School administrators decided to partner with Anonymous Alerts to provide a state-of-the-art school safety app.

Infants, toddlers, and preschoolers are now growing up in environments saturated with a variety of traditional and new technologies, which they are adopting at increasing rates. Although there has been much hope for the educational potential of interactive media for young children, accompanied by fears about their overuse during this crucial period of rapid brain development, research in this area still remains limited. This policy statement reviews the existing literature on television, videos, and mobile/interactive technologies; their potential for educational benefit; and related health...

Our Music Specialist and cochlear implant user Johanna shares her secret tips for the best music training apps for CI recipients!

Assess and Treat Auditory Processing Problems Using a Video Game!

Virtual Speech Center offers innovative speech therapy apps for schools, private practices, independent speech pathologists and parents. We offer a wide range of mobile applications for speech therapy developed for IPad and IPhone devices. Some of our apps are offered at no charge to speech pathologists.

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Cinema Connect

For people with limited hearing, understanding movies or plays can be challenging. That's why engineers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technolgy have developed a system that streams audio from the stage or screen to the user's earphone-equipped smartphone.

Caption is a gorgeous app for macOS that takes the hassle out of finding the right subtitles for your favorite movie or show.

** DHHSC does not endorse any of the apps below and are providing this as an informal guide as to what is available to Deaf and Hard of Hearing people. If there are any good apps not listed here, plea

Traveling abroad? Pick one from the best offline and online translating applications for mobile devices that run iOS, Android, Windows Phone or BlackBerry OS.

List of Made for iPhone hearing aids

VERY interesting article looking at use of handheld devices. I found the rebuttal articles to be especially interesting! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-nielsen/10-reasons-why-the-resear_b_5004413.html?1395687657 and http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kleeman/10-reasons-why-we-need-re_b_4940987.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000042

Links to apps for iOS, Android, Nook, Kindle and Windows Phone

DisplayRecorder by Ryan Petrich for jailbroken iOS device and Reflector ($12.99) for a non-jailbroken device are the gold standard when it comes to screen recorder for iOS. However, a new free open-source screen recording app called RecordMyScreen has recently been released on

Nice review by a 12-year old!

Running out of memory on your iDevice? Here are some great tips for making the most of the memory you have.

Young children—even toddlers—are spending more and more time with digital technology. Thousands of apps appealing to kids just out of diapers are now released every year. Should parents recoil or rejoice? An examination of what tablets and smartphones are doing to young children’s brains.

Another app list

Many smart phone apps have been developed to check for signs of hearing loss. This review discusses several that are currently available for iPhone and Android.

iPad Help with Accessibility Disability AssistiveTouch VoiceOver Guided Access Augmentative Alternative Communication AAC