iPads+and+iPods+for+students+with+disabilities

**Section-iPads and iPods for students with disabilities**
===Over the last couple of years iPads and iPods have become priceless tools in the classroom, especially for those with disabilities. These tools are portable and can be easily protected with new cases that are available. Students with language barriers have the ability to access multiple vocabulary apps that can help with learning a new language as well as being able to identify objects. One app available for students with a language barrier is SpeakingPal English Tutor, this is a free app in the app store from apple. There are several others listed as well. If a student is having difficulties with fine motor skills there are also fun apps to assist in building fine motor skills. One app that my own children love is colorbox hd. This is a free app that students can draw and illustrate whatever they want. They use their fingers to begin and as their skills improve they can graduate to a stylus. This brings about a great point that the touchscreen on these devices is one of the reasons that these devices are so useful. Students with fine motor disabilities may have difficulty using pencils or even crayons, but they can use their fingers to trace and color. As these devices become more and more accessible to educators, I believe that they will become more accessible to students with disabilities, outside of their homes, which is likely where they may have use of them the most up to this point.===