Please talk to me about iPads

[lanbury]

Is your DC using an iPad at school? If so what for and how? What apps? Profoundly dyslexic DS. Any info gratefully received. Thanks.

Yep - an iPad Pro for everything.
Takes photos of worksheets and pages of text books, annotates and files into folders. Emails homework to teacher. Draws mind maps. Videos experiments in science etc. Creates 'chapters' with a contents page with hyperlinks. Creates PowerPoint presentations with graphics - the visual helps her remember (plus she's effectively revising when she's putting them together)
Dictates onto iPhone and syncs (very occasionally)
Even did a lot of her art GCSE on it!
She uses a cover which is also a keyboard. Changes background colour and big font size for typing (blue background works best for her) then changes back to a normal font and background before emailing to teachers
Worth reiterating that it's a Pro (so she can draw etc)
Also you can download dyslexia friendly fonts
Reads books - because she can make the font really big there are fewer words on the page so they don't 'jump around so much'

She had a Surface Laptop before, but no where near as good

DD also v dyslexic but has some great techniques to get around her dyslexia - really good GCSE predictions (nothing below a 7/A) - so it can be done

Sorry should have been more explicit she annotated worksheets and pages of text books with a stylus (so still on the iPad) and she files them on the iPad (not real paper )

Also forgot things like Byte size and various other iTunes explanation/lessons

Wow! Thank you so much for all that info. It just compounds my issue that my son's school is seriously in the dark ages

@lanbury
Not really schools fault TBF. Many of her techniques she came up with all by herself/me. Plus dyslexia takes many forms so it's all down to trial and error