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- A Very Special School
- Residential Care | Children and Young People
- Aquamovers
- Holiday Club
- Short Breaks for Children and Young People
- Patchwork Farm
- Hippotherapy and Therapeutic Riding
- Residential Care for Adults | Futures
- Leisure and Skills Centre | LSC
- The Hub
- Patchwork Farm
- Short Breaks for Young Adults
- Leadership Team
- Our NHS Partnership
- Governance
- Policies
- Safeguarding
- The Chailey Charter
- Our History
- Relationship and Sex Education Training
- Discover Magazine
- Annual Reports and Accounts
- Transition: Moving on
- Chailey Heritage Information & Parent/Carer Support
- Jewell Trust Family Liaison Worker
- Onsite Accommodation For Families
- Assistive Technology at the LSC
- Seymour Bonfire Celebrations
- Art with Eleanor 🎨
- Trustees’ Week 4-8 November
- Bluebell Railway Trip
- Jumbo Ensemble celebrations!
- Walker Friends
- Max's South Bath Sessions
- Buddy the therapy dog
- Jumbo Ensemble Thank you - Makaton video
- Jumbo Ensemble - Felicity
- Carers Week 2024
- National Volunteers' Week 2024
- Old Scholars’ Day 2024
- Transition to Adult Services Breakfast Morning
- Chailey Heritage Foundation leads at Linden Lodge School Transition Fair
- Easter Holiday Club 2024
- Chailey Heritage Foundation's Paula Marten on Transition to Adult Services
- Makaton Song - Proud
- Chailey Heritage at Transition to Adult Services Conference
- Partners in Care – how a career with Chailey Heritage changes young lives
- Lunchtime at Chailey Heritage Foundation
- Celebrating Strengths: Raising Awareness of Cerebral Palsy
- Hats galore for Woolly Hat Wednesday
- Exciting New Year’s INSET for Chailey staff – ‘Don’t Call Me Mum’.
- Chailey Heritage Individual Learner Driven (CHILD) Curriculum
- Developing Effective Communication
- Developing Independence Through Powered Mobility
- Becoming a Pupil
- One-Off Donation
- Regular Giving
- Gifts in Wills
- Gifts in Memory
- Gifts In Kind
- Shopping and recycling
- Sponsor an Animal
- Payroll Giving
- Home
- Services for Children
- A Very Special School
- Developing Independence Through Powered Mobility
A Higher Quality of Life | Professor David Sanders from University of Portsmouth on Vimeo.
Developing Independence Through Powered Mobility
Every young person has the opportunity to experience appropriate forms of powered mobility. The award winning Chailey Heritage Foundation engineering team have developed a range of advanced assistive technologies to develop driving skills and allow progression; these include:
- TRACK wheelchair guidance system (with over 1km of track both indoors and around the school site)
- Audio Signposting System
- Sensing Collision Avoidance Detector (SCAD) for wheelchairs
- Powered Standers
- Universal Power Base
- Effort Reduction Wheelchair – making free driving easier
Mobility & Engineering
We are incredibly fortunate to have one of the best Research and Development Electronic Engineers, Dr Martin Langner. He has developed innovative and revolutionary technology and equipment to enable the children (some with complex disabilities) to interact with their environment, provide them with new control opportunities, as well as being able to get around independently.
Rehabilitation Engineering Services (RES)
The RES team at Chailey Heritage Clinical Services consists of qualified engineers, technicians and clinical scientists. They adapt, modify and problem solve issues with equipment, ‘mount’ equipment for optimal use by the child, carry out on-site repairs and design and manufacture bespoke equipment. They undertake equipment reviews and provide advice on safety in the use of equipment. Having the breadth of this service in a school setting is unique to Chailey Heritage Foundation.
Our Pupils' Stories
13-year-old Charlotte is a determined, kind, and thoughtful young person.
Seth Seth is 6 years old and has been at school at Chailey Heritage Foundation since ... James James has been developing his concentration skills by caring for the animals at ... Jacob Jacob is 18 years-old and has been attending Chailey Heritage Foundation si... Bertie Bertie is six years old and started school at Chailey Heritage Foundation in Nov... Harriet Harriet has been developing her communication skills during her visits to Patchw...
