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Giveaways to support and encourage autism acceptance

  I realized that a number of the giveaways I had planned were connected in some way or other with autism so you can find them all here, in one convenient post. I have more stuff to add so please do keep checking in. Loud Hands: Autistic people, Speaking Courtesy of me, enter to win [...]

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Bugs and Buttons: a great app for autistic kids (that isn’t an autism app)

  As it’s autism acceptance month, all my posts in April are going to have some connection to autism. I recently shared my list of Top Autism Apps to Save up For in a guest post at Technology in Education – I’ll be reposting that list here on this site some time in April. In [...]

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Giveaway for ALL the ‘Bugs’ apps from Little Bit Studio!

  Thanks to all of you, I recently placed #1 in the Circle of Moms vote for 2013 Tech Blog. All of the Top 25 Mom bloggers were asked a series of questions including “What’s your favorite kid-friendly app?” You can read all the interviews here. My answer to that question was: “Asking an app reviewer [...]

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i See-quence Easter Social Skills Stories: Review and announcing a massive giveaway!

  Let’s See-quence from Winter into Spring at an SBKM Open House! Starting tomorrow (Friday, March 22nd, 2013) I will be hosting an Open House on my Facebook page – you don’t need to bring anything but if you visit, you may win an app code or two. Developer I Get It has provided me [...]

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SpeechBox for Speech Therapy

SpeechBox for Speech Therapy: Review and giveaway

    *Drumroll* – this post contains a giveaway for TWO copies of SpeechBox for Speech Therapy (an iPhone and an iPad edition) AND a video of the app in action starring the talented and wonderful Oliver! Summary – is the app worth buying? Yes, for parents who want the ability to practice speech sound [...]

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Adonit Writer Plus - detachable keyboard.

Review of Writer Plus by Adonit – keyboard and folio for iPad

  Last summer, when I was shopping for a bluetooth keyboard that I could use with my iPad, I narrowed my choice down to either the Zaggfolio or Adonit’s Writer Plus. Unfortunately for me, a gajillion other people were eagerly awaiting the release of Writer Plus for the third generation iPad and the demand after [...]

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SBKM 2,000 Facebook ‘likes’: Giveaways!

  As usual, I will be adding to this list daily so keep checking back for new things to win. Thanks to everyone who has donated apps and other prizes – your support is greatly appreciated! Click on the title of the app to view it in iTunes. Remember you can also always find all [...]

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Niki Music – app review and giveaway

  Niki Music is a music player for your child’s iDevice – if your child loves music and you have a collection of their music in iTunes, then this app is well worth its current purchase price of $1.99. An older child could use this app independently to select their musical favourites from their family’s [...]

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Reading TherAppy app by Tactus Therapy Solutions

Giveaway of Reading TherAppy by Tactus Therapy Solutions – $15 app!

  I’m a big fan of apps from Tactus Therapy Solutions, my favourite so far is Comprehension TherAppy which is a fantastic app for (amongst other things) assessing the vocabulary level of non-verbal individuals. SBKM has joined up with The Appy Ladies, Special Apps, Special Kids and iHelp SN Kids to giveaway SIX copies of Reading [...]

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iPad Mini and Cosmonaut stylus giveaway!

  The Appy Ladies are a group of women, mothers of special needs children and therapists, who set up a Facebook page to share iOS and non-app resources that may be of use to the special needs community. They recently reached the 1,000 like mark and have arranged a giveaway of an iPad Mini and a [...]

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