You’re busted! Switch Skills Timing Skills
When someone is learning to scan using one switch there are two key skills that they need to practice. The first is the 'timing' skill. This involves the student pressing…
When someone is learning to scan using one switch there are two key skills that they need to practice. The first is the 'timing' skill. This involves the student pressing…
So here's the thing... I'm sat in a quiet classroom with six students all busy using some of the cause and effect apps I've been recommending over the last six…
I had a lovely day yesterday. I spent it in the company of five colleagues from a special school in the Midlands who had asked me to work with them…
You’re probably wondering what these Chinese symbols mean. They are the words ‘press the switch’ written in traditional Chinese. Why am I telling you this? When I worked at Priory…
Many commercial switch training software programs feature a ‘switch building’ level where the learner is required to press the switch a number of times in order to ‘build’ either a…
We often receive requests from schools for twilight training so we've put together an affordable, fixed price package to suit all schools. Twilight training works well where schools have ICT…
Here's a lovely new resource from our good friend Pete Wells. Targeted at older SLD / MLD students, this resource talks through some of the changes that happen to young…
Our new free resources booklet is now online and it's packed with free programs, apps and web sites which you may find useful. There's some real gems this time. How…
Today I’m visiting the China Disabled Person’s Federation to deliver a presentation to the teachers and therapists on the topic of assistive technology. The centre was about a two drive from the offices of Honeycomb Technologies and well away from the tourist centre of Shenzhen where I am staying.
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Today I am travelling to Nanhai in the Guandong Province to visit the Nanhai Affiliated Maternity and Children’s Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine to see the work of Doctor Zenhuan Liu. Doctor. Lui is a Professor of Child Neurology and Acupuncture doctor, who has developed a program of intensive therapies, some modern and some traditional Chinese to help young people with cerebral palsy. Doctor Lui’s work is internationally known and he sees patients from as far afield as Dubai, Australia and the USA.