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Does your child have poor reading skills?

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Does your child have poor reading skills? Children with poor reading skills will have problems in all content areas. “Andy Helps You Read” will improve your child’s chances of success by improving their reading skills. “Andy” is a complete reading program, not just one or two lessons, but 20 lessons. Each lesson presents new material and reinforces the previous lesson. Continue Reading

Pocoyo Playsets Have Arrived!

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Pocoyo PlaySets by HITN’s Early Learning Collaborative and Zinkia Entertainment are a supplement to any curriculum for bilingual kids or really any kid in the acquiring the ability to name and identify concepts across routines or within specific domains. This series of 15 PlaySets (as opposed to many other Pocoyo apps) address the whole child’s discovery about the world around Continue Reading

Andy Helps You Read

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Andy Helps You Read by Jordan Price is a new app developed by two dedicated teachers who have specialized in working with reluctant or challenged readers their entire career. Walt Waid and Jordan Price have put their heart and souls into sharing their expertise in the field by taking what worked in the classroom and reworking it into a convenient app. This app contains 20 lessons, Continue Reading

Special Needs Apps Checklist: 25 Key Features

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In September 2014, education apps were the second-most popular category, with a share of 10.36 percent of all apps being learning apps. Now in 2017, they rank number three - still incredibly popular and now over 80,000 apps in iOS alone. How do educators decide which apps will meet the needs of their students? Preparing a rubric or a checklist is a good Continue Reading

20 Online Resources and Apps for Dyslexic Students

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20 Online Resources and Apps for Dyslexic Students Being diagnosed with dyslexia no longer means a child can’t excel academically. This is an issue that can be overcome with the correct tools and support. Fortunately, there are many online tools that can make coping with dyslexia in the classroom easier for both children and teachers.   1.      Google Play Books Continue Reading

Money Up — Learn to use the Next Dollar Up

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NEW UPDATE! now available in Spanish. Money Up! — Learn to use the Next Dollar Up method is developed by pkclSoft. Money Up is an app for children, teens, and adults for learning to how to handle money.  The primary audience is for students with developmental disabilities and it is also, a great tool for therapists who work with stroke survivors, those Continue Reading

Social Detective Intermediate by Social Skill Builder and Social Thinking.com

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Social Detective Intermediate by Social Skill Builder, Inc. is a follow-up app to their outstanding Social Detective Beginner app. This intermediate app supports the foundational content of the first app and extends on the concepts involving everyday social interactions. Both apps are based on the graphic novel entitled, You are a Social Detective by Social Thinking. The genius behind this app is that it incorporates real-life videos where the applicability is Continue Reading

Why Special Education Teachers Need More Training

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Special education teachers tackle challenges with grace and style, and know how to hustle when they need to. They are a unique bunch that don’t stop at “no,” and are willing to do anything for their students. Trisha Katkin is one who stands out from the bunch! She works endless hours for her students and, lately, she’s been working after-hours on ways to help other Continue Reading

AbaPlanet PRO, virtual learning platform for kids with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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    AbaPlanet PRO, virtual learning platform of vocabulary for kids with Autism Spectrum Disorder, is out! The new platform, based on Artificial Intelligence, puts a complete and autonomous system of progressive learning at service of parents and professionals. It makes decisions depending on the user’s performance Fundación Planeta Imaginario introduces AbaPlanet PRO, a new version of AbaPlanet, one of its Continue Reading

Start Your Engines #CES2016

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This is my first ever CES (Consumer Electronics Show) event and the first time that I am attending a major conference and not wearing a press pass. This is my third visit to Vegas in less than three months on the business side of education, and a new fork in the road for me. I'm gearing up and open to helping Continue Reading

9 Skill-Building Apps for Social Emotional Learning – featured in edutoptia

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Social-Emotional Apps for Special Ed - featured in edutoptia    Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the cornerstone of emotional intelligence, as these abilities do not come naturally for some special education students. Children in special ed settings need to have their confidence, courage, and emotional awareness nurtured in order to successfully play, work, cooperate, and be productive in their Continue Reading

Tiggly Play Date

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Tiggly Play Date Recently, I was asked to help a family host a play date for their son with Angelman Syndrome. The Mom invited 6 boys to her house to play with her son. Between the two of us, we had 4 iPads and 4 sets of Tiggly Toys to play with. Initially, play began with only two Tiggly Word Continue Reading

Time For Bed little Ted

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It's time for Little Ted to go to bed.  Can you help him? Since its release in January, the preschool story app 'Time For Bed little Ted' has received positive reviews from parents and teachers. Professional voice actors read this calming bedtime story, which is supportive of early learning, is autism-friendly and has easy to use interactions. The story app was Continue Reading

Start Your Engines #CES2016

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This is my first ever CES (Consumer Electronics Show) event and the first time that I am attending a major conference and not wearing a press pass. This is my third visit to Vegas in less than three months on the business side of education, and a new fork in the road for me. I'm gearing up and open to helping Continue Reading

9 Skill-Building Apps for Social Emotional Learning – featured in edutoptia

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Social-Emotional Apps for Special Ed - featured in edutoptia    Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the cornerstone of emotional intelligence, as these abilities do not come naturally for some special education students. Children in special ed settings need to have their confidence, courage, and emotional awareness nurtured in order to successfully play, work, cooperate, and be productive in their Continue Reading

Tiggly Play Date

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Tiggly Play Date Recently, I was asked to help a family host a play date for their son with Angelman Syndrome. The Mom invited 6 boys to her house to play with her son. Between the two of us, we had 4 iPads and 4 sets of Tiggly Toys to play with. Initially, play began with only two Tiggly Word Continue Reading

Time For Bed little Ted

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It's time for Little Ted to go to bed.  Can you help him? Since its release in January, the preschool story app 'Time For Bed little Ted' has received positive reviews from parents and teachers. Professional voice actors read this calming bedtime story, which is supportive of early learning, is autism-friendly and has easy to use interactions. The story app was Continue Reading

Does your child have poor reading skills?

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Does your child have poor reading skills? Children with poor reading skills will have problems in all content areas. “Andy Helps You Read” will improve your child’s chances of success by improving their reading skills. “Andy” is a complete reading program, not just one or two lessons, but 20 lessons. Each lesson presents new material and reinforces the previous lesson. Continue Reading

Special Needs Apps Checklist: 25 Key Features

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In September 2014, education apps were the second-most popular category, with a share of 10.36 percent of all apps being learning apps. Now in 2017, they rank number three - still incredibly popular and now over 80,000 apps in iOS alone. How do educators decide which apps will meet the needs of their students? Preparing a rubric or a checklist is a good Continue Reading

Why Special Education Teachers Need More Training

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Special education teachers tackle challenges with grace and style and know how to hustle when they need to. They are a unique bunch that doesn't stop at “no,” and are willing to do anything for their students. Trisha Katkin is one who stands out from the bunch! She works endless hours for her students and, lately, she’s been working after-hours on ways to help other Continue Reading
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