Tag Archives: OT Apps

ClickySticky Easter App Gone Free

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Clicky Sticky Easter  for iPad app is a fun holiday activity providing fine motor and sticker fun for young kids. Created by the same developer as other ClickySticky apps, it provides opportunities to create scenes and characters using stickers.  Drag the parts … Continue reading →

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RocketKeys | MyVoice | The Assistive Technology Daily

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

See on Scoop.it – OT @ Work Carol Leynse Harpold‘s insight: Assistive Technology Daily shared a new customizable keyboard for mobility and communication impairments. The RocketKeys app by MyVoice allows customization of keys, colors, methods of touch input, speech and prediction. Targeted as a communication … Continue reading →

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ER Translate | Rx Publishing

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

ER Translate app  for iPhone and iPad is a basic communication app developed for the health care worker for non verbal individuals to communicate via pointing in emergency cases. This app provides an alphabet board and picture communication board to … Continue reading →

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AppWriter Cloud | LingApps

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

AppWriter Cloud is a Google extension providing word prediction support for struggling writers. One of the only word prediction apps for Google Chrome, this app fills the need for students familiar or needing word prediction to support spelling challenges when … Continue reading →

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Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs: Calendar and Advanced Visual Schedule Apps for Kids with Special Needs

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Kate Ahern reviews a variety of calendars and advanced visual schedule options for special needs students on her blog, Teaching Learners with Special Needs. Her review lists and describes 10 different apps for calendar and visual scheduling suited to students … Continue reading →

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Bugs and Numbers App (Little Bit Studio offers a free code)

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Bugs and Numbers app is new iPhone/iPad app (2.99) developed by Little Bit Studio . The third of their educational apps, this app features math activities and provides  fine motor, visual motor and visual perceptual activities for preschool and elementary ability aged students. The … Continue reading →

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Lingvo IDE3S App

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

See on Scoop.it – TherAppists at Work Lingvo App for Communication Carol Leynse Harpold‘s insight: Lingvo app provides a basic symbol communication system when language becomes a barrier whether due to disability or cultural differences. Free this app may be … Continue reading →

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Bugs and Numbers App

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

Bugs and Numbers app for iPhone/iPad (2.99) by Little Bit Studio, developers of the popular Bugs and Buttons and Bugs and Bubbles apps. The focus of Bugs and Number is to provide a wide range of math skill activities from counting … Continue reading →

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Write for School App

Posted on March 9, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about WriteForSchool app, a handwriting instruction app gone free. This unknowingly was a  24 hour sale which I found and probably posted at the 23rd hour. I received many emails stating it was no longer … Continue reading →

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EyeSight – iTunes App Store | The Assistive Technology Daily

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Carol Leynse Harpold, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, ATP, CATIS

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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