Ok So I'm an APPaholic- Apps Workshop on 11/9/12

Apps Apps and More Apps for Special Education

Friday November 9, 2012
9:00 AM until 2:00 PM

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In this workshop, experienced iPad users will explore over 60 applications for student’s with special needs from PreK-to 5th grade in all curriculum areas. Special emphasis will be on expressive language apps and apps that can be personalized for individual needs using your own images and voice recordings. Participants will learn how to customize individual apps and strategies for organizing, recording, and sharing students work. This is an exciting workshop that highlights the best of the best apps for specialized learning. The cost for this workshop is $100 and checks or PO's can be made payable to ERCSD-SPDC. A light breakfast and lunch will be served.

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Location: 30 Linden Street, Exeter, NH

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Click here to go to the Seacoast Professional Development Center calendar.  

INTERESTING Wheel of APPs for ASD developed by Mark Coppin

Final List Best Viewed on line

10 Benefits of Chores For Your Child With Special Needs | Friendship Circle -- Special Needs Blog

10 Benefits of Chores For Your Child With Special Needs | Friendship Circle -- Special Needs Blog

Halloween Therapy Activity Shared

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Students just loved seeing photos of therapy pets Lily & Surprise dressed in various Halloween Costumes, a total of 9 in all! Discussed were the dog’s expressions and why they might be feeling as they appeared. Also discussed were the similarities and differences in the pairs of costumes. Students then were given a direction to gather at least 3 stuffies, one small, one medium and one large and select who would wear what costume. Sizing the costumes to the stuffies and actually getting dog costumes on to the stuffies, the velcro & straps were challenges and an excellent fine motor activity. Photos & videos were taken of students with their stuffies using the free app-Blurb Mobile. Here students described what they did /what their character was wearing, and why they chose that costume/what they liked about it and how they think their character feels wearing it. Kids also shared what makes that stuffie special to them.

The Blurb app is so easy to use. We added voice recordings to still pictures and giggled at the short video clips. We were able to instantly create a "movie" of this activity and email out to parents and teachers to be viewed on any device or pc. A group photo (shown above) was also emailed for printing so students could instantly have an image to share and a talk about at school that day. This summer a similar activity was done around the topic of Water Safety and students dressed their stuffies in of one 3 dog’s life jackets! It is amazing the rich language used by students during dynamic activities like these. Skills addressed include expressive language (use of adjectives, past tense verbs, pronouns he/she, asking for help) language concepts (sequencing, comparing sizes), social skills (interpreting facial expressions, relating to similar situations, emotions), and fine motor (fastening clothing). I have found that my students recall this type of activity and are still talking about it weeks later :-)

This costume activity will be extended this week using three other apps Sentence Maker, LittleSpeller Four Letter Words both by the developer Grasshopper apps and Jigzo. Using the individual photos taken for each student and the pet photos, I can create customized spelling and sentence building activities. Both of these apps easily let me import my own library of photos. In Sentence Maker, I can import an image and record a sentence. The student then matches the sentence to the word tiles. In Little Speller, they match individual letters. Both apps allow tremendous variability in the difficulty level from maximum cues to no hints at all. Kids love seeing their own creations come alive in apps like this. Some students even record their own voices to be used in the app. As a related and simple activity that presents another opportunity to talk about the images, Jigzo is a Free simple puzzle-making app. I import the image, choose the puzzle difficulty and voila, a puzzle is instantly made. Additionally, students could send out postcards of their Halloween characters using the free apps PhotoCard Lite (allows you to add a voice recording as well as text) or Easy Cards. 

One of Sue's All Time Favorite Communication Apps Has Been Updated!!!

Scene Speak - Good Karma Apps - Exceptional Apps for Exceptional People.
This app was exceptional when it first came out but recently it was updated to include key features making it the best early augmentative communication tool out there. Scene Speak is a visual scene  app. Using a visual scene/screenshot of a room, whole activity or setting, users activate speaking and linking hot spots on the scene to communicate. The context of the scene decreases the cognitive load for the user and prompts more effective, early communication. For more information on Visual Scene Displays for AAC, see  Visual Scenes

Scene Speak is the ONLY app out there that easily lets me add voice to Boardmaker communication boards. Yes! My years of communication boards & visuals now speak! I'm using this app as an augmentative communication app with linking pages, as a talking photo album, to create interactive stories, as a way to share School to Home and Home to School events and activities, to capture students work, to add verbal directions & explanations to images, worksheets, to give directions, as a virtual recipe book and more! Did I mention it's only $9.99??? GREAT Value; I use this app everyday!
Please take time to view the awesome videos and tutorials. A manual is also available for printing.

iPad Mini, Kindle Fire HD, Nexus 7, NOOK HD: How The Best 7-Inch Tablets Stack Up

iPad Mini, Kindle Fire HD, Nexus 7, NOOK HD: How The Best 7-Inch Tablets Stack Up
Nice comparison chart here

Teach language

SCERTS 3-Day Introductory & Advanced Seminar

SCERTS 3-Day Introductory & Advanced Seminar presentered by the original creators of the SCERTS program.
Excellent opportunity!

Presented by SCERTS Collaborators
Barry Prizant, Ph.D, CCC-SLP & Amy Laurent, Ed.M., OTR/L

November 7-9, 2012 * 8:30am – 3:30pm
Imperial Room at Rhodes Place * 1 Rhodes Pl * Cranston, RI 02905

Cranston is just minutes away from Providence & Newport!

Mention this email and pay the early bird rate of $389 p.p. (current rate $409)
See attached brochure for details.
Parent & team rates available as well.

Visit www.ccseminars.com, www.barryprizant.com and www.scerts.com

Email kelly@ccseminars.com for more information or questions.

iCan Do It All- iPad Workshop

iCan do it all for Special Educators- Intermediate Level Friday October 26, 2012 9:00 AM until 2:00 PM Sue Drouin M.S., CCC-SLP will be presenting!Two educational themes, Flu Prevention and Weather will be the framework for learning how to use your iPad to teach special education students in PreK-5th grade. In this hands on workshop, participants will go in depth and learn how to personalize apps by working with photos and images, use multiple applications together to create useful learning tools, how to make Boardmaker files and worksheets accessible, even give them a voice. Resources for app review sites and teaching with your iPad will be discussed. Approximately 35 apps will be explored. Please bring your iPad for a hands-on experience! The cost for this workshop is $100 and checks or POs can be made payable to ERCSD-SPDC. A light breakfast and lunch will be served. Location: 30 Linden Street, Exeter, NH Click here to go to the Seacoast Professional Development Center calendar.

90-year-old mother shares experiences as inclusion advocate for son with Down syndrome in new book - Wheaton, IL - Wheaton Leader

90-year-old mother shares experiences as inclusion advocate for son with Down syndrome in new book - Wheaton, IL - Wheaton Leader
Great story

5 reasons to De Emphasize Asking Questions in AAC Therapy

PrAACtical AAC | Supports for language learning
Good suggestions 

Why is Play Important? Social and Emotional Development, Physical Development, Creative Development | Education.com

Why is Play Important? Social and Emotional Development, Physical Development, Creative Development | Education.com

Workshop! iShare: Expressive Language Apps for All

iShare: Expressive Language Apps for All

Tuesday October 9, 2012
4:00 PM until 7:00 PM

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In this session, participants will get an overview of the current iPad/iPod Touch apps that support expressive communication for students of all abilities. The focus of the applications will be on functional use of these apps for students with special education needs. Talking photos, story writing, text-to-speech, adapted keyboards andtrue augmentative communication applications with be explored, the pros and cons and candidates for each will be discussed. An extensive list of applications and iDevice resources will be provided. Please bring your own device for a hands-on experience. Sue Drouin, speech/language pathologist and consultant will be your instructor. There will be a light dinner served. The cost for this workshop is $75 and checks or POs can be made payable to ERCSD-SPDC.

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Location: 30 Linden Street, Exeter, NH

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Click here to go to the Seacoast Professional Development Center calendar.

Free Symbol resources-Welcome to Widgit

Welcome to Widgit
 PRINT pdf's of symbols under Symbol Resources

MUST See-Autistic girl with DiGeorge Syndrome memorized Coppelia Ballet!!!!!! - YouTube

Autistic girl with DiGeorge Syndrome memorized Coppelia Ballet!!!!!! - YouTube
OMG So amazing & cute