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This webinar presents a range of information on the iPad and demonstrate a variety of applications that can be used to promote learning, social interactions, decision making and much more for the child or student who is deaf-blind.

"special needs, students, vocabulary, lessons, interactive, flashcards, resources, basic foods"

"special needs, students, vocabulary, lessons, interactive, flashcards, resources, employment"

Montessori learning activities for iDevices.

APTE's new Literacy Suite is a collection of applications & teacher resources designed to meet the needs of visual learners. The program is aimed at special education. The applications provide students with a platform to create their own projects with words, pictures, & videos. [ISTE Learning & Leading With Technology, June/July 2010, Vol. 37 No. 8]

"Virtual Field Trips Virtual field trips challenge and expose students to new types of technology. It is a great way to spark their interest and motivate their learning in a specific content area. Virtual field trips can offer students more opportunities because you can take them to places they wouldn't normally be able to go to otherwise - like inside a volcano or ocean floor! In addition, virtual field trips may even boost students' reading comprehension skills and will expose them to different cultures and environments. "

This informative, fast moving presentation will describe the revolution in computing that is occurring around us and how that change will affect the people who use assistive technology as well as those who support them. From Apple's iOS (the operating system used on the iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad) back to the One Laptop per Child XO, this session will give participants the background knowledge to understand what the new technologies consist of, how they work, and how they can be used to help students. A review of how the iOS can be used in the following domains will be provided: assistive technology, communication, literacy, learning, organization, and play.

On this site you can find a series of PowerPoint stories featuring the characters Reg and Lellow by Chris Roland. The stories have been designed to help young children learn English and can be used in class with pre-school, infant and primary levels.  As they have been written by an English teacher, they also have a  number of pedagogical features to aid language acquisition, make in class storytelling as easy as possible for the teacher and story content easily integrated into schools' English curriculum.

A comprehensive collection of over 200 literacy videos to support children, parents, teachers and anyone learning to read.