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Subject: Cool stuff I found

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Terri

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Date Posted: 19:42:45 01/14/13 Mon

I am a spec. ed. teacher in wyoming. I am always researching, snooping on the internet and browsing magazines. Here is some of the cool stuff I have found, purchased and am quite happy with. Maybe they will help some of you too.

1) Right Line Tactile paper from The Therapy Shoppe. The specialty green-lined paper is designed for individuals who have difficulty staying on or between the lines of traditional writing paper. Featuring raised top and bottom lines, Right-Line paper gives the writer tactile, kinesthetic and visual feedback! This has helped two of my very dyslexic kiddos with their spacing/writing issues.

2) I found this font and it seems to be helping a couple of my students with severe reading disabilities. The address is http://dyslexicfonts.com/

3) S'chool Moves. This is a program that was written by an occupational therapist. The main book is incredible but I really, really like the quadrant taps. This helps with left/right laterality. My dyslexic kids have a very hard time with this and they get frustrated easily so I only work on them for around 5 minutes. The reading taps is awesome as well. It teaches sight word fluency and body movements. Check is out on s'choolmoves.com.

4) free I-pad app. called Recorder Plus II. I have my students read into this app. and then it shows them their fluency "EKG". They enjoy seeing how their "EKG" looks better when they read more fluently. I use this program to show kids how to pause at the periods and commas. The program shows the kids whether they paused or not, rather than me just telling them to do it. :)

Well, these are some of my most recent "treasures" that I have found. I hope they help some of you out there.

Well, these are my most recent "finds".

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Re: Cool stuff I found	joyu (happy)	10:46:34 01/16/13 Wed