Week 6 Mobile apps

My subject area is special education and there are hundreds of apps on the ipad for students with disabilities.  I use many of these apps in my classroom and many of my students have made great progress in their areas of weakness.  Some apps include; Speak It! is a great text-to-speech solution that can allow students with reading disabilities to get a little help with reading when they need it.  Talk to Me is another text to speech application. It can be used to read words out loud as they are typed, which can help students better correlate the letters and words with how they’re pronounced.  Dragon Dictation works in reverse of the two apps that were just listed. Instead of reading text out loud, the application writes down spoken text.  For students who struggle with writing, it can be a great way for them to jot down ideas or get help learning.  Dyslexic Like Me is a great app as well for students with a learning disability. Explaining dyslexia to a child can be hard, but this application can make it a little easier. It’s an interactive children’s book that helps students to understand dyslexia and become empowered to overcome their learning disability.