You Need
We have the technology… and the team!
The team at Inclusive always aims to bring you the best in assistive technology to help your learners and the know-how to really make an impact with these products. We now have three new staff members, to help support you in using our hardware and software - as well as in developing new technology to meet your needs!
Diane Moscaritolo has just joined Inclusive TLC in New Jersey. She is looking forward to training teachers in the use of assistive technology and helping them to integrate AT techniques into special education and mainstream classrooms.
Diane is a fully
qualified teacher of children with special needs and a Learning Disabilities
Teacher/Consultant, with a BA in Special Education/Psychology and an M.Ed. in
Learning Disabilities. She has thirty years' practical experience and has
particular interests in reading, literacy and emerging language. She has
experience of teaching young children with neurological impairments,
adolescents with learning and emotional disabilities, and as a diagnostician
Diane has worked with students ranging in age from three to adult. Most
recently, Diane was Coordinator of Disability Services at Passaic County
Community College, serving students with a variety of physical, learning,
sensory and emotional disabilities. Diane enjoys spending time with her two
sons, traveling, cooking and improving her Italian!
New to the UK
Information Team is Imogen Howarth. Imogen trained in Psychology and has worked
with children and adults with a range of Severe Learning Disabilities and Dual
Diagnoses for many years, in the UK and overseas. Imogen also used to manage a
Social Enterprise where adults with SLD could find innovative and interesting
work by creating and marketing symbol-supported products. More recently, Imogen
worked as a special educational needs advisor for Widgit Software, creating
accessible resources and training professionals around the UK in the use of
symbol-supported software. Now living in Marsden with fiancé, Ian,
Imogen is looking forward to broadening her knowledge of hardware and access
devices.
Claudia Gray has just joined the UK development team as an artist and teacher developer. Her creative skills will be put to good use at Inclusive, where she will be generating new product concepts and seeing them through to the final software design. With a degree in fine art, Claudia also has valuable teaching experience - she spent seven years in Spain, teaching English as a foreign language. She also has experience of traditional cell animation, working on cartoon films, and spent a further seven years as a computer artist and animator in multimedia and video games. Claudia lives in Manchester and enjoys walking and exploring new places.