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There are a numerous amount of apps that have been designed for the speech and language impaired. This includes students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Specific Learning Disability, Down Syndrome, Intellectual Disorder, and many many more! By obtaining an iPad in the classroom, we will be able to use a new interactive approach to therapy in the classroom and make therapy fun! This will help make my students more motivated to learn. The App store on an iPad provides language apps such as "Endless Reader," an interactive reading application that reinforces phonological awareness, vocabulary, grammar, and inferential images utilizing cute monsters. Children with Autism especially enjoy this because of the stimulation of the auditory and visual modalities and the words and phrases that are reinforced multiple times. There are also many free speech therapy apps such as "Phonics Studio", which trains children to articulate speech sounds, and "Minimal Pairs" used for children with Phonological Processing disorders. Children with Autism often have social language deficits for which the "Emotions" app is utilized. This app allows children with Autism to identify emotions based on a picture. This can be further expanded by the therapist by having the child explain why the person in the picture is displaying the emotion. There are many other pragmatic apps for free or small costs. Finally, the most versatile app of all is the "Bitsboard" app. Picture images are stored and programmed to be arranged for a variety of purposes including vocabulary, grammar flash cards, social language and much more. These are a few of the many apps available on the Apple iPad that can truly make a difference in the lives of children with Speech/Language Disorders!

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There are a numerous amount of apps that have been designed for the speech and language impaired. This includes students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Specific Learning Disability, Down Syndrome, Intellectual Disorder, and many many more! By obtaining an iPad in the classroom, we will be able to use a new interactive approach to therapy in the classroom and make therapy fun! This will help make my students more motivated to learn. The App store on an iPad provides language apps such as "Endless Reader," an interactive reading application that reinforces phonological awareness, vocabulary, grammar, and inferential images utilizing cute monsters. Children with Autism especially enjoy this because of the stimulation of the auditory and visual modalities and the words and phrases that are reinforced multiple times. There are also many free speech therapy apps such as "Phonics Studio", which trains children to articulate speech sounds, and "Minimal Pairs" used for children with Phonological Processing disorders. Children with Autism often have social language deficits for which the "Emotions" app is utilized. This app allows children with Autism to identify emotions based on a picture. This can be further expanded by the therapist by having the child explain why the person in the picture is displaying the emotion. There are many other pragmatic apps for free or small costs. Finally, the most versatile app of all is the "Bitsboard" app. Picture images are stored and programmed to be arranged for a variety of purposes including vocabulary, grammar flash cards, social language and much more. These are a few of the many apps available on the Apple iPad that can truly make a difference in the lives of children with Speech/Language Disorders!

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