Mobile App Monday - Sound Touch

Looking for a robust early learning app that offers identification, vocabulary, and language skills? Sound Touch contains 408 sounds, images, written and spoken words for animals, vehicles, birds, musical instruments and household items. And it's available in 35 different languages!

Want to learn more about it? Please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id348094440

Mobile App Monday - Wheels on the Bus

"An award-winning tribute to a childhood classic, Wheels on the Bus, is a fun, interactive experience encouraging motor, language and cognitive skills through fresh illustrations, creative interaction and music. AGES: 2-6."

To learn more about this app, please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id303076295

Mobile App Monday - Monkey Preschool Lunch

Looking for an app that works on cognitive, language and fine motor development in young children? Monkey Preschool Lunch is a fun game app that allows little ones to flex their minds and their fingers. They can learn about colors, letters, counting, shapes, sizes, matching, and differences in this 7 games app, and they can earn sticker rewards along the way.

To learn more about this app, please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id328205875

Mobile App Monday - Recolor - Coloring Book For Adults

Recolor features "over 300 unique coloring pictures proven to help you rest your mind. Organized into themed chapters, with range in complexity from beginner to expert-level, the pictures feature Mandalas, Animals, Bouquets, Ornates, Lowpolys, Mortes and much more." -iTunes

This app would be helpful in the areas of communication, fine motor skills, language, etc.

For more information about this app, please visit:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1027352017

A boy and a jaguar

"Alan loves animals, but the great cat house at the Bronx Zoo makes him sad. Why are they all alone in empty cages? Are they being punished? More than anything, he wants to be their champion—their voice—but he stutters uncontrollably.

Except when he talks to animals…

Then he is fluent.

Follow the life of the man Time Magazine calls, "the Indiana Jones of wildlife conservation"as he searches for his voice and fulfills a promise to speak for animals, and people, who cannot speak for themselves. This real-life story with tender illustrations by Catia Chien explores truths not defined by the spoken word." -publisher

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Mobile App Monday - Toca Doctor

"Toca Doctor is a fun and puzzling digital toy for kids. Examine the patients and play puzzles and mini-games that take place in the human body. There are no timers or stress elements so that kids can play in their own time. If they can't finish any certain game it still continues so that they never get stuck. It always works and it's always fun!" -iTunes

Want to learn more about it? Please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id424209938

Tending to Grace

In Tending to Grace, Cornelia is a freshman in high school who is stuck in the easiest English class because of her stutter. But Cornelia is capable. She tends to her mother when Lenore won't get out of bed; she takes care of the house and cooks their meals. But when Lenore and "the boyfriend" decide to take off for Vegas, Cornelia is taken out of school and left with Eccentric great-aunt Agatha who doesn't need or want Cornelia's care. What will Cornelia need to tend to now? Herself, maybe?

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Mobile App Monday - Imagistory

Imagistory provides an entirely new reading experience. Not only is it fun and easy to use, it's also highly educational, helping to foster creativity and imagination. It can also help develop language and early literacy skills. Using wordless picture books, you and your child use your imaginations to create a story with the pictures. The stories you create can be recorded and saved so you can listen to them again later and share them with loved ones.

Want to learn more about it? Please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id562786443

Mobile App Monday - myMemoir

Want to make journaling a little easier for your students? Try myMemoir. This app provides 9 preset journal themes in a simple user interface. Displays date, time, and title for each entry and also
contains a calendar to keep track of entries.

Want to learn more about it? Please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mymemoir/id364907316?mt=8

The Kaufman Speech to Language Protocol Workout Book

Use The Kaufman Speech to Language Protocol Workout Book to expand single words into phrases and sentences. The book includes 16 reproducible motor-speech coordination workouts to stabilize the pronunciation of consonant-vowel combinations, and promote rapid development of expressive language skills while controlling for oral-motor difficulty. -publisher

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu.

Mobile App Monday - Fun with Verbs & Sentences

This app is developed for language ages 2-5 with eye-popping color drawings and 266 delightful animations--a cutting-edge way to show and teach action words! It provides a fun way to visually show left to right sentence building (early literacy concepts) and sequence the parts of a sentence in the right order.

Want to learn more about it? Please visit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fun-with-verbs-sentences-hd/id713921450?mt=8

Mobile App Monday - Kindle

"The Kindle app is optimized for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, giving users the ability to read Kindle books, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. You’ll have access to over 1,000,000 books in the Kindle Store plus hundreds of newspapers and magazines. Amazon Whispersync automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across devices (including Kindle), so you can pick up your book where you left off on another device."

For more information about this app, please visit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kindle/id302584613?mt=8#

Mobile App Monday - Typ-O HD

Looking for a word prediction app? Typ-O HD is that and more! It can also learn how you misspell words. It has a built-in text-to-speech component that lets you listen to what you wrote before you send it off to someone else. This is great for those who have trouble with writing or with fine motor control.

Want to learn more about this app? Please visit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/typ-o-hd-writing-is-for-everybody/id372971659?mt=8&ls=1#

Mobile App Monday - ABA Receptive Identification

Looking for an app designed to teach language concepts to early learners? ABA Receptive Identification is used by educators and speech language pathologists worldwide. It offers over 300 beautiful, concrete photos presented against a non-distracting white background. Every image has been carefully selected for its familiarity, appeal to children and developmental value.

Want to learn more? Visit: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aba-receptive-identification/id346469797?mt=8

Mobile App Monday - Language Builder

Language Builder is designed to help children accomplish the following educational goals: 1) Improve sentence ideation ; 2) Improve sentence formation; and 3) Improve receptive and expressive language. Extensive use of audio clips promotes improved auditory processing for special needs children with autism spectrum disorders or sensory processing disorders. Auditory playback of child's voice offers reinforcement for language development.

Language Builder offers a rich and fun environment for improving the ability to create grammatically correct sentences.

FEATURES
-Record feature allows students to record sentences in their own voice
-3 levels of hints
-Simple and intuitive interface to record sentence
-Save and email recorded sentences
-250 distinct images to create sentences from
-Optional hint button
For more information about this app, visit: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/languagebuilder-for-ipad/id405801365?mt=8

Mobile App Monday - Alphabet Photo Machine

Looking for an app to help your child gain confidence in learning the alphabet? Want to help develop their fine motor skills? Try Alphabet Photo Machine. While kids play, they can explore more than 333 photos and learn over 60 early sight words. This app doesn't force learning in alphabetical order but allows children to choose the photos they want to see when they want to see them. Soothing background music allows kids to practice early literacy skills without being distracting.

Want to learn more about this app? Visit: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/alphabet-photo-machine/id375031865?mt=8#

Pronouns! from teach2talk

Volume 1 of teach2talk’s™ Pronouns! series of videos helps teach children to understand and use a variety of basic pronouns, focusing on the first pronouns which children typically acquire, such I, you, he, she, it, etc. It covers all of the common personal pronouns (including their objective, subjective and possessive forms). Pronouns are extremely important in children’s language development. This DVD is appropriate for any child who has not yet mastered the understanding and use of personal pronouns or who confuses them, as well as children who are just starting to learn and use pronouns. Children typically begin to develop their use of personal pronouns between two and three years of age.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find one in a library near you.

Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills

Need some help incorporating multisensory instruction in the classroom? Multisensory teaching of basic language skill activity book can help. Packed with a thorough review of research and clinical experience, this book discusses why multisensory methods can be so powerful. Put theory into practice with specific teaching approaches that promote:
 - Phonological awareness
 - Alphabet skills
 - Spelling
 - Grammar
 - Reading accuracy and fluency
 - Reading comprehension
 - And more!

To check out this title, email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.