What’s in your tool box?

I expect every teacher and tutor has their favourite go to app or game to assist children in learning to read and write. For the dyslexic, this list can be long and varied — and somewhat overwhelming to navigate.

I have had the honour of working with a very driven mother who, though dyslexic herself, does not see this as a barrier to helping her children to learn. She has uncovered some wonderful apps for the iPad and I thought I’d point people in their direction.

iReadWrite
This app combines the usefulness of a voice to text app with a dictionary that acts as a text to speech app all while presenting text in Open Dyslexie font. Truly a useful writing tool — it assists with predictive text in a way that is far more accessible to those with reading and writing limitations. A huge gold star to this app…