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Attach video and sound recordings to your IEPs

By Tweezy Online Ltd on 30 January 2012, 10:10am

Amazingly, some schools have been using computerised IEPs for around twenty years now. Throughout this time different incarnations of software have been and gone but really not very much has changed. Finally, a new angle has been added to IEPs by Tweezy Online Ltd with their new online system, Tweezy IEPs.

As well as storing targets together with teaching strategies and the pupils own interpretation of the desirable outcome, IEPs can now be "brought to life" by allowing "Files of evidence" to be attached. Teachers and assisting professionals can now add sound recordings of the pupils speech, video footage of their classroom behaviour, scans of their work and so on within the IEP itself.

This was demonstrated to remarkable effect by taking a look at one young girls IEP. The girl is called Kiera and she is six years old. She attends mainstream school and her IEP had an overview of a speech problem which was being investigated by a medical team and had targets to improve speaking skills which the teacher had marked some progress on. However, in addition to this there were also recordings of Kiera reading from a book during her assessment phase and another recording made 8 weeks later. The improvement in speech clarity is overwhelming.

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Kiera's mother, Kazzie, enthused: "We'd seen her IEPs before, but we'd never been invited to visit the school and listen to the improvements! The changes in Kiera have been gradual and as we're with her every day we don't notice. This "before and after" kind of approach was a real eye opener for us and it shows us how well she's done. Now her confidence has improved, she no longer feels ignored at school because other can't understand her. She had her first speaking part in a sharing assembly last term, and already this term she's had an award for outstanding work. She's never been academic before but now she could follow in her brothers footsteps who is gifted in maths."

Mr Bell, Co-director of Tweezy Online Ltd, is delighted that Tweezy IEPs is already proving its worth: "It's such a simple idea that I'm amazed has not been done before. We wanted to give schools something to make life easier for everyone involved with the child and, if possible, to provide it at a near negligible cost. It seems obvious that if such a tool was available, the individual child will really benefit the most. Storing these files of evidence allows everything to be at the user's fingertips. The SENCo no longer has a burden of justification - the results can be seen by anyone."

If you need evidence yourself, the company are offering free trials of Tweezy IEPs on their website: www.tweezy-online.com/prodIEP.html.

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