Category Archives: iOS

Back to School – Producing & Sharing Your Schedules

Back to School Time! Creating and Sharing Schedules  After you have gathered schedules, one of the next important tasks is crafting your schedule and sharing it with the dozens of teachers, administrative staff for accountability. You will need to manage … Continue reading

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Back to School for Therapists: Managing Paper Schedules – Tips and Tricks

Back to School Tips and Tricks –  Managing Paper Schedules It’s back to school time for students as well as teachers and specialists. As I think about those days and what it takes to get the school year and schedules … Continue reading

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Six Apps Every OTA Student Should Have

Six Apps Every OTA Student Should Have As scooped from: http://otaonline.stkate.edu/blog/six-apps-every-ota-student/ Here is a back to school resource for OTA students from St. Catherine’s University in Virgina. The OTA Blogger shares “Six Apps Every OTA Student Should Have“, providing apps on assessment, intervention, … Continue reading

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Osmo – A Interactive Educational Tool for the iPad

I can’t believe that I have not posted about the Osmo Game system – a truly interactive device for the iPad. The Osmo Game system was demonstrated by Lisa Reas, Professional Development Extraordinaire  at an edcampMKE this past May.  I was … Continue reading

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Assistive Technology Blog: iOS 8 Accessibility Roundup: More Accessible Than Ever

Source: bdmtech.blogspot.co.uk

The Assistive Technology Blog reviews some of the new features slated in iOS 8 expected to debut this fall. Word prediction is one of the proposed features integrated into the iOS keyboard with context a part of the formula. That is exciting news as an assistive technology specialist – Apple is finally catching up to Android on that feature – at last!

 

For OT’s working in home health or rehab, a new iOS 8 Health app will be featured. It will be interesting to see how this app might interface with information used by or for patients and how it complies with HIPAA regulations. 

 

Other new changes for iOS 8 include more accessibility features: hand free commands with Siri, more Guided Access options and text to speech voices. Exciting new features to consider for students and clients. 

 

Check out Assistive Technology Blog post on these new iOS 8 features. 

Carol

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OT’s with Apps – Apps and Application for Your School Based OT mTool Kit

Interested in learning about apps mobile device equipment related to school based Occupational Therapy intervention? Join OT’s with App’s for “Apps and Application for Your School Based OT mTool Kit” August 11th & 12th! Prior workshop participants received over $60 of free … Continue reading

Posted in Apps for OT's, Continuing Education, Dysgraphia, Early Childhood, Education, Elementary School, iOS, iPad, Letter Formation, Mobile Device Use, Occupational Therapy, OCR, Rest and Sleep, School Based Interventions, Self-regulation, Stylus, Therapist/Teacher Tools, Visual Perception, Writing | Leave a comment

Summer Tip and Trick for Managing Screen Time for iOS

Summer is finally here and that means more free time for kids. How will they spend their time? Playing outdoors doing physical activities? Spending sometimes doing hands-on learning with real things and or friends? Helping by doing some chores? More screen … Continue reading

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Community Lost & Found – Tiles are Shipping!

An earlier blog post presented the SelfStarter project called Tiles, a small chip developed to help locate misplaced items using a smartphone app.  Considering this as a tool for those with organization challenges (where did I put that??), the Tile offers a few advantages … Continue reading

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Accessible Instructional Materials Tools to Support Reading

The Assistive Technology Daily’s recent post of an article, “Can Audio and or/or Digital Books Improve Your Child’s Learning Outcomes?”,   from the National Center for Learning Disabilities, not only stirred my interest, but also strong feelings about access to print. From … Continue reading

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Free Apps Friday – Android and iOS Apps

Smart Apps websites has their free app Friday listings available for both iOS and Android mobile devices in the third week of celebrating Autism Awareness Month. Peruse their posts of free apps for Android and iOS for today (4-18-2014) here: Free … Continue reading

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