{"id":29111,"date":"2014-10-31T14:37:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T19:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=29111"},"modified":"2014-10-31T14:37:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T19:37:09","slug":"the-blue-lobster-asl-english-storybook-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/10\/31\/the-blue-lobster-asl-english-storybook-app\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Lobster, ASL & English Storybook App!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Blue Lobster, ASL & English Storybook App!<\/strong><\/p>\n

How about a Halloween treat?<\/p>\n

The Blue Lobster, designed for young children who are beginning to learn to read (ages 3 & up), is available on the App Store for $2.99 on the iPad!<\/a><\/p>\n

Brought to you from the same team who made the award-winning ASL\/English bilingual storybook app The Baobab, we have a brand new adventure starring our curious little girl!<\/p>\n

This time the curious little girl from The Baobab is in search for a rare blue lobster! (Did you know that one in every two million lobsters are<\/span><\/span> blue?! Talk about rare!) The Blue Lobster is ASL & English bilingual, with rich ASL storytelling, colorful watercolor illustrations, signed and fingerspelled<\/span> vocabulary words for young readers!<\/p>\n

VL2 Story Book<\/span> Apps are designed based on research in visual learning and language acquisition for an optimal reading experience. Don’t forget to check out our other ASL\/English bilingual storybook apps The Boy Who Cried Wolf<\/a> and The Baobab<\/a>!<\/p>\n

You might be in for an extra treat!<\/p>\n

Happy Halloween!<\/p>\n

Melissa Malzkuhn, Director, Motion Light Lab
\nVisual Language and Visual Learning, Gallaudet University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Blue Lobster, ASL & English Storybook App! How about a Halloween treat? The Blue Lobster, designed for young children who are beginning to learn to read (ages 3 & up), is available on the App Store for $2.99 on…<\/p>\n

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