Our App Of The Day – See.Touch.Learn. 1.0
This is our app of the day and we’re certainly not alone in thinking it’s great. Over 30,000 users have downloaded this premier special education app. See.Touch.Learn. combines the effectiveness of a large library of picture cards with the power and interactivity of the iPad. Parents and learning professionals can choose from professionally-designed exercises and lessons or create their own. The app automatically tracks a student’s performance.
As our App of the Day, all our regular readers know the trailer for this app will feature on every page of our site for a whole day. Just scroll to the bottom of this page to take a look.
Founder Jim McClafferty developed the groundbreaking tool to bring the power and potential of the iPad to the special needs classroom and improve the learning experience for children with autism and other special needs. "The response has been overwhelming" said McClafferty. "I’ve received hundreds of emails from parents and teachers thanking us for creating an app for special needs children."
The results speak for themselves. Stephanie O’Brien, a Certified Behavior Analyst who recently began using the tool says "One child I work with was able to reduce his response time to questions by nearly half using See.Touch.Learn. It also helps make lesson time much more efficient and enjoyable. When I first begin working with a student, it can take as much as 20 minutes to bond well enough to get him to want to sit with me and go through a lesson. The other day, I took out my iPad and opened the See.Touch.Learn. app and the child came right over to me to look at the pictures. Now he gets excited about our lessons."
Brain Parade’s See.Touch.Learn. application combines the effectiveness of a large library of picture cards with the power and interactivity of the iPad. Parents and learning professionals can choose from professionally-designed exercises and lessons or create their own. The app automatically tracks a student’s performance.
McClafferty, a 20-plus year technology executive with a proven track record of successfully identifying opportunities for software innovation, has assembled an advisory board comprised of committed parents, teachers and behavior consultants who actively contribute to product design and development.
"The education market is ripe for technology revolution," McClafferty said. Portable, interactive devices like the iPad have the potential to entirely transform the learning experience, especially for those with autism or other special needs. It is my sincere belief that Brain Parade’s apps will have a profound, positive impact on the lives of individuals with special needs, and their teachers, therapists and families."
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
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Brain Parade
We are excited about how See.Touch.Learn.™ has helped special needs children, parents and teachers and we encourage people to join our Facebook fan page at http://www.facebook.com/brainparade and help spread the word!