Home Access packages with Assistive Technology provide short, medium and long-term educational benefits for learners with profound physical disabilities or special educational needs.
Short-term benefits:
- be creative with technology, learning and exploring the world around them in a controlled environment outside the classroom.
- collaborate with their school friends in a secure environment
- spend quality time with their family, working together, learning together and playing together.
Medium-term benefits:
- access technology at home, which enhances motivation, increases concentration and improves interaction, building relationships with others in ways they couldn’t before.
- break down barriers to disability and special educational needs, learning social and communication skills.
- reduce the sense of isolation that many speacial educational needs learners and their carers experience through accessing support and information resources online.
Long-term benefits:
- have access to ICT at home to gain essential IT skills, something that’s increasingly important considering that 90 per cent of all new jobs require IT skills.
- easily find and access a wealth of government, local authority and other support services via the internet, improving independence and enhancing inclusion.
- develop their motor and cognitive skills through using special switch-access technology and specially developed online resources.