Autumn Term 2023 Online Training
Live Online Training
Thursday Thirty free live online training is running throughout the Autumn 2023 term.
Join us at 15.30 to 16.00 (GMT) on Thursday afternoons to find out how a wide range of assistive technologies are used to support learning and communication in special educational settings.
Who should attend? Our training sessions are suitable for teachers, SENCOs, school SEND teams, TAs, Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists and parents and carers supporting children and young people using assistive technology to access the curriculum and/or to communicate.
Take a look at the programme below and register to attend the sessions of interest to you.
Training joining details
We will email you the Microsoft Teams joining details a couple of days before the training session so keep an eye out in your email inbox. Please check your spam or junk mail folder and contact Annabel at adent@cenmac.com if you do not have the joining details one day before the event.
CENMAC’s Thursday Thirty – Overview of Liberator AAC devices & vocabularies
Thursday 5th October 2023, 15:30 – 16.00 (BST)
Improving learning and communication outcomes in educational settings through robust AAC and computer access
Liberator’s high-tech communication aids support a range of vocabularies. They are flexible, easy to program and personalise, and offer a range of access methods. In addition to offering a comprehensive range of communication aids we also have adapted toys, learning and inclusion aids, switches, computer access software and accessories.
Join Mark Street, Commercial Director of Liberator, for a brief overview of Liberator’s AAC devices and vocabularies, computer access solutions and alternative access options and take time to think about how our range of products can assist your students in achieving greater communication and educational outcomes.”
CENMAC’s Thursday Thirty – An introduction to Predictable text-to-speech app
Thursday 12th October 2023, 15:30 – 16.00 (BST)
Predictable is the award-winning text-to-speech app used by people with a range of speech and language difficulties.
This training will help you learn more about the app’s powerful features and accessibility options, including eye tracking, head tracking, and you might get a sneak peak of the new version coming out in 2023.
Training joining details
We will email you the Microsoft Teams joining details a couple of days before the training session so keep an eye out in your email inbox. Please check your spam or junk mail folder and contact Annabel at adent@cenmac.com if you do not have the joining details one day before the event.
CENMAC’s Thursday Thirty – An overview of OrCam Learn
Thursday 19th October 2023, 15:30 – 16.00 (BST)
OrCam Learn is an innovative, powerful new solution that supports teachers and schools, enabling every student to thrive. OrCam Learn can read text out loud from any surface, listen to the student read and evaluate their reading and comprehension. OrCam Learn also provides teachers and schools with the ongoing data and performance assessments they need to help every student find their possible.
Designed to help students of all ages with reading and learning challenges or just generally building reading confidence with reluctant readers and encouraging reading for pleasure.
In this session we will explore using the OrCam Learn device in an education environment:
- How can OrCam Learn support students and give users complete reading independence
- Explore features such as text to speech, word identification, language translation and Oxford English dictionary definition
- Look at the AI Analytical Reporting tools that monitors students reading progress
- How OrCam Learn can be used in place of human scribes and readers in exams to help assessors reduce costs and increase student outcomes
Training joining details
We will email you the Microsoft Teams joining details a couple of days before the training session so keep an eye out in your email inbox. Please check your spam or junk mail folder and contact Annabel at adent@cenmac.com if you do not have the joining details one day before the event.
CENMAC’s Thursday Thirty – Parent’s perspective of using AAC at home
Thursday 9th November 2023, 15:30 – 16.00 (BST)
In this online session Kathryn will chat with Bob and Anjana about their experiences and how they use AAC at home with family. Bob and Anjana both have children who use AAC to support their communication and learning. This session is a great opportunity to ask questions to these parents of children and young people in both primary and secondary education. We welcome questions from attendees to be included in the session so if you have a particular AAC question please email it to Annabel at newsandevents@cenmac.com.
Training joining details
We will email you the Microsoft Teams joining details a couple of days before the training session so keep an eye out in your email inbox. Please check your spam or junk mail folder and contact Annabel at newsandevents@cenmac.com if you do not have the joining details one day before the event.
Ewa Bukowska is an education practitioner focusing on technology adoption to support the daily lives and education of neurodiverse children and young people. Ewa has worked in different settings on the verge of education and technology and is passionate about creating accessible and inclusive learning environments. Ewa is also a SEND Programme Manager at Ignite Hubs, a UK-based charity, where she develops programming resources and offerings for children and young people with Additional Learning Needs.
CENMAC’s Thursday Thirty – Cosmo Switches
Thursday 16th November 2023, 15:30 – 16.00 (BST)
During the session, Cosmo’s Community Engagement Ewa, will showcase Cosmo, an inclusive technology system helping students work on their core physical, cognitive and communication skills. Cosmo is a combination of interactive controllers called Cosmoids, which can be used to play a range of Cosmo Games available in a free iPad app and as external accessibility switches to navigate through third-party apps and devices. The session will include a Q&A session.
Training joining details
We will email you the Microsoft Teams joining details a couple of days before the training session so keep an eye out in your email inbox. Please check your spam or junk mail folder and contact Annabel at adent@cenmac.com if you do not have the joining details one day before the event.
CENMAC’s Thursday Thirty – Assistive Gaming for All
Thursday 23rd November 2023, 15:30 – 16.00 (BST)
Assistive Gaming is a big part of the lives of many people living with a disability, and its importance should not be underestimated.
Pretorian Technologies have a number of Assistive Gaming solutions for gaming platforms incl, Xbox and Nintendo, as well as PC gaming.
Bob will also talk about the gaming capabilities of some of Pretorian’s core products such as the Optima and Ultra Joysticks, which have been modified to switch from standard mouse functions to new ‘gamepad’ settings meaning they can be used with the Microsoft Xbox Adaptive Controller (XAC).
The session will cover new and exciting innovations to facilitate assistive gaming, including Game On which enables eye-gaze gaming on Xbox and PC using an AAC devices built in eye-gaze camera.
Bob will also share his personal experiences of his son, and how as a parent he has bonded with him through gaming.
Training joining details
We will email you the Microsoft Teams joining details a couple of days before the training session so keep an eye out in your email inbox. Please check your spam or junk mail folder and contact Annabel at adent@cenmac.com if you do not have the joining details one day before the event.
CENMAC’s Thursday Thirty – Recognising and supporting children and young people with dyslexia
Thursday 30th November 2023, 15:30 – 16.00 (BST)
In this session CENMAC Dyslexia Assessor and Advisory Speech and Language Therapist, Abeer Essa talks about dyslexia. How to recognise if a child or young person might have dyslexia, and how it can affect their learning. She will also briefly talk about testing for dyslexia and how a child with dyslexia can be supported in the classroom with the use of assistive technology.
Training joining details
We will email you the Microsoft Teams joining details a couple of days before the training session so keep an eye out in your email inbox. Please check your spam or junk mail folder and contact Annabel at adent@cenmac.com if you do not have the joining details one day before the event.
CENMAC’s Thursday Thirty – Braille from preschool to beyond!
Thursday 7th December 2023, 15:30 – 16.00 (BST)
Join Martin Roberts from Humanware for this session featuring Humanware Braille tools to encourage literacy, communication and confidence from preschool to beyond!
Training joining details
We will email you the Microsoft Teams joining details a couple of days before the training session so keep an eye out in your email inbox. Please check your spam or junk mail folder and contact Annabel at adent@cenmac.com if you do not have the joining details one day before the event.
If you have any changes in school and need training to implement the students’ assistive technology please do get in contact with your advisory teacher or mail@cenmac.com.
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