1) 10ways. Looks great on an IWB. A mash-up doing brilliant things with the Getty Image library. My personal favourite is information. I have used it the younger and less able ASD children – who love it. It looks fantastic on an IWB – and works well as a mouse skills exercise, as a calming warm-up activity and to promote class discussion.
2) SENswitcher from the NGfL. A suite of programs designed to help teach early ICT skills to people with profound and multiple learning difficulties, those who need to develop skills with assistive input devices and very young children new to computers. Works well with the SLD kids. Works well on an IWB, touchscreen or with a mouse. Not age-specific. (Thanks to X-Posed blog by teachingassistantuk for that one).
3) Whiteboard Room has an absolutely fantastic range of MLD, SLD and PMLD resources (thanks to Sean O’Sullivan for recommending this at the SENJIT conference).
4) Priory Wood School has some excellant resources avaliable on it’s website. (Thanks to the Redbridge Primary ICT blog for that one).
5) SEN Teacher. Lots of great resources applicable across the curriculum.
Also of course are the old favourites for the younger ones - CBeebies and Thomas the Tank Engine sites. When used in partnership with basicmouse or a touchscreen or interactive whiteboard they can be approriate for almost any ability level. Try the Thomas Emotions game with ASD!
Any technical issues with using these resources will likely be solved by downloading Adobe Shockwave and Flash.
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