Unlocking audio at St Vincents School
We provide Alexa devices and iPads to the children at St Vincent's School, a specialist school for children with sensory impairments and other special needs.
From setting timers in sports lessons, to assisting with the challenges of learning braille, to simply feeding pupils' curiosity, the Alexa devices and iPads we gave the school have become an integral part of daily life for the whole community.
As well as being used in lessons, and one-to-one support sessions, the devices are also used in residential areas of the school, allowing the young people to access information, do their homework and relax outside of school hours.
"The young people are familiar with this technology from home, so they are able to build it into their learning easily. If they work really hard all week, we sometimes have a disco on a Friday. We ask about the weather, the time, we even ring father Christmas!"
One of the teachers at St Vincents School
"I really enjoy using it. It just makes everything easier - using computers and normal websites can be so annoying. It's like they're not made for people like me."
One of the pupils at St Vincents School
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