7 Apps for Adolescents with Special Needs
We have ‘grown up’ with many of our students and their families. We have learned from the students themselves, their parents, siblings, teachers, and their other SLP’s, OT’s, & ABA therapists. So when we recently met with a terrific mom and contemporary ABA therapist, we needed to speak about apps for adolescents (goals and activities had been discussed previously). The student communicates and organizes herself through natural speech, the Dynavox Maestro, apps on the iTouch, & apps on the iPad. The student is now 16 and she cooks amazing food, hikes through the mountains of Switzerland, takes inventory for her school, types shopping lists, puts together scrapbooks, and does a lot more really cool things. Here is the list of apps we recommended to support her favorite leisure & literacy activities, and quest to be more & more independent. We only stopped giving more apps when ALL of us were... [Read More...]
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Tagged With: adolescents, Apps, ASD, developmental disabilities, leisure activities, special needs