Response to the Bercow Report: Can the next generation of teachers harness the potential of assistive and enabling technologies?

This paper considers the accountability frameworks that are intended to determine the quality of teachers graduating from training programmes and considers how these frameworks may need to take more account of evidence for enabling and assistive technologies if they are to enable new teachers to make effective use of this technology for inclusion.

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