Tag Archives: iPad

Another Stylus “To the Rescue”…

RJ Cooper’s iPad/Tablet Pointer Rehabgadgets2go’s recent post “Tip: Stylus Saves the Day” provided a stylus solution and other stylus options for individuals with a mobility impairment.  A stylus can be a make or break solution to accessing a tablet, or touch screen cell phone for … Continue reading

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6 Ways to Enhance Students Learning Using iMovie ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Educational Technology and Learning post, 6 Ways to Enhance Student Learning using iMovie provides ideas for using  this app for student learning. As scooped on  Scoop.it – OT mTool Kit Carol Leynse Harpold‘s insight: iMovie is an intuitive app for movie creating and … Continue reading

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EyeSight – iTunes App Store | The Assistive Technology Daily

See on Scoop.it – OT mTool Kit Carol Leynse Harpold‘s insight: EyeSight app for iPhone and iPad is a low vision solution for magnification and color enhancement! Thank you to Assistive Technology Daily for providing this app! You folks are … Continue reading

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Tip: Stylus Saves the Day from Rehabgadgets2go

Originally posted on rehabgadgets2go:
I recently had a client using TouchChat. We thought initially that there was an issue with his iPod because it would not register his taps to the screen – it was slow to respond or…

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Earl » Home

See on Scoop.it – OT mTool Kit Carol Leynse Harpold‘s insight: Earl App for iPhone and iPad allows you to use your voice to open a newpaper and read  it to you. This app looks intriguing. Targeted to beable to … Continue reading

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Our Favorite Apps – Georgia Tech’s Tool’s for Life App Database

Georgia Tech has for years been a resource for assistive technology training and research. They recently developed an online searchable data base of apps focused on “Living, Learning, Working and Playing” called Tools for Life. For those of us who are … Continue reading

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Study Smarter – Take Notes And Highlight Text Within iBooks [iOS Tips] | Cult of Mac

See on Scoop.it – Apps for Special Education Ebooks are all the rage these days, and your iPad is a perfect device for reading them. Textbooks, too, are becoming de riguer for many students in college and even high school, … Continue reading

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Words Mine – A Tetris-like Word Game for iPad

See on Scoop.it – OT mTool Kit Words Mine is a free iPad app that combines elements of Tetris with spelling games. The challenge of Words Mine is to spell words quickly before the screen fills up with blocks. Each … Continue reading

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More Noise Regulation Apps

Review of the TooNoisey app generated a few comments about possible use in classrooms along with additional apps that may help with noise regulation issues. Kim Wiggins shared a few more apps she has used for noise regulation issues: Quiet, Please! for iPhone and … Continue reading

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Medicare Approved iDevice for Communication

Here is a tip offered by Assistive Technology Daily in a recent post that caught my attention due to the difficulty with getting funding for Apple based products for communication devices. FRS Custom Solutions  (Forbes Rehab Services), a Ohio based … Continue reading

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