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Apps that focus on LITERACY and READING SKILLS

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Name:	Signed Stories By ITV Broadcasting Limited wh
Location:	Website: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/signed-stories/id550966811
Topic:	Literacy
Format:	Apple iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. Not available on Google Android.
Cost:	Player app is Free Downloadable books range from $ .99 to $ 5.99
Purpose:	The Signed Stories app promotes literacy by displaying fully illustrated books for young children with optional text to speech, music and sound effects, and English or British sign language. The app includes vocabulary building activities and games with each book downloaded. The text to speech and signing features are also optional for the vocabulary practice and games.
Target Audience:	The Signed Stories app is designed for children with hearing impairment. It can help children who know sign language learn to read, or it can help children learn sign language using the sign-a-long feature. The app can also be used for children with visual impairments by using the text to speech read-a-long feature. The features of this reading app can also be used for differentiating reading instruction for any child.
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Name:	Voice Brief - text to speech voice assistant for news email and more By Dong Baik wh
Location:	Website: https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id423322440?mt=8
Topic:	Literacy
Format:	Apple iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Not available on Google Android.
Cost:	$2.99
Purpose:	The Voice Brief app promotes literacy by adding a text to speech function to email, news, weather, stocks, calendars, and social networking apps like Twitter and Facebook. The app gives the user a choice of realistic voices, and it uses alternating voices for announcements and text of messages. The greetings and announcements can be personalized. This app also consolidates all of these networking and informational apps, a web browser, and a a music player bridge, into a single interface, making them easier to access.
Target Audience:	The Voice Brief app is designed for anyone with the need for hands-free and eye-free reading. The app can also be used only to consolidate your other apps. However, the consolidation and text to speech feature is most useful for people with visual impairment, as well as for people with Developmental Delays, Dyslexia, or any other reading disability. This app promotes social interaction on mobile devices for individuals who would otherwise be tied to their laptops or desktops for web-browsing software that includes the text to speech feature.
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