problems. The tools suggested in the webinar would certainly be relevant for LDD learners too.
This webinar is one of a series from A World Mental Health Day Webinar (2015)

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British Virgin Islands Health Services Authority | BVIHSA

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University of York Mental Health Awareness Project

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Making Learning Easier - A World Mental Health Day Webinar (2015)

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In this recording of an online session held on 14 October 2015, Sally Betts, from Ideas4Learning explored learning technology tools and apps to help providers support learners who have mental health difficulties. (please note the sound quality on this recording is poor in places)

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This free downloadable publication from the Learning and Work Institute is for dyslexic students and people with dyslexia who are thinking about going to college or university or learning at work. It is also for the people who support them. It contains advice and stories from other dyslexic learners.

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A guide to making documents easier to read, especially for those with dyslexia. Try out your own documents by using the associated online tool

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Accessible and inclusive electronic and hard copy documents: The basics

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Accessible and inclusive electronic and hard copy documents: The basics

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The guidelines are based on the simple principle that you want people to access your provision and read your information and ‘people’ include deaf and disabled people.

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Commissioned by AELP definition, as the lead for the Excellence in Leadership, Management and Governance (ELMAG) partnership, for the Education and Training Foundation, the national network of (sector) equalities networks created these guidelines to help ELMAG providers produce more accessible and inclusive documents.

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particularly those on the autistic spectrum, have difficulties with understanding relationships within an inclusive learning environment. This project aimed to give learners with learning difficulties a set of activities and resources, tailored to their learning requirements. This would enable greater understanding of sexual orientation, greater ability to recognise diversity in their communities and make informed choices about their own sexuality.

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Sexual orienteering - ECU/SFA GPF | Equalities Toolkit

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A website for sharing specialist resources for LDD learners. Search by level, theme, or learning difficulty or disability

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Adults who have learning difficulties and very low levels of literacy have difficulty in finding resources that are age appropriate for a range of key learning themes critical for their personal development.