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Jennifer Delgado's curator insight,
May 23, 2016 2:50 PM
Great activities for individuals with autism.
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Paul Hamilton has share an app that can level the playing field for almost every learner. Picle is a free app that helps learners put together digital stories or multimedia presentations easily by combining photos with audio narration and sound. Imagine the creativity that could be generated with learners having the ability to express and share what they know with this easy to use app. As for teachers, Paul points out that they could present information to learners in multiple ways.
Paul has shared a video he created with Picle in his blog. Check it out!
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I was thrilled to find this app for those children and adults who stutter. My youngest is a stutterer and I can't wait to share this app with him. Here is some additional information about this app:
"DAF Assistant can be used by people who stutter to control their speech fluency, slow down speech rate, increase confidence level, and develop good speaking habits. It is known fact that people with stuttering problem usually speak better when do it together with another speaker. This, so called "chorus effect", causes significant increase in speech fluency. Delayed auditory feedback and Frequency-shifting Auditory Feedback simulate chorus effect by changing your own voice."
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Leveling the playing field for the those learners who are deaf.
"Sign 4 Me – A Signed English Translator" is the ULTIMATE tool for learning sign language. The ONLY app that provides sign language instruction in 3D.
The library includes more than 11,500 words. Type in sentences, phrases, words and even the alphabet. Everything you enter will be saved in your History. Easily locate your entries by date or alphabetically." Via Smaragda Papadopoulou
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How the Universal Design for Learning concept of multiple means of action and expression can be implemented on an iPad. Via Smaragda Papadopoulou, Kathleen McClaskey
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This is a great alternative to physical fraction bars. The virtual bars allow for more flexibility and provide options that physical pieces cannot. Via kathy pryor, michel verstrepen, Smaragda Papadopoulou, Kathleen McClaskey
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"Clicker Docs app for iPad, developed by Crick Software, is a new iOS app that provides differentiated writing support for struggling writers. As one of Crick's two new apps, Clicker Docs provides text only word banks and word prediction options offering support for primary aged writers in this Docs app. Clicker Sentences app provides a simpler picture based writing environment for emergent writers."
Kathleen McClaskey's insight:
Here are some of main features of Clicker Docs app: - Talking spell checker
Extensive screen shots in this blog demonstrates the strengths and ease of use of this app.
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"Braille Touch, a free app which simplifies Braille texting for the blind, aims to revamp keyboard possibilities for the mainstream smartphone market.
Georgia Tech's research team, spearheaded by Mario Romero, reports the Braille Touch app slashes costs for visually impaired smartphone users and could transform traditional mobile device typing.
Instead of relying on an expensive, bulky keyboard hook-up, Braille Touch works on a standard smartphone. It features six touchscreen buttons users press in patterns to signal the alphabet's letters, with the app announcing each letter so users immediately hear what they wrote.
It takes years to master reading Braille, but designers created the Braille Touch typing system for simplicity, and users can master the code in a matter of hours."
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"Sosh is an approach to social skills based on a decade of work with children, adolescents, and young adults who struggle with social difficulties.
The Sosh framework divides social functioning into five areas essential to social skills development and success: Relate (Connect with Others), Relax (Reduce Stress), Regulate (Manage Behaviors), Reason (Think it Through) and Recognize (Understand Feelings). These "5R's" serve as a road map for individuals who want to be social, but may have faced obstacles in the past, and also serve as a guide for parents, teachers, and therapists hoping to encourage and assist individuals with their social goals.
Over 60 screens of information, strategies,
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Here is an app that is designed to level the playing field for ESL students and teachers. It includes the following tools:
> Flash Cards:
>Grammar Structures:
> Whiteboard:
> Lesson Plans: Import your lesson plans directly into ESL LaunchPad using a free Dropbox account.
> Translator:
> Practice Exercises:
> Quiz Generator:
> Student Roster:
> Student Tracking:
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How the universal design for learning concept of multiple means of representation can be implemented on an iPad. Via Smaragda Papadopoulou, Kathleen McClaskey
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Reviewed by Jo Booth OTR/L:
"It was intended as a tool to help kids on the spectrum, their families and caretakers identify both sensory styles and compensatory techniques so that they could open up a dialogue to communicate and share experiences. This little app however, has a much more powerful impact and reach. I consider it an essential app for all classrooms and families who deal with sensory issues, and not limited to those on the autistic spectrum alone."