AACT stands for Access-Ability Communications Technology.
Our mission is to enable Information Technology to be used to help people with communication disabilities and to promote the wider understanding of such disabilities.
Our vision is of a world where everyone can communicate freely with each other, regardless of disabilities.
AACT is soon to develop AACT4Children, and will also be promoting & working towards developing an AACT4Children International programme
GOALS4LIFE, DEAFAX & AACT have become partners with the UNIVERSITY OF READING in a major Leverhulme funded research & development project entitled: Access and Higher Education: Inclusive Online Learning for Deaf Students
Read MoreThe iMuse programme aims to enable everyone to increase their enjoyment of, learn from and interact with museums, galleries and similar public spaces through the use of technology.
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The aim of this one year project, which ran 2009-2010, was to train a group of schoolchildren, with communications difficulties relating to hearing impairment, in ICT.
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An outcome from the Video for Communication project, iPads have been loaned to three special schools and another mainstream school with special educational needs pupils.
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You can donate in any of these ways. And if you are doing a sponsored event, set up a page for AACT and get your friends, colleagues and family involved.
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Read MoreAACT suported Michael Jones of Talk4meaning in this project which aimed to help children with Selective Mutism.
Read More We have just loaned an iPad to The Piggott School - a mixed comprehensive school which caters for a wide spectrum of ability/disability. This is the fourth school we've loaned iPads to, and it's the first time we've loaned an iPad to a mainstream school. The aim is to try it out particularly in a Library context to help access.
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International Partnership Projects with AACT (Access-Ability Communications Technology) and The Aspire Foundation (Barbados)
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The aim of the AACT SEED Project was to document what ICT is recommended by major charities and related organisations, and to bring this information together all in one place so that it can be easily accessed by parents, carers and those suffering from communications disabilities.
Read MoreRead about our vision, our mission, and how we're working to make them a reality.
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Ken, our Founder, and four young adult volunteers worked with two special schools to train pupils and their supporters in the use of computer-aided video communication to help them build confidence in communication.
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