Apps – Jane Farrall Consulting

Word Families for Phonemic Awareness

Jul 20, 20261 Comment

I have blogged in the past about using word families to help emergent readers and writers to develop their phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is one of the important strands in literacy that emergent literacy learners need to start developing (Scarborough, 2001). To support people to do this, I have developed a bunch of resources to print and use

Personal Voice – creating truly custom voices in iOS17

Sep 24, 2023

Ever since I heard about Personal Voice being added to iOS17, I have been really excited. I couldn’t wait to get hold of it and start using it! It seemed to me that this was a dream come true! And this weekend I finally got to use it. If you haven’t heard about it yet,

Assistive Access – new iOS Accessibility feature that ROCKS!!

Sep 23, 20232 Comments

As many of you will know, iOS17 was released yesterday to coincide with the release of the latest iPhone models. One of the new accessibility features in iOS17 is going to be game changer for me. I am frequently in classrooms working with a number of students. Many of the students I work with have

ISAAC Pre-Conference Workshop: What’s Up in Apple Apps?

Aug 7, 20169 Comments

Today was the first day of pre-conference workshops at the ISAAC 2016 Conference in Toronto, Canada. I love the ISAAC Conference – and being a part of the fabulous world AAC Community – so it was a very exciting day for me. First up this morning, I attended a workshop by Carole Zangari from PrAACtical

AAC and my Mum

Jul 23, 201639 Comments

My mother has Alzheimers. She has had it for several years but this year she has deteriorated rapidly. She has developed complex communication needs as this has happened. She struggles to find words and often can’t finish a sentence as she forgets where her sentence is going. She can no longer tell all the funny

Self-Selected Reading in Our Classrooms

May 21, 20154 Comments

Self-selected reading is often seen as the easiest literacy block. However, to develop a student’s love of reading requires careful resource curation and an awareness of their interests and preferences. Below is a checklist I use with teachers in working through the self-selected reading block in their classroom. The two main guiding rules are: It

AAC apps list updated

Apr 16, 201515 Comments

Updated to add: The AAC Apps list has been discontinued. I’m very pleased to say that I have just updated the AAC apps list again! This time 106 of the existing apps have been updated and there are 23 new apps. You can see a list of all the Additions and Updates by clicking here.

Switch Accessible Apps List: Updated!

Mar 7, 201511 Comments

Updated to add: The Switch Accessible Apps List has been discontinued. It has been quite some time since we updated our switch accessible apps list – nearly 18 months in fact! During this time we have been focusing on the Switch Control built into iOS and learning the range of options it now provides.

Keedogo & Keedogo Plus: Custom Keyboards for the iPad

Oct 26, 20145 Comments

Recently Apple released iOS8 – and once again there were a number of accessibility features added with this update. For a round up of accessibility changes and additions check out the excellent summary from AbleNet – iOS8 Accessibility. One of the new features is the ability for developers to create their own onscreen keyboards for

Using the AAC apps list

Oct 6, 20142 Comments

Updated to add: The AAC Apps list has been discontinued It’s October, so it’s International AAC Awareness Month. As a result I thought it was time to blog about one of the most accessed resources on this website – the AAC apps list. Earlier this year we needed to do some changes to the AAC