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Cool Apps
Happy New Year! As the year gets started, we know many of you recently received cool technology gadgets and tools and we definitely know the students we serve are using them already!
With the help of Pathfinders for Autism, we have shared a list of helpful programs and applications below (many of them free!) that we think you will love! Enjoy....
abc PocketPhonics: letter sounds and writing + first words by Apps in My Pocket, LLC
Aimed at preschool kids and older children up to 7, PocketPhonics uses animated graphics, sound and touch to teach children letter sounds, how to write letters, and how to blend sounds.
$1.99
Angry Octopus by Red Piston
Children relate to the Angry Octopus in this story as the sea child shows him how to take a deep breath, calm down, and manage his anger.
$7.99
ArtikPix Full by Rinn Apps
ArtikPix - Full is an engaging articulation app with flashcard and matching activities for children with speech sound delays. Children use ArtikPix - Full to practice sounds independently, with a speech-language pathologist or their parents.
$29.99
Assistive Chat by Assistive Apps
Assistive Chat is designed to be simple and efficient, allowing users to communicate at the fastest rate possible, with natural sounding voices. Features include adaptive learning of new vocabulary into the word prediction list and a recent list for quick access to previously spoken sentences.
$24.99
Autism Colors by ZBobbsApps.com
This is Dr. Gary Brown's Autism/DTT Color App. This app uses Discrete Trial Training (DTT) to help your child learn the basic colors.
$19.99
Autism News Reader by Splaysoft, LLC
Autism News Reader grabs the top stories from autism health news and information sites and delivers them to your iPhone.
$0.99
Autism Timer by Rouge41
A digital timer that shows the elapsed time. You can set three different times for green/yellow/red zone. When the timer is done, it beeps/vibrates and shows the black and white square flag.
$2.99
AutismTrack™ by HandHold Adaptive, LLC
AutismTrack™ is a portable, customizable data tracking tool that empowers caregivers of those with autism to easily track interventions, behaviors and symptoms. Checkboxes allow daily recording of any therapy, medicine, or diet.
$49.99
AutismXpress by StudioEmotion Pty Ltd
AutismXpress is designed to encourage people with autism to recognize and express their emotions through its fun and easy to use interface.
Free
Chore Pad HD by Nannek
Chore Pad provides each user with their own weekly chore chart which automatically shows the current week, highlights the current day, and tracks star and checkmark totals.
$4.99
Chore Pad Lite- Free
Dragon Dictation by Nuance Communications
Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages. You can also dictate status updates directly to your Social Networking applications (Facebook and Twitter) or send notes and reminders to yourself.
Free
Evernote by Evernote
Evernote turns the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad into an extension of your brain, helping you remember anything and everything that happens in your life. From notes to ideas to snapshots to recordings, put it all into Evernote and watch as it instantly synchronizes from your iPhone to your Mac or Windows desktop.
Free
Faces iMake by iMagine Machine
Choose from around 150 everyday objects and put them on top of 20 head shapes bases to create a face. You can share to Facebook, email them, assign to contacts, or save to your iPhone gallery.
Lite - free
Premium - $1.99
First-Then Visual Schedule by Good Karma Applications
The First-Then Visual Schedule application offers a support strategy 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).
$9.99
FirstWords: Animals by Learning Touch
More than just a game, it is a sophisticated learning tool that engages your child, encourages exploration, and helps them begin building a deep understanding of the relationships between letters and words. A variety of options let you adjust the difficulty level to match the abilities of your younger or older kids.
$1.99
Grace by Steven Troughton-Smith
A simple picture exchange system developed by and for non-verbal people allowing the user to communicate their needs by building sentences from relevant images. It can be customized by the individual using their picture and photo vocabulary with the user taking and saving pictures independently to the app.
$37.99
Hidden Curriculum for Kids by Autism Asperger Publishing Company (AAPC)
Some people seem to learn the hidden curriculum almost automatically. Others learn it only by direct instruction. This includes children with autism spectrum disorders. These real-life based entries spur conversations about the countless "unwritten social rules" that we encounter every day that can cause confusion and anxiety.
$1.99
iAllowance Pro by Jump Gap Software
Manage your child's finances and teach him or her about saving and spending money. Whether you want to set up a weekly allowance or pay out a special reward, iAllowance handles everything for you with an eye-pleasing and easy-to-use interface.
$0.99
iComm by Bappz
The iComm (short for I Communicate) is an app providing an affordable, custom built and easy to use communication system using pictures and words - both written and spoken. It is ideal for children under three until they are able to express their needs through well formed speech. The iComm is also very useful for children with a broad range of disabilities who have trouble communicating.
Free
iCommunicate by Grembe, Inc.
iCommunicate allows the user to create pictures, storyboards, customized audio, flashcards, and visual prompts. Uses include visual schedules and routines, reinforcement for turn taking, choice making, and preparation for transitions. Now over 10,000 SymbolStix available.
$49.99
IEP Checklist by Nurvee, LLC
IEP Checklist is a tool for parents and teachers to consider as they develop the IEP. The IEP Checklist is sponsored by The Parent Educational Advocacy Training Center (PEATC). Not every item on the checklist is required by special education regulations.
Free
iPrompts® by HandHold Adaptive, LLC
iPrompts® includes several easy-to-use, visual prompting templates (no audio prompts or voice output) to help individuals transition from one activity to the next, understand upcoming events, make choices, and focus on the task at hand. Includes picture schedules, visual countdown timer, choice prompts and an image library.
$49.99
iReward by Grembe, Inc.
Choose the behavior you are trying to reinforce, choose your reward, and then choose the number of times the behavior needs to be completed before the reward is earned, and track the progress. You can take a picture with your camera, or select a picture from the camera roll, which will provide extra motivation or reminders about the goal.
$4.99
iWriteWords by GDI Plus
iWriteWordsteaches your child how to write in an easy and fun way. Help Mr. Crab collect the numbers in sequence by dragging him with your finger - and drawing the letter at the same time. Once all the letters in the word are drawn properly, a cute drawing appears.
$2.99
Jungle Coins by Andrew Short
Usability tested with kids ages 5 and up, Jungle Coins is effective at teaching kids coin math in a visual way.
$2.99
LEGO Creationary by The LEGO®Group
"Roll" the LEGO Dice to find out which of the 4 randomly selected categories you'll be guessing: nature, vehicles, buildings, or things. The game starts building an object from that category out of LEGO bricks, and you have to guess which of the four possible answers is correct by tapping the illustration that you think matches what is being built.
Free
Look2Learn by MDR, Inc.
Allows individuals to work at their communicative level using photographs to express wants and needs. The easy to use system integrates preloaded vocal output so that individuals can use their "voice". In addition, users are able to record their own personalized audio and pair it with photos.
$24.99
Look in My Eyes by FizzBrain
The game rewards players for quickly focusing in on a person's eyes. Through repeated practice we attempt to develop a habit that families can transfer to real life settings as they remind children to use the skills they have practiced in the game. Different themed apps include restaurant, undersea, dinosaurs, car mechanic, and toy box.
$2.99 each
MathBoard by Palaware
MathBoard is appropriate for all ages from kindergarten (with simple addition and subtraction problems) to elementary school where learning multiplication and division can be a challenge. You can control the range of numbers you want to work with, the amount of questions you want to answer and even assign a time limit per quiz.
$3.99
Model Me Going Places by Model Me Kids, LLC
A visual teaching tool for helping your child learn to navigate challenging locations in the community. Each location contains a photo slideshow of children modeling appropriate behavior at the following locations: hairdresser, mall, doctor, playground, grocery store, and playground.
Free
My Choice Board by Good Karma Applications
Images are selected based on preference of the user and displayed on the choice board (Example: Free time activity choices). The individual touches the preferred choice to show their preference (use the computer). The preferred selection is then displayed in the "I want" strip at the top of the application screen.
$9.99
MyTalkTools Mobile by 2nd Half Enterprises, LLC
Your purchase provides access to both MyTalk Mobile and MyTalk Workspace. Together, they represent a major breakthrough in augmentative, alternative communications (AAC) by making it easy to customize how you communicate through a variety of images, pictures, symbols, and audio files including human voice.
$39.99
NLConcepts Autism: Sort and Categorize by Natural Learning Concepts
There are 16 different categories. Wait for a card to appear and then touch the appropriate category. Example if a bear card appears, touch the animal box. If you get the answer correct, a motivating sound is played and a new card appears. If you get the answer incorrect, it will beep and you can try again.
Free
Pictello by AssistiveWare
Pictello offers a simple way to create talking photo albums and talking books. Each page in a Pictello Story can contain a picture, up to five lines of text, and a recorded sound or text-to-speech using high-quality voices. Stories can be shared using iTunes File Sharing or via WiFi with other Pictello users through a free account on the Pictello Sharing Server.
$14.99
Proloquo2go™ by AssistiveWare
Proloquo2Go™ provides a full-featured communication solution for people who have difficulty speaking. It brings natural sounding text-to-speech voices, up-to-date symbols, powerful automatic conjugations, a default vocabulary of over 7,000 items, full expandability, and extreme ease of use to the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
$189.99
Receptive Identification by kindergarten.com
These conversational lessons teach a child to talk about things rather than just labeling them. The apps use behavorial techniques that are based on the principles of applied behavior analysis (ABA) using a verbal behavior (VB) approach.
$0.99 per app
Scene Builder by FizzBrain
Some children need more practice being creative and flexible. We know that some children struggle with imaginary play. "Scene Builder" gives these children a chance to practice creative and imaginary play - instead of just trying to beat the next level. Themed apps include car mechanic, undersea, and restaurant.
$0.99 each app
Smarty Ears by Smarty Ears, LLC
All of the apps on this site were developed by an ASHA Certified Speech Pathologist to help parents and speech therapists improve the communication skills (fluency, articulation, language, etc) of children with speech and language difficulties.
Prices vary by app
Social Skills by MDR, Inc.
Social Skills (S2L) offers parents and educators the ability to interact with 12 social narratives designed to help individuals improve their social ability. The stories contain targeted instruction in: joint attention; non-verbal communication; greetings; structured game play; turn taking; classroom rules; and imitation.
$6.99
Speak It! Text to Speech by Future Apps, Inc.
Copy emails, documents, web pages, PDF files, and more; paste them into Speak it!, and have the text spoken back to you. You can also create the same quality audio files of the text to speech which can then be emailed.
$1.99
Stories2Learn by MDR, Inc.
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.
$13.99
Story Buddy by John Cotant
Create and read stories with the power of multi-touch on the iPad. Draw directly on the iPad's screen with your finger and create a picture book page by page. Flip through your book with a swipe or a tap, and share with your friends and family. You can even save your story into iBooks for a future read. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/storybuddy/id390538762?mt=8#
$2.99
Story Patch by Haywood Soft, LLC
Children create their own picture books with hundreds of included images, easy-to-use controls, the ability to import photos, and the option to use pre-set themes.
$4.99
TapSpeak Button for iPad by TapSpeak, LLC
TapSpeak Button facilitates learning cause and effect relationships. Features include unlimited number of messages and message length, and configurable button color and button tap feedback.
$9.99
TapSpeak Choice for iPad by TapSpeak, LLC
Quickly and easily create sets of message grids from a child's vocabulary. Drag and drop page editing. Dynamic grid sizing as you add messages. Three scanning modes using screen as a switch. DynaVox/Mayer-Johnson PCS library included.
$99.99
TapSpeak Sequence for iPad by TapSpeak, LLC
TapSpeak Sequence offers sequential recording and playback of songs, stories, nursery rhymes, and other messages.
$29.99
Tap to Talk by Assistxy LLC
You customize what your child sees and hears in TapToTalk on a web site called TapToTalk Designer. With it, you build "albums" that fit your child's needs. For example, an album can be for home, school or even one just devoted to his favorite foods. When you're done designing, you "publish" your albums to your device.
$99.95/year
TempleGrandin by the Autism Research Institute
This application retrieves information, such as Dr. Grandin's articles, speaking appearances, and information on how to order her books, from one of her websites, www.TempleGrandin.com, and presents it in an easy-to-read format. Also available for Android.
Free
Time Timer by Time Timer, LLC
It's disappearing red-disk allows individuals to actually see time, making the passage of time obvious and tangible. Simply set the Time Timer to the length of your activity. And as time elapses, the red-disk gradually gets smaller.
$4.99
Toy Story Read-Along by Disney Publishing Worldwide
A fully interactive reading experience packed with games, movie clips, coloring pages, sing-along tunes, and surprises on every page. Hear the story read aloud, record your own narration, or explore at your own pace.
Free
Virtuoso Piano Free 2 HD by Peterb
The perfect free piano to learn the basics of music or just having fun.
Free
Prices are subject to change. © January, 2011 Pathfinders for Autism
Behavioral Directions LLC does not endorse any products.
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