Friday, August 15, 2014
Assistive Technology in Special Education, 2E: Resources for Education, Intervention, and Rehabilitation
Communication, learning, attention can be especially challenging for children with disabilities. Author Green provides a valuable resource for helping children overcome learning challenges with on-line resources for mobile websites, Facebook groups, blogs, wikis, podcasts, videos, researching cell phones or eBook readers, and mobile device apps. Mobile devices apps focus on articulation and speech intelligibility, word knowledge and word retrieval, improve speaking in phrases and sentences, teaching actions and directing others, verb agreement and tense, comprehension of sounds, interactive books, improving writing skills, and improving cognition. Apps are mostly for Apple devices, although Android Mac, and Windows software are also included. Prices range from free to over $1,000. This is a valuable resource for children, teachers, and parents!
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