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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."

Introduction to accessible books and why access to literature is important to all students. Students will receive an overview of the features of PowerPoint 2007 and be guided through a step by step process of how to use it to create an accessible book. sources for audioboooks, photos and sounds

This is a great resource of free AT resources

"If You Build It, They Will Read!" Authoring Books Online with CAST Book Builder Following Universal Design for Learning principles, engage readers with a free online authoring tool that allows users to create, read, and publish digital books while meeting"

a free web-based tool that enables anyone to author and publish educational materials that use the Universal Design for Learning framework to flexibly respond to the needs of all learners. The link to the press release that explain more about the product and a link to the actual tool is located at: http://www.cast.org/about/news/2013-03-12.html

This is a free site that allows you to build online interactive lessons or modules... really easy and really cool!

Create dynamic, UDL supported learning environments!

An easy, fun, little project to keep students engaged during Guided Reading: The Giant Googly-Eye Pointer! For the pre-reading set, you can use these to help tracking. For fluent readers, you can use it to ask students to find certain words in the text ("Can you find the compound word on this page? Put your googly eye on it!")

Type a word or phrase into the box and this quick page will create a sentence to help you remember it.

This site contains web tools organized into sectiopns including research, collaborative, quiz and poll, converters, creativity, image, drawing, and more!

Presentation Tools Collaborative Tools Research Tools Video Tools Slideshow Tools Audio Tools Image Tools Drawing Tools Writing Tools Music Tools Organising Tools Converting Tools Mapping Tools Quiz and Poll Tools Graphing Tools Creativity Tools Widgets File Storage & Web Pages Other Helpful Sites Creative Commons Teacher Resources"

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about services provided by the Loudoun County Public Schools' Assistive Technology Team including information as to why it is beneficial for students and staff to consult with a trainer prior to requesting an assistive technology evaluation.

LCPS AT professional development: Would you like a workshop at your school?

23 page resource from the FDLRS. With step by step dirctions and screenshots along with implementation ideas.

Great tracing pages with start and stop dots.

Great Ideas how to adapt simple things Easy AT!

See "Crayon Nibbles" on page 12.

EZ AT 2 Simple Assistive Technology Ideas for Children Ages Birth to Three

Files from 2009 Make and take workshop

Over 100 free, printable graphic organizers for a wide variety of topics.