Category Archives: Apps for OT’s

Free Visual Motor App

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Have you stumbled upon iDoodleCard? I literally stumbled upon this app and found it to be a good, visual motor app that is Free!  iDoodle variety of visual motor activities for preschool and early elementary aged students. This is a good pediatric OT … Continue reading →

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Emotions Apps

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Are you working with students who need help with identifying emotions in themselves, others or awareness of their emotions? Working with students with Autism, the need for emotional awareness in themselves and of others is important. Often a struggle with students … Continue reading →

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Alligator Apps

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Alligator Apps produces educational apps for preschool and primary aged students. One of their new apps is Mini Adventures – Animals providing beautiful real life pictures of animals with options of videos of the animals within the app. Animals are arranged also by A-Z for … Continue reading →

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Cause Effect Apps

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

As a OT, the skills and ages of  the students you service can vary tremendously.  You may be supporting students accessing the regular education curriculum to students working on life skills or basic of cause and effect skills. They can be young or older … Continue reading →

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Accessibility Features of the new iOS5 – The Cheese Moved Again!

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Ever read the book “Who Moved My Cheese?” by Spencer Johnson MD? This book is about change, which is inevitable and appears to me to be happening at a faster rate all the time. Change is good and inevitable. For the clients we service … Continue reading →

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Intellipad App

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

The Intellipad App was an exciting find shared by a member of the  Qiat list serv where information is shared by AT gurus. Intellipad App is the first notepad that I have seen that provides basic text to speech capabilities, … Continue reading →

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Drawing Apps

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Drawing Apps are readily available for the iPad, iPod and iPhone and are a natural fit for a capacitative screen on a mobile device. Used for scribbling, drawing, writing, stamping or writing messages – there are many uses for drawing apps! Here … Continue reading →

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Autism Apps App

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Autism App, by TouchAutism was a great free find this week. It is an app that reviews apps that will support individuals with Autism. Although it is listed for Autism, the apps reviewed can benefit individuals with other special needs and … Continue reading →

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Sound Stamp App for Echo Pen

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Echo Pen As previously posted, the Echo or Pulse Pen is wonderful note taking tool for students to take notes and simultaneously record lectures (audio record) using special Livescribe notebook paper and the electronic Echo or Pulse Pen (Echo is their newest … Continue reading →

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Dragon Dictation App

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Would you like to talk into your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad and generate text without typing? Dragon Dictation is an app for you! Dragon Dictation, produced by Nuance the makers of  Dragon NaturallySpeaking, is a free voice recognition app available … Continue reading →

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