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30/01/2025

access: youtube has been redesigned for 2025!

Check it out at accessyoutube.org.uk

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Search YouTube videos with enhanced accessibility features

10/01/2025

🚀 New Year, New Digital Home!

Check out our refreshed website at https://buff.ly/40e1cEh.

You can now more easily explore our:

🎯 Assistive Technology Solutions
🧠 Digital Wellbeing Services
📚 Professional Training

Get in touch to learn more about how we can help

Empowering clients, families and legal professionals with innovative assistive technology solutions.

20/12/2024

Seasons Greetings!

As we reflect on a year of growth, connection, and support, we are delighted to share the winner of our 2024 Christmas competition. This year, the honour of featuring as our Christmas message goes to Lewis Hingerton, age 15.

Lewis used his eyegaze technology and 3D Paint to create an image that captures his vision of what Christmas means to him: a scene filled with warmth, joy, and togetherness. His creativity and skill remind us of the incredible ways assistive technology can empower individuals to express themselves and share their perspectives with the world.

At access: technology, we embrace the diversity of the people we support, recognising and respecting the many different ways this season is celebrated. Whatever this time of year means to you, we hope it brings peace, comfort, and joy.

From all of us at access: technology, we wish you a happy holiday season and a wonderful New Year!

10/10/2024

🎄 Know Someone Creative Who Uses Assistive Technology? 🎄

We're inviting people of ALL ages who use assistive technology to showcase their creativity in our Christmas Greeting Competition! This year’s theme is "My Christmas"—and we’re excited to see what it means to them!

Whether it’s:
✨ Writing a poem or short story
✨ Creating a video
✨ Drawing or painting (digitally or on paper)
✨ Recording their voice, singing a song, or making music...

🎁 First Prize: A £50 Amazon gift card and to be featured in our Corporate Christmas greeting for 2024!
🎉 Runners-Up: Small fun prizes up for grabs!

How to Enter:
Just email the entry to domore@accesstechnology or post it to our office:

📮 access: technology, 10 Newby Stables, Ripon, HG4 5AE

Please include their name, age, the type of assistive tech they use, and a contact email or postal address.

🗓️ Deadline: Friday, 6th December
📢 Winner Announced: Friday, 13th December

Help us spread the word! Tag or share with anyone who might know someone that would love to join in and show off their unique talents this Christmas!🎅🌟

Have questions? Get in touch, and we'll be happy to help

10/10/2024

Absolutely delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted in the Rehab Provider of the Year category at the Personal Injury Awards 🍾

To be a finalist is such an achievement, recognising just how far we have come since we began 8 years ago and of course the hard work and dedication of our amazing team! 🌟

04/09/2024

We now offer EHCP-Funded AT Assessments.

Discover how to navigate the process, step-by-step, in this definitive guide.

A step-by-step guide to securing EHCP-funded AT support

12/07/2024

Team Day 2024 🎉🚜❤️ @ Farm Adventure

21/06/2024

Fantastic team training session from Beth Moulam about her experiences during her adolescent years, so much to take away and apply to our thinking and practices. Beth's lived experiences and insight are so powerful, we cannot recommend her training more highly.

Powerful takeaway quotes:
"Nothing about me without me"
"I cannot stress enough the value of talking"
"They thought they knew what was best for me"
"Plan for the best AND plan for the worst"

16/05/2024

Our Spring Newsletter has sprung! 🌷🌞🌱

With contributions from the whole team, you can check it out and subscribe here:
https://mailchi.mp/e741745bd5cc/2022-winter-newsletter-16531693?e=27367776f9

Spring has sprung and we’ve been hard at work testing out new products and working closely with our clients. Products such as the PlayStation 5 adaptive controller and the Oura ring have really peaked our interest recently due to the unique benefits that they give. We cannot wait to continue testi...

15/05/2024

🧠It's Mental Health Awareness Week this week; a topic that we're very passionate about!

To be the best we can be at supporting our clients, their families and each other, we undertook company wide Mental Health First Aid training earlier this year, with our Director Kelly and Pastoral AT Consultant Josie also undertaking an FAA Level 3 Award in Supervising First Aid for Mental Health.

There's so many little things we try do to promote positive mental health whilst at work, from flexible working, to "Me Days", social events, community engagement, ongoing support and regular opportunity to talk. Our favourite though is our 'Bring Your Dog to Work' policy... ❤️‍🩹

Meet the furry members of our team past and present 🐾

17/03/2024

A wonderful video that explains the social model of disability... How views, bias, decisions and actions disable others.

Our values and ethos at access: technology are based on a social model of disability so our policy and procedures reflect this approach too. As you can imagine, we LOVE this campaign by CoorDown . Yessss! 🙌🙌🙌

Our negative assumptions about people with Down syndrome can lead us to treat them in such a way that these assumptions become reality. In sociology, this is...