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​Innovative Learning Services supports 
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What technology can be helpful to your child?  It's all about identifying those tools and features that support individual needs.  Here is a brief list of apps, extensions, services, and misc. tools:   
  • Wizcase's page on 20 useful apps for students with dyslexia and LDs
  • Digital notebooks: Rocketbook
  • ​​iOS accessibility features and nightshift
  • Speechify text reader
  • Annotating: Kami Chrome extension
  • Resources for Digital Text: BookShare, Learning Ally, Blio, Audible.com​
  • Early Literacy: Endless Reader​
  • Voice Dream Reader: text to speech with highlighted text
  • Scanning and OCR: Prizmo
  • Snap Type Pro: scan and type in a worksheet 
  • Graphic Organizer and Mind Mapping: Inspiration & Inspiration Maps, Mindomo
  • Speech recognition (speech-to-text): Mac Dictation; Chrome accessibility 
  • Math: Panther Math Paper, ModMath; Motion Math
  • Typing Assistance: Don Johnson Co:Writer; Co:Writer Chrome Extension; Word Q; Read&Write for Chrome extension
  • Integrated reading/writing tools: Don Johnston Solo
  • Vocabulary: Visual Thesaurus 
  • ​Apps for building focus / time on task: 30/30; Forest​

Chrome extensions: ​
  • Snap&Read Universal
  • Forest, Stay Focused be Present 

Noteworthy publishers and software companies: 
  • Notability (iPad)
  • Brainingcamp: Virtual Math Manipulatives 
  • The Critical Thinking, Co: books, and software; iPad apps 
  • Binary Labs: iPad apps
  • Bytes of Learning: UltraKey 6 keyboarding software
  • 22Learn Software: Early Literacy apps

Local Resources: 
  • Marin Technology Resource Center 
  • Marin Educators in Private Practice 
  • Association of Educational Therapists 

Resources:
  • ​The majority of 11-year-olds have smartphones. And experts are worried, The Guardian
  • The Wait Until 8th pledge empowers parents to rally together to delay giving children a smartphone until at least 8th grade.
  • The Common Sense Census: Media Use by Tweens and Teens, 2019​, Common Sense Media
  • Is Your Child Emotionally Ready for College? Here’s How Parents Can Help, The Wall Street Journal
  • Marin Voice: Referees are leaving sports they love and parents are to blame, Marin IJ
  • Childhood anxiety treatment may best be targeted at parents, study finds Philly.com
  • Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? The Atlantic
  • When A College Student Comes Home to Stay, New York Times
  • The Most Important Video Game on the Planet, New York Magazine
  • Building the Brain’s “Air Traffic Control” System: How Early Experiences Shape the Development of Executive Function. Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University
  • 60 Minutes: What is Brain Hacking? Kids, social media, and addiction. And why parents should care.
  • Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, Dawson and Guare
  • 7 Crippling Parenting Behaviors That Keep Children From Growing Into Leaders, Forbes
  • What Over-parenting Looks Like From a Stanford Dean’s Perspective, KQED, MindShift
  • We're Thinking About ADHD All Wrong, Says A Top Pediatrician, nprED
  • ​The Marshmallow Test, Dr. Walter Mischel​​
A very helpful page of products and resources:
  • Order Out of Chaos
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