"It's one thing to have the right tools. It's another to know how best to use them to help your students learn and make progress.
For nearly 30 years, I've been developing assistive technology tools and, just as importantly, sharing what I've learned from using them with children and from working alongside the teachers and therapists who support them."
Supporting your school's practice
The SENict website brings together activities, training and practical resources designed to help schools develop their use of assistive technology with young people with severe, complex and profound needs.
The PD Centre brings these resources together and helps colleagues develop the knowledge and skills to make the most of the technology available to them.
PD Supporters have access to:
- Over 60 hours of training videos and recorded webinars, covering switches, touch devices, pointing devices and eye gaze systems.
- Structured self-study courses covering specific areas of assistive technology and teaching practice.
- Skills progression documents and level descriptors which can be adapted for individual students or incorporated into your school's existing assessment framework.
- Teaching, assessment and support materials which can be personalised for your school or class.
- 600+ online and downloadable activities designed to support the development of access skills.
- Additional activities and resources for PD Supporters, including downloadable activities that can be installed on school computers.
Bringing the resources together
The different parts of SENict are designed to work together.
The activities provide opportunities for students to practise and develop their access skills, while the progression documents help you identify where a student is in their development and plan appropriate next steps.
The training and professional development materials then provide the knowledge and practical strategies to help staff make effective use of the technology and activities.
This approach has developed from many years of teaching and working alongside children, teachers and therapists. The aim isn't simply to provide more technology or more activities, but to help colleagues understand how and when to use them to support learning, communication and independence.
PD Individual Supporter – £10 one-off donation
Provides lifetime access to the complete collection of activities, training, courses and individual teaching and assessment resources.
PD School Supporter – £50 one-off donation
Provides the same access for everyone in your school through a simple single school login, together with additional school-level assessment and professional development resources.
PD Supporter registrations never expire. They remain active for as long as the SENict website remains online.
The contribution helps me to meet the costs of keeping SENict online and allows these resources to remain available to the people who need them.
