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Project Spectrum has worked with and visitied several schools as part of the research process, before installing the environment. The team would like to thank everyone who has helped in the realisation of the Project through its many stages.

Baskerville School, Birmingham offers day time and residential places to young people on the autistic spectrum including a post sixteen unit. Alex was invited by the school to observe the children, interview the staff and test out some of the prototype material he had developed. He received a lot of support and valuable information from the staff at the school which lead to some of the fundamental design decisions that would emerge in the final installation.

Billesley Primary School, Birmingham has an inclusive policy and has several pupils on the autistic spectrum. Having seen the designs for Project Spectrum and the philosophy behind it, the head teacher invited Alex and the team to convert one of their classrooms into the Project Spectrum sensory environment. With the consent of parents and teachers, pupils were then invited to participate in the testing and evaluation of the environment. Now that the main phase of the Project has been completed, the Sensory room remains at the school and continues to be used by staff and pupils on a daily basis.

Corley school, Coventry provides education for children with special educational needs, in particular autistic spectrum disorders and communication difficulties.  Having seen the work done at Billesley, Corley invited Alex to test a portable design model of the digital technology with their students. As part of the dissemination of the Project this took place over three weeks at the end of the Project life cycle and has lead to further collaboration between Alex and the school.