The 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 that we recently presented at the Learning Disability Association of Quebec’s “Toolbox for Success” parent conference.
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Light it up blue for World Autism Awareness Day 2013! We have collected some great resources and new apps for today’s special day.
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We’re gearing up for another school year of innovative succeed@school seminars in Montréal, Québec! Our succeed@school seminar series is designed to further your knowledge in the area of AAC, assistive technologies and mobile learning with the goal helping your child (or student) with his/her learning or communication needs.
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Its back-to-school time, and many school districts/boards and schools have purchased iPads over the summer, either for large-scale initiatives or for smaller pilot projects for mobile learning within their schools. Mobile learning initiatives for special education in your school or district must be developed by examining how apps fit within the bigger picture.
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Welcome to Part 9 of “There’s A Special App For That” series on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad apps for students with special needs. In Part 9, we focus on apps that can help college/university students with learning disabilities in the areas of productivity, note taking, research, organizational assistance and others.
Continue Reading →Welcome to Part 8 of “There’s A Special App For That” series on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad apps for students with special needs. There is an interesting “side-effect” of using the iPad or iPod as a communication or educational device. And its a good one… it’s called self-determination. In this post we focus on apps that help support the development of autonomy and independence of children with special needs.
Continue Reading →Thanks to all the families who came to our May event with Apple! It looks like our June event with Apple is full, so we will not be able to take any further registration. However, there is still time to register for our succeed@school Seminar Series: Mobile Communication Tools for Children with Developmental Delay or Autism Spectrum Disorders on May 9th, 7pm-9pm at the Atwater Library in Montreal!
Continue Reading →Welcome to Part 7 of “There’s A Special App For That” series on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad apps for students with special needs. In this post we examine the seven building blocks of literacy instruction and look at apps that can support each area. Our goal was to identify apps that can be used to complement specific reading strategies (before, during and after reading) that are used in instruction or remediation for students with special needs.
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