inov8 Educational Consulting http://www.inov8-ed.com Innovation in special education for 21st century learning Mon, 13 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 inov8-edhttp://feedburner.google.com Twitter Weekly Updates from 2013-05-06 to 2013-05-12 http://feeds.inov8-ed.com/~r/inov8-ed/~3/NatXrhhKr_w/ http://www.inov8-ed.com/2013/05/twitter-weekly-updates-from-2013-05-06-to-2013-05-12/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000 Adam Finkelstein http://www.inov8-ed.com/2013/05/twitter-weekly-updates-from-2013-05-06-to-2013-05-12/ @poppletny: New skills in 2 minutes: our tutorial on saving Popplets as images: http://t.co/yOzhIpDVBr 2013-05-06 Teaching Using Google Glass http://t.co/PAKBEU7Uoe 2013-05-07 7 Websites that Will Spark Your Intelligence http://t.co/GluDICwdZL 2013-05-08 10 Brilliant Examples Of Sketch Notes: Notetaking For The 21st Century [...]]]> Share

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]]> http://www.inov8-ed.com/2013/05/twitter-weekly-updates-from-2013-04-29-to-2013-05-05/feed/ 0 http://www.inov8-ed.com/2013/05/twitter-weekly-updates-from-2013-04-29-to-2013-05-05/ 68 Apps for Students with Learning Disabilities http://feeds.inov8-ed.com/~r/inov8-ed/~3/S1x9RcnjI7g/ http://www.inov8-ed.com/2013/05/68-apps-for-students-with-learning-disabilities/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 12:30:36 +0000 Andrea Prupas http://www.inov8-ed.com/?p=845 apps for students with learning disabilitiesThe iPad can be a highly effective tool for students with learning disabilities, and more and more apps are targeting areas of need for students in elementary school, high school, and college/university. Here is an updated list of recommended apps for students with learning disabilities. We recently presented these apps at the Learning Disability Association of Quebec’s “Toolbox for Success” parent conference. We’ve broken our recommendations down into the following categories:

Apps for students with learning disabilities

Reading and writing support and remediation

This category includes apps for reading support in order to bypass areas of difficulty (ex. text-to-speech, word prediction) reading remediation (ex. specialized remedial approaches) and writing support (ex. organization of the writing process).

Language remediation

Apps for language remediation include those targeting expressive and receptive language skills as well as pragmatic language skills.

Productivity

This category consists of content curation, research skills, note taking and synthesizing.

Alternative literacy formats

This category addresses the area of digital literacy and alternative literacy formats such as digital storytelling, graphic novels, photo annotation, comics and collages.

Numeracy

In this category we look at apps for alternative access, as well as using screencasting apps for problem-solving.

Fine motor skills

This category addresses pre-writing and writing skills for handwriting.

Executive functioning

These apps address the areas of planning, managing time, organizing, strategizing, and attention.

We have the entire list in a printable document embedded below:

Thanks to the LDAQ Montreal for hosting a great information day for parents!

We’d love to hear your feedback on these apps for students with learning disabilities and suggestions for other apps that we should include.

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]]> http://www.inov8-ed.com/2013/04/twitter-weekly-updates-from-2013-04-01-to-2013-04-07/feed/ 0 http://www.inov8-ed.com/2013/04/twitter-weekly-updates-from-2013-04-01-to-2013-04-07/ World Autism Awareness Day 2013 – Resources and Apps http://feeds.inov8-ed.com/~r/inov8-ed/~3/4SuhO38Z1bk/ http://www.inov8-ed.com/2013/04/world-autism-awareness-day-2013/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:00:06 +0000 Andrea Prupas http://www.inov8-ed.com/?p=808 To celebrate World Autism Awareness Day 2013, we wanted to share some new links and various apps that we have been World Autism Awareness Dayreviewing and recommending recently:

World Autism Awareness Day 2013 – Resources

The Center for AAC and Autism has a wealth of information for speech and language pathologists, educators and therapists working with individuals with autism spectrum disorders and AAC. Check out their information for educators and information for parents pages.

The Gray Center is always a great resource for social stories. Speaking of social stories, new social stories app StoryMaker for social stories is simple to use and has multiple features for creating social stories. We are looking forward to the upcoming update in which material by Carol Gray, creator of social stories, will become available.

PrAACtical AAC - We can’t get enough of this website. All of the information is high-quality and is geared towards implementation in a therapeutic, classroom or home setting; check out their strategy of the month section for excellent articles written by professionals in the area of AAC.

Friendship Circle Blog - Check out the parenting section on their blog for good advice on all kinds of issues; advocacy, legal advice, and school and social issues.

World Autism Awareness Day 2013 – Apps

Speaking of AAC, here are some new apps that we have been previewing lately: Avaz, RocketKeys, and LAMP Words for Life.

TOBY Playpad (Therapy Outcomes by You) is a new app that is designed as an early intervention curriculum for parents and their children with autism spectrum disorder. Developed by Deakin University in Australia, the app customizes the curriculum to the specific child, based on the goals set by parents and the progress made by the child. This unique app is a first of its kind and is designed specifically for families.

Some international resources

To our fellow Canadians who are interested in policy regarding a national autism spectrum disorder strategy check out the Autism Society Canada and the Canadian Autism Spectrum Disorders Alliance to see how these organizations are advancing actions in this area.

For our Australian friends, Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect) and Autism Awareness Australia have comprehensive resources on their sites.

We also wanted to mention that Spectronics – a fantastic resource for assistive technology has extensive resources on their site. Have a look at their AT resources on their autism spectrum disorders page.

Our Autism Awareness Day 2012 post also has some great resources on it.

Light it up blue for World Autism Awareness Day 2013!

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