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THERE IS AN increasing emphasis on the need to support students with special needs. These sites will provide more information for staff offering that support, as well as for the students themselves.
You may be interested in the work of the National Disability Team on projects to enhance disability provision, and of TechDis on enhancing access for students and staff with disabilities. There is also our information for students with special needs.
Other resources are categorised into the following areas:
Hearing impaired
Visually impaired
Dyslexia
Audio Books
Employment
Education
Web design
General
Suppliers
- Hearing impaired
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All You
Wanted to Know About Deafness - DEAF-L FAQ WWW Site- wide variety of deafness-related information
- Centre for Deaf
Studies, University of Bristol
Deaf 24/7
- Deafclub.co.uk
- Deafsign.com
- UK-based site on deafness and sign language
(BSL)
- HandSpeak
- visual language dictionary based on ASL
- RNID Library
- Covers all aspects of hearing, speech and
language, specializing in literature on deafness
- Visually impaired
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- Access Adobe
- Help with Adobe Acrobat and PDF files for
the visually impaired
- BETSIE
- Text-to-speech enhanced version of all BBC
Online web sites
- Blindness Resource
Center - New York Institute for Special Education
- wide variety of information
- British Journal of Visual Impairment
- available by subscription
- Mind
- Mental health issues for people with sight problems
- Queen Alexandra College
for the visually impaired.
- Recording
for the Blind Centre
- University of Swansea tape, braille and large
print provision, has links with RNIB
- REVIEL
- Resources for Visually Impaired users of
the Electronic Library
- Royal National College
for the Blind
- Royal National Institute
of the Blind
- RNIB Student website
- Surrey Association
for Visual Impairment
- University
of Birmingham - Visual Impairment Centre for Teaching and Research
- Visual Impairment
North East
- Visual Impairment
Scotland
- database and information service
Audio Books -
Amazon.co.uk
Audible
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- US site - MP3 books to purchase and download
- Audiobooks.org
- AudioBooksForFree
- Free MP3 audiobooks - non-copyright works
(funded by advertising between chapters).
- Audiobooksonline.co.uk
- Audiohome.co.uk
BBC Shop
Calibre Cassette Library
- Free service for those who cannot read print.
- Freeclassicaudiobooks.com
Listening
Books
- Audio books in cassette format for those
who have difficulty in reading. (was National Listening Library)
- National
Library for the Blind
- Simply Audio
Books
The Talking Book
Shop
- The Talking
Book Club
- Audio books to rent or buy
- Waterstones.com
- Dyslexia
Amidyslexic.com
Audiblox 2000
A learning development programme
Dyslexic Action
Dyslexia.org
Dyslexia mailing
list
Discussion of computer tools useful to dyslexics (other dyslexic-related
topics also covered)
- British Dyslexia Association
- Dyslexia - the gift
- Publicity site for Davis Dyslexia Correction Program, but with many
other links (largely US)
- Spellzone
- Spellzone is an online course in English spelling written especially
for older students and adults with spelling difficulties such as dyslexia.
- StudyScan
- Computerised tests for diagnosing dyslexia.
- Toe by Toe
- A structured system for teaching reading. Find out more on the Keda
Learning website.
Education
IPSEA - Independent Panel
for Special Education Advice
HEAD - Higher Education Accessibility
Guide
Learning Support for Disabled
Students undertaking field work and related activities
AHEAD - Association on Higher
Education and Disability
Access
IT
Employment-
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- Employment
Opportunities
- A national charity helping people with disabilities
find and retain work
- Radar.org.uk
Action
for Blind People - Employer's Information Pack (.pdf)
Blind in Business
Leonard Cheshire
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- Web design
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- AWARE - Accessible
web authoring resources and education
Accessible Design for users with disabilities
- Article
- Accessibility
101
BOBBY
- Page checker plus hints to improve access to
web pages for those with disabilities.
- Creating
Accessible Adobe PDF files
- Guide to creating and optimizing PDF files
to make them accessible to the visually impaired.
- Disability
Access Symbols - Graphic Artists Guild
- Making Connections Unit
- A web accessibility consultancy with useful
articles on accessible design
- REVIEL
project
- Internet sources providing advice on good design
principles
- RNIB Accessible web
design
- Sight design for the visually impaired
- Web Accessibility Initiative
- General information and links
- Web Accessibility in Mind
- Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines
- W3C recommendations
- General
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- UK sites
- All Clear Designs
- Company specialising in community architecture
and making buildings accessible to disabled people
- BCS Disability Group
- British Computer Society Specialist Group,
encouraging IT developments to meet the needs of disabled people
- DEMOS
project
Three year project from 2000-2003 funded by HEFCE aimed at improving provision
for studetns with disabilities.
- dis-forum
- A mailing and discussion list for disabled
students and their support staff.
- The
Disability Equipment Register
- Exchange of second hand equipment
- Disability
Now
- Online version of newspaper
- National
Disability Team
- Projects to enhance disability provision. Includes
a Resource
directory
- NASEN - The National Association for
Special Educational Needs
- Disability
(www.disability.gov.uk)
- Includes
information on the Disability Discrimination Act and its implications
- National Federation
of Access Centres
- Assessment and support of students with special
needs in further and higher education.
- Open
University - Services for disabled students
- Skill
- National Bureau for Students with Disabilities
- Students
First: The Experience of Disabled Students in Higher Education
- SCRE research report.
- TechDis
- Enhancing access for students and staff with disabilities in further
and higher education.
Whizz kids
- Other sites
- AHEAD - Association
for Higher Education Access and Disability
- Irish site
- Centre for Applied Special Technology
(CAST)
- Innovative computer technology to expand opportunities
for individuals with disabilities - USA
- EASI Home Page
- Equal Access to Software and Information -
site on adaptive computer technology - USA
- Microsoft Accessibility
- Microsoft products, aids and tips
- Nerd World
: SOFTWARE - SPEECH RECOGNITION
- Collection of speech recognition products -
USA
- Screen Magnifiers
- Survey of what is available, also text-to-speech
software - Netherlands
- 21st Century Eloquence
- Voice/speech recognition consultants - USA
- Suppliers
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- Suppliers
of software and computer-related resources
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