Creating visual support with Smarty Symbols
April is Autism Awareness month and when I think of a subject that we can explore a little more to
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Favorite apps for teaching feelings and emotions
Children with autism often have difficulty with reading emotional expressions of others. Identifying and appropriately expressing emotions are among some
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Smarty Symbols brings multi-character representation to visual support materials
How cool would it be to have the same symbol being represented by multiple characters? Very nice, right? Smarty Symbols
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Using Custom Boards for iPad to create printable materials
Custom Boards is one of those apps that many teachers, speech therapists and parents wish it existed, and it does,
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Being different: Brazilian campaign against prejudice of children with special needs
I still enjoy watching brazilian soap operas. Despite the fact that they are very ( I mean VERY) counter productive
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Smart Oral Motor: Animated App by Smarty Ears is now available
Smart Oral Motor is a cute application designed to help children practice their oral motor skills which are impaired in
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Grace: One of the first AAC Apps for children with Autism
I am very happy to see the success this application has had. I am also very happy to see the
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Apps for Bilingual SLPs and English-speaking speech therapists working with Spanish-speaking children.
I am a bilingual speech pathologist, and for those of you who work with Spanish-speaking children you know how frustrating
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The iPad saved the day once again: Speech and Language evaluation and the Pocket Pond app
Speech therapists are known to be very creative. We are able to pull activities from nowhere and transform it into
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GeekSLP TV #10: Asha Convention 2010 and Imagine Speech
I was lucky to have a booth right next to Imagine Speech’s booth. Anne Coady, the founder of Imagine Speech,
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Asha Convention 2010, Phildelphia
It is hard to believe that the ASHA convention (AKA #ashaconv) is already over. I arrived in Philly Wednesday night,
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Halloween themed apps to improve children’s language skills
In the spirit of Halloween I have decided to look at a few Halloween themed apps that can be used
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