Terms of Use

No materials on this website may be resold, republished, redistributed, or used for any commercial purpose. Free resources developed by Special iApps may be downloaded and used for educational purposes only. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all warranties in relation to this website. These terms and conditions are governed by English law, and by using this website you accept that any disputes relating to these will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

For apps developed by Special iApps C.I.C. but purchased through Apple, Google and Amazon, the relevant store's End User Licensing Agreement applies. For apps supplied directly by Special iApps, use is subject to our Terms and Conditions for Web Apps.

Funding

We are extremely grateful to UnLtd for their initial grant funding and support in 2011. Thanks also to DLA Piper for legal assistance, arranged through the UnLtd Connect support network. Special iApps was awarded a further grant as an UnLtd Big Venture Challenge winner in 2016, funded by the Big Lottery Fund.

During 2017 to 2018 Special iApps has been assisted by a grant from the Northern Rock Foundation, managed by the Community Foundation, and also received investment from the North East Social Investment Fund, managed by Northstar Ventures.

From the onset of the global Coronavirus pandemic in 2020, we received further investment from the North East Social Investment Fund, managed by Northstar Ventures. Together with an Access COVID grant plus a grant of £3,000 from The GX Project**. This support helped us develop Special Words Plus, an educational subscription-based web-app designed to support the changes in learning highlighted by the health crisis.

In 2021 we were assisted by a grant from The Northstar Foundation to support children in the North East financially disadvantaged by COVID-19.

**The GX Project is led by NewcastleGateshead Initiative, and supported by the Innovation Super Network. GX provides a range of opportunities to North-East SMEs and scaleups before, during and after the Great Exhibition of the North and is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund.

Acknowledgements

We are indebted to our worldwide team of speakers and translators, including Linda Skughei Allen of Simply Norwegian, Maria Andela, Cinthia Azevedo, Gün Bilgin of Down Sendromu Derneği Türkiye, Gunnlaugur Bollason, Vladimir Brnardić, Lars Erik Brustad, Tanja Braun, Pilar Clavera, Jana Cramer, Annette Dalhuisen, Sarfaraz Dawoodi, Joseph Dean, Maggie Doyle, Fulya Ekmen, Claudia Filipas, Igor Fiolic, Ileana Gheliuc, Viktor Gornakov, Sandy Gratia, Esti Hananya, Michelle Heydon, Derick and Elizabeth Horn, Sofia Hryniv, Anna Kashouris, Helena Knezic, Jochen Kortländer, Ermal Kristo, Karin van der Leeden, Jadranka Lončar, Andrea Lyons, Oskar Maatta, Ólöf Margrét Magnúsdóttir, Maryna Maiboroda, Katharina Maksymowicz, Tony Marinova, Laura Marsiliani, Siôn Meredith, Marta Montserrat, Rachel Morgan, Tetiana Mykhailenko, Mari Olsen, Shashi Pandya, Jan Panke, Jarosław Pieniak, Stefan and Thomas Renstrom, Montse Rovira-Prieto, Danijel Skrbin, Kelly Smith, Konstantina Stefanidou, Elienne Stevens, Irene Tymofeeva, Joana Valcheva, Mikko Valorinta, Yuri Vlasyuk, Anton Voloschuk, Daniela Vtuhova, Dinka Vukovic, Christiane Williams, Christelle Yong, and Kledjan and Emanuela Zaimi of Down Syndrome Albania Foundation.

Images of Makaton Symbols are used with kind permission of The Makaton Charity. Copyright © 2023 The Makaton Charity. All rights reserved. The word Makaton and the Makaton logo are registered trade marks of The Makaton Charity. To find out more about Makaton, visit www.makaton.org.

Images of Numicon Shapes are used with kind permission of Oxford University Press. Copyright © 2022 Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. The word mark Numicon is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press. Oxford University Press is the publisher of the Numicon series of products, which can be accessed at www.oxfordprimary.co.uk/numicon.

Teach Me Too resources downloadable using this software are Copyright © 2023 Special iApps C.I.C. All Rights Reserved. For use with the Teach Me Too online library by Learn and Thrive. Copyright © 2023 Learn and Thrive. For more information, see www.learnandthrive.org.uk/teach-me-too.

The BSL sign graphics supplied with the My 1st Signs app are from the Let's Sign BSL Series by Cath Smith, used with kind permission. Copyright © 2014-2015 Cath Smith. All rights reserved. The Let's Sign logo is a registered trade mark of Cath Smith. For more information about Let's Sign, visit www.deafbooks.co.uk.

The Special Letters font included with our apps is derived from the DejaVu Sans font. Copyright © 2003 Bitstream, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2006 Tavmjong Bah. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2017-2022 Special iApps C.I.C. All rights reserved. For further licence details, see dejavu-fonts.github.io. The OpenDyslexic font included with our apps is by Abelardo Gonzalez, licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. Copyright © 2019 Abelardo Gonzalez. For full license details, see www.opendyslexic.org. The Inter font included with our apps is by Rasmus Andersson, licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. Copyright © 2016-2020 The Inter Project Authors. For more information, visit rsms.me/inter.

Our older apps for Android incorporated the ActionBarSherlock library, Copyright © 2012 Jake Wharton, and the DragSortListView library, Copyright © 2012 Carl Bauer, both licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. For full license details, see www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0. Our older Special Stories app for Android also incorporated Android PDF Writer, Copyright © 2010-2012 Javier Santo Domingo, released under the BSD license.

Versions of our Special Words and Touch-Words apps prior to April 2016, and versions of our Special Numbers app prior to January 2015, incorporated images from the See and Learn teaching programme, used with the kind permission of Down Syndrome Education International.

Apple, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, iTunes and Mac are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc. Google, Google Drive and Android are trademarks of Google Inc. Amazon is a trademark of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Dropbox is a trademark of Dropbox, Inc. Windows and OneDrive are registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

The musical composition “Bulawayo” was written and performed for Special iApps by Colin Brown. Copyright © 2013 Special iApps C.I.C. All rights reserved. Thanks to David de la Haye of Newcastle University Music Studios and to the National and University Library of Iceland for assisting us with voice recording.

Special iApps was one of the organisations in the 2017-18 Lloyds Bank Social Entrepreneurs Trade Up Programme, run in partnership with the School for Social Entrepreneurs, and jointly funded by the Big Lottery Fund.

We are very grateful to The Sol Curry Charitable Trust, who kindly awarded iPads to William and his friends. Many thanks to Pretorian Technologies Ltd for providing us with an APPlicator switch interface, iSwitch and Smoothie 75 switches.

Had it not been for the inspiration of Lesley and Cameron Moore, the original idea of Special iApps would never have been conceived.

We would like to thank the staff, parents and children at The Champion Centre, www.championcentre.org.nz for their feedback and suggestions. Especial thanks also to Julie Brown and the schools who participated in The Durham iPad Project.

Thanks to all our friends and family for volunteering their time, children and mobile devices, to help us get where we are now, and to the parents who have allowed us to include photos and videos of their children on our website.