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high-frequency Dolch word flashcards for iPhone and iPod Touch

Thank you for sharing Patrick- just what I was looking for to do my AT homework! Am interested in gamification in education. Shoot me a line if you have any more apps like this please.

A.I.type is a text predicition program that  "understands" what users are typing and offers word and sentence completion that help the user type just a minimal number of letters. A.I.type's smart prediction algorithms maintain the context and the meaning of the text, while making typing easier, faster and better, with the correct grammar, syntax and spirit. 

Brett Terpastra with help of several others compiled a list of word processing apps for the ipad. Pretty thourough

enotebook app allows students to annotate direclty onto powerpoint, word PDFs

VocabAhead provides a full-brain learning approach to understanding and mastering tough English words especially those appearing in standardized tests such as SAT, ACT and GRE. Students, Teachers and Vocab enthusiasts of all ages find this site extremely useful. Twitter ID: @VocabAhead

Children with learning disabilities (LD), like dyslexia, have trouble understanding words they read. Causes are unclear, but we now know that LD is not due to a lack of intelligence or a desire to learn. While dyslexia is a life-long condition, early identification, support from a parent or teacher, and access to digital or audio books and other learning materials may help your child to improve their learning outcomes and be better prepared to successfully work around their LD.

""Use your words," I hear a parent tell their child... This augmentative assisted communication tool (AAC) helps children talk about their feelings and behaviour. Calm talk also helps children practice self-calming strategies through a variety of activities. All children can benefit from this app, including those who have ASD, ADD/ADHD, speech and language impairments and intellectual impairments. Developing children's emotional intelligence is fundamental for life. Calm Talk was developed by an Educational Therapist who needed a tool to help children with social and behavioural difficulties."

words represented with Pixons

Printing cards is most effective technic in learning foreign language. Here is a simple and awesome generator of printable cards with automatic reflect of image. Just type your words and translation then press "Foreign view" button and "print". Then revolve paper in printer, press "Your language" button and again "Print".

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]

VocaBeans are pictures and audio that represent words that might be difficult for the user to say. The VocaBeans system lets you download hundreds of pre-built VocaBeans and allows you to create your own right from you iPod or iPhone.

When a visitor hover their mouse over a word, a request is sent to a dedicated symbolisation servers. A list of appropriate symbols is compiled and the results are displayed seemlessly to the visitor without interrupting their browsing experience.