Promote the vote is a website aimed at adults with a learning disability. It has sections on
why you should vote, how to register to vote,how to vote and issues to consider when voting.
It would be a good resource to use with Count Me from Mencap.
See my blog entry Politics and voting
Perfect Pots is a social enterprise project.They have been shortlisted for the 'Social Enterprise in Schools Award' and are now down to the final three. The winner will be chosen by an online vote. Working in a social enterprise has already made a huge difference to young people with autism and learning disabilities who attend the
It has helped them to believe in themselves and to better understand their abilities, as well as to cope with the challenges they face.
Academic Skills Builder has free multi-player and single-player games to improve addition,multiplication,fractions and integers. There are also language games.
Source: Thanks to Teaching All Students
Count Me is a Resource from Mencap designed for adults with a learning disability. It can be used to teach how the political and voting system work and are a good resource for teaching adults with a learning disability. The first 5 weeks are about politics and voting . The final weeks (6-8) are dedicated to training the course participants to be trainers . The resource consists of
Other useful resources include
Democracy Cookbook - A higher level resource - I used page 5 Politics What's it all about as good background information for week 2
This unit on Clothes (PDF) is a resource
from Northern Ireland Curriculum (Severe learning difficulties)
Weather symbols
The NIACE website has 'free resources to help work-based learning providers and practitioners in supporting learners with a range of learning difficulties and disabilities,
The resources consist of:
As reported in a previous blog we are making films. My Monday group have just finished a stop motion movie using plasticine. Here is a good guide to making a stop motion movie.
The Oska Bright site
has some guidelines on making films suitable for sharing with adults with a learning disability
And an example of a film made using plasticine models here
The only thing I need to know now is how to add music to a stop motion film. When I drag it to the storyboard it plays at extra fast speed!
We have begun to do some story telling in literacy class. Its exciting and rewarding to see the students (who can't read or write independently) develop their own stories. We started by doing number facts about ourselves for example; age, number in family, pets . We presented these like a mind map with added pictures and keywords.Stories were then told using the number facts mind map as a prompt.
This week we used an old resource Living our Lives -Ten stories about the lives of adults with a learning disability with CD- which you may be able to order in the publications section (it didn't work for me!)
I was very interested to come across the website
Operation Smile is a charity which provides free facial reconstructive surgery to more than 130,000 children. 
It is working with Blue Peter on an appeal . They are asking for unwanted t-shirts to be turned into hospital gowns.( made and decorated before donation)
Here are some Milestone level resources around the topic fruit and vegetables suitable for adults with a learning disability.
We have had some fun filming and taking pictures .
We have used a variety of improvised devices to secure cameras to wheel chairs.
Childnet have teamed up with Widgit software to produce some good safety rules when using the Internet.
This resource has been especially designed for children and young people with a learning disability.
These can which can be downloaded for free in PDF form. Communication in Print Version
There are also Flash cards with suggestions of how to use them to improve knowledge of E Safety.
A game to improve mouse skills as well as helping with 1 digit addition.
I am teaching photography and film at the moment to my students with learning disabilities.
We are exploring animation at the moment and we have made our first short films involving fish in fish bowls. We used Windows MovieMaker and a digital camera. It wasn't perfect.The tripod kept moving (now rectified with a sturdy tripod) and I could have done with viewing the blog entry:
Global Assistive Technology Encyclopedia is a Wiki from AbilityNet (UK charity)
It has information on many assistive technology related resources .There is also a page that covers Learning Disability with some useful videos.
Source: RSC Newsfeed
Making a sandwich from Symbol World (online)
Recipe for sandwich from Symbol World (online) but will also print out
Help Kidz Learn has a sandwich making activity ( online )
British Nutrition Foundation has recipes with method for printing out . Also Power Points and A5 picture cards for:
Sandwich wrap 
BLT sandwich
You can watch The Autistic Me on the BBC iPlayer until the 13th October 2009. This documentary follows three people with autism at pivotal moments on the rocky road to being accepted as an adult. They are all fighting for independence and responsibility, but being frustrated by the shackles imposed on them by their disability, their families and the preconceived ideas of mainstream society. Source : BBC iPlayer
The Excellence Gateway has some good resources.
There is a story board series which looks at health safety and well being in the workplace.
Stacking Safety explores lifting heavy boxes. This activity is an online activity but by clicking on the resource tab it can be downloaded as PowerPoint.
Stockroom stress looks at feeling under stress at work.
For some resources you may need
The handwashing session went well, See my blog entry Clean hands
There is still some individual work to do....
We also used the following resources:
I have some worksheets for cooking which you may be able to change to suit your class.I am looking for a good pizza recipe and method sheet if anyone has one
The Northern Ireland Curriculum has produces some excellent materials in its SEN and Inclusion section
There are good teaching resources based around Learning for Life and work
Each unit is in a PDF format and has Lesson plans packed with useful resources which are found at the end of the PDF. Each thematic unit also has accompanying power points and online activities. There are links to these under each of the PDF links.
In the severe learning difficulties section you can find :
