Smart Apps For Kids

Syllables Splash: Review

 

 

Bottom Line: An excellent app for teaching syllable segmentation, but with a price that might be out of reach for many families. Teachers and SLPs will love the customization, and kids can’t resist the wrong-answer-eating shark and clapping turtle.

Clicker Docs: Review

 

 

Bottom Line: a powerful, fully customizable tool for writing support that makes technology previously only available to schools accessible to individual families, teachers and therapists.

SAFK 101 (How to get the most out of our site)

I am a latecomer to the world of iPad. I was happily trucking along, not knowing what I was missing, until a year ago when I broke down and got an iPhone (which, let’s face it, is really just a gateway device for the iPad). Fast forward several months and you find me with a borrowed iPad in an Angry Bird haze trying to figure out Twitter like I am not completely ancient.

Starfall Learn to Read — Review

 

 

Bottom Line: The award-winning online content of Starfall translated to an app. A perfect introduction to phonics and simple words for children ages 4-7.

Case Wars: Round Two

Everybody remembers a few months ago when Lisa R.'s small dainty daughter The Tot put a couple of iPad cases through their paces. She dropped them, bit them and declared, "you bite it, it doesn't do anything." Now we've decided to up the ante. Six cases from six different manufacturers against 10 hormone addled preteen boys in a self-contained autism classroom.

Who Stole the Moon? - Review

 

 

Bottom line: I secretly want my mom to read this to me before bed. Deceptively educational, creative and unique addition to digital picture books. Outstanding bonus features and a free version to try!

Ansel and Clair: Jurassic and Triassic Dinosaurs – Review and Commentary

 

 

Bottom Line: superb conclusion to the trilogy that sets the bar much much higher for all educational apps in terms of depth of content and entertainment value.