Fine Motor Skill Activities for Special Needs Children Many children with special needs have challenges with their fine motor skills. Therefore, it is important to incorporate fine motor skills activities for special needs children in their daily...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: Injini
Injini: Child Development Game Suite Lite’s collection of learning games for young children is one of the best apps on the market for toddlers and preschoolers with language, cognitive and fine motor delays. Included are nine games that...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: Motion Math Hungry Fish
Motion Math: Hungry Fish makes learning math a fun game for children and even adults! It is a highly visual app in which a hungry goldfish must be fed with numbers. There are up to 18 levels of increasing difficulty, from matching numbers, to...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: What Goes Together?
This app focuses on improving receptive language skills but is also good for expressive language skills. It asks the user to select which item out of a group goes with another item, based on use or function. For example, a child who is shown a...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: Sprout’s Good Night Star HD
Sprout’s Good Night Star app teaches your little one about bedtime routines. The goal is to help the adorable Star character get ready for bed by brushing his teeth, washing his face, reading a story, tucking him in and rocking him to sleep...
MorePlaying Learning Games with Throw-Aways
If you want to play games with your child, you can do it with materials no fancier than yesterday’s newspaper, today’s empty cereal box and a smile. Playing with your child lets her or him know that you enjoy their company and want to spend...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: Tap Tap Baby
Tap Tap Baby for iPad is a great app for children who experience severe developmental delays and/or fine motor difficulties. It features a total of six games, including a monkey face that goes through a range of emotions, a xylophone game...
MoreSpecial Needs App: Dragon Dictation
Dragon Dictation is a useful tool for people who have difficulty typing or translating their thoughts into written words. This voice recognition app is powered by Dragon Naturally Speaking and allows the user to speak the content of emails, text...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: Doodle Buddy
Doodle Buddy Gold is a popular finger painting app that can be great for calming children with anxiety issues. There are tons of colors to choose from and fun stamps that make silly sounds when your child adds them to the picture. Doodle Buddy...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: iWriteWords
iWriteWords teaches your child to write using whimsical sounds and graphics. The way to play is to help Mr. Crab collect all the numbers in sequence on the screen by tracing them with your fingers. As the numbers are traced, a letter appears...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: Marble Mixer
This app offers three games, all modern twists on the classic way to play marbles. Marble Mixer is a fun and effective way to introduce children to game playing and strategy. In the Monster Picnic game, players must flick marbles into the...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: Colorific
Colorific is a great coloring app for kids. It includes over 40 templates where they can fill in the colors. There are also blank pages where children can create whatever pictures they like. Template categories are numbers, animals and birds...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: Tappie Puzzles
Tappie Puzzles is a wonderful app for children ages 4 and up. It comes with 10 interactive puzzles that help children learn to navigate their way around the world. Most of the puzzles have animals that nod along when the child puts a piece in the...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: ClickySticky
Clicky Sticky is an app that allows children to place animated stickers in different scenes. It is a great tool for learning about things like the ocean, aviation, the arctic, space, and clothing. Clickey Sticky has also been used for building...
MoreWhat is Dyspraxia
Out of several learning disabilities, dyspraxia is not one commonly heard by many people. Dyspraxia affects about two percent of children, the majority of which are males. Like many other disabilities, dyspraxia can vary in its degree...
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