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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 (see navigation pane on the left). You can also contribute without joining by adding entries on the discussion tabs for each page."

The pictorial vocabulary guide contains image based pages (les plantes) as well as complementary pages with adjectives, verbs, and expressions (les taches ménagères). Place your cursor over an object or text to hear it pronounced aloud. bulbWhen using the pictorial guides it's best to participate in an active way. Guess the word - even say it aloud yourself - and let the voice you hear be your friendly tutor that either corrects or confirms your guess.

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!

There is significant research available on the benefits of audiobooks for young people. Below is a lengthy annotated bibliography of articles and other resources lauding the effects of audiobooks on children.

"This website provides guidelines for teaching literacy skills to learners with special needs, especially learners with complex communication needs (CCN)"

"Free Online Automatic Text Summarization Tool"

"Graham's review of the research doesn't resolve the age-old debate of whether students learn writing best naturally -  just by doing it - or through explicit writing instruction. But there are effective practices where the research is unequivocal. Distressingly, many teachers aren't using them. "We have confirmation of things we know that work, but are not applied in the classroom," said Graham."

CALL Center "Communication and Assistive Technology for People with Disabilities"

"Epic! For EducatorsThousands of popular, high-quality books for K - 5Get Started Epic! is 100% Free For Elementary School Teachers and Librarians in the U.S. and Canada"