{"id":25246,"date":"2026-10-02T17:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/just-like-my-big-brothers-boy-with-cerebral-palsy-passes-gcses-with-eye-tracking-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T17:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:37:17","slug":"just-like-my-big-brothers-boy-with-cerebral-palsy-passes-gcses-with-eye-tracking-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/just-like-my-big-brothers-boy-with-cerebral-palsy-passes-gcses-with-eye-tracking-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Just like my big brothers\u2019: boy with cerebral palsy passes GCSEs with eye-tracking technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick McCabe\u2019s herculean feat shows limits and possibilities of special educational needs and disabilities system<\/p>\n<p>Patrick McCabe is instantly recognisable in the early autumn sunshine, his wheelchair surrounded by fellow pupils at Fallibroome Academy in Macclesfield, Cheshire as they move from lesson to lesson, chatting, laughing and joking around.<\/p>\n<p>His extraordinary GCSE success this summer has become the stuff of legend. The 16-year-old has cerebral palsy and it took four months for him to complete his exams using eye-tracking technology. Now Patrick has started his A-levels \u2013 French, business and media studies \u2013 and fresh challenges lie ahead.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2026\/oct\/02\/patrick-mccabe-success-cheshire-reveals-limits-send-tech\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/99923f4b9bfb620979e6e17438032458fa5c7c82\/548_0_7200_5760\/master\/7200.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9b505fdb86a077f381519c07007ac4c8\" title=\"\u2018Just like my big brothers\u2019: boy with cerebral palsy passes GCSEs with eye-tracking technology\" \/>Patrick McCabe\u2019s herculean feat shows limits and possibilities of special educational needs and disabilities system<br \/>\nPatrick McCabe is instantly recognisable in the early autumn sunshine, his wheelchair surrounded by fellow pupils at Fallibroome Academy in Macclesfield, Cheshire as they move from lesson to lesson, chatting, laughing and joking around.<br \/>\nHis extraordinary GCSE success this summer has become the stuff of legend. The 16-year-old has cerebral palsy and it took four months for him to complete his exams using eye-tracking technology. Now Patrick has started his A-levels \u2013 French, business and media studies \u2013 and fresh challenges lie ahead. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick McCabe\u2019s herculean feat shows limits and possibilities of special educational needs and disabilities system Patrick McCabe is instantly recognisable in the early autumn sunshine, his wheelchair surrounded by fellow pupils at Fallibroome Academy in Macclesfield, Cheshire as they move from lesson to lesson, chatting, laughing and joking around. His extraordinary GCSE success this summer &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/just-like-my-big-brothers-boy-with-cerebral-palsy-passes-gcses-with-eye-tracking-technology\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Just like my big brothers\u2019: boy with cerebral palsy passes GCSEs with eye-tracking technology<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25246"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}