Publications

Introducing Access for All

This publication was written to distribute more widely the much praised introductory section of the Access for All guidance on making the core curriulum accessible. The original Access for All introduction has been revised to make it more relevant to staff working across the whole range of curriculum areas. The aim throughout is to help teachers and others understand how disabilities and learning difficulties can affect learning, and to support them in developing strategies that can foster the creation of an inclusive learning environment.

Prolog reference: IAFA 

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Living Our Lives

This is a well produced pack containing the life stories of ten people with learning difficulties.  The pack is designed as a reading and writing resource for learners and tutors.  An audio CD is supplied with the pack. The booklets will help develop reading and writing skills based on a learner’s own experience and also develop confidence in speaking up to tell one’s own story.

                                                                           

Prolog reference: LOL

The Self-Advocacy Action Pack

This pack is written for adults with learning difficulties and focuses on the skills of speaking up and self advocacy. The pack is full of comments, ideas, stories and advice from people with learning difficulties.  It can be used as a learning or teaching tool.  An audio CD is supplied with the pack.                                                                           

Prolog reference: SAAP

Yesterday I Never Stopped Writing

This booklet contains good practice guidance on developing community-based basic skills provision for adults with learning difficulties or disabilities.  The case studies are drawn from 21 projects across England.  Across the programme, individual projects worked with a range of adult learners including people with:

• Learning difficulties;
• Profound and complex learning difficulties;
• Mental health difficulties;
• Acquired head injuries;
• Dyslexia
• Deafness or hard of hearing
• Physical disabilities
• Blindness or visual impairment

Three projects specifically targeted minority ethnic communities and a fourth worked with people who were homeless and/or who were substance abusers, many of whom had mental health difficulties.     

Prolog reference: YNSW

Skills Explorer - CD ROM of practical literacy activities for British Sign Language users at Entry Level

Skills Explorer’s is aimed at deaf people who want to improve their literacy skills using BSL.  The activities are at Entry level and are based on everyday situations at home college, leisure and work.  Learners can practise skills and write, record and print their own work. There are also links to a website where learners can:

• make contact with others
• get more ideas for learning
• see writing that others have published

The CD ROM, which includes tutor notes, is currently being piloted with several national deaf organisations and a final version will be available in March 2002.

Skills Explorer-CD ROM of practical literacy and numeracy activities for learners at Entry Level.

Skills Explorer helps adults who may have learning difficulties and/or disabilities. Literacy and numeracy activities at Entry level are based on everyday situations at home, college, leisure and work. Learners can practise skills and write, record and print their own work. They use interactive:

There are also links to a web site (http://www.ctad.co.uk/basil/)  

The CD ROM, which includes tutor notes, is currently being piloted with national organisations and learners.  A final version will be available in March 2002.

A resources pack for staff teaching basic skills to adults with learning difficulties or disabilities

This staff development pack is for a wide range of teachers/tutors interested in developing literacy and numeracy skills with people who have learning difficulties or disabilities. The pack has a generic introduction and specialist sections which look at meeting individuals’ basic skills needs in six specialist areas:

• Adults with mental health difficulties
• Blind and visually impaired adults
• Adults with learning difficulties
• Deaf or hard of hearing adults
• Dyslexic adults
• Adults with physical disabilities

This document will be available shortly.

Prolog reference: RPST

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