See HelpKidzLearn for free activities, software and resources from Inclusive Technology.
The site has many different sorts of games and activities for children with special needs along with hints and tips for parents, teachers and helpers.
Click here to enter HelpKidzLearn
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Interactive Visual Timetable for Working Life
This simple software is ideal for sequencing any series of events, including what will happen during the working day. It may be especially useful for sequencing activities that are difficult to remember. You could even use it to show rewards or outcomes for successfully completing activities. Most commonly it is used as a visual reminder of tasks and activities.
Click here to download the program - (4.04Mb)
The program must be downloaded and installed on your computer before you can run it.
Click here to download the user guide - (329K)
Print it out and follow to create timetable. (To save, right click and select 'Save Target As'.)
Interactive Visual Timetable
Produced by the Down's Syndrome Association, this program can be downloaded and used to easily produce timetables with pictorial clues for young children and those with more complex difficulties. These timetables are great for sequencing simple events to aid memory and are particularly useful to promote positive behaviour (i.e. if you do your reading and eat your dinner you get to play a board game.)
Click here to download the program - (1.70Mb)
The program must be downloaded and installed on your computer before you can run it.
Click here to download the user guide - (425k)
Print it out and follow to create timetable. (To save, right click and select 'Save Target As'.)
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The Inclusive Saddleworth Desktop Calendar
We are based in a beautiful place! Delph is in the heart of Saddleworth, known for its dramatic Pennine moors, river valleys and picturesque villages with mills and stone built cottages.
The photographs in our desktop calendar have all been taken around the Saddleworth area by local photographer John Todd.
Now you can use them as computer wallpaper. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do - and don't forget to check back next month for the next installment!
Click here to download your free Inclusive desktop wallpaper
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Music Games
 A collection of early learning musical activities, ideal for Key Stage 1.
Free Play - Play the on-screen keyboard. Record and play back a sequence of notes. Choose a new voice to play back the same sequence. Record a sequence for someone else to copy.
Play the same note - A note is played - play the same note. Turn on a visual clue. Hide the keys entirely whilst the note is played. Experiment with different voices.
Play a lower note - A note is played - play a note that sounds lower. Turn on a visual clue. Hide the keys entirely whilst the note is played. Experiment with different voices. Although you can just keep hitting the top or bottom note on the keyboard as appropriate, there is the freedom for the teacher to say 'play one note higher', or 'see how close you can get to the note that is being played'
Play a higher note - A note is played - play a note that sounds higher. Turn on a visual clue. Hide the keys entirely whilst the note is played. Experiment with different voices. Although you can just keep hitting the top or bottom note on the keyboard as appropriate, there is the freedom for the teacher to say 'play one note higher', or 'see how close you can get to the note that is being played.
How many notes? - A random sequence of notes is played. How many are played? Choose sequences between 1 and 3 notes or 4 and 7 notes. Choose whether the notes are spread over the whole keyboard or just the first 5 notes. Choose how long a pause is played between each note.
How does it sound? - Open ended. Play one of 15 sounds by clicking on a picture. Use the arrows to go to another sound. Click on the words to describe the sound. Type in your own words and print the screen. How might it represent that sound? What other ways could you represent the sound in a picture?
You can set targets at different levels, to gradually improve an individual's listening skills in a fun way. Use a mouse, keyboard, touch monitor, or IntelliKeys.
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Download Music Games for Windows -
3Mb
Download Music Games for Mac - 3.5Mb
Download the Music Games documentation as a Word file (249k) or a PDF (640k)
Please note: this product is unsupported
Posted 18/09/2002
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Talking Faces
Another free, switch accessible program from Inclusive
Technology.
Record your voice and hear it played back while a face
animates!
Whilst this has been done before in other contexts, we have made
this stand-alone program freely available with the following features:
Choose from seven faces:
- Alien
- Female
- Male
- Robot
- Simple
- Clown
- Santa Claus
One or two switch scanning, mouse or touchscreen and keyboard
shortcuts.
Save the sound file to disc.
Set an automatic recording time out.
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Download Talking
Faces - 3.3Mb. Download help file as Word (23k) or RTF (10k).
Please note: this product is unsupported
Posted 29/11/2001
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 Northern Grid for Learning -
SENSwitcher
From the Northern Grid for Learning web site...
"SENSwitcher is a suite of programs designed to help teach early
ICT skills to people with profound and multiple learning difficulties, those
who need to develop skills with assistive input devices and very young children
new to computers. It is, we believe the first time anyone anywhere has
developed an online switch enabled application which targets ICT skills from
purely experiential through cause and effect, switch building, timed
activation, targeting and row scanning."
"Programmed by Inclusive Technology, a world leading developer of
software for special needs, it uses the latest Macromedia Flash technology to
deliver 132 high quality animated activities which can be operated by a wide
range of input devices. SENSwitcher has been  designed as a progressive teaching
and assessment tool and is accompanied by an 18 page set of teachers notes
together with assessment records, developmental skills progression models and
small step checklists linked to the QCA P Levels for ICT. These documents are
available FREE from the download area (of the Northern Grid web site)."
"The program is available FREE to teachers, parents, care
workers, if fact anyone who wants to use it. We hope you and your children
enjoy it."
SENSwitcher online - Northern Grid for Learning
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 Inclusive CD Player
A free, switch accessible CD player for Windows 95 onwards.
Features:
- two different graphic styles
- one or two switch access
- mouse and keyboard access
- automatically remembers settings
- suitable for controlling from an IntelliKeys or Concept Keyboard
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Download Inclusive CD Player - (2.2 Mb)
Download instructions as Word file (28 k) or RTF file (9 k).
Please note: this product is unsupported
Posted 16/05/2001
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MathsWiz
An updated file containing all the equations for these two programs.
Without this updated file, some of the equations may be incorrect.
Save the correct Matteknep.ovn file to the MathsWiz folder on your C
drive. The file path should be something like this:
C:\Program
Files\MathsWiz - Level 1\Matteknep.ovn.
By replacing the original
Matteknep.ovn file with this new one, the errors should automatically be
corrected in the game.
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MathsWiz 1 Download - (1.8 Mb)
MathsWiz 2 Download - (1.2 Mb)
Posted 26/01/2005
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Inclusive Writer 1.6 Upgrade
This is a free upgrade to Inclusive
Writer 1.6. The upgrade will only work if you already have version
1.5. If you have a version earlier than 1.5, please contact us for details of how to upgrade.
(You can find out which version of Inclusive Writer you have by running the
program and selecting 'About' from the 'Help' menu.)
The upgrade to 1.6 adds several new features:
- integration with Inter_Comm, the new email program that provides picture and
auditory support
- drag grids to resize them
- import graphics in a wider variety of formats: JPG, TIFF and PNG, as
well as BMP and WMF.
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Download Inclusive Writer 1.6 upgrade -
(1.1 Mb)
Posted 12/10/2000
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 Inclusive Serial Switch Driver
A stand-alone serial switch driver for Windows, programmed to send
the standard keys of Space and Return. For single or two switch access. Option
to send a continuous stream of keypresses or a single keypress. Send a
selection of other commonly used keypresses such as function keys and number
keys.
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Download (46KB Zip
file)
Posted 14/08/2000
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Overlay Printer
A free and very useful utility from IntelliTools which allows you to
send and print out IntelliKeys overlays.
(Windows and Mac)
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Windows Download (1060K
self-extracting file)
Mac Download (573K hqx file)
Posted 08/11/1999
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Learn More About Maths Update
A fix for the 'Read the Digital Time' activity. Without this
update, not responding within this activity for about two minutes would crash
the program.
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Download (421K self-extracting file)
Posted 04/11/1999
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Overlay Sender Update
Updated version of Overlay Sender for Windows, now compatible with
Windows NT, Windows 3.1, Windows 95/98.
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Download (191K)
NT users: IntelliTools no longer support NT, but this download
may work on some NT systems.
Posted 18/02/1999
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Training from the ACE Centre
The ACE Centre offers high quality, comprehensive CPD for anyone working with people with complex communication needs and/or physical difficulties.
There is an emphasis on work based practice will encourage you to develop your knowledge and enhance your working practices.
Accredited courses - combine distance learning with attendance at four day sessions. Manchester Metropolitan University accredited.
One day courses - for understanding and using assistive communication technology.
ACE Centre Advisory Trust (Oxford)
Download accredited course leaflet - (549k)
Download one day course leaflet 2011 - (653k)
ACE Centre North (Oldham)
Download outside of training leaflet - (1.9 Mb)
Download inside of training leaflet - (2.3 Mb)
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