On Tuesday, I covered an app from the Center for Educational Technology called iDo Hygiene, which teaches 12 areas of personal hygiene. The company behind iDo Hygiene also offers an iPad app to teach dressing skills called iDo Getting Dressed. Just like the iDo Hygiene app, the iDo Getting Dressed app is also designed by professionals to benefit individuals with autism, intellectual disabilities […]
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Introducing the iDo Hygiene App!
Choosing the best app for each child may be a major challenge. After all, there are so many educational games and productivity apps already available to choose from–with the list ever-growing! However, a newer app, created by the Center for Educational Technology, recently caught my attention as its lesson is clear: personal hygiene. iDo Hygiene is an iPad app […]
10 Apps for Practicing Motor Skills
Motor skills play an essential part in child development. These skills consist of gross and fine motor skills, both of which begin developing early in life. Gross motor skills involve using several body muscles to do things like sitting, crawling, walking, running, and jumping. Fine motor skills require smaller muscle movements of the hands to do “finer” activities like […]
10 Apps for Children with Learning and Attention Issues
Technology has opened up a whole new world for individuals with a myriad of learning disabilities. It’s made practicing academic skills more exciting with educational games, in addition to making the classroom more accessible overall with apps like SnapType. Several educational professionals have noted the advantages of these applications and more, and have set out to […]
Tech Tip: Accessible PC Programs
A couple weeks ago, Alvin Alviar introduced us to some handy websites. For this week’s Tech Tip, Alvin will show us some applications that could improve accessibility on PCs.
Top Assistive Technologies of 2014
As it is the last day of the year, I wanted to take a moment to point out how exciting this year was for assistive technology. What were some of the most noted advancements? This was indubitably the year of wearable technology, with the release of Google Glass and several other wearables. But overall, 2014’s technology paved […]