Recent months have seen Camera Mouse technology in Northern Ireland grow from a small pilot program at five schools to a full roll-out implementing 64 systems at 26 different schools. A special steering group composed of Department of Education officials, teachers, curriculum support officers, and an occupational therapist will plan and deliver training during the roll-out.

Alan Nixon, a curriculum support officer from Northern Ireland’s South Eastern Education and Library Board writes, “Feedback from teachers has been positive and they all want to continue exploring the possibilities Camera Mouse has to offer.”

The launch in Northern Ireland marks a major milestone for the project, whose main goal is to deliver the technology to as many people who can benefit from it as possible. Two years ago, the technology was licensed to CM Solutions, a start-up in Dallas, TX, in order to make it available to a wider public. Since that time, CM Solutions has added features to the product and brought it to market. (See www.cameramouse.com).

The technology, developed originally in a laboratory at Boston College, is helping educate children in Northern Ireland.