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Curriculum for Excellence
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Curriculum for Excellence
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'Our aspiration is to enable all children to
develop their capacities as successful
learners, confident individuals, responsible
citizens and effective contributors to
society.'
A Curriculum for Excellence: The Curriculum
Review Group (2004).
How can you be a…
Successful learner - if you can’t access
books and other materials
 Confident individual - if you depend on
others to read to you or write for you
 Responsible citizen - if you don’t have
access to information
 An effective contributor - if you can’t find
out what’s going on in your community or
in the world at large
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Successful learner?
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Literacy:
“The set of skills which allows an individual to
engage fully in society and in learning,
through the different forms of language, and
the range of texts, which society values and
finds useful.”
The Monks
Curriculum for Excellence ‘Literacy and learning’
Meet John
Severe physical
impairment
 Third year at
secondary
school
 Accesses his
laptop with a
chin pointer
(he’s an expert)
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John’s books
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He needs access to 28
textbooks this year (cost
~ £307)
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Plus teachers’ materials,
worksheet, NABs,
prelims, exams, etc
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Standard Grade English Bytesize Revision (BBC)
Britain at War 1914-1919 (Hodder)
Standard Chemistry (Collins)
Biology: Revision Notes (Leckie & Leckie)
Forza! uno workbook (Heinemann)
Chemistry: Revision Notes (Leckie & Leckie)
Forza! uno (Heinemann)
English: Revision Notes (Leckie & Leckie)
Scottish History for Standard Grade (Heinemann)
French: Success Guide (Leckie & Leckie)
Metro Pour l'Ecosse (Heinemann)
History: Success Guide (Leckie & Leckie)
Scottish Secondary Mathematics (Heinemann)
Mathematics: Revision Notes (Leckie & Leckie)
Standard Grade English Credit (Heinemann)
Physics: Revision Notes (Leckie & Leckie)
Standard Grade English General (Heinemann)
Success Guide SG History (Leckie & Leckie)
Germany 1918-1939 Standard Grade History (Hodder)
Alliances and the Developing World (Pulse)
Standard Grade Biology (Hodder)
Elderly: Changing Society (Pulse)
Standard Grade Chemistry (Hodder)
The Great War 1914-1918 (Pulse)
Standard Grade Physics (Hodder)
UK Government Living in a Democracy (Pulse)
How to pass Standard Grade History (Hodder)
USA Ideology and Emerging Nation (Pulse)
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How?
Get someone to hold the book/turn the
pages for him so he can read it himself
 Get someone to read the book to him (a
reader, his mum or dad)
 Buy a mechanical page turner
 Use a digital book
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 Get
an eBook version / Google books
 Get a digital file from the publisher
 Scan the book into the computer
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Example:
Hodder Gibson
Biology Standard Grade PDF
Digital books from publishers?
Publisher
Hodder
Gibson
Leckie and
Leckie
Books
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6 books
Digital copies available?
8 books
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4 PDFs (cost £77.60 )
Heinemann
7 books
3 PDFs so far (the other 5 may
come; no charge provided we
bought a paper copy)
none
Pulse
5 books
none
BBC
1 book
none
Collins
1 book
none
= 7 out of 28 available as PDF
Making PDF files accessible
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Crop pages to remove galleys marks
 Some are images and so need optical
character recognition to convert the image
into text
 Combine pages into the correct order
 Insert permission statement
 Insert bookmarks / table of contents
 Insert hyperlinks
 Process takes from 20 mins to 3 hours
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PDFs from publishers
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Get a PDF
from the
publisher
Use Acrobat Pro to:
combine files together
crop to remove galleys
insert permission page
add bookmarks
(structure)
fix page numbering
add text for images
Save as PDF
PDFs from publishers
Publisher
Policy
Collins
May provide PDFs for visually impaired students.
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Hodder Gibson PDFs of some of their titles. They usually charge you for the cost
of providing the file. The charge can vary from zero, to £80.
Nelson Thorne Nelsons can provide PDFs of some titles.
TJ Maths
TeeJay can provide PDFs of books (different sections of the
books as different PDFs) for the same price as the paper book.
Pulse
Publications
Leckie and
Leckie
Pulse say they cannot provide PDFs of their books.
Heinemann
Leckie and Leckie can usually provide PDFs of their books. Most
titles are available. There is no charge provided you have bought
a paper copy. Ask for a ‘VIP PDF’ which will have editable text.
An ordinary PDF is usually just an image file.
Heinemann will provide PDFs free of charge if they are
available.
Can’t get the PDF from the
publisher? Scan it.
21 books
 2,776 pages to scan
+ time to edit, make it
accessible, check it, put it on
John’s computer….
+ do the same for teachers’
resources, worksheets etc
(Last year John’s assistant
scanned and adapted 1,010
resources for S2 – mainly
teacher produced materials.
This took a day a week for 1
session to prepare…)
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How to avoid brain death
Use your school’s
networked
printer/photocopier to scan
the material to PDF
 Send your book to DDSR
(www.DDSR.com) or
another scanning bureau
(6p/page)
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Scanning and image files
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Scan the paper copy
(preferably with a
multisheet scanner that
produces an ‘image’
PDF)
Get the book scanned
by a Document
Scanning company
who will give you a
PDF
Get a PDF (image
only) from the
publisher
Save as PDF if you want
a digital copy that looks
exactly like the paper
book
OCR with
FineReader
OmniPage
ReadIris
to convert the
PDF image file
into editable
text; check and
correct any
errors
Save as Word (DOC) or Text
(TXT) and open in Word /
OpenOffice / etc if you want
to:
• edit the font or size to make
Adapted or Large Print;
• make a Braille copy,
• make a digital LIT or Daisy
version;
• create a synthetic audio
version;
• make a symbolised version copy and paste from Word to
Communicate: In Print or
Boardmaker.
OCR software
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FineReader Pro 10, £68
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OmniPage 17 Standard £45, Pro £187
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ReadIris Pro 12, £100
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Not just John!
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34,577 pupils identified with RoN or IEP in
Scotland, 2005
 1,314 with a physical impairment (3.8%)
 7,227 specific learning difficulty (20.9%)
 7,365 moderate learning difficulty (21.3%)
 1,349 severe/profound learning difficulty
(3.9%)
 519 visual impairment (1.5%)
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Money money money…
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What the law says
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 Disability
strategies places three
duties on authorities, to improve:
 Access
to the physical environment of
schools
 Access to the curriculum
 Communication and the delivery of
school information
Improving communication and the
delivery of school information
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“In particular, this communication duty covers the delivery
of information normally provided to pupils in writing. This
‘school information’ includes any information given to
pupils by the school, such as: handouts and worksheets,
textbooks, timetables, handbooks, test and examination
papers, posters around the school, information about
school events. Responsible bodies should ensure that any
information that is important to enable pupils to learn or to
be able to participate in school activities can be provided
in an alternative form if the pupil may have difficulty
reading information provided in standard written form.”
Scottish Executive (2002) Planning to Improve Access to Education for Pupils with
Disabilities; Guidance On Preparing Accessibility Strategies.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/education/gpas-00.asp
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41. “… Similarly, they [responsible bodies]
could consider implementing a strategy to
make curriculum resources, that are
currently paper-based (such as textbooks or
worksheets), available in common electronic
forms to assist pupils with visual or learning
difficulties.”
Scottish Executive (2002) Planning to Improve Access to Education for Pupils with
Disabilities; Guidance On Preparing Accessibility Strategies.
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/education/gpas-00.asp
CLA Scottish Schools
Scanning/Photocopying Licence 2009
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“where an Authorised Person is visually impaired or
otherwise disabled and by reason of such visual
impairment or disability is unable to read or
access a Licensed Copy...”
the Licensee (the local authority or employee
of the authority) may make a copy:
“in any alternative format that is more
accessible…whether in digital or audio format,
large or small print copies…or in other formats”
http://www.cla.co.uk/Schools_licences.php
Who are “Visually Impaired
Persons”?
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Taken to include:
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blind and partially sighted people
 those whose sight cannot be improved by the
use of corrective lenses
 those who are unable through physical difficulty
to hold or manipulate books
 those who are unable through physical difficulty
to focus or move their eyes
 Or who are physically unable to use published
formats”
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“or otherwise disabled”
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“a person has a disability for the purposes
of this Act if he has a physical or
mental impairment which has a
substantial and long-term adverse
effect on his ability to carry out normal
day-to-day activities”
s1, DDA 1995
CLA ‘VIP’ or Print Disability’
licence
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on 28th May 2010
 Your authority may have this licence
(currently 15 out of 32) – check with a high
heid yin
 You can make an accessible copy of a
printed work in any accessible print, audio or
digital format
 You can share it with other councils
 Launched
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Alistair McNaught, TechDis
Formats needed
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Printed formats
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Different fonts
Large print
Coloured paper
Braille
Coloured lenses / film
Magnifier / LVA
Simplified language
With symbols
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Audio formats
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Tape
CD
MP3 / digital audio file
Computer formats
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Digital resources on
computer
Scanned in
Text to speech
Word processor or
other writing software
Teachers need to be able to…
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Find out if the book or resource is
available in Accessible Formats
 Check it’s in the right format
 Make sure copyright is not infringed
 Make it in the right format, if not available
 Provide it at the same time as other pupils
 If they make one, let the publisher know
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Books for All web site
www.Books4All.org.uk
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http://www.BooksForAllScotland.org.uk
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Accessing the Books for All
Scotland Database
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Via Glow
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Via Scran
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Glow LogIn > National Groups > Additional Support
for Learning > Books for All Scotland Database >
Request to Join
If your school does not have access to Glow, or as a
home user, through Scran
http://www.BooksforAllScotland.org.uk
Contact:
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Maggie Smith, Inclusion Development Officer, LTS;
[email protected]
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www.books4allscotland.org.uk
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www.adapteddigitalexams.org.uk
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www.wordtalk.org.uk
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www.thescottishvoice.org.uk
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www.callscotland.org.uk
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