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Address: Bridge College
Curzon Road
Offerton
Stockport
SK2 5DG
Tel: 0161 487 4293
Fax: 0161 487 4294
Email: dsheehan@bridgecollege.ac.uk
Website: http://www.togethertrust.org.uk/
Date Centre commenced operations: August 2002
Contact: Dee Sheehan
The Centre will provide a range of educational programmes for continued learning and provide students with access to computer technology for vocational training and education. Existing learners, potential learners and other specialist staff will have access to outstanding ICT equipment and professional expertise. Learning will be greatly enhanced and more effectively matched to student need. The Centre will provide simplified forms of access such as switches, touch screens and alternative keyboards to allow access to special software that will help students' cognitive development.
Bridge College is the only specialist day college of its kind in the North-West of England and one of a few in the U.K. It enables students to live at home but to have access to the highly specialised educational programmes usually only found in a residential college.
The College provides education and training for young people and adults with complex learning difficulties and/or disabilities.
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The College mission is "to create an inclusive learning environment where young people are empowered to make the transition to adulthood by maximizing independence and communication". Staff attribute equal value and importance to learning not geared to employment. Bridge was selected as one of four national "action research sites" for the "Quality of Life" project for students with PMLD administered through SKILL and University of Cambridge. Bridge recently achieved Grade 1 in FEFC Inspection and the Makaton "Centre of Excellence Award".
Address: BGWS Centre
Schools Hill
Cheadle
Cheshire
SK8 1JE
Tel: 0161 283 4848
Fax: 0161 283 4747
Email: enquiries@bgws.org.uk
Website: http://www.togethertrust.org.uk/
Contact: Andrew Haines, Chief Executive
BGWS perpetuates a proud heritage of service across North West England, working for children and young people who need help. The Society aims to understand and work within the complex worlds of childhood, adolescence and the family. BGWS hopes, by innovative and creative methods, to encourage young people to realise their potentials, and launch them into full lives of active citizenship.
Residential Care Services: BGWS runs 20 residential care homes, (providing innovative and differentiated care for disturbed, abused and unhappy young people) and four specialist residential services for disabled young people.
Day Care Services: The Society runs three special schools (for autistic and emotionally disturbed children), a Further Education College for disabled students and a resource centre for young adults with disabilities. As well as a large number of other services for children, young people and their families, BGWS also provides a comprehensive Fostering and Family Placement Service and runs its own Training Centre.
Since its foundation in 1870, BGWS has grown into one of the country's leading providers of childcare and educational services and is currently working in partnership with around thirty local authorities in the North-West and surrounding areas. BGWS is innovative through its creation of new services and is continually looking at what is needed by young people, then forging partnerships to achieve positive outcomes and improvements in their quality of life. In the period April 1999 - March 2000 the Society assisted 1874 children, young people and their families from all over the North West who were facing problems in their lives as a result of disability or disadvantage.
Home Farm Trust, Wirral and Cheshire Services
Oaklands Office Park
Hooton Road
Hooton
Ellesmere Park
CH66 7NZ
Tel: 0151 328 1778
Contact: Jon O'Mara
Tel: 01934 815038
Mobile: 07787 714083
Email: Jon.Omara@hft.org.uk
To assist adults with a learning disability and those that support them to develop a range of IT skills and knowledge in communication, learning, leisure, social inclusion and employment. To offer some specific courses with accreditation.
People who have a range of learning disabilities and some physical disabilities.
A very small "satellite" centre from the main Home Farm Trust Karten CTEC Centre at Milton Heights.
Address: The Home Farm Trust
Merchants House
Wapping Road
Bristol
BS1 4RW
Tel: 0117 9302600
Fax: 0117 9225938
Year established: 1962
Contact: Steve Barnard
HFT is a national charity for people with learning disabilities. They provide a range of services including supported living, registered care homes, advocacy, supported employment, short breaks (respite) and day services. They also provide a national support service for carers of people with learning disabilities.
Residential and Day Care.
HFT is a national charity, established in 1962 by parents of sons and daughters with learning disabilities. They set out to provide quality care in an environment where, however profoundly disabled, people are able to develop their potential and acquire greater independence. It provides a range of services for approximately 826 people across the country.
Address: Beaumont College
Slyne Road
Lancaster
Lancashire
LA2 6AP
Tel: 01524 541400
Fax: 01524 846896
Email: walkerc@beaumontcollege.org
Date Centre Started Operations: January 2002
Head of Centre: Ms Chris Walker
The Karten CTEC Centre at Beaumont is a dedicated IT centre which:
All students are physically disabled with cerebral palsy and associated complex needs, such as acquired brain injuries. All students have an additional learning disability; some have sensory impairments.
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The Centre is situated in Scope's Beaumont College in a pleasant residential area on the outskirts of Lancaster. This is a fully accessible modern building. The Karten CTEC Centre consists of three suites - workstation suite, interactive suite and digital media room.
Address: 6 Market Road
London
N7 9PW
Tel: 020 7619 7100
Fax: 020 7619 7380
Website: http://www.scope.org.uk
Year Established: 1952
Chief Executive: Tony Manwaring
Contact: Eleanor Hewett
Scope's aim is that disabled people achieve equality: a society in which they are valued and have the same human and civil rights as everyone else.
Scope runs a wide range of services for disabled people across England and Wales, including over 30 residential services, 8 day services/training centres, 6 schools and 1 college.
Founded as The Spastics Society in 1952, today Scope is a national disability organisation whose focus is people with cerebral palsy.
We have 4 national priorities, via which we will achieve greatest impact for disabled people:
Scope also meets the local needs of disabled people via our 8 Community Teams and 13 Partnership Committees across England and Wales.
Address: N. W. Regional Spinal Injury Centre
District General Hospital
Town Lane
Southport
PR8 6PN
For more information, please contact Nathan Farrugia, Head of Services, at ASPIRE on 020 8420 6702, Or email: Nathan.Farrugia@aspire.org.uk
Date Centre started operations: July 2006
Object of the Karten CTEC Centre.
The object of the Centre is to provide people with disabilities access to assistive computer technology for training in vocational and life skills, to improve their quality of life, employability and independence.
Any patient on the unit can now have access to a PC, regardless of their level of injury - in particular patients with high-level injuries and limited arm and hand movement. From voice-activated software, to a mouth-operated mouse, patients can now benefit from one to one adaptive assessments, thereby facilitating independent access to the many social benefits of Information Technology (IT).
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ASPIRE is in partnership with The Ian Karten Charitable trust and is currently embarking on an ambitious project to provide similar CTEC Centres across the UK.
Address: Aspire National Training Centre
Wood Lane, Stanmore
Middlesex, HA7 4AP
Tel: 020 8420 6700
Fax: 020 8420 6352
Email: info@aspire.org.uk
Year Established: 1983
Chief Executive: Brian Carlin
Aspire is the Association for spinal injury research, rehabilitation and reintegration, and seeks to create opportunity, choice and independence for those with spinal cord injury. Aspire strongly believes in breaking down many of the perceived barriers between disabled and non disabled people, and to encourage full integration between the two through sport and training. For this purpose, Aspire has created a fully accessible gym, swimming pool and training suite, with an average, disabled usage of around 38% of total visitors, compared to 1% in conventional centres.
Day, Aspire has three halfway houses that provide temporary accommodation for spinal injury patients.
Aspire was set up in 1983 by Mrs Shani Ross and Mr Peter Stanford. They raised £2,000,000 to build the Mike Heaffey centre. The centre was opened in September 1989 and was formally opened in 1990 by Princess Diana.
By 1998 another £5,500,000 had been raised to build the swimming pool, dance studio and training suite. This was opened in September 1998 by HRH Prince Andrew.
Address: Stanley Road
Cheadle Hulme
Cheshire
SK8 6RQ
Tel/Minicom: 0161 610 0100
Fax: 0161 610 0101
Email: resources@rsdmanchester.org
Website: http://www.rsdmanchester.org
Contact: Bernie White
Email: Bernie.white@rsdmanchester.org
Date Centre Started Operations: October 2007
To use assistive technology to develop the communication and learning needs of the students. As very few of the students have any form of verbal communication the Centre gives them the opportunity to develop those skills both between their fellows students and partners in the community. Visual Communication Systems including PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System), sign, symbol supported text, and photographs used by many students lends itself to IT as the symbols and pictures used are readily transferable to the monitors.
As well as being used by students at the college the Centre is available to other local groups catering for adults with learning difficulties and disabilities.
A range of complex learning and physical disabilities.
The newly built suite has 12 purpose-built workstations, each comprising of a clutter free, fully height adjustable desk with large LCD touch monitor. All have access to a comprehensive range of special needs software and hardware, together with a high speed dedicated internet connection. The Centre also has a fully interactive 50" plasma touch screen, installed on a height-adjustable trolley. The room can be divided into three separate areas for individual tuition, one of which has a selection of communication devices such as video phones and web cams.
Address: Stanley Road
Cheadle Hulme
Cheshire
SK8 6RQ
Tel/Minicom: 0161 610 0100
Fax: 0161 610 0101
Email: info@rsdmanchester.org
Website: http://www.rsdmanchester.org
Year established: 1823
Principal/Chief Executive: Hilary Ward
To provide an adult learning environment supported with alternative and augmentative communication systems to prepare and involve students with complex learning needs in their transition to the next stage of their young adult life.
A day and residential college for people with complex communication difficulties. The majority of students are resident on campus; some local students travel daily.
The College offers day and residential courses to students aged between 19 and 25 years with a broad range of communication difficulties including hearing impairment or limited or no oral language communication and severe/complex learning difficulties. The College is an independent specialist college with a North West regional and national role.
Specialist programmes/teaching support learners with dual sensory impairment and severe/ profound learning difficulties, learners whose primary need is autism and learners who are deaf or who have communication difficulties.
