Category Archives: Middle School

New Apple Apps – iBooks 2 and iTunes U

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

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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Define: App – Creating a personal vocabulary or dictionary list

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

As many apps, I just stumble upon them when searching for another app, when perusing educational apps, iDevice info or free app offerings. Define: app was one of those stumbled upon apps. It is simple but provides an easy method to create … 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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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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Apps for Middle and High School Students

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

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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