BridgingApps Toolbox
www.bridgingapps.org
What can you find on the website?
Success Stories
Social Community
Reviews of Hardware
Reviews of Accessories
Information on Services Including Training and App Selection Services
Guide to Getting Started
App Search Tool
What can you do with the BridgingApps App Search Tool?
Effective searches
Save your search
Create lists and publish them
Search lists created by others
Provide feedback and rate apps
Our Review System
Reviews are done by special educators, dietitians and licensed therapists.
Apps are used with people with disabilities.
Standardized assessments are used for developmental levels.
What are the reviews comprised of?
All apps are rated for developmental level for five major skill categories:
Fine Motor Skills
Language Skills
Auditory Skills
Visual Skills
Cognitive Skills
Narrative reviews include IEP goals and Common Core/TEKS matching when applicable.
Apps are matched to embedded skills.
About Cristen
Cristen Carson Reat is the co-founder and program coordinator of BridgingApps.org, a program of Easter Seals Greater Houston. BridgingApps helps parents, therapists, doctors, and teachers share information on how to use mobile devices like the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch and Android devices with people who have special needs. Cristen holds a M.A. degree from the University of Texas at Austin, graduated from the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, and is certified through the Assistive Technology Applications Program at California State University. She has worked in education for the last fifteen years, most of that time at an educational non-profit. She has written articles on apps for special needs populations that have appeared in National Down Syndrome Communicator, Techedge Magazine and Parenting Special Needs Magazine. She is the mother of a son with Asperger’s and a son with Down syndrome.
Email: creat@eastersealshouston.org
Website: www.bridgingapps.org
Facebook: facebook.com/bridgingapps
Twitter: @bridgingapps