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Bob the Builder is helping Inclusive Technology to raise £50,000 for the new Manchester Children’s Hospital Appeal. Bob has agreed to feature in Inclusive Technology’s SwitchIt! series of programs and got his friends at HIT Entertainment and the BBC to agree.
SwitchIt! Bob the Builder will be fully switch accessible and will give all children including those with the most severe and complex access needs, a chance of playing with one of the world’s most popular children’s characters. Meanwhile some of the UK’s most poorly children and their parents will benefit from the fantastic facilities at the new, world beating, Manchester Children’s Hospital.
“Software for children with severe disabilities never features top licensed characters like Bob” says Martin Littler, who put the scheme together. “Thanks to the generosity of HIT Entertainment and the BBC they can now experience Bob for themselves, with their classmates, in software which gives them control, choices and some fun learning experiences too.”
“From sales of our regular SwitchIt! programs, I know we will sell over a thousand copies” says Martin. “With every pound going to the Appeal we should soon reach and pass our target of £50,000”.
Red Alert readers will be tipped off first as soon as SwitchIt! Bob the Builder is launched this Autumn, in good time for Christmas. The program will cost £50 for a single user version with five user copies at £99, ten user copies at £129 and school network/site licence copies at £229.
Inclusive Technology are the world leaders in switch accessible software (although their software is fun for learners with a special need too) and carry out work for the BBC in making CBeebies on-line games switch accessible for disabled children.
SwitchIt! Bob the Builder will appear this autumn (subscribers to Red Alert will be the first to be told when). And every pound received will go to the New Children’s Hospital Appeal.