The cash will pay for a range of tailor-made packages of equipment for nurseries, including touch-screen computer monitors and specially designed joysticks, keyboards and mice.
The equipment is available to nurseries and other early years providers either on loan or on a permanent basis.
Tracey Shawcross, Ability-Net's project manager, said: "Children with disabilities are not getting the kind of play opportunities that will facilitate their future education. Children learn the basics of writing by scribbling with crayons from a very early age.
"But those with disabilities, many of whom will depend on a computer for recording information and producing written work later on, rarely have equivalent access to computers for play and learning at this crucially formative age."
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