Developing Experts – FutureReady: Adaptive Learning & Virtual Work Experience
Developing Experts stands out as a highly inclusive, innovative, and scalable solution that directly addresses the evolving needs of today’s learners, particularly those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Built from the ground up with accessibility at its core, the platform ensures that every learner can access, engage with, and succeed in their education.
What makes Developing Experts unique is its ability to bridge the gap between classroom learning and the wider world of work. By embedding curriculum-linked careers education into everyday lessons, it helps young people understand not just what they are learning, but why it matters for their future. Learners are introduced to real-world roles, clear career pathways, and immersive Virtual Work Experience opportunities that bring industries directly into the classroom.
For teachers, Developing Experts is more than a resource – it is a partner. AI-powered tools, inclusive lesson adaptations, and real-time analytics save preparation time, support differentiation, and provide valuable evidence for leadership and SEND planning. For learners, it unlocks aspiration, builds confidence, and makes ambitious futures feel both realistic and achievable.
Scalable across early years, schools, and further education, Developing Experts doesn’t just fit into education systems; it transforms them.
Evaluate IT – EvaluateMySchool
EvaluateMySchool (EMS) is an online platform that places effective self-evaluation at the heart of school-improvement. The EMS SEND evaluation has supported over 1000 schools, 100 multi-academy trusts and multiple local authorities to drive improvements in SEND and promote a culture of continuous improvement.
Schools, trusts and LAs use EMS to evaluate, compare, track and plan improvements for SEND provision in one place. This ‘plan-do-review’ cycle supports strategic decision-making and strengthens collaboration in and across schools. Users can upload documentation to build a rich evidence-base, can quickly analyse strengths and areas for development and can compare data across groups of schools to identify trends and target support more effectively.
Accessible and easy-to-use, users report that EMS:
• Promotes buy-in and cooperation among stakeholders, making it easier to align priorities and actions.
• Provides a consistent overview of SEND provision, ensuring that evaluation leads to practical, coordinated improvements.
• Creates a shared language and understanding, enabling schools to work together more effectively, especially in developing unified SEND plans.
• Builds leadership confidence: 80% of participants engaged in a programme using EMS rated themselves as at least ‘confident’ in creating alignment and working towards a common goal after using the platform.
Inclusive Technology – HelpKidzLearn
HelpKidzLearn is an internationally recognised online platform created specifically for children with severe, profound, and complex learning needs. Developed by Inclusive Technology, it combines accessible educational content, sensory experiences, and powerful personalisation tools into one inclusive learning ecosystem.
The platform includes six core products called Sensory Space, Games & Activities, Inclusive Stories, ChooseIt Maker, ChooseIt Readymades, and Insight. Each product is designed to support communication, cognition, sensory regulation, and curriculum engagement. Educators can tailor learning using Student Profiles, build activity sequences with Playlists, and monitor progress through detailed Student Analytics.
What sets HelpKidzLearn apart is its cohesive pedagogical framework. Grounded in real classroom use, developed alongside professionals with decades of SEND expertise. Learners can grow from early interaction through cause and effect activities to developing choice-making and curriculum learning, all within one coherent system.
Accessible across devices, compatible with all major assistive input methods, and fully cloud-based, HelpKidzLearn requires no installation. It is GDPR-compliant, collects no personally identifiable data, and is backed by UK-based customer service.
Trusted by over 6,500 schools in 52 countries to deliver inclusive, flexible, and measurable learning outcomes.
ivvi Assistant – ivvi Notes
ivvi Notes makes it easy to capture everything in a lesson or lecture and creates useful visual notes for students with dyslexia. ivvi transforms spoken language into real-time mind maps that are clear, structured, and memorable.
When a student starts a session, ivvi Notes records the lecture, transcribes it, and organises the key ideas into a visual map. Each branch highlights essential points while linking back to the full transcript and audio. With a single click, learners can revisit any part of the session, revise more effectively, and reduce the overwhelm of traditional notetaking.
ivvi is designed to be learner-led and simple to use. Students can edit and merge maps, create summaries, and highlight key quotes. Study skills tutors and assistive technology trainers also use ivvi to model inclusive study strategies.
Built for accessibility, ivvi features a distraction-free interface, keyboard navigation, screen-reader compatibility, and GDPR-compliant data security.
Macenta Publishing & Digital Solutions – Ridaboo
Ridaboo is an inclusive reading platform that empowers learners with special educational needs to access, enjoy and create content in English.
From the moment they log in, students can customise how they read: choosing layouts designed for different learning profiles, adjusting fonts and spacing, or switching to calming screens. These options ensure that every learner can read in a way that feels comfortable and achievable.
But Ridaboo goes further than accessibility. Learners are not only readers, they are also creators of content. The platform provides tools for Free Writing, AI-guided Story Creation and interactive Adventure Stories where students shape the outcome through their choices. These activities encourage creativity, self-expression and imagination, while also building essential language skills.
At the end of their journeys, learners receive feedback not only on their reading fluency, but also on the character strengths they’ve shown; qualities like resilience, empathy and bravery. This unique feature supports social-emotional growth alongside academic progress.
Designed for both classroom and independent learning, Ridaboo combines accessibility, creativity and AI guidance to help every learner thrive. It turns reading into an inclusive experience that develops confidence, language and life skills.
myHappymind
myHappymind is the only NHS-backed programme transforming how schools support wellbeing. Rooted in neuroscience and positive psychology, it helps children from Early Years to Year 6 build lifelong skills in resilience, self-regulation, and emotional literacy.
What makes it distinctive:
– Fully prepared and digital-first – one 20-minute interactive lesson each week, with just five minutes of prep for teachers.
– Inclusive by design – SEN-adapted lessons and toolkits for neurodiversity, EBSA, trauma, and speech & language mean every child can access the same strategies.
-Whole-school approach – pupils, teachers, and families all use a shared language of wellbeing, embedding it across classrooms, playgrounds, and homes.
– Staff and leadership support – on-demand CPD for staff, plus three tailored impact reports per year for leaders to evidence outcomes to Ofsted and governors.
-Dedicated customer support – every school is partnered with a Customer Happiness Manager for onboarding and ongoing guidance.
Evidence shows:
– Classrooms are calmer and more settled.
-Children confidently use strategies like Happy Breathing to manage feelings.
– Families feel equipped to support wellbeing at home.
– Leaders can evidence progress clearly and sustainably.
Recognised with The King’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation (2025).
Ransom Publishing – Reading Stars Achieve Phonics
Reading Stars Achieve Phonics is a collection 98 fully decodable books that accelerate the literacy results of struggling readers in KS2/KS3.
Distinct in their age-appropriate content that really understands and appeals to these learners, many of whom are disaffected readers who need to be “won around”, these creative books also dare to help learners tackle more than just phonics knowledge.
The texts are simultaneously written to do things like build reading stamina, aid automaticity, provide opportunities to read with prosody, develop broader literacy skills (i.e. the skills typically addressed in a good Book Band programme).
Packaged up in a dyslexia-friendly design that supports all weaker readers, the diverse books have achieved incredible results.
Meanwhile, teachers have enjoyed Ransom’s unparalleled expertise and attentive customer support. This includes their provision of invaluable free supporting resources, like time-saving pre-prepared guided reading lesson plans and running reading record assessments for every title.
It’s unsurprising that when ten randomly selected customers were asked “on a scale of 1-10, how likely are you to recommend Reading Stars Achieve Phonics to other schools?” they got an average of 9.4/10.
ShareTheBoard
ShareTheBoard addresses all of the accessibility shortcomings of traditional writing surfaces, without introducing learning curves for educators or undue costs for educational institutions.
ShareTheBoard ensures that all board content is legible and truly individually accessible: each student is able to view unobstructed content, zoom in as needed, adjust contrast, and even rewind/reply content at will. ShareTheBoard delivers personalized access to traditional board contents without undue attention or classroom disruption.
ShareTheBoard gives teachers the ability to turn their traditional boards into interactive devices that can be used in any teaching modality. It also gives whiteboards memory, driving student engagement and retention. Board contents are saved, organized, made searchable and even automatically transcribed, retaining their original format and context. As a result students with even complete visual impairment are able to access board contents, using free screen readers.
Using integrated GenAI features, teachers are able to transform captured board contents into learning materials.
Critically, ShareTheBoard aims to accomplish all of this without requiring teachers to learn new tools or change their teaching habits. And, as a software solution, the tool is mobile, easily scalable, and works with schools’ existing hardware (computers and cameras), greatly minimizing the cost of deployment.
Touch-type Read and Spell (TTRS) – Touch-type Read and Spell
Touch-type Read and Spell (TTRS) is a research-based typing platform that has been helping students with special needs learn keyboarding for the past 30+ years. The course builds typing skills and boosts spelling and reading ability at the same time. This is accomplished via a structured program of phonics embedded within typing exercises and delivered across short and manageable modules. The display is fully customisable to meet the needs of students with sensory issues, and there are no distracting graphics or loud games. With TTRS, learners can go at their own pace and repeat material as necessary as they earn stars, trophies and certificates of achievement for their work. Moreover, parents and teachers can enter custom spelling lists and find maths, science and English content aligned with the UK curriculum. TTRS is a versatile literacy and learning platform for students of all ages. Learn more at www.readandspell.com.
