Category Archives: iPhone

Text to Speech Apps – Supports for Students with LD # 3

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

Text to speech tools provide access to print to struggling readers to support decoding, vocabulary and comprehension skills. For many years as an OT and ATP having software that provides text to speech capabilities was a staple on my computer for students or … Continue reading →

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Sturdy Cases for the iPad

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

I give recognition to the QIAT (Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology) list serv for this list of “Sturdy Cases for the iPad”. The topic came up on the list serv with posts generated by experienced AT professionals. It seemed appropriate to … Continue reading →

Posted in iPad, iPhone, iPod, iPod/iPad Accessory, Special education, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Appy Holidays!!!

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Looking for some holiday apps to use with your students? Digital Storytime provides great reviews and deals on apps for children and students. Their Daily Deal Page, Holiday tab lists 9 different holiday apps for free. The apps feature drawing, educational … Continue reading →

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App Reviews offered on The Friendship Circle Blog

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

It seems like endless resources are available for special needs students for mobile devices! I never cease to be amazed at what is available! The Friendship Circle Blog is a website dedicated to the Friendship Circle organization of Bloomfield Michigan that supports … Continue reading →

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Grasshopper Apps – New and Free!

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Grasshopper apps are some of my favorite apps for special needs students and pre-k and elementary aged students. They provide clean, wonderful real pictures, customization and real voices to their apps. Again, they provide those of us in education more new … Continue reading →

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Spell Checking Apps – Supports for Students with LD #2

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

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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App Review Website – Fun Educational Apps

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Fun Educational Apps website reviews educational apps for kids in different age categories. They also list sale apps or apps gone free. This is a new website I just stumbled upon and found a number of interesting apps suited to … Continue reading →

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AppleCore – A Great Mobile Device Accessory

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Tired of dealing with tangled charging and ear bud cords? Having numerous devices to care for,  the tangled mess of cords often defies me. More than a year ago I was at Batteries Plus and found these handy little AppleCore gadgets that immediately … Continue reading →

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Dictionary Apps – Supports for Students with LD – #1

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

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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Converting and Transferring Videos for Academic Content on your iPad

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

One of the iPad’s that I manage is dedicated to a student who is integrated into a 3rd grade classroom. His iPad has apps that support his IEP goals which include math, social, language and early literacy skills along with … Continue reading →

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