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39 Sites For Using iPads in the Classroom Pages Friday, October 7, 2011 39 Sites For Using iPads in the Classroom How Much Did Steve Jobs Change the World? Online Speech and Language Acitivities These activities are great for children on the Autism/PDD spectrum, but could also be used for preschool or for other special needs children. Many of these activities are from Do2Learn.com which offers many free online activities as well as materials that you can purchase. AAC Intervention You could spend days searching the links on this site. Loads of activities for language development, reading, math, auditory discrimination, and AAC handouts. Awesome Site! Create a Room - Teaches special needs children names of common objects and positional words.

The Speech Ladies Top Alternative & Augmentative Communication iPad Apps The iPad continues to make communication more accessible and cost-effective for persons with developmental and speech disabilities. Mobile apps provide many of the vocabulary building and text-to-speech features of alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) devices for far less than products such as the Dynavox Maestro. The following apps help persons who struggle to speak due conditions such as autism, brain injuries, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, and stroke. They provide ways to choose words, symbols, and images to express moods, needs, and thoughts. Speaking of Speech

Literacy Journal: Only 1 iPad in the Classroom? [for additional ELA/Reading specific apps and ideas see Reading on the iPad] Is only one iPad in a classroom worth it? This question keeps reappearing on the EC Ning and in other blog spaces. The answer is easy: YES, especially if the teacher has access to a Mac desktop or (preferably) laptop and a wifi network in the classroom. The Ultimate Guide To Using iPads In The Classroom How Students Benefit From Using Social Media 14.60K Views 0 Likes A lot of criticism has been leveled at social media and the effect it has on the way students process and retain information, as well as how distracting it can be.

20 Great Classroom iPad Apps to add to your Collection (1-5) Over the last year and a half I have really enjoyed exploring the types of iPad apps that can be used in the classroom and so I thought I would begin to draw together some of my favourites and share them with you here. This is the first of 4 posts in which I feature my first 5 recommendations: Hairy Letters Apps for Autism Spectrum Disorders, Down Syndrome and Special Needs - Touch Autism Making Learning Fun Tips for Parents Children Teachers Special Needs iphone/ itouch apps