for Special Needs

Special Needs Teachers associated with WAESPAA in Western Australia had a strong role in shaping versions 2 and 3 of iCapisce. One of our earliest advisors was a gifted Special Needs Principal who helped shape our understanding of the challenges and opportunities associated with Special Needs students and helped structure modules, forms and personal desktops accordingly.

At its simplest, iCapisce is a repetitive learning platform that engages eyes, hands and ears in the learning process.

The Learn-Practice-Test pedagogy can be adapted for different levels of capability.

Topics are created by you for the interests and developmental stage of each student. Alternatively, you can draw from the pool of general knowledge topics and add them to each students library.

Students can repeat topics as often as they want with no chance of wearing them out.

Topic types, as we call them, currently follow four basic forms:

1. Terms (words) with sound, images, definitions, application and video
2. Phrases for language, formulas and compounds
3. Mental maths for times tables, squares, cubes and other indices
4. Images, patterns and sequences

We'll soon be adding storyboards to the mix of topic types. You select the topic type at the point of topic creation.

Students can access topics through their own topic library OR through a personal desktop with big customisable buttons. Buttons can have words, colours and or pictures of familiar objects.

The annual cost of iCapsce is currently $2/person per year.

No. If you do choose to buy topics from the topic exchange, there are no automatic payments options. Each transaction must be approved by a parent or carer.

Yes. Of course, either through iCapisce or via the optional links to social network platforms.

Yes.

Yes, but …

iCapisce stores minimal personal information and has a strict privacy policy that limits visibility to authorised people such as teachers, lecturers and tutors. No-one else can see personal data (first, last, email, school, class) unless they give it out on other social media products.

We take online security issues seriously. Our cloud servers are maintained in a secure data centre and they're patched as updates become available from the various software vendors.

Common sense dictates that internet security is not 100% perfect and every user should minimise personal information in the cyberspace.