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Play scheme to give ICT skills to disabled

Nurseries and children's centres in disadvantaged areas across England are being invited to apply for a new play scheme designed for children with disabilities.

The 'Play at IT' project, run by the computing and disability charityAbilityNet and funded by the Big Lottery Fund, aims to give disabledchildren an early introduction to some of the adaptive equipment theymay have to rely upon in later life, and the opportunity to be involvedin inclusive play activities.

Each setting chosen for the 250,000 scheme will receive acomputer system with specialised equipment for disabled children and arange of games and educational software. To be eligible, a setting mustalready have disabled children attending and must commit to taking partin the scheme until it ends in March 2010. Settings must nominate amember of staff who will act as a point of contact for AbilityNet andwho will directly support children with disabilities.

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