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Apps -- Dyslexia

Apps for students with dyslexia (originally compiled by Vicki Woodman for Tech&Learning)

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Dyscalculator By Pind & Bjerre

Many challenges can be met when calculating. With the Dyscalculator, these challenges will become smaller and fewer. The Dyscalculator is a regular calculator AND a helpful tool that helps you understand numbers & helps you choose the arithmetic operation.

Dyslexia Exercises and Practices By KIDZPLAYMOB LLC

An innovative application, intuitive and practical which will help people of all ages, providing them with a large number of activities and excersizes which covers phonetic, phonologic, morphologic and syntactic levels of english. This application also includes a practical guide to clarify any doubts and myths regarding dislexia, and to provide exact facts about it. Its utility will not only be appreciated by children, Young people and adults with dislexia, but also by parents, tutors or specialists dealing with this condition.

Dyslexia Quest By Nessy

The games are designed to assess working memory, phonological awareness, processing speed, visual memory, auditory memory and sequencing skills. Dyslexia Quest has been developed, researched and tested at the Bristol Dyslexia Centre. The app is designed for a single player and does not support simultaneous multiple users.Three age ranges:7-10 years11-16 years17+

Inspiration Maps By Inspiration Software, Inc.

Use Inspiration Maps to:- Brainstorm new ideas and capture insights- Analyze information- Understand cause and effect- Organize projects- Organize thoughts and topics for writing- Take notes- Study for examsFeatures:- Friendly design developed specifically for iPad- Diagrams are easy to build - and save instantly- Create an unlimited number of documents- Diagrams transform to outlines with a tap- Personalize with images, color, shape, arrow style, and backgrounds- Use images from the web or the iPad camera- Attach notes to any item to start writing- Add hyperlinks- Dozens of templates are included- Share files with other apps on your iPad, such as Pages- Share files with other iPads via Dropbox or iTunesInspiration Maps Lite

openWeb - Dyslexia friendly web browser By Abbie Gonzalez

Your default Safari web browser is not customizable. And when you want to use a font or style designed for accessibility, this creates a problem.The openWeb Browser is a browser that helps solve that problem by giving the internet a more readable style on your iPhone (and iPhone 5) and iPad. • The default font is OpenDyslexic: a free open-source font designed to be easy to read, especially for dyslexic readers. This font looks great on retina displays. • The colors have slightly less contrast to help prevent glare.• Symbols are bolder, and darker, to help detect sentences and phrases. • NEW! Reading mode on iPhone/iPod Touch lets you read the page formatted for the screen size, and with less distraction!You can full-screen the browser at any time to remove distractions by tapping and holding. Return to the default view by tapping and holding again.Search using DuckDuckGo! Enter a search term instead of an address into the address bar to search the web using DuckDuckGo

SoundLiteracy By 3D Literacy, LLC

Sound Literacy is the first iPad app that brings your letter tiles in to the 21st Century. It is NOW being used in 15 countries across the globe and growing quickly! Spread the word and integrate Sound Literacy into your curriculum.A portion of all proceeds benefit the International Dyslexia Association.The tiles of Sound Literacy do not create audible sounds, but do represent the spellings of the English phonemes. If you use an Orton-Gillingham influenced program, this app will make perfect sense! If you are a parent that wants to reinforce the phonics principles that your child is being taught in school this app will help.