Andrew Simpson

Andrew Simpson

Operational Lead

Our education and exam access specialist, Andrew, is a qualified primary teacher with 7+ years of expertise in AT, ensuring inclusive education for students of all abilities.

Recent Posts

The Quadstick Experience

The Quadstick Experience

You often find, working with assistive technology, that you have a Rolodex of solutions that you're constantly dipping into. You build up a bank of ideas that you can tweak and change depending on the individual client need, but that you're pretty comfortable with overall. It goes without saying that these ideas are always developing and changing, I'm certainly not saying that once you've found a solution that works, you can stop looking! But you find an ease of footing around certain corners of

Andrew Simpson
Andrew Simpson
09/07/2025·4 min read
Grid for ipad - 50% off!

Grid for ipad - 50% off!

Between 1st - 11th April, Smartbox are offering Grid for iPad with 50% discount to celebrate Autism Awareness Month. Working as we do with Assistive Technology on a daily basis, we perhaps take for granted that the clients we support have access to the solutions they require, be that for communication, environmental control or access to their school work. It is important that we reflect that there are many people for whom such solutions are out of reach through no fault of their own and that we

Andrew Simpson
Andrew Simpson
28/03/2025·1 min read
A nice little update from Splash City

A nice little update from Splash City

We are increasingly using Splash City to support young people to access their exams at school. The process of setting this up can be arduous, time consuming and, to coin a phrase, a bit of a pain in the Splash. For those unfamiliar with Splash City, it is a solution for recording maths work for those with physical disabilities. It provides the user with any and all physical recording tools for the completion of maths (and cross-curricular) work. It’s fantastic. Arguably the most useful feature

Andrew Simpson
Andrew Simpson
04/11/2024·4 min read