Category Archives: High School

Writing Apps – Supports for Students with LD #4

Writing is considered one of the most difficult literacy tasks. Many students with learning disabilities struggle with the process of writing as well as the mechanical componets of the writing task. Technology can provide support to the mechanical demands of the writing … Continue reading

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Paper Port App – Dragon Dictation App on Steroids!

Are you impressed with the Dragon Dictation App? Well, you will love Nuances new PaperPort app that has Dragon Dictation tools in it! PaperPort App – This is Nuances new free digital note taking for your iPad (only iPad) that captures hand written … Continue reading

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Game Apps from EnsenaSoft for Individuals with Special Needs

Looking for games that transcend age or abilities for your students or clients? Games that encourage turn taking, engagement with others and leisure skills? Check out EnsenaSoft game apps for kids or adults – almost any age. This weekend they have many on … Continue reading

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New Apple Apps – iBooks 2 and iTunes U

Apple announced on Thursday, January 19th their new developments in the textbook arena – iBooks2, iTunes U and E-Book Creator for Mac computer. Upgrade of iBooks to iBooks2 (free, requires just an upgrade, not a new app) allows greater management of multimedia … Continue reading

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Spell Checking Apps – Supports for Students with LD #2

Spell checking apps reviewed in this post focus on apps for individuals with learning disabilities that will replace handheld spell checkers.  Such spell checkers, such as the Franklin Kids Dictionary, provides text to speech and phonetic based spelling suggestions are frequently used in our … Continue reading

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Dictionary Apps – Supports for Students with LD – #1

This is a first is a series of reviews of apps useful to individuals with learning disabilities. As our school has just issued some iPad to our LD teachers the search has begun for apps that would support students at … Continue reading

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Apps for Middle and High School Students

My position as an OT and an AT coordinator requires me to work with teachers and students from 4K to high school. Although most of the iDevices we currently have are dedicated to younger special needs students or students in multi-categorical classrooms, … Continue reading

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