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"Most recently, Dr Ratey has penned, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain published by Little Brown. In Spark, Dr. Ratey guides the reader to an understanding of neurobiology and inspires the reader to reach for their potential, and embrace exercise that is crucial for the brain and body to operate at peak performance."

Voice Dream Reader is an iPhone and iPad app that lets you listen to any articles, blog posts, reports, papers, and books. It reads the text using the best available text-to-speech technology. The voice is clear and natural. This is the right app for you if you spend a lot of time commuting or exercising, and want to catch up on reading that you normally can't find time for.

"TextMinder allows you to schedule SMS text reminders to be sent to you at the times you specify, repeating as often as you choose. Remind yourself of your medication, diet, exercise or financial goals, shopping, errands, bills, household chores, and other todo tasks and tickler items."

"Teachers and doctors are using iPads as a tool to reach out to children with Autism or Asperger Syndrome and the results are remarkably great. Autistic children are showing tremendous improvement after playing fun-filled exercises on iPad which is less stressful and more fun for both the teachers and the students. Below is the list of 10 best iPad applications to give Autism a voice."

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Currently posting 1,800 short video teaching targeted topics. We are complementing Salman's ever-growing library with user-paced exercises--developed as an open source project--allowing the Khan Academy to become the free classroom for the World.

This a collaboration between CAST and RFB&D "Welcome to the Learning Through Listening website for all educators in grades K-12! Register now to access free listening focused content and skill building exercises such as: * Lesson Plans * Classroom Activities * Teaching Strategies * Interactive Essays"

"These apps are all educational in nature and will have you learning about math, science, geography, history, English, and foreign languages; help strengthen your skills with brain exercises and quizzes; provide reference material; and offer opportunities to boost your productivity so you can devote more time to your studies."

Our site is designed to help you memorize English, Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin) or Spanish vocabulary in an easy, fun way that really works. The exercises use pictures, sounds and games to make learning a new language as fun as enjoying a piece of chocolate!