Learn how to use the iPad with special needs students.

1. What’s App’ening?
Using Technology in Special Education
Joanna Staino SLP and Jennifer Kalbfell OTRL
Local Assistive Technology Specialists,
Lakeland Central School District

2. How we started:

3. How we started:
LATS training

4. How we started:
LATS training
2 computers

5. How we started:
LATS training
2 computers
10 ipod touches

6. Where we are now:

7. Where we are now:
10 computers

8. Where we are now:
10 computers
30 ipod touches

9. Where we are now:
10 computers
30 ipod touches
40 ipads

10. Where we are now:
10 computers
30 ipod touches
40 ipads
over 100 apps

11. Growing Pains

12. Growing Pains
Creating an itunes account

13. Growing Pains
Creating an itunes account
Volume purchasing

14. Growing Pains
Creating an itunes account
Volume purchasing
Tracking apps

15. Growing Pains
Creating an itunes account
Volume purchasing
Tracking apps
Deployment

16. Growing Pains
Creating an itunes account
Volume purchasing
Tracking apps
Deployment
Training

17. Growing Pains
Creating an itunes account
Volume purchasing
Tracking apps
Deployment
Training
User selection/ who gets the ipad?

18. Growing Pains
Creating an itunes account
Volume purchasing
Tracking apps
Deployment
Training
User selection/ who gets the ipad?
Account management

19. What we learned:

20. What we learned:
Track accounts and passwords

21. What we learned:
Track accounts and passwords
Create master back-ups

22. What we learned:
Track accounts and passwords
Create master back-ups
Less is more, a few good apps

23. What we learned:
Track accounts and passwords
Create master back-ups
Less is more, a few good apps
Subscribe to sites with app reviews

24. What we learned:
Track accounts and passwords
Create master back-ups
Less is more, a few good apps
Subscribe to sites with app reviews
A good case

25. What we learned:
Track accounts and passwords
Create master back-ups
Less is more, a few good apps
Subscribe to sites with app reviews
A good case
The password

26. Things to Know About Your Ipad

27. Things to Know About Your Ipad
Settings for Apps

28. Things to Know About Your Ipad
Settings for Apps
Restrictions

29. Things to Know About Your Ipad
Settings for Apps
Restrictions
Side Switch

30. Things to Know About Your Ipad
Settings for Apps
Restrictions
Side Switch
Accessibility Features

31. Things to Know About Your Ipad
Settings for Apps
Restrictions
Side Switch
Accessibility Features
Using Camera/Video

32. Apps that we love..

33. Our Favorites
iwrite words
Data Tracker
First Then
I Want
Tap Typing
Storyrobe
Dexteria
Vision Training

34. Super Duper Age Calculator
Magic Penny
Fun with Directions
What Doesn’t Belong?
Easy Concepts
Sentence Builder, Question Builder
Vocabulary Catcher
Milo Sequencing
Question Assembly
Tap to Learn Grammar Games

36. iwrite words
consistent letter formation
adjustable sensitivity
upper and lower case letters/words
audible signal for correct formation and mistakes
multi-sensory experience
success across ages

37. Writing Sample

38. 2 weeks later

41. Data Tracker
Paperless tracking of attendance and student goals
Track students by day and or by groups
Ability to write session note within the app
e-mail data

42. Tracks Goals and
attendance in 1 app

43. Session notes
saved in app

45. Magic Penny
Teaches phonemic awareness skills
Teaches phonemically-based phonic skills
Provides fun reinforcer
Multiple Levels- Need to master a level before
being allowed to move on to the next level
Tracks progress

47. First Then
personal visual schedule
add custom pictures
check off completed items
create multiple schedules
multiple viewing options

50. Fun With Directions
Interactive way to teach following directions
Provides reinforcement game
Allows you to adjust level of difficulty from one-
step to multi-step directions (Easy, Intermediate,
Advanced)

52. I WANT
create simple communication board
add custom pictures
easy editing
add voice
create multiple boards

55. Easy Concepts
Provides three different themes (Jungle, Ocean,
and Farm)
Provides audio reinforcement
Works on Size Concepts, Before and After
Concepts, and First/Next/Last Concepts

57. Tap Typing
teaches keyboarding skills on ipad or ipod
skill and speed tests
shortcuts taught taught while completing lesson
provides visual feedback and data
3 levels and extra credit typing

60. Which One Does
Not Belong?
Simple, yet fun way to work on categorization,
vocabulary building, and exclusion skills
Provides reinforcer
10 Levels of play

62. Storyrobe
create custom social stories
create custom books for activities of daily living
create custom books to teach pre-voc skills
create custom home programs

64. Sentence Builder
The original version is for elementary-aged
children; there is a teen version as well
Designed to help children learn how to formulate
grammatically correct sentences
Great graphics and reinforcers
Tracks progress and allows for data collection

66. Dexteria
fine motor skills development
works on finger isolation, bilateral skills, pinch,
and motor sequencing
3 activities,finger tap, pinch, and writing
provides data

68. Question Builder
Designed to help children learn to answer abstract
questions and create responses based on inference
Provides fun graphic reinforcers
Allows you to choose type of question form (Who,
What, Where, When, Why, How)
Allows you to track progress and collect data

70. Vision Training
visual motor skills including scanning, saccades,
and tracking
select direction, speed, color, and symbols
create user accounts
data collection

72. Vocabulary Catcher
Vocabulary Building App
Different levels are found on individual apps (Voc.
Catcher 1, 2, 3)
Targets vocabulary from different categories
(fruits, numbers, animals, etc.)

73. Flashcards Deluxe

74. Flashcards Deluxe
Create 3 sided flashcards with ability to include
text, pictures, and audio

75. Flashcards Deluxe
Create 3 sided flashcards with ability to include
text, pictures, and audio
Flashcard app can be used for studying
vocabulary and sight words

77. Question Assembly
Designed to help students learn how to compose a
question
For students in the upper grades (Grade 4 and up)
Allows you to track progress and collect data

78. Educreations

79. Educreations
Create tutorials which include text, audio, and
visuals

80. Educreations
Create tutorials which include text, audio, and
visuals
Ability to create and write on visuals

81. Educreations
Create tutorials which include text, audio, and
visuals
Ability to create and write on visuals
Educreations Demo

82. Super Duper
Story Maker

83. Super Duper
Story Maker
With Super Duper StoryMaker, you can create all the picture
and photo stories you want and tell them over and over.

84. Super Duper
Story Maker
With Super Duper StoryMaker, you can create all the picture
and photo stories you want and tell them over and over.
Educators and parents will love StoryMaker because it helps
children practice learning skills like reading, sequencing,
vocabulary and sentence building, following directions,
grammar, storytelling and retelling, interacting with others,
and more.

85. Super Duper
Story Maker
With Super Duper StoryMaker, you can create all the picture
and photo stories you want and tell them over and over.
Educators and parents will love StoryMaker because it helps
children practice learning skills like reading, sequencing,
vocabulary and sentence building, following directions,
grammar, storytelling and retelling, interacting with others,
and more.
In order to save your stories, you must purchase the full app
($4.99).

87. Speech with Milo:
Sequencing
Designed to build Sequencing and storytelling/
narrative skills (3-4 steps)
For children ages 3-10
Interactive- Once student has sequenced the
pictures in the correct order, a video of the
sequences will play
Fun reinforcer

88. Thank you!