From Mandie Lewis's kitchen table in Bristol, the bi-annual special needs magazine Information Exchange goes out to teachers, nursery nurses and parents all around the world. There are readers in New Zealand, Australia, Scandinavia, the US, Kenya, India and Brazil. Which is why, when the publication ceased for a year and it looked as if it was going to fold, there was a great outcry in readers' letters from faraway places.
'There was an incredible response,' says Sally Silverman, Information Exchange's managing editor. 'People said "There's no way that this can stop".' Sally works as a peripatetic teacher for multi-needs visually impaired children aged from birth to 19 in the West Country. She has six volunteers, who include Mandie Lewis, to help her put the magazine together. Information Exchange has been going for 20 years and it strives to be an unbiased and accessible network that continually evolves.
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