IPAD's in Intensive Needs Program at Hanover Street School

The Intensive Needs program has found dozens and dozens of IPAD and IPOD apps for their children.  Here are a few examples of applications they use and how they use them.

 There are many apps that can help students with speech, cognitive behavioral therapy, motor skills, social skills, communication, reading, math, and much, much more. As a way of getting students involved in this process, teachers ask these youngsters to evaluate "four apps of the week!" - Here is one of the recent apps students evaluated and "reviewed."

Letter School App
Letter School offers different fonts to practice - D'Nealian, HWT and Zaner Bloser; practice capital letters, lowercase letters and numbers ; reinforces phonics and meaning of letter; entertaining visual feedback ; two levels

Z writes: "I like the LRS because you have to get all of the gifts. The math app was too hard."

Smiley Sight Words
This application can accomodate a class of 30 students, includes over 1600 high frequency site words.  The teacher is involved in the process by giving the "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" for pronounced words.  The app tracks performance and provides progress reports that can be saved, emailed, etc.  Flash cards sets can be customized.    Here's what another teacher has to say about it "This is the best app on the market for teaching children!"  Theresa tells us that "Kids would so much rather do this than flashcards."  Engaging children is essential to teaching.



Check out Mom's with Apps - excellent resource of apps for youngsters, teachers, and caregivers.

Shared by, Theresa Hunnewell, Special Educator, Hanover Street School