STOP PRESS: The 2011 Karten Conference will be held at QAC Birmingham on Tuesday 25^th October. The theme this year will be Creativity through Technology. Look out for the next newsletter with details.

It is with deep regret that we have to announce that Ian Karten MBE passed away peacefully on Sunday 8th May.

Ian’s vision and commitment to changing the lives of disabled people has been – and will continue to be – an inspiration to us all. Only 3 weeks ago a lunch was held for Ian and his wife Mildred to celebrate the achievements of the Ian Karten Charitable Trust at Wisley Gardens – a lovely sunny day in beautiful surroundings, with lots of happy memories. So many people have sent moving tributes to Ian, so many comments on the legacy he leaves. And so many pledges to continue the work that Ian started.

We remember Mildred in our thoughts and prayers, and send her our most sincere condolences.

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(New Centre – more info coming soon)

Address:

New Bridge School, Oldham

Centre Head:

Daniel Wood

Phone number:

Direct Line: 0161 770 5537

Main School Line: 0161 770 6999

Email:

dwood@newbridgeschool.net

Website:

Host organisation name:

Date centre established:

July 2010

Focus of Centre:

The Clients:

The Technology:

A state of the art Eduprint Centre ( print centre for people with learning disabilities – all based on drag and drop, with pre-formatted templates and media). Linked to  a multi-sensory room with sound beams and an interactive floor.  People with profound disabilities can create music and interact with their environment, which is captured and digitised, then sent for printing.

Assistive Technology:

Staffing:

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Hi All,

The new Karten Network website is finally live.

Hi all

I have just updated my profile.  I trust that is ok and perhaps it needs changing but just wanted to experiment.

I am possibly looking in all the wrong places and need to practise more but when I clicked on a post I tried to comment but couldn’t get very far.

Will try and visit again soon – development looks good so far.

Christine

Hi all

Sorry I haven’t got here sooner but have been on summer leave from work.  I have also had difficulty, on my computer at work, getting on but having tried now from another computer perhaps this is just the excuse I needed to get them to upgrade mine!

All is looking good with the website.  Prhaps we could have a tour around it at the next meeting and a lesson on everything we can do on the site.  Now I have just got to find where the ‘post’ button is.

Hi,

Everything looks great! On the ‘Meet the Team’ page, I notices tyhat on the 2nd line of each team member (where it says Trustee or Director…), there doesn’t seem to be a line-spacing, so it all looks slightly squashed if you know what I mean. Any chance of adding some spaing for between the title lines?

Hi

I like the new maps! Is it possible to write Eire on Map 2? If so, I much prefer that version. Thanks for finding them

Ceri