APPLICATIONS FOR IPAD, IPHONE & IPOD TOUCH - GAMES LEARNING DRAWING SOCIAL COMMUNICATION SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT VISUALS ...

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Applications for iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch
                        ‐ Games
                       ‐ Learning
                       ‐ Drawing
                 ‐ Social Communication
            ‐ Speech and Language Development
                        ‐ Visuals
                     ‐ Organisation
Games
Angry Blocks HD            $1.19    Stack the blocks on top of each other to make a tower.
                                    Once you have made the tower tall enough if you can keep it
                                    from falling for 5 seconds you move onto the next level.
Animal Memory Match Kids   Free     Memory match card game.
Free Lite
Bubblewrap                 Free     Bubble popping app. Pop the virtual bubbles as fast as you can.

ClickySticky               $2.49    Kids can interact with fun characters while learning about fish,
                                    airplanes and many animals.
                                    Each sticker character can be scaled, rotated and dragged onto
                                    each imaginary scene.
Colourful Aquarium         $3.99*   Colorful Aquarium is an app, which can make your iPad into a
                                    fully customized aquarium, beautifully realistic images and
                                    lovely fish will make you relax.
Face Goo                   $1.19*   FaceGoo is a fun photo app that allows you to stretch, pinch and
                                    twist your photos in crazy ways.
Finger Piano               $3.99    "FingerPiano" allows you to play the piano with just your finger.
                                    You don't need any skill, scores or practice.
Talking Carl               $1.19    Carl repeats anything you say with an hilarious voice, he can
                                    also be poked and pinched and you can even tickle him to make
                                    him laugh out loud.
Wheels On The Bus          $1.19    Created by parents, Wheels on the Bus is a fun, interactive
                                    musical book, based on the popular children's song. Come
                                    aboard the bus to spin the wheels, open and close the doors,
                                    swish the wipers, pop some bubbles, make a dog bark, and
                                    much more.
FacesiMake                 Free     Faces iMake is all about stimulating the right‐brain and giving
                                    kids a fun and playful educational environment. The app
                                    encourages kids to solve problems creatively; to innovate; to
                                    see things from a different perspective; to create obvious forms
                                    with the most unexpected combination of objects.
Numeracy
Whizzit 123                $1.19    Whizzit 123 is a super‐fun counting game that features great
                                    music, fun sound effects, lively animations, and cute graphics.
Literacy
Shape Builder              $1.19    Shape Builder educates & entertains children with easy to move
                                    shapes that snap into place on top of silhouette puzzles. Each
                                    puzzle has 5 to 10 pieces & after positioning all of the pieces,
                                    the real image is revealed along with a professional voice
                                    recording of the word spoken by Jill Dews, a licensed speech
                                    therapist that specializes in early child development.
                                        Learning
ABA Flashcards             Free     Flash cards can be a great tool for fostering the mastery of new
                                    words, building vocabulary and conveying new concepts.
ABC Wildlife               $3.99    Join Little Explorers as they explore a world of letters, words,
                                    and animals. Where each new word leads to a new animal
                                    discovery with beautiful photos and vibrant videos. Your child
                                    can learn about different words, letters, and animals on their
                                    own.
I Hear Ewe – Animal Sounds   Free     Entertain and educate young children with this simple game full
for Toddlers                          of 24 different authentic animal sounds and 12 different vehicle
                                      sounds.
ICDL Books for Children      Free     The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) brings a
                                      worldwide collection of free children's books to the iPad. The
                                      largest collection of its kind, the ICDL spans the globe with
                                      thousands of children's books from over 60 countries, in a wide
                                      assortment of beautiful languages with captivating illustrations.
In My Dreams                 $1.19    Academic Objectives:
                                      + Use words to describe location and actions
                                      + Distinguish parts of speech – nouns, verbs, prepositions
                                      + Match voice with print (one to one correspondence)
                                      + Recognize sentence structure

                                      Developmental Objectives
                                      + Increase phonological awareness
                                      + Expand vocabulary
                                      + Recognize that print words have meaning
                                      + Visual tracking
                                      + Multiple options for communication: sign language, pictures,
                                      written words and spoken voice.
                                      + Multisensory approach to reading that involves listening,
                                      watching and touching.
iStoryTime Kids Books        $1.19    Downloads children’s books to read on iPad, iPhone, iPod
                                      Touch.
PreSchool Adventure          $1.19    Contains eight simple activities parents can do with their young
                                      toddlers and preschoolers:

                                      ‐ Dot‐to‐Dot Numbers
                                      ‐ Artist Coloring Book
                                      ‐ Typing the ABC Animals
                                      ‐ Ocean Colors
                                      ‐ Space Shapes
                                      ‐ Monkey Body
                                      ‐ Farm Sounds
                                      ‐ Animal Matching
Tell Time                    $2.49    Designed to help people learn to tell the time. Analogue and
                                      digital clocks are used.
Literacy
FirstWords Deluxe            $5.99    Helps your child with learning their letters and learning to spell
                                      words.
FirstWords: At Home          $2.49    Helps your child with learning their letters and learning to spell
                                      words.
iWrite Words                 $3.99*   iWriteWords teaches your child handwriting while playing a
                                      game.
Question Builder             $4.99    Question Builder is designed to help elementary aged children
                                      learn to answer abstract questions and create responses based
                                      on inference
Sentence Builder             $4.99    Sentence Builder is designed to help elementary aged children
                                      learn how to build grammatically correct sentences. Explicit
                                      attention is paid to the connector words that make up over 80%
                                      of the English language.
Spel It Rite Pro            $1.19     The main objective is to select the correctly spelled words as
                                      fast as possible.
Music
Twinkle Twinkle Preschool   $1.19     With this play‐a‐song iPhone app, children can do the following:
Storybook Piano
                                      ♫ follow the lighted keys or match the colorful music notes to
                                      the piano keys
                                      ♫ watch the piano keys light up one by one with the song
                                      ♫ press the start button and sing along
                                      ♫ add animal sounds to the song
                                      ♫ hear the song played on a banjo, xylophone, harp, flute, bells
                                      and more!
                                      ♫ record your child singing and playing the piano!
                                      ♫ sing and read karaoke style lyrics in English, French & Spanish
                                          Drawing
Draw                        Free      Provides a drawing pad for entertainment.
Draw Free                   Free      Provides a drawing pad for entertainment.
Doodle Buddy                Free      Provides a drawing pad for entertainment.
                              Social Communication
Autism Xpress               Free    It is designed to encourage people with autism to recognizes
                                    and express their emotions.
AutoVerbal Guy Talk         $5.99   An app designed to use iPad voice output for those who have
                                    trouble using verbal speech.
Expressionist               $12.99 Expressionist is designed to help users to express, and to help
                                    users to model expressions
Learn To Talk               $2.49   Learn to Talk is an innovative audio flash card application that
                                    facilitates language development in children. It uses both sight
                                    and sounds to teach young children basic vocabulary and early
                                    language skills.
Locabulary Lite             Free    Use the iPhone, iPad, iPop Touch to communicate words,
                                    phrases, and sentences.
Model Me Going Places       Free    Model Me Going Places™ is a visual teaching tool for helping
                                    your child learn to navigate challenging locations in the
                                    community. Each location contains a photo slide show of
                                    children modeling appropriate behavior.
Proloquo2go                 $239.99 It aims to provide augmentative and alternative communication
                                    for people who are non‐verbal or who are using very little verbal
                                    speech. The application can be tailored to meet the specific
                                    needs of these people and can be very successful in aiding
                                    communication.
Stories2Learn               $16.99 Stories2Learn (S2L) offers parents and educators the ability to
                                    create personalized stories using photos, text, and audio
                                    messages. These stories can be used to promote an individual’s
                                    literacy, leisure, as well as social skills. In addition, S2L comes
                                    preloaded with a story illustrating the skills necessary to play a
                                    game with a friend.
StoryKit                    Free    Gives users the ability to create story books on their iPad,
                                    iPhone, iPod Touch
Tap To Talk                 Free    Provides children with the ability to communicate their wants
                                    and needs via pictures and words on their device.
Speech & Language Development
ArtikPix                     $59.99* ArtikPix ‐ Full is an articulation app with flashcard and matching
                                     activities for children with speech sound delays.
DAF Assistant                $12.99 DAF Assistant aides to implement Delayed Auditory Feedback
                                     (DAF) and Frequency‐shifting Auditory Feedback (FAF)
                                     techniques that are known to help people with stuttering to
                                     speak more fluently
iConverse                    $12.99 iConverse is an educational tool designed for young children,
                                     autistic individuals, and individuals with other communicative
                                     disabilities, and also toddler‐aged children who have yet to
                                     master language. iConverse comes with 6 built in
                                     communication tiles that represent a person's most basic needs.
                                     When activated by touch, the icons give both an auditory and
                                     visual representation of the specific need or want.
Look2Learn                   $29.99 Look2Learn (L2L), an AAC software application for the iPod
                                     Touch, iPhone, and iPad allows individuals to work at their
                                     communicative level using photographs to express wants and
                                     needs
Pocket SLP Articulation      $36.99 Designed to help with the forming of sounds within words.
Speak It!                    $2.49   An application to turn text to speech. Large amounts of text can
                                     be inputted then ‘spoken’ by this app.
TapSpeak Button              $12.99 TapSpeak Button modernizes the idea of a mechanical switch
                                     that records and plays messages. The idea has been taken and
                                     extended it to provide a portable, convenient, and stigma‐free
                                     tool to use for basic teaching and communication tasks.
                                     Features include:
                                     ‐ Unlimited number of messages
                                     ‐ Unlimited message length
                                     ‐ Configurable button color
                                     ‐ Configurable button tap feedback
                                     ‐ Editing of existing messages
                                     ‐ Full editing of the message list
                                            Visuals
First Then Visual Schedule   $12.99    Visual schedules provide positive behavior support through the
                                       use of images that show daily events(i.e. morning routine or
                                       therapy schedule) or steps needed to complete a specific
                                       activity, (i.e. using the restroom).
iBraille                     Free      Translates English to Braille or Braille to English.
iEarnedThat                  $2.49*    ‐ Add any number of children and set unlimited rewards, no goal
                                       is too big or small.
                                       ‐ You and your child determine the reward and a simple way to
                                       earn it.
                                       ‐ No more confusing and detailed star charts.
                                       ‐ The 3D puzzle helps to teach them about building and earning
                                       rewards
                                       Take a picture, upload photos from your album to create the
                                       child’s reward.
iReward                      $3.99     Provides visual positive reinforcement to complete activities.
Organisation
myHomework                          Free        You can quickly enter your class schedule and use it to differ
                                                between homework assignments. myHomework will also notify
                                                you when you have late and upcoming assignments by
                                                numbering them on your application icon. Late assignments will
                                                be marked in red, next day upcoming assignments will be
                                                marked in orange, and all other upcoming assignments will be
                                                marked in blue. So you can easily identify which homework you
                                                definitely need to look into.

*This application also comes in a ‘lite’ version which is free of charge.
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