ICT offers benefits to children with a diverse range of additional educational needs.

John Fergus School, Robert Henryson School, Rosslyn School, St. Andrew's High School's Support for Learning staff and the IT Unit were exhibiting in this area.

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	Exhibitor Details	Level
	Communication and Language- Robert Henryson School	Access
	PSD 5-14 Articulating with elaborated 5-14 curriculum	5 - 14
	SEN and Computing collaboration - Lochgelly High	NQ and Access
	Kurzweil Screen Reader in secondary schools	wide range
	English and Communication - Rosslyn School	Accesss 1
	Traveller's Cheque Number Work at Rosslyn School	Access 1
	Modern Languages - Life in another country - John Fergus School
	Primary SEN - Castlehill Primary	5 -14 Level A
	Communication Passport - FACCT	All

Background Notes

The photograph provides a view of the wide range of devices and software available for use with children with additional needs. Pupils benefit form the use of specialist software such as talking word processors, predictive word processors, on-screen word banks and speech recognition applications. In addition, alternative devices such as those described in the Robert Henryson article are much valued by teachers and pupils alike. Even the computer's operating set-up can be modified by choosing the colour combination carefully, deciding on the keyboard repeat speed and whether or not the mouse has a trail following its movement across the screen to name but three options. Work is underway to enable pupils to log onto any computer on the school network to receive their individual settings and software.