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1. Inclusion, assistive
technology and new
learning models
Graham Coath
Business Development Manager
graham@notetalker.com
07827762976

3. Disability model

4. Equality Act 2010

6. Assistive technology (AT) is any item, piece of equipment, software
program, or product system that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the
functional capabilities of persons with disabilities
Source: https://www.atia.org/at-resources/what-is-at
The present..

7. Consumer Rights Act 2015
T.E.F. 2017

8. Widening definition

9. • Create a solution that helps in practice to impact on student learning outcomes =
student retention and positive outcomes
• Provide employability readiness into the student experience as a way of enhancing your
DLHE (Destination of Leavers) performance
• Help with delivery of information to ensure that students feel engaged by the teaching
and supported in their learning and development.
•Provide professional development for teachers by using CPD accreditation to
framework excellence.
Implement best practice…

10. Inclusive education, more than mainstreaming the learners with special needs, is also
concerned with identifying and overcoming all barriers for effective, continuous and quality
participation of all in education (Ramchand and Dummugudem, 2014; Ahmad, 2015a)
Is assistive technology shifting
from disability inclusion model?

11. “SprintPlus provides a student in higher education an uncluttered experience in
using text to speech technology to access important information in exams, in
electronic text books and when proof reading and researching on the internet.
Some of the challenges that we see are that in many cases when a student is needs
assessed, the results of the assessment and subsequent delivery of support software
is often subject to the general knowledge and familiarity of the assessor with
assistive technology. This can have a detrimental effect on the student if they are
given software that is complex to use resulting in under use and the needs not being
met.
We would like to see DSA assessors becoming more open to exploring the emerging
technologies that are being accepted by Student Finance England.”

12. “We believe that inclusive practice means providing students
with disabilities with independence, choice and the chance to
succeed. Claro solutions are user-focused and aim to help
people achieve all they can.
The challenge we all face is to get useful technology into the
hands of users and renew our processed to support their
learning and growth.”

13. “Equality in learning should be an objective for all education institutions, and Nuance
Communications’ speech recognition solutions helps to make this a reality for any
student who struggles with the keyboard and mouse, whether the cause is a
condition like dyslexia or RSI. As an alternative to the keyboard and mouse – and the
barriers they pose to some students – modern speech solutions makes the learning,
communication and performance of a PC, accessible to all. Furthermore, as we speak
up to three times faster than we type, it can benefit all users, whether they are
preparing course work, dissertations or lesson plans. Higher Education institutions
that may have tried speech in the past, should re-evaluate it again to appreciate its
performance today and the benefits it can deliver to those students whose progress
is currently being hindered by the keyboard and mouse.”

14. Inspiration 9 is a visual learning tool that has long been an intrinsic component of an HEIs technology toolkit,
aimed at making their learning and working environment more inclusive. Built from the ground up as a tool for
academia, it has one of the most flexible visual learning environments to suit most learning styles – allowing
users to mind map, concept map and more! Plus, with features such as integrated Outline View, built-in
spellchecker/ thesaurus, export to Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, Inspiration 9 is a productivity tool designed
to kick start the writing process.
Inspiration 9 helps users who prefer or need to visualise their ideas and concepts, struggle with writing or
notetaking, need help with organising their work, have poor working memory, struggle with retaining
information and revision and so much more!
Plus, with its popular and innovative site licence options that offer student take home privileges, institutions can
install the software on their networks, as well as provide licences to all their students to install on their own
devices. This is a great option to meet the needs of students not supported by DSA, such as International
Students.

15. Issues that still need to be addressed:
HEIs only being able to offer one software package for each type of need: mind
mapping, text-to-speech, notetaking etc. There is a risk a large number of users
will be alienated, as the one on offer does not suit their needs or preference.
The software needs to ‘fit like a glove’, for it to be able to maximise the
potential of the user.

16. “Read & Write from Texthelp is used by millions of students around the world,
and seeks to support all students irrespective of ability or individual needs to
achieve their potential. Read & Write delivers a wide range of literacy support
tools in a single, unified toolbar that works across any platforms and with any
content. With access to learning materials being more flexible than ever, R&W
supports learning, study and inclusion whenever, wherever.
R&W provides highlighted text to speech; tools such as highlighting and MP3
creation to build and support study skills; translation in over 99 languages;
speech to text; tools to help build vocabulary; predictive text; advanced spell
checking; picture dictionary; screen highlighting and exam reading capabilities.
All of which can be tailored by the student to match their needs, preferences
and experience and on the platform that works for them. Operating as a
toolbar it’ll work on Windows/PC, Mac and Chromebook. For mobile, it’ll bring
both a safari (web) extension and customised keyboard to iPad and Android
tablets”

17. “R&W is designed with inclusion for all at its heart, and aims to
reach every learner. By enabling all students to have a bespoke
support tool, R&W provides accessibility for exams, equity of
access, creates confidence, builds study skills, enables
independence and supports literacy for all.”

18. “How faculty lecture (organization, pace affect,
inflection) and what faculty do during lecture
(give handouts, write on the board, emphasize
and/or repeat important material, summarize
complex information), strongly affect student’s
ability to take notes.”
Inclusion: Impacts on all students’ learning outcomes
and affects how Universities teach
Research on student notetaking: implications for faculty and graduate student instructors, Deborah DeZure, Matthew Kaplan, Martha A. Deerman [12:04]
http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~krasny/math156_crlt.pdf

19. Notetalker X demo
Notetalker X is a solution for universities to
support teaching and learning.
Contact Graham Coath for an explanation about
Notetalker X, which is currently in development.

20. Inclusive technology is any item, piece of equipment,
software program, or product system that is used to
increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of
any user. Helping to bring about more effective cohesion
between digital information exchange and more traditional
methods of working / learning.
The future?