Special Educational Needs
- Action For Blind People
- "Action for Blind People is one of the largest charities in the UK providing free and confidential support for blind and partially sighted people in all aspects of their lives. We are dynamic and have a reputation for talking less and doing more. Driven by the needs of visually impaired people, we deliver what people say they need, not just what we think they need. Our mission is to inspire change and create opportunities to enable people with sight loss to have equal voice and equal choice."
- Dyslexia Scotland
- Everything you need to know about Dyslexia Scotland and the work we do.
- DeafBlind Scotland - Our vision:
- Deafblind Scotland and Deafblind UK share a common vision: A society in which deafblind people have the permanent support and recognition necessary to be equal citizens. Our aims are designed to help us achieve this:
- to help deafblind people in Scotland live as rightful members of their own communities and to encourage and support contact between deafblind people and sighted hearing people
- to liaise with health and social service providers to make appropriate assistance available to deafblind people in Scotland
- to work in partnership with statutory and other agencies to improve the quality of life of deafblind people
- to raise awareness of both the needs and potential of deafblind people
- to encourage provision of facilities, services and support for deafblind people.
- English Banana * One of the best education link on the internet. You may freely print, copy and distribute English Banana.com materials, subject to our Copying Licence. This site offers more than 4,000 pages of free printable resources for teaching and learning English and ESL. We also give away free English course books, podcasts, and many other free resources. All learning resources on EnglishBanana.com are free to use and in the public domain. Anybody can use them for commercial or non-commercial purposes.
- FlockDraw
- Flock Draw is a free to use online whiteboard based painting & drawing tool. It makes it easy to draw online free with multiple people for fun or business. You can have unlimited people in a room and the drawing updates in real time. Uses different colors, shapes and text. Start drawing now!
- Grey Olltwit Educational Software *
- £9.99 to register - Free CD with many lessons that can be transferred to as many PC's a you need.
- See:
- Maths | English | Geography | History
- | Science | Art | Music | ICT | PSHEE
- We are a non profit charitable organisation providing free educational software to those on low incomes, especially in but not limited to, developing countries. We have been doing this on the internet since 1996. Those who can afford to pay for membership and our advertising revenue, helps us to keep providing free memberships to those who cannot. Click here for details of our free membership program. We also support and maintain the popular ADD/ADHD website www.adders.org.
- Doodle Pad
- A simple drawing and coloring program which includes stamps (small pre-drawn pictures to color). Features include; 20 level undo facility; full screen drawing area; audio and text quick help; large buttons; paper color chooser; make your own stamps from pictures feature; make simple greeting cards feature; copy to other programs; copy and paste parts of pictures within Doodle Pad; shape tools; add text feature; rubber (eraser) tool; restore previous unsaved drawing facility; resize and rotate stamps and hundreds of new stamps in download packs available from our Web site.
- Jack Tizard School
- Athough this is a school for 2 - 19 year olds with learning difficulties - there are a number of free downloadable resourses tutors & learners may find useful. Please check out the about section on the site.
- Language Guide * "LanguageGuide.org offers free sound integrated resources for learning languages. These resources are developed collaboratively with the help of volunteers. It is sponsored by Language Guide, a registered non-profit organization."
- Educational Freeware
- "Welcome to www.educational-freeware.com! - This site is dedicated to listings, descriptions and reviews of the best free educational software for kids and adults. Some of the software is web based (see the online section), and some is Windows software that you can download (see the downloadable section)". - Sebran - "Sebran's ABC is a freeware collection of 12 different activities for kids 4-9 years old. It includes counting games, a Hangman game, Memory games, typing games and much more". Minisebran "Minisebran contains alphabet exercises, number exercises and doodle activities. It is perfect for toddlers and kids up to 5 years old who are learning the basics of using a computer, keyboard and mouse". Loads of free downloads and online activities!
A brilliant video made by people with learning disabilities from all over Scotland talking about their views on the Independence Referendum.
There has been little from either side addressing disability issues.
Thank you Ian Hood of Disability Alliance for video.
- ASL - Scottish Referendum pamphlet by Disability Alliance. Download from here > Pamphlet
- RNID -
- "RNID is the largest charity working to change the world for the UK’s 9 million deaf and hard of hearing people."
- SEN Teacher Resources
- "Resources, freeware downloads, links and documents for those involved in the education of people with learning difficulties".
