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Smart Apps For Special Needs: Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2014 and Assistive Technology

Source: http://www.smartappsforspecialneeds.com Smart Apps for Special Needs provides information on the newly signed ABLE Act of 2014. The ABLE Act provides the ability of individual on SSI to save additional funds for items and services related to their disability. As … Continue reading

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Our Eroded Mental Healthcare System Infographic

Whether working in a school system or adults in a variety of health care systems, the conversation of mental health services, or lack of has been a conversation I have had with other health care workers. Multiple diagnoses of Anxiety … Continue reading

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Switch Access now available in Android

Originally posted on The Website of Luis Perez:
After waiting a couple of weeks for the elusive Android 5.0 Lollipop update for my 2013 Nexus tablet, I  decided to do things the hard way using Google’s instructions for loading a factory image.…

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Book Creator App

Thank you to Red Jumper Limited for providing Book Creator app  codes for participants of a recent OT’s with Apps Workshop in Texas. Book Creator app provides numerous tools for creating ebooks, EPub, PDF files and iBooks for social / … Continue reading

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Special Issue: At what age should we put babies on a digital media diet? : The Digital Media Diet

Source: digitalmediadiet.com I have long enjoyed The Digital Media Diet that can bring research and perspective on young children’s learning in the digital age. They bring thought provoking questions and research on the subject. In my workshops and posts I … Continue reading

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inPromptu App – A Free Video Modeling App

Video modeling has strong evidence based practice behind its use. If you haven’t experienced the power of video modeling first hand, let the research behind it encourage you to use videos and self-modeling in your practice. A previous post on … Continue reading

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Ten Chrome Extensions for Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning

Originally posted on The Website of Luis Perez:
Although I am primarily a Safari user, I have been very impressed with the variety of extensions you can add to customize the Chrome web browser from Google. I have been experimenting…

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Quick Tip: Siri and Speak Screen

Originally posted on The Website of Luis Perez:
New in iOS 8, Speak Screen allows you to hear not only text but also interface elements such as buttons and other controls read aloud. Speak Screen is a handy feature to use…

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Ed Emberley’s Shake & Make App – Gone Free

Back in the day when working one on one with students, I loved using Ed Emberley’s books, providing step by step instructions for how to draw all kinds of animals, objects and seasonal themes with students as a visual motor, … Continue reading

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Brain Break Resources for the Classroom and in Therapy

Brain Breaks Research on the benefits of exercise on learning have long been established (Jensen, 2003; Medina, 2008). Brain breaks are just one form of those used in classrooms. Brain breaks have implications for students with special needs such as … Continue reading

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