Apps To Support People With Special Needs

Kim Hegwood | February 19, 2025

Kim’s guest today build an organization from a need she and many other parents had in her community. Cristen Reat, Co-founder of Bridging Apps, a division of Easter Seals provides resources, education, and information on apps and mobile devices to help people with disabilities target and improve skills to reach their highest levels of physical and cognitive development.
Today Kim and Cristen will discuss:

1. What is BridgingApps?

2. Why did you help create BridgingApps?

3. What kinds of things can people find on your website?

4. How do you search for apps on BridgingApps.org?

5. What are the best apps for people with special needs or disabilities?

6. Do you have events or training someone can attend?

Bio

Cristen Carson Reat is the Co-Founder and Program Director of BridgingApps.org, a program of Easter Seals Greater Houston. BridgingApps provides resources, education, and information on apps and mobile devices to help people with disabilities target and improve skills to reach their highest levels of physical and cognitive development. Cristen holds an M.A. degree from the University of Texas at Austin, graduated from the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, and is certified through the Assistive Technology Applications Program at California State University. She is a proud veteran of the United States Army, where she served as a linguist and has worked in education for fifteen years, most of that time at an educational non-profit. She has written articles on apps for special needs populations that have appeared in National Down Syndrome Communicator, TechEdge Magazine, and Parenting Special Needs Magazine. She is the mother of two sons, one of whom has Down syndrome.

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