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"Apps for Children with Special Needs (a4cwsn) is committed to helping the families and carers of children with special needs and the wider community of educators and therapists who support them, by producing videos that demonstrate how products designed to educate children and build their life skills really work from a user perspective."

"Your Special Chef" is a collection of resources to help teach cooking skills to individuals with special needs. Click around the site to find cue-card recipes, lesson plans for life skills teachers, video tips, and more! Check back soon for a personalized recipe creator. "

Make Pictures and Text Come Alive and "Talk." small recorder (1.67" W x 4.48" H x 1.44" D). How It Works Attach a special sticker to any book page, worksheet, game board, or flash card, scan the sticker with the MiniTR Recorder and begin recording. When you have completed the recording, it is ready for instant playback. Record pages of text, test questions, classroom instructions, or any materials that need to be read back to students. The MiniTR can hold up to 25 minutes of recordings. Each student will be empowered to read along, hear instructions in your own voice, and interact with individualized lessons. Support students who are nonverbal by prerecording words, phrases, and sentences. Then let the student use the MiniTR playback feature as a "voice." Features The MiniTR Recorder is ideal assistive technology for students with special needs. It is USB compatible, allowing you to backup or download your recordings. It has a built-in, high-quality speaker and comes with a headphone jack for private listening."

RinnApps specializes in special education and family friendly apps for use by educators, parents, and children of all ages

keep up to date with special needs apps

games, songs, communication cards, print resources and information for special needs

This group has been created for special education professionals (teachers, speech language pathologists, & others) to share resources related to assistive technology. Members of this group are active tweeters using #assistivetech, #SpEd, #SpEdChat, #SLPeeps, & #SLPchat hashtags.

"The Franklin AnyBook Reader is designed to make any book and interactive, "read to me" book. Essentially you attach special stickers to the pages of books and then when you touch the pen to the sticker it plays back a self-recorded message"

"3,388 Free learning resources for special educational needs (SEN) teachers including lesson plans, activities, games, teaching ideas, classroom resources and worksheets. " Categories * Attention deficit / and hyperactivity disorder (ADD / ADHD) * Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and Asperger Syndrome * Behavioural, emotional and social difficulties (BESD) * Cognitive impairment: Moderate learning difficulties (MLD) * Cognitive impairment: Severe learning difficulties (SLD) * Down's Syndrome * Gifted and talented * Hearing impairment * Mental health issues * Physical impairments * Profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) * Sensory integration disorder * Specific learning difficulties * Speech and language communication difficulties * Tourette's Syndrome * Visual impairment * Well Being / Emotional Literacy

Links to multiple interactive games grouped by level; annotation provided

Just For Teens: a special page for Teens who stutter; lots of links to other information especially selected for teens; organized by topic

a special page just for children who stutter

Speaking of Speech.com is a site for speech/language pathologists, special education teachers, parents, and others who support people who have communication disorders. This site offers message boards for the exchange of ideas and advice, an IEP Goal Bank, a Materials Exchange, and extensive list of Resource Links.

preschool ideas

Slp site

tons of links to resources.

Judy Lynn Software programs are developed specifically for student with special needs under the guidance of assistive technology professionals, teachers, and therapists.

This site has a lot of options to encourage kids to use their switch in various computer type "games."

Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs: 101 Ways to Use a Sequential Message AAC Device to Access the Curriculum

To the left is a board with 20 core words on it.  Some people wonder how many things can be said with 20 words.  I thought I would give it a try: