I’ve recently transitioned into the reading resource room at my school and have started working with children who have special needs. Many of my students face tremendous challenges in their daily lives and have grown discouraged in school. Lauren Meatty, a consultant at the Schwartz Center for Children in Dartmouth, MA provides a variety of IPad apps that can effectively motivate children with special needs to learn and gives them more independence than thought possible.

Lauren discusses over 20 of her favorite apps for working with children of any age who have special needs in her presentation found at the link posted below.

Many of the students I am working with have difficulty writing clearly. Some of the apps that Lauren mentioned that I plan to use in my classroom are:

Little Sky Writers,...

Doodle Buddy, and...

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