#GuineaPigDeathSquad4Life I certainly wasn’t the primary instigator of our silver medal - I only knew the answers to questions about Assistive Technology and The Beatles, as I recall… 😬 T’was your good self who knew the atomic number of gold…!

We had the pleasure of launching this report in @ukparliament.parliament.uk today, with an audience of politicians, policy organisations and the #AssistiveTech community. Please do read and share with your networks!

Through a combination of literature review and structured expert enquiry, we explore how training for #AssistiveTech is currently provided, where the gaps and barriers are, and what skills are needed by professionals #Teacher #SENCO #SLT, #OT #AT, #TA, #ICT at various career stages

[5/5] Variability in children’s performance on both presentations underlines the risk of assuming fixation or gaze switching skills to be present, and the importance of assessing gaze behaviours in individual children - particularly those expected to use them for communication or computer control.

[4/5] Eye tracking may be better at recording fixations in children with strabismus, where object-based paradigms may offer more flexible administration for clinicians.

[3/5] Eye tracking may present an “entry barrier” for some children in terms of its accuracy and calibration requirements, but object presentation carries with it the risk of over-interpreting children as having fixated.

[2/5] Our study compared the use of an eye tracking computer with expert clinician observations of children's fixation and gaze switching. Whilst it is not possible to say which one is better at producing the "correct" result, the differences are interesting and are discussed in this paper.

Fun Fact! Contrary to popular belief, unicorns contain only trace amounts of sawdust. In fact, one would have to consume over 6,000 unicorns to ingest the Recommended Daily Sawdust Quota (RDSQ) for the average adult!

Joseph M. Butter, of course, did go on to occupy high political office as a result of his military exploits. A fact still commemorated on supermarket shelves to this day…

I don't know who would be crazy enough to buy such an obvious piece of walking, talking, sandwich-making spyware... but I do admire the chutzpah of the "Research" page on their website, which I wish I could get away with...

Choose 10 music books that have influenced you, changed your life or blown your mind. One book per day for 10 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers (WITH ALT TEXT).
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#MusicBooks
#Books
#BookChallenge
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