Category Archives: Early Childhood

HelpKidzLearn Apps!!

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Are you familiar with HelpKidzLearn.com website? If you are not and you work with students who are working on cause and effect or students with physical impairments make sure you visit HelpKidzLearn hosted by Inclusive Technology – it will become a favorite … Continue reading →

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Sentence Maker App

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Grasshopper Apps, one of my favorite app developers, has developed Sentence Maker app and it is currently gone free! Sentence Maker App , similiar to Grasshopper’s Little Speller app, is an app that provides opportunities for 2, 3, 4 and 5 word … Continue reading →

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Alien Buddies App Gone Free Again!

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Alien Buddies App is currently free again (until 1-27-12 ?)! This is app was previously mentioned in a post in December, 2011 (when free) for its visual motor and visual perceptual activities. Geared for 3-7 year olds, the following activities are featured in the … Continue reading →

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Shape Up App has Gone Free!

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Looking for a visual motor integration app focusing on basic shapes? Shape Up is a recently developed app that provides a cute story with activities that focus on creating geometric shapes. Appropriate for preschool to early elementary aged students, Shape Up focuses … Continue reading →

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Injini Child Development Game Suite App

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Thanks to Molly Shannon for mentioning this app in the Lite version in one of her comments. I had seen this app but shied away from it due to the cost (49.99) not realizing that it came in a Lite-free version. Thank … Continue reading →

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Little Finder app – Gone Free

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Innovative Mobile apps has a new app gone free called Little Finder. Little Finder is available for iPhone and iPad and provides a one or more player game to visually search for objects. It provides  audio and visual matching supports making it more … Continue reading →

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Counting Bear App Gone Free!

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

 Counting Bear app is another one of Grasshopper apps great customizeable apps for students requiring practice with early numeracy skills – 1-20. Gone free, this app is worth while checking out to add to your basic math app tool kit. The ability … Continue reading →

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Art Maker App

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Art Maker App is free  for a short time featuring a story making tools for young learners aged 2-6 years. Compatible only with the iPad, this  app provides several different backgrounds and a scrolling pallet of objects (animals, buildings, plants, etc.) to insert … Continue reading →

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More Step by Step Drawing Apps

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Step by step drawing apps reviewed in the post dated 12/20/2011 listed two apps that were appropriate for young elementary school students when learning to draw. A comment from Margaret Rice (thank you!) suggested the app Pirate Scribblebeard’s Treasure as more creative … Continue reading →

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Step by Step Drawing App

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

In my years of OT work with students, intervention for improving visual motor skills included many activities. When needing to support students ability to produce artwork in classroom projects or in art class using step by step drawing tasks focusing on production of … Continue reading →

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