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Book Creator is a simple to use app yet looks very impressive. Many of the learners I teach struggle with presentation and can get overwhelmed by too much writing. What I like about this is that they can create a decent ebook by using their verbal skills. Here, Christopher has discussed four theories as to why the Mary Rose sank. This was part of an 11 page book on the Tudors. It is the perfect alternative assessment tool and I use it a lot. Another way I have used it is with an 8 year old girl who I have training to use Dragon (voice recognition). She has created a wonderful book called 'How to train your dragon' - it's a great book which would be useful for anyone learning to use speech recognition - she wants to publish it...

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Ok, I am passionate about Assistive Technology: it can level the playing field and remove barriers for learners with a specific learning difficulty as well as those with more complex needs. I usually recommend a laptop for Text-to-speech and speech-to-text as it's more versatile for high order skills, however there are more and more fantastic apps on the iPad that sometimes I recommend both, or more recently, only the iPad. Each leaner I assess is different but here are some of my favourite AT apps. Dragon Dictation is a surprisingly accurate speech-to-text - not as comprehensive as the paid for version on a laptop but useful all the same. You do need to be online however and some schools have had trouble getting passed their firewall. Openweb provides a browser which will be in open dyslexic font - even Facebook and twitter. Voicedream is an excellent text-to-speech app - all you need, and for students who cannot read fluently it really is a 'dream'. Inspiration lite is similar to the paid for version on laptop - it's my favourite concept mapping software as it switches between concept and linear - I used this for my last job application (successful in case you ask). Proloquo2go is a very expensive but vital, for those who do not yet communicate through voice, app - it can speak anything you wish it to say for you - or pictures. I have seen this used brilliantly in schools. Merriam Webster is a dictionary which you can talk into - many with difficulties spelling struggle with a dictionary - library for instance might be attempted as lbree - the freedom to be able to say the word and find the spelling is wonderful for these students. Finally Goodreader - this can be used to annotate notes inc. PDFs etc - I love it.

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These are great - I use diagnostically but can be a great little activity as part of a letters and sounds programme. The first Cambugs is individual letter sounds (phonemes) and the second digraphs and trigraphs (graphemes). The motivation to learn these sounds is helped along by collecting bugs - the child loves collecting these and moving them around. I haven't yet, but I think this could be a good one for parent engagement - as it has the exact letter sound it helps those who don't know phonics learn them without feeling inadequate. Also prevents children learning the 'schwa' sound.

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Assessment tools - I need to know chronological age and year group. I need a simple calculator to add up my test scores. I need a simple bell curve diagram to explain percentile to parents. I also need to convert standard scores into percentiles. What I need is an assistant - Voila - I could not survive without this anymore - I love this.

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Looking for fine motor skills - handwriting/touch typing? Dexteria is a great app - it has squish the crabs, a typing finger exercise and letter and number drawing. Use in conjunction with an iPad handwriting pen for teaching the correct pen holding grip. This was designed by Occupational Therapists - works really nicely integrated into specialist support for handwriting.

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@MrPollockbio trained me over the twittersphere to use Augmented Reality - with Aurasma you can make a letter sounds tour - get a child to hold up a letter and take a picture - use as an aura and then create a video of them singing the letter sound song. When children scan the picture with their iPads they will get the letter sound and song. Hours of fun (with deep learning obviously)...

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@josepicardoSHS recommended this one on Twitter and I love it. Called Phraseology it would be my number 1 iPad choice for teaching grammar out of context. I think it is also a simple tool for word processing essays and would use this for high order skills work - I reviewed it while trialling...

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Finding apps which blend and segment as well as the single letter sounds has been a challenge - but I've just found Phonics Awareness and quite like it.  It does use both phonic and alphabet sounds of each letter which some devoted phonic teachers may take issue with but I think it's good.  Other phonic apps on this screenshot are OK - Pocketphonics is a staple schools these days although I rarely use it.  Hideout I promise you will hate but for some pupils it has allowed them to begin blending.  I teach many kids who can sound out antidisestablishmentarianism bit will not put these sounds together.  Hideout in its own inimitable fashion rams it down their throats - but, for so e this works.  They use endings such as 'en' to fit with hen, pen, men etc - for one learner I had it was all he needed - suddenly it clicked and he was no longer sounding out each letter but was beginning to blend.  Be warned though, I showed this to one of my colleagues who said it was an 'abomination'...other phonic apps are the lovely Mr Thorne with his pelmanisms, eggy phonics (a big company who advertise a lot so don't let push button notifications) and Phonics HO.  This is a nice one as the pupils have to take pictures of each letter to build their alphabet gallery - quite fun for them and forces them to look for things beginning with.....

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Rainbow writing can help learners with spelling or handwriting - basically you go over letter or word in different colours. The iPad is perfect for this - I use a free app called paintsparkle. It's also good for making pictures - this is an example of the 'ur' sound. She also drew 'turn', 'burn' etc - can even send to parents to show work.

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@agwilliams9 I recommend Nessy for spelling

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Fantastic website linking SEN/D with technology by from @ictevangelist Clevedon School

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Link to some Sensory based APPS- by Trinity Fields

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IPAD specific SEN/D resources via Helen Caldwell

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SEN/D apps for Primary Schools

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SEN/D APPs compiled via

http://www.tes.co.uk/ResourceDetail.aspx?storyCode=6256411

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Pinterest board by @RLJ1981 general SEN/D websites/links/resources.

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Pinterest board by @RLJ1981 on Dyslexia.

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Information on dyslexia and teaching strategies 