{"id":5408,"date":"2023-04-11T12:53:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T16:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=5408"},"modified":"2023-04-11T12:55:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T16:55:29","slug":"useful-apps-for-kids-with-dyslexia-and-learning-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=5408","title":{"rendered":"Useful Apps for Kids with Dyslexia and Learning Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>20 Useful Apps for Kids with Dyslexia and Learning Disabilities<\/h1>\n<div class=\"blog-publish author-line\">\n<div id=\"blog-author-img\" class=\"author-image-small\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wizcase.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Zephin-Livingston-Profile-Pic-scaled-50.jpg\" alt=\"Zephin Livingston\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\"><\/div>\n<em>Contributed by Zephin Livingston<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"blog-post-main-content editor-content\">\n<p>Teaching a child is hard. Even if a child is neurotypical, there are still many challenges parents will face every single day. When your child has a learning disability, it\u2019s even more difficult, and learning disabilities are more common than you might think. As of 2019,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/programs\/coe\/indicator_cgg.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">6.7 million students from ages 3-21 in US public schools<\/a>&nbsp;were served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. While the act covers many types of disabilities, 33 percent of those students are specifically served for learning disabilities. And these numbers only account for those who qualify for service and are enrolled in public school.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, there are options for helping you and your child. One of the most common and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/files.eric.ed.gov\/fulltext\/EJ1078825.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">most effective<\/a>&nbsp;ways to help children with learning disabilities is with technology. Whether it\u2019s word processors like Microsoft Word or a simple tape recorder, these methods have been a huge aid to so many kids.&nbsp;<strong>With the advent of smartphones and apps, there are more ways than ever to use technology to help your child better learn and process information.<\/strong> With how expensive some of these apps can be and with how many there are, it can be difficult figuring out which one is best. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve compiled this list of 20 apps that can be useful for kids and parents of kids with dyslexia and other learning disabilities. If you give some of these a try, I hope they prove useful.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wizcase.com\/blog\/useful-apps-for-kids-with-dyslexia-and-learning-disabilities\/\"><strong>View Full Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=5408\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 Useful Apps for Kids with Dyslexia and Learning Disabilities Contributed by Zephin Livingston Teaching a child is hard. Even if a child is neurotypical, there are still many challenges parents will face every single day. When your child has a learning disability, it\u2019s even more difficult, and learning disabilities are more common than you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5411,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408\/revisions\/5411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}