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Tech: American Wordspeller
5 Math Apps for Dyslexic Kids
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Here are five IOS math apps that can help dyslexic children improve their reading, writing, and number crunching skills.
Tech: ReadSpeaker TextAid
In addition to their online text-to-speech service, ReadSpeaker also offers text-to-speech services to educators and classrooms. ReadSpeaker TextAid is a reading, writing, and studying supplement for the classroom. Its administrative services allow teachers to manage groups, share documents to students, control the activation of various features within groups, and monitor students’ progress.Read moreWordFlex Touch Dictionary
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WordFlex Touch Dictionary provides a dictionary resource more interactive and extensive than traditional dictionary applications with more than two million language nodes. This iPad app not only displays traditional dictionary entry information but a full semantic...Tech: Sherlock: Interactive Adventure
Read moreText-to-speech ebooks, phonological awareness game apps, and beginner reading assistance apps are all good resources for young students with dyslexia or other reading disabilities. But older students with dyslexia might not be challenged enough with these beginning reader applications, yet still want supplemental material while reading. Sherlock: Interactive Adventure, an application for the iPad, is an interactive ebook for students ages 14+ that contains the original text of Sir Arthur...
Tech: Online OCR
New Research Examines Professional Musicians, Dyslexia, and Music Learning
Read moreA recent study, conducted by Kent Peter Nelson and Ryan Hourigan, examines the perceptions of dyslexic musicians whose dyslexia affects their music learning.
Tech: Kids in the House
Tech: SightWords
Read moreCertain words, coined ‘sight words’, can help establish a young student’s reading and writing skills when learned early on. Learning these ‘sight words’ make a child’s early reading and writing experiences easier as well as help to establish a strong foundation off of which they can continue to improve their fluency and speed skills.
Grammarly Grammar Checker
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Grammarly is an online grammar checking website that can scan essays, articles, and other documents to find mistakes in the text. The website’s program looks for over 250 grammar mistakes encompassed in seven areas: grammar,...
