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Back to School with Special Needs
Within a month after this is published, most U.S. schoolchildren will begin the 2023-24 school year. Including the demographic of kids who—along with their families—find that “back to school” involves more-complicated-than-average challenges. If your child has a mental or physical…
Digital Skills Roundup: The First Things Everyone Should Know
Which statement is correct? Actually, both are correct with regard to certain aspects of screen use. What are “people” actually using their screens for? What educational or career fields are they in? What age groups? And perhaps most important, where…
Preparing for Back-to-School
It’s August. Are your kids ready for school yet? Depending on where they’re enrolled, the actual first day of school may be as early as August 7 or as late as September 5. But however long you have to prepare,…
BridgingApps in the Field: Our New Comcast-Funded Digital Literacy Program
BridgingApps is excited and grateful for Easterseals’ partnership with Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation. Among the many projects funded by Comcast grants is our digital literacy training for transition-age high school students, “transition” referring to the beginning of legal adulthood and independent…
BridgingApps Reviewed App | Meetup: Social Events & Groups
BridgingApps just published the following BridgingApps Reviewed App on the site: Meetup: Social Events & Groups is a social media app and website with the purpose of posting gatherings or “meet ups” so people can get to know others with…
Tech Tools to Support Literacy Accommodations | Parenting Special Needs Magazine
As the summer comes to an end and school preparations start, many of you are, like us, reviewing accommodations with your child’s teachers and paraprofessionals, as well as with your child if appropriate for their age and cognitive level. So,…
The Working Pet Owner
Among the hundreds of thousands of pets adopted from U.S. animal shelters each year, are an unfortunate minority who are eventually returned to the shelters because they required more money, time, or responsibility than anticipated. The “return” problem got substantial…
BridgingApps in Fort Bend County
Today’s article is compiled from interviews with Tara Rocha, Digital Learning Specialist at BridgingApps. Here’s what she says about working with digital-skills learners in Fort Bend. Generous grants from The George Foundation and United Way of Greater Houston Fort Bend…
BridgingApps Reviewed App | Voiceitt
Recently updated, Voiceitt is a communication app that was designed to help people with speech disabilities, disorders, or impairments or other speech difficulties that cause their speech to be not easily understood by listeners who are unfamiliar with them. Voiceitt…