NNAC - The National Network of Assessment Centres is a UK-wide network of specialist services that work together to facilitate access for disabled people to education, training, employment and personal development. Assessment Centre services include quality assessment and support in the use of assistive technology and/or specialised learning strategies.
ACE Centre North - Based in Oldham, Lancashire; offers a wide range of services to support communication and learning through the use of Assistive Technology (AT) and Alternative Augmentative Communication (AAC) systems and resources for children and adults with physical and communication difficulties.
Ace Advisory Trust - Based in Headington, Oxford; provides a focus for the use of technology with the communication and educational needs of young people with physical and communication difficulties. The Centre offers a wide variety of services including individual assessments, information, specialist training for parents and professionals and assistive software.
CENMAC - A central resource for pupils with physical disabilities supported by the inner London boroughs; CENMAC has a small team of advisory teachers with backgrounds in mainstream and special schools as well as specialist knowledge of how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be helpful. The Director is also an Occupational Therapist. CENMAC offers a range of assessment, training and support services in the field of assistive technology and Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC).
Communicate- Based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, with services available to The North of England; Communicate is a specialist NHS Electronic Assistive Technology (EAT) service with a small team of expert health professionals including Speech and Language Therapists and Occupational Therapists. They provide assessment and support services in relation to Assistive Technology including Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) resources.
The Advisory Unit - Computers in Education - Based in Hatfield, Hertfordshire; has a Special Needs Centre staffed by a consultant who offers help with the identification of appropriate software and hardware resources for individual pupils and training courses in the area of software and hardware resources for pupils with severe learning difficulties, specific learning difficulties and physical disabilities.
The CALL Centre - Based in Edinburgh, Scotland; The CALL Centre (Communication Aids for Language and Learning) provides specialist expertise in technology for children who have speech, communication and/or writing difficulties, in schools across Scotland.
The Central Remedial Clinic - Dublin - "A non-residential national centre for the care, treatment and development of children and adults with physical and multiple disabilities" with a range of services including those focusing upon the use of educational technology and augmentative communication with a great emphasis upon inter-disciplinary practice.