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What is Special Words?
Special words is an award-winning app for children with learning disabilities of all ages as well as 0-5 year olds. Helping children with speech and language development, increase their sight vocabulary and develop hand-eye coordination as well as fine motor skills. It comes with 96 words and can be extended by downloading curriculum resources as well personalising with your own photos and words.
Languages include: English (American, British and Australian), Afrikaans, Albanian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Luxembourgish, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Welsh..
Recommended Usage
30 minutes per week.
Educational Impact
improve attainment
save school money
provide school data
Additional evidence
 Age Range | 0-4, 5-7, 8-10, 10-11, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18, 19+, 19+ |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy Policy |
 Requirements | Equipment needed are include: |
 Training | The app is very easy to use, there is a quick start guide, user documentation alongside videos on our website. |
 Support | TelephoneOnline |
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Special Words Reviews
4.8 out of 5
from 2 Verified Reviews
Special Words has collected 0 reviews in the past 6 months
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Gina Robinson
Teacher
St Mary’s Primary School, UK
Used special-words for 6 months
Apr 2019
Excellent for children with additional needs and children who learn to read using sight vocabulary and not phonics
Gina Robinson found special-words:
- Moderately improves attainment“My child can read familiar words. ”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Helps for children who do not learn to read through phonics ”
- Moderately improves teacher knowledge and skills“Runs alongside teaching of phonics ”
- Moderately saves school money“Saves uses card/paper to make word matching boards ”
- Does not provide school data
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Laura Corkin
Teaching Assistant
Used special-words for 6 years
Feb 2019
It is an absolute gem of an app and I am so proud to be using it.
Laura Corkin found special-words:
- Significantly improves attainment“The child I currently use the app with has progressed from group C on Read, Write, Inc onto guided reading.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“I no longer need to print countless photos, labels, flash cards. They are all in a safe place!”
- Moderately improves teacher knowledge and skills“Using the app for RWI, I was able to quickly recognise which sounds belong wot which group, and making assessing much easier and quicker!”
- Significantly saves school money“I no longer have to print and laminate resources. It has massively reduced my workload and therefore increased productivity and efficiency.”
- Significantly provides school data“I am able to provide the RWI coordinator data, update H’s assessment data quickly. ”
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