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.
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.
05/18/2013 at 03:00 AM in Ages 12-up, Ages 6-8, Ages 9-11, Top Picks, ***** (five stars), grammar, reading, reading, sentences, recommended by a parent/teacher, special needs, spelling, writing | Permalink | Comments (0)
Bottom line: a precious letter learning and loving app that will wiggle, stomp, and swim its way onto your iDevice. Three areas of learning will get the youngest learners (1-4 years, give or take) interacting and getting creative with letters all at the same time. Usually $3.99, the app has been reduced to 99 cents for a limited time.
05/16/2013 at 03:00 AM in Ages 6-8, Preschool (4-5), Toddler (1-3), Top Picks, **** (four stars), alphabet/letters, animals, art, books | Permalink | Comments (0)
In celebration of the awesomeness that is Smart Apps for Kids and our milestone of 1 million pageviews in April, Saltillo Corporation has graciously shared two codes for their fully customizable high-powered AAC app TouchChat. With a library of 10,000 Symbolstix, four vocabularies, and excellent training and support, this is a superstar app for kids and adults alike.
05/01/2013 at 10:12 AM in Ages 12-up, Ages 6-8, Ages 9-11, Preschool (4-5), Top Picks, AAC, giveaways | Permalink | Comments (0)
Bottom Line: a whopping 2800 common core aligned middle school math problems presented in a variety of formats for Free. You won't need any number sense to figure out the absolute value of this deal.
04/30/2013 at 07:50 AM in Ages 12-up, Ages 9-11, free/free trial, Top Picks, **** (four stars), decimals, demo video, fractions, geometry, logic/problem-solving, math, math, word problems, percentages, square roots, test prep | Permalink | Comments (0)
Bottom line: another 5-star offering from Thup. Makes early math-concept learning fun for kids ages 3-6.
04/27/2013 at 09:13 AM in Ages 6-8, Preschool (4-5), Toddler (1-3), Top Picks, ***** (five stars), addition, counting/numbers, math, multiplication, patterns, shapes, subtraction | Permalink | Comments (0)
Bottom Line: My son wouldn't be the spokesmodel for just any old AAC app. Out of a dozen AAC apps and an $8000 Dynavox, this is what we've found works best for us.
04/26/2013 at 03:19 AM in Ages 12-up, Ages 6-8, Ages 9-11, Preschool (4-5), Top Picks, **** (four stars), AAC, reading, words, special needs, special needs, recommended by a parent/teacher, vocabulary | Permalink | Comments (1)
Bottom Line: A comprehensive solution to assist students with apraxia, individually or in a group setting, practice sound production at the syllable, word or phrase level. Has video modelling and excellent data collection.
04/24/2013 at 09:20 AM in Ages 6-8, Ages 9-11, Preschool (4-5), Top Picks, **** (four stars), special needs | Permalink | Comments (0)