APPS+for+All+Special+Educators

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 * Prologo **
 * Augmentative or Alternative Communication (AAC) app
 * gives non/low-verbal students a way to communicate
 * helps students with categorization
 * pictures are similar to MJ pictures, students were able to recognize them
 * beginning to offer webinars/more online support
 * Grace App **
 * mother of girl with Autism from Ireland created app as a way to make picture exchange more portable
 * AAC app, to take the place of picture exchange
 * pictures are drawings, can import pictures to personalize
 * manual available developers very accessible online
 * Verbally **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">created for aunt who suffered from ALS
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">use as AAC or as word processing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">word bank, predictive text and voice output when word/phrase/sentence is complete
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">FREE, just released IAP upgrade for $99.99
 * Tap to talk **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Simple AAC app
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">voice is not fluid, intonation is strange
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">choices are limited and not universal
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">FREE version and full version; available for most OS: iOS, android, Nintendo DS, web
 * ICOMM **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">AAC app
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">can add own pictures to personalize
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">FREE version with IAP upgrade
 * Speech with Milo: Verbs **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">created by an SLP
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">teaching/reviewing simple action words
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">develop single word vocabulary
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">increase length of utterances
 * Conversation Builder – Language Builder **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">created by father of child with Autism
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">records voice and saves, offers levels, more than 1 user
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">new release: Speech Journal
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">use with low verbal to increase single words, build vocabulary
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">use with verbal students to increase sentence length and format and as story starter
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">because it is just plain FUN!
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">teaching body awareness/parts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">turn taking
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">use of AAC
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">touching target area and using swipe
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 21px;">Dragon Dictation **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">voice recognition app
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">can use to send email, update facebook and twitter
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">updating lesson plans
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">speech does have to be clear
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">alternative for writing, have students dictate stories
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 21px;">Geek SLP- Smarty Ears **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Speech & Language therapist blogs about being an SLP
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">info on latest trends & technology within "SLP-land", especially the increasing use of iPads in therapy
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">also creator of Smarty Ears SLP apps

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 21px;">Magnetic Alphabet **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">virtual refrigerator ABC magnets
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">touch and drag letters onto board
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">letter identification
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">spelling name
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">use to take spelling test
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 21px;">Alphabet Car **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">"drive" the bus to hit letters to spell a word
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">available for iOS and android
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">LITE version available
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">favorite for kids
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">visual focus
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">hand-eye coordination
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">letter matching
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 21px;">Reading A-Z leveled readers **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Great compliment to Reading A to Z website
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">repeated/predictable text
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">downside is student often turn pages without meaning to as they point to words
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">intro to reading
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">used to maintain reading level

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 21px;">Sight Words _ by Little Speller **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">sight word spelling practice
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">extremely customizable
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">could be used as practice or assessment
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">letter matching
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">spelling/reading sight words
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 21px;">Sight words by photo touch **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">assesses receptive skills relating to words
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">shows words, user must touch correct word
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">app will auto adjust to right/wrong answers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">fully customizable
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">teaching, reinforcing and assessing sight words
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 21px;">My word wall by Punflay **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">iPhone app that maximizes to fit iPad
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">several activities relating to letters and sight words
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">easy to differentiate
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">teaching, maintaining, and assessing letters and words
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 21px;">Lady bug sight words **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">simple word app
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">assess using receptive skills
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">double touch to get to functions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">customizable by word level(s): PP-3rd
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 21px;">Licking Letters **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">touch screen to have frog eat bubbles containing letters to spell words
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">earn "leapin' loot" to buy items to dress frog
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">some customizable features
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">letter identification and matching
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">sight word identification
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 21px;">Word Bingo **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">great for turn taking
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">great for assessing students
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 21px;">Alphabet Photo Machine **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">more of a photo book, than a game
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">incorporates drawings and photos
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">detailed review on my blog
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">developing vocabulary
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">letter identification
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 21px;">Audio typing bee **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">beginning keyboarding, spelling, and word recognition app
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">typing skills
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">word recognition and vocabulary development

__<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">IEP Applications __
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 21px;">Word Wizard **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">very customizable
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">make your own words section and "quiz" section
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">built in word lists and ability to create your own
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">use with students beginning letters to forming sentences
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">alternative to writing spelling tests
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">use for varying "repeated" practice

* ** Story buddy ** * ** Picatello – photo book talking **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 21px;">Story builder **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">use to generate ideas for story writing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">improve sentence structure/increase sentences length
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">record and save feature
 * Shake a phrase **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">display silly/goofy sentences by shaking device
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">used as a story starter
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">quiz feature
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">great way to "dissect" a sentence
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">variety of content themes
 * Show me interactive white board **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">allows you to record voice and whiteboard contents to share online
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">must post to Show Me website
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">"lessons" can be embedded in website
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">could use to show proper number/letter formation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">use for coaching
 * Replay note **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">can record meetings, or you can ask questions or explain something which cannot be easily expressed with text
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">can change writing and background colors, great for contrast (use with students with vision/visual attend issues)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">converts to You Tube video
 * *Create a story **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">IEP applications:
 * Find sums **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">another favorite from my first downloads
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">visually representation of numbers (apples) or without pictures
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">can customize with target sums to 5-20 and 100
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">ability to save multiple user
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">gives progress reports
 * Math Series **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">focuses on missing numbers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">customizable by max number (20, 50, 100)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">several ways to customize (max number, increasing/ decreasing, sound fx)
 * Addition Table **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">table of addition facts from 1+1 to 10+10
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">user presses problem, then it is visually represented at the top
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">different way to present same information
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">great to use during inclusion
 * Jungle toys **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">way to teach, reinforce, and assess coins skills
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">so many ways to customize from 2 coins to all coins, incl. 1/2 dollar and dollar: sorting, counting money, comparing (using <,=,>), making change or just learn
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">various language/coin options
 * Jungle Time **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">customize according to student (one of the most customizable apps I've seen)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">increments of hour, 1/2 hour, etc
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">settings allow for hour, 30 min, 15 min, 5 min, 1 min
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">optional use of 24 hour clock
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">various clock styles
 * McGraw-Hill apps **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">apps similar to games from math series
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">addition, subtraction, fractions, etc.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">offer them free a few times a year
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">KDG really enjoyed them

__ Fine motor __
 * My first app **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">beginning iPad finger movements
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">matching skills (direct, part to whole)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">categorizing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">story making
 * My first Puzzles **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">beginning iPad finger movements, pinch and turn
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">matching
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">visual perception
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">generalizing skills from actual puzzles
 * iDoodle card **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">plain slate to draw, simple mazes, finish the picture, color the picture
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">great for visual perception


 * Big Numbers **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">option to show trace before user traces
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">"green" way to practice tracing numbers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">would use with stylus
 * ABC easy writer **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">single letter tracing letter and numbers, some offer cursive
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">option to show trace before user traces
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">"green" way to practice tracing letters
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">would use with stylus
 * Star connect **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">pre-writing skills
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">connect the star
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">as app progresses, need to connect around objects
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">great for visual focus, beginning tracing, problem solving
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">IAP (not fan!)
 * Dots for tots **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">simple dot to dots
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">free version is basic shapes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">numbered dots "pop up" when next
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">negative: doesn't let user finish the shape, app makes last line
 * A Bee Sees **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">very simple visual focus/tracking app
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">incorporates colors
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">pop for fun or pop colors, other options available, but numbers/letters are IAP
 * Glow Piano **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">learn how to play, color coded
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">fun way to work on color matching, finger isolation, hand-eye coordination and timing
 * Toco Robot Lab – Hair Salon—Paint my wings **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">very simple apps that involve colors, shapes, describing, turn taking
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">could use to create, then write or tell story about creation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">would be great to use with AAC devices, student makes choices, then can do in app
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">most are "error-less"

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Information assimilated from <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">http://livebinders.com/play/present?id=170107