Author: Helen Nicholson-Benn

Conversations with the Assistive Technology Community

Between November and June this year, our Assistive Technology Network (ATN) Leadership Group ran four ‘Community Conversation’ discussion sessions. These gave members a dedicated space to share experiences, challenges and ideas around assistive technology in further and higher education. During these sessions, we split into groups based on the areas that interest us the most. […]

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Exploring how AI can support deaf and hard of hearing students 

Three groups of icons representing people have shapes travelling between them and a page in the middle of the image. The image represents the flow of data between large language models and their users.
Yasmine Boudiaf & LOTI / Data Processing / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0

AI presents both opportunities and risks for deaf students. With so many different tools available, identifying what is genuinely useful can be difficult. Here we’ll consider some key developments that are having an impact on accessibility for linguistic access and study.  Exploring where accessibility and innovation meet, we will move from more established tools like […]