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Welcome to BridgingApps! Many teachers have found using mobile devices with their students with and without disabilities to be beneficial in numerous ways. However, finding appropriate apps and accessories to meet the needs of your students and your classroom can be challenging and confusing. We view our website as a shortcut in that process. We focus on apps that have been designed to address a particular need or have been creatively adapted by users to meet a specific need. Finding apps is just the first step in an exciting journey of discovery with your students that will involve trial and error. All of the app reviews on our website have been conducted by therapists or special education teachers, and they have been trialed with someone who has a disability. We invite you to explore these pages to help you find the tools you need to get started and to share best practices with us on your journey of discovery.

"We believe that it is more important to focus on the person who will be using the technology, rather than the device itself. We assume that you are here because you want to improve a skill or creatively compensate for a deficit that may be preventing a person with a disability from maximizing their highest potential."

Brought to life by the National Center for Family Literacy, Wonderopolis provides a question, something to wonder about each day, along with information about how to find information about that wonder. Videos, text, vocabulary, and related activities allow students to expand their inquisitive minds!

Welcome to Wonderopolis®, a place where natural curiosity and imagination lead to exploration and discovery in learners of all ages. Wonders of the Day® will help you find learning moments in everyday life. Each day, an intriguing question is posed and explored in a variety of ways. Wonders of the day approach both informs and encourages new questions, sparking new paths of wonder and discovery in family and classroom settings…. And it is FREE!

Free downloadable Installation and Quick Start Guide for the QX5 digital microscope, available in the computer labs at LCPS elementary schools. Great accessible science tool! See tiny things on your computer. Great for students with visual challenges! Take the microscope off its base for magnified viewing. Build a picture collection of your discoveries and creations. Produce your own movies and slide shows.

"Review elements of a tweet. Ask students to write their 'handle' (i.e. username) on the top of 3 post its. Play a video, pausing to allow students to add something they learned on their post it to mimic a tweet. Display the tweets around the room and have students walk around the room creating at least three reply tweets to other students."

Create and print free customized puzzles, including crosswords, mazes, cryptograms, word searches, hidden messages, math puzzles and more, using your own word lists.

Curiosity drives exploration. Exploration drive innovation. Imbue students with a sense of discovery by inviting them to listen to audio describing how the world around them has become to be. Use specific episodes as an option to provide audio content that complements the topic of study.