Teacher-Authors: Here’s What’s Going on at my Education Blog

This column shares the most popular posts from my Ask a Tech Teacher blog this past month:

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Here’s a great list of Special Needs websites. Click the link for an updated library:

1. Occupational Therapy–a long list of great apps including stress, social skills building, and more
2. Read&Write–for students with dyslexia or English language learners who struggle with reading and writing.
3. Signed Stories–beautiful stories in sign language
4. Speech Therapy and Language Apps–apps like Conversation Builder, StoryBuilder, Tense Builder, Rainbow Sentences, designed for kids who need a different approach
5. Disabilities—Microsoft

Autism

1. Autism browser—Zac Browser

Blind

Dyslexia

Navigation

1. Click-free Browsing – Chrome extension link
2. CraftyCursor – Chrome extension link
3. Caret Browsing – Chrome extension link
4. CrxMouse – Chrome extension link\
5. LipSurf – Chrome extension link
6. Vimium – Chrome extension link

Speech-to-Text

Text-to-Speech

Miscellaneous

1. IPad Apps for Special Needs
2. Special needs lesson plans
3. Special Needs websites—long list

My #1 Go-go site: Carol Leynse Harpold at OTs with Apps and Technology

More on special needs

October is Dyslexia Awareness Month

Favorite Shortkeys for Special Needs

How Wearable Technology is Changing Education and Easing Disabilities

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Jacqui Murray is the author of the popular Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy, the Man vs. Nature saga, and the Rowe-Delamagente thrillers. She is also the author/editor of over a hundred books on integrating tech into education, adjunct professor of technology in education, blog webmaster, an Amazon Vine Voice,  a columnist for NEA Today, and a freelance journalist on tech ed topics. Look for her next prehistoric fiction, Laws of Nature, Summer 2021.