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Spotlight on FREE Educational Apps From PBS Kids!

by Laura Jiencke | Jun 12, 2019 | 0 Comments

Grab a Bluebee Pal and have fun exploring these FREE educational apps with your children. There are oodles and oodles of educational videos, shows, games, goodies and activities to explore. There is something for everyone! Take plenty of time to explore your favorite...

Bluebee Pals and Single Case Research

by Punam Desormes | Jun 12, 2019 | 0 Comments

Once in a while stars collide and sparks fly! Such was the case when Bluebee Pals met Dr. Eleazar Trey Vasquez III, director of the Toni Jennings Exceptional Education Institute (TJEEI). In just over a year, Dr. Trey, as he is often called, has brought in over $8...

Beenleigh Special School Australia Utilizing AAC

by Laura Jiencke | Jun 9, 2019 | 0 Comments

Beenleigh Special Needs School in Australia received a visit this month from Laura Jiencke founder of Bluebee Pals after they purchased the first Bluebee in Australia. Laura received a wonderful reception from the principal, assistive technology coach and teachers....

Bluebee Pals Impacts Ipswich Special School in Australia

by Laura Jiencke | Jun 8, 2019 | 0 Comments

Founder Laura Jiencke of Bluebee Pals visited the Ipswich Special School in Australia in late May. The school is the second Australian school to implement Bluebee Pal learning companion tools into their AAC Curriculum. The principal and faculty welcomed the Bluebee...

BLUEBEE PALS MEETS INNOVATIVE SPEECH

by Laura Jiencke | Jun 1, 2019 | 0 Comments

Strategies and Apps to Promote Engagement Bluebee Pals Founder Laura Jiencke sent Bluebee Pals to Joan Green(M.A., CCC-SLP) founder of Innovative Speech Therapy to evaluate Bluebee Pals talking tech companions as assistive technology tools for her speech therapy...

Bluebee Pals Engaging Public Schools

by Laura Jiencke | May 31, 2019 | 0 Comments

Bluebee Pals founder Laura Jiencke received this testimonial from a public elementary school in College Place, Washington I thought you would enjoy watching this language lesson using one of the Bluebee Pals you donated to us in our elementary life skills...

Bluebee Pals Dazzle Beenleigh Special School in Australia

by Laura Jiencke | May 26, 2019 | 0 Comments

Beenleigh Special School in Mount Warren Park Queensland, Australia is the first school in Australia to introduce Bluebee Pals Assistive Technology Tools. Founder Laura Jiencke is visiting the school this week after accepting a invitation to visit the school and...

Bluebee Pals and Google Workbench

by Laura Jiencke | May 21, 2019 | 0 Comments

Bluebee Pals meets Google Workbench provides a platform for educators and therapists to download a spectrum of classroom curriculum, life skills and fun activities for children Pre-K1. Through research, consultants and testimonials, the Bluebee team...

Bluebee Pals and Advance Behavior and Learning

by Laura Jiencke | May 15, 2019 | 0 Comments

Advance Behavior and Learning is located in Maitland, Florida and a divison of Advance Behavior and Learning Academy. The organization serves families that have concerns regarding their child's development, language, behavior, and/or learning. Children range from...

Bluebee Pals “Tech“ & “Non-Tech” Teaching Tools

by Helen Wagner | May 13, 2019 | 0 Comments

Bluebee Pals are versatile educational tools for the classroom! Indeed, they can be used in a variety of both tech and non-tech ways to support early foundational skills. Students love to use them both ways as classroom learning partners! Reading Skills:...

Teaching Kids Life Skills with Bluebee Pals

by Jo Booth | May 12, 2019 | 0 Comments

Focus: Dressing Teaching early dressing skills require patience and plenty of practice for little ones. To be successful, kids require a sense of body awareness, the needed motor skills – both gross motor and fine motor, and the ability to sequence steps. Kids begin...

Bilingual AAC Apps and Bluebee Pal

by Becca Eisenberg | May 12, 2019 | 0 Comments

Bilingual AAC Apps Proloquo2Go Proloquo2Go is a communication app that is used by individuals who have a limited ability to use speech for communication and need an augmentative and/or alternative way to communicate. I have used this communication app with all ages...

Bluebee Pals Village Oaks Elementary

by Laura Jiencke | May 1, 2019 | 0 Comments

My name is Daisy M. Duran. I am a Pre-K ESE teacher at Village Oaks Elementary in Immokalee, Florida. We are very grateful to have Bluebee Pals assistive technology tools as a leading technology device in our preschool classroom. As you can see in this photo, we...

Bluebee Pals Webinar an Informative Resource

by Punam Desormes | Apr 28, 2019 | 0 Comments

I have had the pleasure and privilege of sharing the power and fun of Bluebee Pals with many educators, therapists, caregivers and clients. Even then, it can be tricky to connect with the many people that could benefit from Bluebee Pals and empower them to use this...

Bluebee Pals and Personalized Learning

by Laura Jiencke | Apr 16, 2019 | 0 Comments

We have included Bluebee Pals in our grammar skills. Last week, Sammy the bear helped my students practice their prepositional phrases. My students took turns hiding Sammy behind, under, in, and on various items in the classroom. Using a free text to speech app,...

Affordable Assistive Technology Tools and Bluebee Pals

by Helen Wagner | Apr 11, 2019 | 0 Comments

What is assistive technology? Assistive technology is any device, software or equipment that can help kids with learning and attention issues work around their challenges so that they can learn, communicate and simply function better. These products can make a...

Bluebee Pals Celebrate with Creativity

by Laura Jiencke | Apr 11, 2019 | 0 Comments

Recently I had the opportunity to work with Laura Jienke, founder of the brilliant Bluebee Pals in a preschool in Naples, FL - we had a blast! The teacher had been celebrating Dr. Suess's Bday & NEA's Read Across America the nationwide reading celebration that...

Learning Syntax and Grammar with Bluebee Pal

by Becca Eisenberg | Apr 11, 2019 | 0 Comments

How does Grammar and Syntax affect communication? What is grammar vs syntax? To learn more about this, click here. Looking for more information about grammar and syntax? Check out this resource by Anne Rowley Many students with speech and language delays and...

Bluebee Pals Enchants Methodist Day School

by Laura Jiencke | Apr 9, 2019 | 0 Comments

Methodist Day school (Naples, FL) offers preschool classes for students 2 years old through 5 years old. Their program is set up so that each year students continue to build on the learning blocks of the previous year until reaching Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten, which...

Making a Difference with Bluebee Pals

by Laura Jiencke | Mar 23, 2019 | 0 Comments

Pathways Strategic Teaching Center Pathways Strategic Teaching Center is a comprehensive education and treatment program servicing children with autism and related disorders. Founded in 1998 through a collaborative effort between Trudeau and local parents of children...

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