Important news about Onlineinset.net
As you will be aware the Regional Partnerships have been dissolved and the South Central Regional Inclusion Partnership (SCRIP) ceased to exist from 1st April 2008. Over 9200 students are now registered on online courses and to ensure continuity of service and further development Onlineinset.net has been incorporated as a not for profit company limited by guarantee. The overall operation of the service is as outlined in the OnlineInset brochure which has been widely distributed, with both content management groups for each module and a consultative group comprising subscribing Local Authorities and others. This latter group has oversight of the overall strategic direction of OnlineInset, and will continue to play a crucial role in steering future developments. There is no change to the creative and development team.
Following recent meetings of the consultative group we are about to begin development of a new module addressing Motor Co-ordination Difficulties, planned for launch in September 2008. This is in addition to the existing five modules in ASD, SLCN, Managing Behaviour, HI and VI.
OnlineInset has been part funded by subscription from LAs and other organisations for the last two years and this will still be the model used for ongoing development and licensing but there will be an important change.
Now that Onlineinset.net is a limited company the consultative group will be offered membership and a share of the voting rights in the company. More details will be discussed at the next meeting of this group on 2nd July 2008. In the meantime we would like to invite your views on this and any other aspect that you feel of importance for the development of Onlineinset.net limited as an effective and responsive training company.
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Content Management teams
Understanding Autistic Spectrum Disorders
Mike Vickers
Senior Practioner Educational Psychologist (ASD)
 Mike works as Senior Practioner Educational Psychologist (ASD) on the Isle of Wight, heading the Speech, language, communication and ASD support service. The team supports children, families and schools by offering strategies to help young people develop learning, communication and social skills, independence and life skills. In thirty years as an educationalist Mike has taught extensively in comprehensive schools and worked as an educational psychologist with three local authorities. For more than a decade he has had a particular interest in Asperger syndrome which culminated in doctoral research at the University of Leeds. Mike’s current role involves direct work with individual children and young people, systemic work with schools, consultation and training to increase ASD awareness and foster good practice. |
Understanding Autistic Spectrum Disorders
Pauline Hallam
Head of Service for Children and Young People with ASD in Slough
 Pauline Hallam was appointed as Head of Service for Children and Young People with ASD in Slough, Berkshire in February 2001, and since then has been instrumental in developing Slough’s autism specialist provision. Prior to this she had worked in Buckinghamshire, where, since 1992 she had been County Coordinator for Social Communication difficulties with responsibility for developing Bucks specialist provision for autism. Pauline has been working specifically in the field of autism since 1992, when she also began studying with the University of Birmingham, successfully completing her Masters degree with research into the successful inclusion of pupils with ASD. Pauline is a strong advocate of working in partnership with parents and delivers the NAS EarlyBird Programme throughout Slough. Pauline has developed and delivers a 3 day course on ASD for LSAs, which is accredited by the Open College Network. She is currently developing a 12-session course for SENCOs and senior teachers. |
Inclusion for learners with speech, language and communication needs
Christine Rutter
Speech and Language Therapist
 Christina Rutter is a Speech and Language Therapist, working for Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust. She works in mainstream schools, in collaboration with other professionals, to support learners with speech, language and communication needs. Christina views training as crucial to enable teaching staff to plan effectively for these learners. This is particularly important given the emphasis upon the classteacher’s role in assessing and monitoring learner’s progress and the continued promotion of more inclusive practices. Her particular interest is supporting children with specific learning difficulties: dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD and ASD in mainstream settings. Christina is currently studying for her MA in Professional Studies in Education. |
Inclusion for learners with speech, language and communication needs
Jacqueline Wheeler
Advisory Teacher
 Jacqueline Wheeler has been teaching since 1985. She has experience in working with children from the Foundation Stage to Year 7 of Key Stage 3. Jacqueline has a particular interest in children with Speech Language and Communication Needs (SLCN). She is currently an Advisory Teacher in Milton Keynes where she predominantly focuses on this challenging, yet stimulating and rewarding area of Special Educational Need. Her work involves facilitating mainstream and specialist settings to develop their awareness of SLCN, promoting high quality inclusive practice and supporting the standards of achievement for this group of children to be raised. She is currently completing her Master of Education degree at the University of Birmingham where she is specialising in SLCN. |
Understanding and managing behaviour
Bernard Allen
Educational Consultant
 Bernard Allen. In 1998 he set up his own company, Steaming-Training, to enable him to pursue his renewed interest in applied psychology. Since 2002 he has worked full time as an educational consultant, trainer and publisher. Bernard has written, illustrated and produced a range of training materials, videos, books and articles on positive behaviour management. He has advised the Department for Education and Skills and lectured in schools and universities throughout the UK. |
Visual Impairment
Gillian Coles
Head of Service Berkshire Sensory Consortium
 Gillian Coles was appointed Head of Sensory Consortium Service (SCS) in September 2003. The Sensory Consortium Service is an Education service working with children and young people aged 0-19yrs who have a hearing, visual or multi-sensory impairment. The Service, which was set up in 1998, works in all the Unitary Authorities, which were formerly Berkshire: West Berkshire, Reading, Wokingham, Bracknell, Windsor and Maidenhead and Slough. The Service works in close partnership with families, schools, Health, Social Care and Voluntary organisations. Gillian qualified as a teacher in 1977 at Bognor Regis. Her teaching has included work in the Yemen as well as a Primary Teacher and peripatetic teacher for Children with Literacy difficulties in the UK. Gillian qualified with a Special Needs Diploma (Reading University 1994) and Masters in Education (Visual Impairment) with Birmingham University in 1996 She was lucky enough to be working with a blind pupil in a mainstream secondary school during her training. This experience had a significant impact upon her inclusion philosophy. She instigated Local Authority research, which led to a Sensory Resource being established at a Local Authority Special school for children with complex needs. She also began a Parent group, which has subsequently been replaced by much more sophisticated provision structures for parents. She developed and ran an accredited course for Teaching Assistants working with children with a visual impairment as well as a Visual Impairment BTec course which is runs in conjunction with a Hearing impairment courses at a Specialist school for the Deaf. She is delighted to have had the opportunity to have been asked to help develop the on-line course. Although primarily for professionals working in education she hopes it will be widely used by anyone who wishes to extend the learning opportunities and good experiences for children and young people with a visual impairment. |
Visual Impairment
Paula Scott
Berkshire Sensory Consortium
 Paula Scott was appointed Co-ordinator for the Visual Impairment Team in the Sensory Consortium Service in 2003. The Sensory Consortium Service is an Education service working with children and young people aged 0-19yrs who have a hearing, visual or multi-sensory impairment. The Service, which was set up in 1998, works in all the Unitary Authorities, which were formerly Berkshire: West Berkshire, Reading, Wokingham, Bracknell, Windsor and Maidenhead and Slough. The Service works in close partnership with families, schools, Health, Social Care and Voluntary organisations. Paula qualified as a teacher in 1979 at Bulmershe College, Reading. After qualifying she spent one year working in a hospital school as a nursing assistant with Autistic children and then from 1980-1994 worked in special schools with pupils who had a range of learning disabilities. She took at year off in 1983 and travelled to Australia. She qualified as a Teacher of the Visually Impaired in 1992 (Birmingham University) whilst working with pupils with complex profiles. Paula joined the service in 1994. She has an additional qualification in teaching children with Special Needs (Bulmershe College Diploma in Professional Studies in Education- Special Needs 1988) and had wide experience of working with those with special and complex needs across all age ranges before joining the Service. She has worked as a Pre-School Teacher Counsellor, and is experienced in working with children and their families in the Early Years, helping to establish a pre-school group for VI children. Paula is a tutor on an accredited BTec course for Teaching Assistants working with children with a visual impairment as well as a Visual Impairment which is runs in conjunction with a Hearing impairment courses at a Specialist school for the Deaf. She has also been a tutor on the RNIB Partners in learning Course for Teaching Assistants working in Special Schools. She has a particular interest in the inclusion of blind children in both mainstream and special schools. Paula completed a Mobility specialist course with Open College Network in 2005. Paula was very pleased to be asked to help to write the online course for Visual Impairment – the entire VI team contributed to the content of the course and she sees it as a valuable tool to empower all those involved with the education of children with visual impairment. |
Hearing Impairment
Simon Thompson
Specialist Teacher, Mary Hare
 Simon Thompson is an Assistant Principal at Mary Hare School. Mary Hare is a non-maintained special school providing for profoundly and severely deaf children and young people from all over the UK. The school has a long-standing tradition of involvement in research and development in the education of deaf children, as well as in training teachers to become qualified Teachers of the Deaf. Simon trained as a physicist and has a postgraduate qualification in Medical Physics. After a number of years in research working as a scientific programmer, he started teaching Science and ICT in a large comprehensive school in Reading before moving to Mary Hare as a teacher of ICT in 2001. He now has responsibility for the school’s Training School and Specialist Special School programmes. This has led to his involvement in training teachers and other professionals involved with the education of deaf children, including the development of e-learning courses.He also lectures on the Mary Hare/Brookes University Teacher of the Deaf Diploma course. |
Hearing Impairment
Jane Peters
Berkshire Sensory Consortium
 Jane Peters works as the Service Development Co-ordinator for the Berkshire Sensory Consortium Service. She qualified from Manchester University as a Teacher of the Deaf in 1988 and has worked in a number of Hearing Impaired Resource Bases before joining the Peripatetic Service as a Teacher of the Deaf in 1992 and then as a Team Leader in 1995. She works across the age range of deaf children 0-19years. Jane has developed provision for Pre-school groups within the Service and a programme of daytime and evening workshops for parents, pupils and extended families. She has responsibility for HI assessment within the Service and works closely with Local Authorities and the Hearing Impaired Resource Bases in Berkshire. Jane has a particular interest in children with hearing impairment and additional needs. She has developed with a VI colleague Specialist Sensory Resource Provision for children with complex needs within a Special School and works with SERSEN and SENSE running and developing a 6 day course on Multisensory impairment. Jane has additional qualifications in Early Years, Audiology and a MSC in Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties and Sensory Impairment as well as her British Sign Language Level 2 qualification. Jane is a strong advocate for working in partnership with parents and schools to deliver effective support for deaf children. She has a passion for training, delivering inset to mainstream and special schools, Health Professionals and Early Years Settings. She is an Early Support Trainer, Lectures at Reading University for Speech and Language Therapist training and on the Oxford Brooks University Teacher of the Deaf Diploma as well as the BTEC Teaching Assistants course in Berkshire in partnership with a School for the Deaf.
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