Curriculum for Excellence and Books for All
Curriculum for Excellence Books for All '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… Books for All Successful learner - if you can’t access books and other materials l Confident individual - if you depend on others to read to you or write for you l Responsible citizen - if you don’t have access to information l An effective contributor - if you can’t find out what’s going on in your community or in the world at large l
Successful learner? l Books for All 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 l Third year at secondary school l Accesses his laptop with a chin pointer (he’s an expert) l Books for All
John’s books l He needs access to 28 textbooks this year (cost ~ £ 307) l Plus teachers’ materials, worksheet, NABs, prelims, exams, etc Books for All
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) Books for All
How? Get someone to hold the book/turn the pages for him so he can read it himself l Get someone to read the book to him (a reader, his mum or dad) l Buy a mechanical page turner l Use a digital book l Ø Get an e. Book version / Google books Ø Get a digital file from the publisher Ø Scan the book into the computer Books for All
Example: Hodder Gibson Biology Standard Grade PDF
Digital books from publishers? Publisher Books for All Books needed Hodder Gibson 6 books Digital copies available? Leckie and Leckie 8 books 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 4 PDFs (cost £ 77. 60 ) = 7 out of 28 available as PDF
Making PDF files accessible Books for All Crop pages to remove galleys marks l Some are images and so need optical character recognition to convert the image into text l Combine pages into the correct order l Insert permission statement l Insert bookmarks / table of contents l Insert hyperlinks l Process takes from 20 mins to 3 hours l
PDFs from publishers Books for All Get a PDF from the publisher Use Acrobat Pro to: ücombine files together ücrop to remove galleys üinsert permission page üadd bookmarks (structure) üfix page numbering üadd text for images Save as PDF
PDFs from publishers Publisher Policy Collins Books for All May provide PDFs for visually impaired students. 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 Tee. Jay 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 l 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 S 2 – mainly teacher produced materials. This took a day a week for 1 session to prepare…) l Books for All
How to avoid brain death Use your school’s networked printer/photocopier to scan the material to PDF l Send your book to DDSR (www. DDSR. com) or another scanning bureau (6 p/page) l Books for All
Scanning and image files Books for All 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 Fine. Reader Omni. Page Read. Iris 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 / Open. Office / 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 l Fine. Reader Pro 10, £ 68 l Omni. Page 17 Standard £ 45, Pro £ 187 l Read. Iris Pro 12, £ 100 Books for All
Not just John! Books for All 34, 577 pupils identified with Ro. N or IEP in Scotland, 2005 l 1, 314 with a physical impairment (3. 8%) l 7, 227 specific learning difficulty (20. 9%) l 7, 365 moderate learning difficulty (21. 3%) l 1, 349 severe/profound learning difficulty (3. 9%) l 519 visual impairment (1. 5%) l
Money money… Books for All
What the law says Books for All l Disability strategies places three duties on authorities, to improve: Ø Access to the physical environment of schools Ø Access to the curriculum Ø Communication and the delivery of school information
Improving communication and the delivery of school information 64. Books for All “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/library 5/education/gpas-00. asp
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Access to the Curriculum Books for All 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/library 5/education/gpas-00. asp
CLA Scottish Schools Scanning/Photocopying Licence 2009 Books for All “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”? l Taken to include: Books for All l blind and partially sighted people l those whose sight cannot be improved by the use of corrective lenses l those who are unable through physical difficulty to hold or manipulate books l those who are unable through physical difficulty to focus or move their eyes l Or who are physically unable to use published formats”
“or otherwise disabled” Books for All “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” s 1, DDA 1995
CLA ‘VIP’ or Print Disability’ licence Books for All l Launched on 28 th May 2010 l Your authority may have this licence (currently 15 out of 32) – check with a high heid yin l You can make an accessible copy of a printed work in any accessible print, audio or digital format l You can share it with other councils
Books are Brilliant Alistair Mc. Naught, Tech. Dis
Formats needed l Printed formats Ø Ø Ø Ø Different fonts Large print Coloured paper Braille Coloured lenses / film Magnifier / LVA Simplified language With symbols l Audio formats Ø Ø Ø l Books for All Tape CD MP 3 / digital audio file Computer formats l l Digital resources on computer Scanned in Text to speech Word processor or other writing software
Teachers need to be able to… Books for All Find out if the book or resource is available in Accessible Formats l Check it’s in the right format l Make sure copyright is not infringed l Make it in the right format, if not available l Provide it at the same time as other pupils l If they make one, let the publisher know l
Books for All web site www. Books 4 All. org. uk Books for All
Books for All Scotland Database http: //www. Books. For. All. Scotland. org. uk Books for All
Accessing the Books for All Scotland Database l Via Glow l l Glow Log. In > National Groups > Additional Support for Learning > Books for All Scotland Database > Request to Join Via Scran l l Books for All If your school does not have access to Glow, or as a home user, through Scran http: //www. Booksfor. All. Scotland. org. uk Contact: l Maggie Smith, Inclusion Development Officer, LTS; M. Smith@LTScotland. org. uk
Books for All l www. books 4 allscotland. org. uk l www. adapteddigitalexams. org. uk l www. wordtalk. org. uk l www. thescottishvoice. org. uk l www. callscotland. org. uk Books for All
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