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. Our purpose in creating this wiki is to foster collaboration around how applications can be used in unique ways to support learning in home, school, and therapy settings. If you have used iPad/iPod applications with special populations, please consider joining and contributing to this wiki by adding information to the charts on the various pages

Blog on iPod for special needs. Includes lots of apps to use

"**** Free for a limited time! **** Frame Artist helps you create amazing photo arts by combining and decorating your photos in a very easy way, and share them via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, Tumblr, eMail and Messengers. Since Frame Artist has no limits on layout, you can create whatever design you imagine and save them as your own design templates for reuse! (It also provides 9~12 ready-to-use templates for your convenience.) Furthermore, lots of stickers, speech balloons, background colors and patterns, filters, cell customizing options are supported to help you decorate your photos in an unique way. "

"SoundingBoard transforms your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad into the latest in communication technology. In just minutes, you can create custom boards using AbleNet symbols or your own photos. Perfect for children in special education, persons on the autism spectrum, and adults with disabilities. "

Glyphboard is an iPhone web app. Please visit this page on an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad to install Glyphboard. 

"PhotoSync is the first app that makes wireless transfer of your photos/videos from/to your computer as well as to your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch - a breeze!"

Mental Case is the best study aid since chalk. It's the premium flashcards study app for your Mac, iPhone, or iPad. "Mental Case provides a very nice balance of functionality, desktop and iPhone/iPod touch integration and ease-of-use that make it the leader of the pack..." TUAW.com Watch the Video at mentalcaseapp.com/ipad

Several apps on the iPhone, iPod, and iPad for individuals with disabilities. Some are even free!

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\n3D SOLAR SYSTEM: play with the 3D model by moving around the Solar System. Zoom in, zoom out, investigate it from different angles. You can observe not only the current position of planets in our solar system but also learn their position at a definite period of time in the past or in the future! For this use Time Machine feature.\n\nFLY to the PLANET: having chosen a planet from a far, tap an image of a "rocket" to fly straight to the planet. Enjoy a beautiful and realistic image of a planet!\n\nREAD INFO about the planet: by tapping the "i" button you learn general info about the planet, its name, its mass, radius, distance to the sun, internal structure with the picture and science missions.\n\nTIME MACHINE: click on the clock icon and date and time will be displayed. Slide your finger on the scale and the sky will start moving accordingly. Touch year, month and time and change them depending on what you want to see, the display will adapt accordingly to show you how planets were aligned at that time.\n\nMOONS of DIFFERENT PLANETS: select a planet like Earth, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars or Urano and observe how many moons they have and their track around the planet. Select one of the moons and learn.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\nGrammar Up was designed to replicate questions with a business focus commonly found in the popular TOEIC (TM) English proficiency test.\nGrammar Up can help learners to improve their grammar, word selection and vocabulary.\nCustom timer setting can assist learners to improve response times under exam time constraints.\nResearch suggests that kids and adults learn most quickly when playing learning games with real-time error-feedback.\nGrammar Up provides learners with an opportunity to improve strategies for grammar success. "

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\nIdea Sketch lets you easily draw a diagram - mind map, concept map, or flow chart - and convert it to a text outline, and vice versa. You can use Idea Sketch for anything, such as brainstorming new ideas, illustrating concepts, making lists and outlines, planning presentations, creating organizational charts, and more!\n\nShare Your Ideas\n\nDiagrams can be saved to the Photos app, which are then synced to your desktop computer. You can also copy-and-paste diagrams and outlines into any other app on your iPhone. You can even upload diagrams to your Facebook account!\n\nEasy-to-Use\n\nIdea Sketch is designed to be intuitive and easy to use. You'll be creating and editing diagrams and outlines right away.\n\nNo Drawing Required\n\nJust enter your text and move the shapes around, Idea Sketch handles all the drawing.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store AccelaStudy is the award-winning language education software that helps you understand and pronounce words in the shortest possible time. Learn new French words quickly, easily, and permanently with AccelaStudy.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store TED Mobile allows you to watch the latest TED videos based on Themes, Talks and Tags.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\n\nmyHomework is a simple and easy to use iPhone application that allows you to keep track of your homework, classes, projects and tests while interacting with a really cool design. myHomework's design tends to resemble our day to day notebook, the sections are separated by colorful "sticky pads" that marks the page.\n\nYou can quickly enter your class schedule and use it to differ between homework assignments. myHomework will also notify you when you have late and upcoming assignments by numbering them on your application icon. Late assignments will be marked in red, next day upcoming assignments will be marked in orange, and all other upcoming assignments will be marked in blue. So you can easily identify which homework you definitely need to look into.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\n\nStack the States makes learning about the 50 states fun! Watch the states actually come to life in this colorful and dynamic game!\n\nAs you learn state capitals, shapes, geographic locations and more, you can actually touch, move and drop the animated states anywhere on the screen. Carefully build a stack of states that reaches the checkered line to win each level.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\n\nOriginally developed as a suplement for the iCaramba Spanish Course, this audio dictionary is now available for all.\n\nInstead of cramming every Spanish word there is into this dictionary, it focuses on the 500(*) words you're most likely to use and adds audio to every one of them. It is thus an excellent travel-companion.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\n\nThis guide is an attempt to systematically build up the grammatical structures that make up the Japanese language in a way that makes sense in Japanese. It may not be a practical tool for quickly learning immediately useful Japanese phrases (for example, common phrases for travel). However, it will logically create grammatical building blocks that will result in a solid grammatical foundation. For those of you who have learned Japanese from textbooks, you may see some big differences in how the material is ordered and presented. This is because this guide does not seek to forcibly create artificial ties between English and Japanese by presenting the material in a way that makes sense in English. Instead, examples with translations will show how ideas are expressed in Japanese resulting in simpler explanations that are easier to understand.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\n\nGlow Coloring is the first doodle app that allows you to scan in images that you can color in or trace. With Glow Coloring, you can adjust brush pattern, brush size, and color. When you are done drawing your masterpiece, you can save it to your camera roll or email it directly from the app.