How to contact us .............

S.E.R.C
Newbridge School
Barley Lane
Goodmayes
Ilford

Essex
IG38XS
0208 503 8773
Initial enquiries to Suman.Virdee@redbridge.gov.uk







Thursday 15 July 2010

General SEN resources site - take a look

www.tinsnips.org/



Links to information, organizations, techniques and strategies especially for teaching students in the autism spectrum.


Ideas for things to do and make, social stories, songs, hands-on, time, money, social skills, functional activities that address multi-sensory learning styles and promote higher order thinking skills.

A range of SEN resources - USA site - some good ideas

http://omacfreebies.blogspot.com/



A fantastic site by Cindy Golden. Cindy was formerly a school psychologist and is currently a special education administrator. Her site has wonderful ideas, pictures, and freebies! Worth taking the time to explore!

Great news/fun site supported totally by symbols - gd way of engaging early readers/ age appropriate content


http://www.askability.org.uk/


Highly recommended site - take a minute to have a look – really good site as very easy to navigate.


This site takes up to date topics such as news, sport etc and makes simple symbol based summaries……really good way to engage poor readers/symbol users in news topics.


I also like the DVD reviews and jokes !!

Great free symbol resources ..........

www.widgit.com/resources/index.htm



Do you have a pupil who uses symbols? Take a minute to look at this site……… a wide range of resources all with symbol support …


Older learners section – road safety, recipes, jokes, relationships


Communication – review formats, emotions, timetable etc


Stories- curriculum linked topic resources, stories etc

Thursday 8 July 2010

Need to demonstrate visually clear and good maths worksheets - free to print off here!

http://www.touchmath.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=freestuff.welcome



A range of free printable resources - nice, visually clear and well structured. Good examples to show teachers and staff of visually clear worksheets.

Great website to help make visually simple maths graphs, charts, etc- easy for students to use

www.nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx
Visually simple site that helps pupils and staff make bar, line , pie graphs. Really easy to use and neat results easy to print out.



Good as a teacher resource or a link to give to students who find drawing graphs etc difficult.

Have a look ...more great Autism /ASD resources

http://www.autismteachingtools.com/ - has great list of resources



http://www.jacquijackson.com/ - single parent of seven, including four boys all of whom are on the autistic spectrum


www.practicalautismresources.com/printables


Highly recommended site


A whole site with a wide range of SALT / language/ behavioural supports - all available to download free.

www.zacbrowser.com/pc.php

This site is very cool ! visually clear and really well structured – Highly recommended, take two minutes to have a look .... i think it is very accessible for many students.



This can be downloaded onto a computer or onto a memory stick.


ZAC is the first web browser developed specifically for children with autism, and autism spectrum disorders such as Asperger syndrome, pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), and PDD-NOS.