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Category Archives: Apps for Special Needs
The Shredder App from Sosh
Thanks to Nancy Barth, for her comment on the Sosh – The Shredder app which can be purchased as a single app to help with the management of stress, anxiety and negative thinking! Check out her post: http://nancybarthtutoring.com/?p=3027 Here’s Sosh’s The Shredder app Check out … Continue reading
Posted in App Reviews, Apps for OT's, Apps for Special Needs, Autism, Emotions, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Occupational Therapy, Self-regulation, Uncategorized
Tagged Autism, iPad, iPhone, iPod, occupational therapy, OT Apps, special education
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Story Telling Apps for the iPod and iPad
Interested in making e-books for your students? Do you have photos of students, events or images pertaining to curricular science, social studies content that could be included in a book for your special needs student? Digital story telling/e-book creating apps are a wonderful … Continue reading
Posted in App Reviews, Apps for OT's, Apps for Special Needs, Autism, eBook Creating, iPad, iPod, Story Telling
Tagged apps, iPad, iPod, OT Apps, special education, special needs students, story telling
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Kiddie Countdown Activity Timer App
Looking for a visual timer for young children? A colleague I work with (thank you Gail for this great find!) found this great free visual timer – Kiddie Countdown Activity Timer Free – for the young students she works with. … Continue reading
iOS5 Accessibility Tool – Speak Selection
Have you used the new Speak Selection accessibility option available in the iOS5 on your updated iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch? Have you done training with any students or clients on its use with their iDevice? Speak Selection Option This … Continue reading
Emotions Apps
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
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
Cause Effect Apps
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
Intellipad App
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
Drawing Apps
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
Leisure Apps for Student with Multiple Special Needs
The iPad brings so many opportunities to our students with significant needs. I have the opportunity to work with a high school student in a multi-categorical classroom who has a dedicated iPad with Proloquo2go as her communication device. Setting up the … Continue reading
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