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ACE Centre
Ace Centre, previously ACE Centre (Aiding Communication in Education, ACE Centre North) is a non-profit organization in England that supports people with communications difficulties.
Ace Centre offer assessment, training and information services in England and Wales, with a focus on Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and Assistive Technology (AT). The ACE Centre have two offices, in Oldham and Abingdon.
The first ACE Centre was started in 1984 through UK government funding as part of the new initiative to introduce information technology into schools, in England and Wales following the end of the Micro-Electronics Project MEP. During MEP four Special Education Micro-technology Resource Centres (SEMERCs) were set up in London (Redbridge), Manchester, Bristol and Newcastle. A special education software development centre was also established in Manchester. It was felt that those pupils with severe language or physical disabilities required more specialist support.
This idea for the first ACE centre to support these students came from Tim Southgate (Head of Ormerod Special School) and Prue Fuller, a teacher at the school. They were inspired by the computer research of Patrick Poon at the school. The original staff at the opening of the Centre in May 1984 were Prue Fuller (Director), Andrew Lysley (SEN Teacher), David Colven (Technical Officer) and Pauline Paine (Administrator). The centre was managed by Mary Hope at MESU, a post that was later taken over by Tina Detheridge now of Wigit Software.
It was essentially a project under the management of MESU (Micro Electronics Support Unit) a government quango which later merged with CET (Centre for Educational Technology) to become NCET (the National Centre for Educational Technology). This eventually became Becta (British Educational Communications and Technology Agency) in 1998.
In 1985 a second Centre was opened in Oldham at Park Dean School It was managed by the head teacher Rhys Williams, who later became principal of Hereward College, and Roger Bates (later of Inclusive Technology). Roger Bates was the First Director of the Northern ACE Centre. The two Centres in Oldham and Oxford service the north and south of England and Wales respectively.
The ACE Center was housed in a spare classroom at Ormerod special school in Headington, Oxford. Later it moved to temporary buildings on the same site and remained there until the new 'Wooden Spoon' building was erected on Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre site in 1998. The new 'Wooden Spoon' building was largely funded by the Wooden Spoon Society and was officially opened by Princess Anne in April 1999. The new building has custom built facilities for assessment and training.
It has occupational therapists, speech and language Therapists, special needs and mainstream teachers, assistive technology specialists and support staff. Early members of staff were Caroline Gray (occupational therapist), Gillian Hazell (the Nelms, Speech and Language Therapist) and Mark Saville (web page and publications creator).
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ACE Centre
Ace Centre, previously ACE Centre (Aiding Communication in Education, ACE Centre North) is a non-profit organization in England that supports people with communications difficulties.
Ace Centre offer assessment, training and information services in England and Wales, with a focus on Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and Assistive Technology (AT). The ACE Centre have two offices, in Oldham and Abingdon.
The first ACE Centre was started in 1984 through UK government funding as part of the new initiative to introduce information technology into schools, in England and Wales following the end of the Micro-Electronics Project MEP. During MEP four Special Education Micro-technology Resource Centres (SEMERCs) were set up in London (Redbridge), Manchester, Bristol and Newcastle. A special education software development centre was also established in Manchester. It was felt that those pupils with severe language or physical disabilities required more specialist support.
This idea for the first ACE centre to support these students came from Tim Southgate (Head of Ormerod Special School) and Prue Fuller, a teacher at the school. They were inspired by the computer research of Patrick Poon at the school. The original staff at the opening of the Centre in May 1984 were Prue Fuller (Director), Andrew Lysley (SEN Teacher), David Colven (Technical Officer) and Pauline Paine (Administrator). The centre was managed by Mary Hope at MESU, a post that was later taken over by Tina Detheridge now of Wigit Software.
It was essentially a project under the management of MESU (Micro Electronics Support Unit) a government quango which later merged with CET (Centre for Educational Technology) to become NCET (the National Centre for Educational Technology). This eventually became Becta (British Educational Communications and Technology Agency) in 1998.
In 1985 a second Centre was opened in Oldham at Park Dean School It was managed by the head teacher Rhys Williams, who later became principal of Hereward College, and Roger Bates (later of Inclusive Technology). Roger Bates was the First Director of the Northern ACE Centre. The two Centres in Oldham and Oxford service the north and south of England and Wales respectively.
The ACE Center was housed in a spare classroom at Ormerod special school in Headington, Oxford. Later it moved to temporary buildings on the same site and remained there until the new 'Wooden Spoon' building was erected on Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre site in 1998. The new 'Wooden Spoon' building was largely funded by the Wooden Spoon Society and was officially opened by Princess Anne in April 1999. The new building has custom built facilities for assessment and training.
It has occupational therapists, speech and language Therapists, special needs and mainstream teachers, assistive technology specialists and support staff. Early members of staff were Caroline Gray (occupational therapist), Gillian Hazell (the Nelms, Speech and Language Therapist) and Mark Saville (web page and publications creator).