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For some years now, there have been available specific applications for people with autism or other special needs (typically for Windows environments) as well as specific devices (SGD – Speech Generation Device, AAC – Augmentative and Alternative Communication) and material kits (for example, paper card sets with different images as a support for communication), mostly in English and with prices that often get up into the hundreds or thousands of dollars.
But in recent years, aware of the opportunities provided by the new touch screen devices such as the iPhone, the iPod touch and the IPad, as well as other systems like those based on Google’s Android, dozens of applications have appeared for these devices, again mostly in English, but at prices usually ranging between 0 and less than 50 dollars. In addition, there are already thousands of educational and leisure applications not specifically developed for individuals with ASD but which may also be very useful for them.
Overall, therefore, the picture begins to be overwhelming. So the first thing I present here is a series of application categories and a list of applications for each of these categories. The categories are only indicative, and some applications could be included in more than one category (something specially true with some apps devoted to learning language and communicating, for example). There are apps specifically designed for people with autism and other which are aimed to help people with special needs in general or that are even totally generic. Our intention is to test each one and publish in-depth reviews of them in this blog. Meanwhile, this post will be updated with new applications continuously.
How to Read the List
The list is divided into 14 categories. For each one, there is an application table with the following columns:
- App logo.
- iPad version data: app name and prices in dollars and euros.
- iPhone / iPod touch version data (same fields). In case this app also supports the iPad, this cell and the previous one will be combined. If the iPad or the iPhone are not supported, an “x ” is shown (but keep in mind that iPhone apps can be used in an iPad using the “2x” display mode).
- Link to the iTunes webpage and to the iTunes app page
- Website with more information on the app provided by the developer or its distributor.
- List of languages supported by the app.
- A link to the review of the application published in this blog, if it is already written (represented with the “TEST” logo).
- A short description of the app. This is NOT meant to be a well-thought summary but only an indication of its functionality.
Regarding the iTunes links, they are always like this:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aacspeechbuddy/id398117401
Just change “/us/” by “/gb/”, “/au/” … to see the corresponding webpage to any other country supported by iTunes.
There are already many apps, so when I add a new one I include a “NEW” logo inside its cells and leave it there for at least 2 months. This way, you can come back to this post from time to time and see rapidly which apps have been added.
The Entire List
1. COMMUNICATION WITH IMAGES / AAC
Apps created to support communication based on images, usually offering a set of pre-loaded images (between dozens and thousands) but allowing also to add many others, to group them into categories, to add audio clips, etc., or apps that provide other forms of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC).
3. TEXT-TO-SPEECH / AAC
Text-to-speech (TTS) apps that allow you to type or select words or phrases which are then converted to a human voice. These apps with an iPad or iPhone can be considered equivalent to an SGD (Speech Generation Device). They also are categorized as AAC. One key aspect, which also largely determines the price, is the type of voice generated. It can be “metallic” or “natural” (based on thousands of stored audio clips, even for voices of men and women). Supported languages are critical. I do not include apps for translating texts, apps to read emails, web pages, etc, or those apps with very low prices that offer only a very simple synthesized speech without any other feature.
4. EMOTIONS
Apps for describing emotions or showing typical facial expressions, emotion recognition exercises, etc.
5. SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
Apps that show correct social behaviors or skills, or common community situations. They are typically based on multimedia presentations or video clips (video modeling).
6. ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE
A variety of apps that help to develop oral and/or written language (even to validate sentences). Some apps are simply vocabulary flashcards accompanied by audio clips. Others include vocabulary exercises or even phrase creation practice. Supported languages are critical. The frontier with generic learning applications is diffuse.
7. LANGUAGE THERAPY / ARTICULATION / SLP
These are tools to practice the pronunciation of certain phonemes and spoken language in general, and are usually presented as applications to treat SLP (Speech Language Pathologies). Supported languages are critical.
8. THERAPIES SUPPORT / DTT / ABA
Applications to perform exercises based on DTT (Discrete Trial Teaching) or ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis), as categorizations, generalizations or practicing receptive language. Some let you set the exercises to perform, execute them and record the results.
9. MOTOR SKILLS / EYE CONTACT
Apps to practice motor skills (fine motor skills, oral motor skills, etc.) or just to practice the gestures necessary to use a touch device or even eye contact, smile or dance.
10. TOKEN REINFORCEMENT / TOKEN ECONOMY
Apps that allow you to define a prize (for example, an image or a text) and a series of actions to perform in order to get it. These are generic applications aimed at all children, but used especially for people with autism.
11. TIMERS / TURN TAKERS
Apps -mostly generic- that allow you to set up a timer or take turns in a particularly graphic way.
12. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS
Database apps created to collect data (typically on the behavior of people) and then even to analyze that data (generating trends and graphics), send it e-mail or share it via the Internet. Some of them allow you to monitor medications and diets. Some are fairly generic applications.
13. AUTISM TESTS & OTHER APPS
Autism tests and other apps difficult to be categorized.
14. LEISURE AND LEARNING
As explained in the post titled Leisure and learning apps, there are thousands of applications non-specific to people with special needs but that can be very useful for them. To compile a list of these applications would be endless. In the mentioned post we’ve included links to some long lists of such applications, and here we simply list those we have just found and had time to review in iAutism, so it can be easier to find the respective reviews.
Apps created to support communication based on images, usually offering a set of pre-loaded images (between dozens and thousands) but allowing also to add many others, to group them into categories, to add audio clips, etc., or apps that provide other forms of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC).
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ✘ | 2CanTalk $14.99 / €11.99 |  |  | Noodle Me This | AAC based on pictures and audio clips | |
 | AAC - Scroll and Speak $49.99 / €39.99 | ✘ | | | Speech Concepts, LLC | AAC that combines pictures, words, phrases, text-to-speech, male and female voices, most frequent words/phrases, folders, ... | |
 | AACSpeechBuddy $39.99 / €31.99 | | | CodeDimensions | AAC based on images; 2,000 symbols and Web image repository | ||
 | Ablah HD $18.99 / €14.99 | Ablah $18.99 / €14.99 | |   | Juan Carlos González Montesino | AAC based on images; 44 preloaded | |
 | Alexicom AAC Free Some advanced services are $40 per month | | | Alexicom Tech LLC | AAC based on 7,000 images; online service | ||
 | Alexicom Elements Child Home (Female) $19.99 / €15.99 | ✘ | | | Alexicom Tech LLC | Collections of linked augmentative communication pages with images and text for a child/teenager in the home environment. Core 280 includes 280 frequent words (text only), and Story Maker has 3 story templates for entering your own stories for retell. | |
| Alexicom Elements Child Home (Male) $19.99 / €15.99 | ✘ | | |||||
| Alexicom Elements Core 280 (Female) $9.99 / €7.99 | ✘ | | |||||
| Alexicom Elements Core 280 (Male) $9.99 / €7.99 | ✘ | | |||||
| Alexicom Elements Story Maker $9.99 / €7.99 | ✘ | | |||||
| Alexicom Elements Teen Home (Female) $19.99 / €15.99 | ✘ | | |||||
| Alexicom Elements Teen Home (Male) $19.99 / €15.99 | ✘ | | |||||
 | Answers:YesNo HD $3.99 / €2.99 | Answers:YesNo $0.99 / €0.79 | | | SimplifiedTouch | Yes/No and other similar buton choices | |
| Answers:YesNo Free Free | | ||||||
 | Attainment Switch $4.99 / €3.99 | | | Attainment Company, Inc. | Turns an iOS device into a wireless accessibility switch | ||
 | Augie AAC $159.99 / €119.99 | ✘ | | | Intervention Development LLC | AAC plus schedules and other functions | |
 | ✘ | Autism 5-Point Scale EP Free | | | Autism Society of Minnesota | Simple app to communicate the level of anxiety and needs in a high stress situation utilizing a 5 point scale | |
 | AutisMate $49.99 / €39.99 | ✘ | | | SpecialNeedsWare LLC. |  | Communication, visual scheduling, and video modeling tool. It allows to communicate through familiar scenes that can include video and audio clips, symbols, and social stories. 12,000 symbols included, custom voice recordings, and synthesized voice. Content can be shared between iPads. Generalization by assigning multiple phrases to the same image. |
 | AutoVerbal Pro Talking Soundboard $19.99 / €15.99 | | | No Tie, LLC | AAC based on 100's of built-in phrases with text to speech and icons | ||
| AutoVerbal GirlTalk $9.99 / €7.99 | | ||||||
| AutoVerbal GuyTalk $9.99 / €7.99 | | ||||||
| AutoVerbal Español $9.99 / €7.99 | | | |||||
| AutoVerbal Français $9.99 / €7.99 | |  | |||||
 | Baluh $5.99 / €4.99 | |  | Baluh | | AAC based on images with 400 preloaded and access to a website with thousands more | |
 | Click n' Talk $2.99 / €2.39 | | | Intermediate District 287 | Attach text and voice to individual pictures, and organize them in photo albums | ||
 | ✘ | ComApp Free | | | Special Learning, Inc. | AAC based on images (real pictures) | |
| ComApp.i $39.99 / €31.99 | ComApp.2 $39.99 / €31.99 | | |||||
 | Connect Cards Free | ✘ | | | Smile Kid | AAC based on images stored in your Picasa Web Album. The app speaks aloud the text associated to each image. | |
 | C.P.A. Free | CPA Free | | | CPA | AAC based on images and texts; 600 preloaded | |
 | Custom Boards - Premium $99.99 / €79.99 | ✘ | | | Smarty Ears | Board and activity creator for communicating and learning with 11,000 symbols preloaded | |
 | DIME $74.99 / €59.99 | ✘ | | | Desarrollo e Innovacion Multiplataforma Especial, S.L. | Set of 5 tools: communicator (to form sentences with 3 graphical elements: person, verb and complement), I want / I am (sentences with to be or to want), clock (timer), blackboard (to draw with your fingers), and album (to familiarize with the images). | |
| DIME Lite Free | ✘ | | |||||
 | Discover MyVoice for iOS $49.99 / €39.99 | | | PDAscent Inc | Attach text and voice to individual pictures, and organize them in categories | ||
 | Easy Speak HD - AAC $49.99 / €39.99 | ✘ | | | Pocket Apps Canada Inc. | AAC based on pictures and audio clips with 800 preloaded symbols | |
 | ✘ | Expressionist $9.99 / €7.99 | | | AdastraSoft | Combines pictures to illustrate expressions and concepts (1,000) | |
 | Expressive $25.99 / €20.99 | | | Smarty Ears | | AAC based on pictures and audio clips with 600 preloaded symbols | |
 | ✘ | Fat Cat Snappy Chat $0.99 / €0.79 | | | Point-and-Read, Inc. | A funny AAC app to practice 160 common phrases and their pictos | |
| Fat Cat Pirate Chat $0.99 / €0.79 | | ||||||
 | ✘ | Flashables 50 English Audio Free | | | Hotsource ESD | 50 flashcards with audio | |
| Chinese Free | |  | |||||
| Japanese Free | |  | |||||
 | Functional Communication System $49.99 / €39.99 | ✘ | | | The Conover Company | Customizable, video-based communication tool that combines real images, audio and video rather than symbol. 500 core vocabulary words. | |
 | GoTalk Now $79.99 / €62.99 | ✘ | |  | Attainment Company, Inc. | AAC based on images and sound with TTS in 20 languages | |
 | Grace - Picture Exchange for Non-Verbal People $37.99 / €29.99 | | | Steven Troughton-Smith | | AAC based on building sentences from relevant images | |
 | Grid Player2012 Free (not The Grid 2 service) | | | Sensory Software International Ltd | Client app for The Grid 2 system (12,000 Widgit Symbols), allowing to play your grids on iPad or use 3 complete grid sets with 2,000 words and 100 phrases. Natural male and female voices and word prediction. | ||
 | I Click I Talk - Single Student $39.99 / €31.99 | | | TOOKTY LLC | AAC based on images, text and sound; 500 preloaded | ||
| I Click I Talk - Multi Student $89.99 / €69.99 | | ||||||
| I Click I Talk - Compact $3.99 / €2.99 | | ||||||
| Yo Click Yo Hablo $9.99 / €7.99 | | | |||||
| Yo Click Yo Hablo - UN ESTUDIANTE $4.99 / €3.99 | | ||||||
| Parla con un click Mono Studente $39.99 / €31.99 | |  | |||||
| Parla con un click Multi Studente $89.99 / €69.99 | | ||||||
| Parla con un click Compact $3.99 / €2.99 | | ||||||
| I Click I Talk - Mini $19.99 / €15.99 | | | |||||
| Parla con un click Mini $19.99 / €15.99 | | ||||||
 | i-Lexis HD $19.99 / €15.99 | i-Lexis $11.99 / €9.99 | | | Alessandro Benedettini | | AAC based on images, scenarios, text and sound; 265 preloaded |
| i-Lexis HD Lite Free | i-Lexis Lite | | |||||
| i-Lexis HD (ITA) $19.99 / €15.99 | i-Lexis (Italian Version) $11.99 / €9.99 | | | ||||
| i-Lexis HD Lite (ITA) Free | i-Lexis Lite (Italian Version) Free | | |||||
 | ✘ | iAssist Communicator $29.99 / €23.99 | | | The iAssist Company - Cyndy Hayes | | AAC based on images and sound; 240 preloaded |
 | ✘ | iComm Free | | | Bappz Ltd. | AAC based on images and sound | |
 | ✘ | iConverse - Assisted Communication $9.99 / €7.99 | | | Xcellent Creations, Inc. | AAC based on images, text and sound | |
 | iGreet You $0.99 / €0.79 | | | Smarty Ears | Simple communication aid for children who need to work on greetings | ||
 | ✘ | iInteract $8.99 / €6.99 | | | iJaz Software | Basic board communication system | |
 | ✘ | iPACS $9.99 / €7.99 | | | AdastraSoft | AAC based on images and sound with TTS | |
 | iPicto $1.99 / €1.59 | | | Erwin van den Hout | AAC based on 4,500 pictograms, with e-mail | ||
| iPicto Lite Free | | ||||||
 | iSpeak Button $3.99 / €2.99 | | | Goatella | Record any message you want, and play it back with the touch of a button | ||
| Touch Switch $3.99 / €2.99 | | ||||||
 | ✘ | iTalker for Augmentated and Assisted Communication $9.99 / €7.99 | | | Andreas Bungert | Record and play back many audio files and associate images to them | |
 | ✘ | Let's Talk! $2.99 / €2.39 | | | Toriken Media Information Lab | AAC based on pictures | |
 | ✘ | Lil Rhino Says $0.99 / €0.79 | | | rhinoceros inc | Basic AAC app that allows anyone to communicate hunger, thirst, quick yes or no answer, notify someone if a bathroom break is needed and alert someone if they are in trouble. | |
 | ✘ | Look2Learn - AAC $14.99 / €11.99 | | | MDR Inc. | AAC based on pictures; 80 preloaded; sound | |
 | MetaTalk $179.99 / €129.99 | ✘ | | | Cidar Health Care LLC | AAC based on Metacom 5 symbols | |
| MetaTalkLite $9.99 / €7.99 | ✘ | | |||||
| MetaTouch $29.99 / €23.99 | ✘ | | |||||
| MetaTalkDE $179.99 / €129.99 | ✘ | | | ||||
 | ✘ | My Choice Board $9.99 / €7.99 | | | Good Karma Applications, Inc. | Image-based choice system | |
 | My First AAC $24.99 / €19.99 | ✘ | | | Injini | AAC based on pictures and sounds designed for very young children | |
 | My Own Voice $2.99 / €2.39 | | | My Own Voice | AAC based on images and sound | ||
 | ✘ | My Words $9.99 / €7.99 | | | Jafferson Software | AAC based on images and texts | |
 | MyTalkTools Mobile $49.99 / €39.99 | | | 2nd Half Enterprises LLC | AAC based on images and a Web service | ||
| MyTalkTools Mobile Lite Free | | ||||||
 | MyVoice Communication Aid 2012 $189.99 / €139.99 | ✘ | | | MyVoice, Inc. | AAC based on images, text and audio and a Web and positioning service | |
 | ✘ | Parlerai Free (but not the Web service) | | | Parlerai | AAC based on images and a Web service plus behavior and other data recording | |
 | OneVoice - AAC $199.99 / €149.99 | | | Legend | | AAC based on images to generate sentences in text format; over 200 images preloaded; 4 natural voices. | |
| OneVoice - AAC Lite Free | | ||||||
 | PandaPal - Autism Communication System $45.99 / €36.99 | ✘ | | | PandaPal.com | Combination of AAC based on real images with a "first & then" and a schedule board. AAC has 12 categories with 20+ images each one, recorded natural voice, icon size customizable. | |
 | Pics Aloud $4.99 / €3.99 | | | Allan Burrington | AAC based on images; 100 preloaded | ||
| Pics Aloud Lite Free | | ||||||
 | ✘ | Pictogram Dictionary $3.99 / €2.99 | |  | Mindglowing Design | Dictionary with 1,700 pictograms | |
 | Picture AAC $29.99 / €23.99 | | | Hearty SPIN Pte Ltd | AAC based on images and native speaker voice. Options to add own images & voice. Training levels for those new to picture communication systems. | ||
 | ✘ | Picture Card Communication $3.99 / €2.99 | | | Noriya Kobayashi | AAC based on images and sound | |
 | Picture Talk $4.99 / €3.99 | | | Explorer Technologies | AAC based on images | ||
 | PictureCanTalk $34.99 / €27.99 | | | Benster Tan | AAC based on images and sound with TTS | ||
 | ✘ | PocketAAC $99.99 / €79.99 | | | Wonjin Apps | AAC based on images with text to speech and 1,800 symbols | |
| PocketAAC-Lite Free | | ||||||
 | Proloquo2Go $189.99 / €139.99 | | | AssistiveWare B.V. | AAC based on images with text to speech, a vocabulary of 7,000 symbols, conjugations, … | ||
 | Quick Talk AAC $14.99 / €11.99 | | | Digital Scribbler, Inc. | AAC based on categories of pairs of buttons to select phrases and words (100 maximum). 11,000 images and symbols from the Smarty Symbols library. Uses any voice already installed and allows to install third-party voices. | ||
 | Scene Speak $9.99 / €7.99 | ✘ | | | Good Karma Applications, Inc. | AAC based on images-scenes including "sound areas" | |
 | ✘ | SmallTalk Pain Scale Free | | | Lingraphicare, Inc. | Pain descriptions and images from the Wong-Baker Faces Pain Scale | |
| SmallTalk Intensive Care Free | | ||||||
 | So Much 2 Say - Picture Communication $24.99 / €19.99 | ✘ | | | Close 2 Home Apps, LLC | AAC based on images with fast card creation, real pictures and recorded voice, and flexible layout options. | |
 | Sono Flex $99.99 / €79.99 | | | Tobii Technology AB | AAC based on images with 11,000 SymbolStix symbols and 5 natural voices | ||
| Sono Flex Lite Free | | ||||||
| Sono Flex DE $219.99 / €159.99 | | | |||||
| Sono Flex Lite DE Free | | ||||||
 | ✘ | SoundingBoard $49.99 / €39.99 | | | AbleNet, Inc. | AAC based on images which can be combined in boards | |
 | Speak for Yourself $299.99 / €239.99 | ✘ | | | Speak for Yourself LLC | AAC based on images with almost 11,000 Smarty Symbols. Natural voice powered by CereProc's speech system to give voices character, emotion, and personality | |
 | Speakall! Free | ✘ | | | Purdue University | AAC based on images with recordable sound | |
 | Speech Teach $8.99 / €6.99 | | | Mark Jarred | AAC based on images | ||
 | ✘ | Spubble Lite Free | | | Moblue Tech | AAC based on combining icons to create phrases | |
 | Switchamajig Free | ✘ | | | PAW Solutions LLC | Switch controller | |
 | Talk4Me Free | | | Javier Algaba Borrego | AAC based on images; 80 preloaded | ||
 | Talking Cards $28.99 / €22.99 | ✘ | | | Timagine HB | AAC based on images; 450 preloaded | |
 | TalkTablet HD $79.99 / €62.99 | ✘ | | | Gus Communication Devices, Inc. | AAC based on images with 12,000 SymbolStix communication symbols, male and female Neospeech premium voices (English and Latin American Spanish), and multiple vocabularies for multiple users. | |
 | TapSpeak Button Standard for iPad $29.99 / €23.99 | | | TapSpeak, LLC | | Communication application based on touching a single message button (equivalent to a mechanical switch). | |
| TapSpeak Button Plus for iPad $49.99 / €39.99 | | ||||||
| TapSpeak Button $14.99 / €11.99 | | ||||||
 | TapSpeak Choice for iPad $149.99 / €109.99 | ✘ | | | TapSpeak, LLC | AAC based on constructing sequences of images | |
 | TapSpeak Sequence Standard $29.99 / €23.99 | | | TapSpeak, LLC | AAC based on boards containing images with 4,500 preloaded | ||
| TapSpeak Sequence Plus $49.99 / €39.99 | | ||||||
 | TapToTalk Free Optional web service: $99.95 per year or $179.95 "forever" | | | Assistyx LLC | AAC based on 2,500 images plus an optional web service to incorporate 12,000 more. Support for 20 languages. | ||
| TapToTalk Uploader Free | | ||||||
 | TouchChat HD - AAC $149.99 / €109.99 | TouchChat - AAC $149.99 / €109.99 | | | Silver Kite | AAC based on images with text to speech, 5 voices and 12,000 symbols; WordPower series of AAC vocabularies are optional | |
| TouchChat HD - AAC with WordPower $299.99 / €239.99 | TouchChat - AAC with WordPower $299.99 / €239.99 | | |||||
| TouchChat HD - AAC Lite $9.99 / €7.99 | TouchChat - AAC Lite $9.99 / €7.99 | | |||||
 | Use2Talk $79.99 / €62.99 | ✘ | | | Pablo La Roche | AAC based on images and audio clips, and even some video clips that depict daily living actions that help to understand the meaning of action symbols. Includes a basic scheduling function based on images. | |
 | Verbal Victor $6.99 / €5.49 | | | Seed Stage Associates, LLC | AAC based on images | ||
 | ✘ | VocaBeansEN $9.99 / €7.99 | | | VocaBeans LLC | AAC based on images | |
| VocaBeansLite Free | | ||||||
| VocaBeansES $9.99 / €7.99 | | | |||||
| VocaBeansDE $9.99 / €7.99 | | | |||||
| VocaBeansFR $9.99 / €7.99 | | | |||||
 | Voice4u $49.99 / €39.99 | | | Spectrum Visions LLC | | AAC based on images with 150 preloaded icons | |
| Voice4u JP $49.99 / €39.99 | | | |||||
 | Yes-No $1.99 / €1.59 | | | Smarty Ears | AAC for yes/no questions | ||
| Si/No Espanol $1.99 / €1.59 | | | |||||
2. PICTURE SCHEDULING / SOCIAL STORIES / AAC
Apps for showing or constructing sequences of images, typically of actions to perform, to provide a framework known of what to do or what it is going to happen, a schedule of activities to do, etc. Many also allow you to work as AAC, so this category can be considered as a subset of the previous one but consisting on apps with even more features.
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ✘ | AA Visual Schedule $9.99 / €7.99 | | | mHealthCoach2010 | Picture schedules including 100 preloaded images | |
 | ✘ | Autism Scheduler $49.99 / €39.99 | | Special Education Apps | Visual schedules, 89 pre-loaded picture symbols, control of finished taks | ||
 | ✘ | Catalyst N Free | | | Jason Poh | To define and display the day-to-day tasks. | |
 | Choiceworks $14.99 / €11.99 | | | Bee Visual LLC | Tool for helping children complete daily routines (morning, day, and night), understand and control their feelings and improve their waiting skills (taking turns and not interrupting). Based on the Choiceworks Visual Support System. It includes 3 boards (Schedule, Waiting, and Feelings), 3 companion books and 165 preloaded images. | ||
 | ✘ | DayLeaf $1.99 / €1.59 | | Adam Templeton | Simple visual schedules | ||
 | iCommunicate $49.99 / €39.99 | | | Grembe Apps Inc. | | Flashcards, storyboards, routines and visual schedules with custom audio and 100 preloaded images | |
 | ✘ | First Then Visual Schedule $9.99 / €7.99 | | | Good Karma Applications, Inc. | Picture schedules | |
 | Functional Planning System $19.99 / €15.99 | | | The Conover Company | Video-based prompting tool and visual scheduler with step-by-step videos. Over 4,000 images and videos downloadable. | ||
 | iPrompts XL $49.99 / €39.99 | iPrompts $49.99 / €39.99 | | | HandHold Adaptive, LLC | | Picture schedules, visual countdown timers and choice prompts |
 | iScheduler for special needs $0.99 / €0.79 | | | ERP Rules | Scheduler based on list of tasks finished/not finished, and with music voice, stars and fun words when tasks are done. | ||
 | My Pictures Talk - Video Modeling Tool $4.99 / €3.99 | | | Grembe Apps Inc. | Visual stories with images, text, sound and video | ||
 | My Stories $2.99 / €2.39 | ✘ | | | SimplifiedTouch | Visual stories with images, text, and sound | |
 | ✘ | My Video Schedule $18.99 / €14.99 | | | Acceptional Possibilities, LLC. | Combines video modeling within a structured schedule while providing positive reinforcement | |
 | Now What Free | | | Richard Humphrey | Text schedules | ||
 | Pictello $18.99 / €14.99 | | | AssistiveWare B.V. | Talking photo albums and talking books | ||
 | ✘ | Pictoplace Free (not the web service) | | | Autivision | Shows planning information created with the web service | |
 | Picture Scheduler $2.99 / €2.39 | | | Petr Jankuj | Task schedules including time, audio and video clips | ||
 | PictureAssistive $34.99 / €27.99 | | | Benster Tan | Visual schedules with 1000+ picture symbols, recordable voice, text-to-speech, choice boards, story boards, timer, text to image and image editing capabilities. | ||
 | Pocket Picture Planner HD Free (not the Win/Mac app) | Pocket Picture Planner Free (not the Win/Mac app) | | | Cognitopia Software LLC | Shows visual calendars of scheduled activities created in Picture Planner for Windows or Mac | |
 | Scene&Heard $49.99 / €39.99 | | | Therapy Box Limited | Creates scenes, including video, pictures, Widgit symbols (10,000) and audio | ||
| Scene&Heard Lite Free | | ||||||
 | Special Stories $13.99 / €10.99 | |    | Special iApps | Creates stories containing text, pictures and sound. Stories can be printed and sent by e-mail. | ||
 | Speech with Milo: Interactive Storybook $1.99 / €1.59 | | | Doonan Speech Therapy | Interactive story book that allows children to record their own story. | ||
 | Step-by-Step $2.99 / €2.39 | ✘ | | | Cool Tool Apps | Picture schedules that keep track of how long the learner needs to complete each step. | |
 | ✘ | Steps $9.99 / €7.99 | | | AdastraSoft | Checklists and visual schedules, including audio and text to speech | |
 | Stories2Learn $13.99 / €10.99 | | | MDR Inc. | Visual stories | ||
 | ✘ | StoryKit Free | | | ICDL Foundation | Stories using images, drawings and sound clips | |
 | Tapikeo HD $2.99 / €2.39 | Tapikeo Free | | | Jean-Eudes Lepelletier | To create your own combinations or grids of up to 45 pictures, audio, and caption to get customized audio flashcards, talking photo albums, storybooks, talking visual schedules, verbal prompts... Grids can be shared by email. | |
 | TASUC Schedule for iPad $28.99 / €22.99 | TASUC Schedule $20.99 / €16.99 | | | TASUC Inc. & Info Lounge LLC | | Visual scheduler with timers |
 | Time This $5.99 / €4.99 | ✘ | | | Speech Concepts, LLC | Visual scheduler with clock, hourglass and digital timers | |
 | Video Scheduler $12.99 / €10.49 | | | MDR | Picture and video schedules and video modeling. | ||
 | Visual Cue $9.99 / €7.99 | | | Sanghoon Lee | A mix of tools, including prompt using pictures, first…then, which one?, count down and visual scheduler | ||
| Visual Cue Lite Free | | ||||||
 | Visual Prompts Board $9.99 / €7.99 | ✘ | | Garage Angels | A mix of Choice Board, Social Story Aid, Picture Schedules and AAC | ||
 | Visual Routine $5.99 / €4.99 | ✘ | | | Proteon Software | Visual schedules based on images plus text. | |
 | Visual Schedule Planner $14.99 / €11.99 | ✘ | | | Good Karma Applications, Inc | Visual schedule app to give an audio/visual representation of the “events in their day". Events that require more support can be linked to an “activity schedule” or “video clip”. Daily, weekly or via a monthly calendar, timer, checklist, reminders, notes that can be emailed as a PDF, filesharing. | |
 | Visual Working For $4.99 / €3.99 | | | Sanghoon Lee | Simple two-part board that communicates to children what they are doing now and what they will be doing next | ||
| Visual Working For Lite Free | | ||||||
 | ✘ | Visules 2009 $4.99 / €3.99 | | | Dean Huff | Visual cues and checklists | |
 | Work System (Autism) Free | |     | Visual Edvantage | Implementation of a TEACCH work system based on lists of tasks (text only). | ||
3. TEXT-TO-SPEECH / AAC
Text-to-speech (TTS) apps that allow you to type or select words or phrases which are then converted to a human voice. These apps with an iPad or iPhone can be considered equivalent to an SGD (Speech Generation Device). They also are categorized as AAC. One key aspect, which also largely determines the price, is the type of voice generated. It can be “metallic” or “natural” (based on thousands of stored audio clips, even for voices of men and women). Supported languages are critical. I do not include apps for translating texts, apps to read emails, web pages, etc, or those apps with very low prices that offer only a very simple synthesized speech without any other feature.
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Assistive Chat $24.99 / €19.99 | | | Assistive Apps | | Text to speech with word prediction | |
| Assistive Chat German $24.99 / €19.99 | | | |||||
 | Easy Speak $1.99 / €1.59 | | | Farell IT Ltd. | Text to speech with word prediction | ||
 | EZSpeechPRO Female (US) $99.99 / €79.99 | | | Gus Communications Inc. | Text to speech, natural male and female voices, phrases organizer | ||
| EZSpeechPRO Male (US) $99.99 / €79.99 | | ||||||
 | Get Talking – Text To Speech (AAC) $209.99 / €159.99 | | | Agile Computers Limited | Text to speech with word prediction | ||
 | iMean $4.99 / €3.99 | ✘ | | | Michael Bergmann | Letterboard with large easy-to-read keys and word suggestions | |
 | ✘ | Locabulary Pro $129.99 / €94.99 | | | Red Mountain Labs, Inc. | AAC based on words and short phrases with 8 natural voices, vocabulary lists for generic and concrete places, backup and file sharing, ... | |
| Locabulary Lite Free | | ||||||
 | MintyVox AAC - Assistive and Augmentative Communication Aid - Speech Synthesis for Conversation - a Voice with which to Talk $49.99 / €39.99 | | | Mindskate Limited | Text to speech with word prediction, 32,000 words dictionary and natural voice | ||
 | ✘ | NeoJulie Free | | | NeoSpeech, Inc. | Text to speech (3 apps for 3 different voices) | |
| NeoKate Free | | ||||||
| NeoPaul Free | | ||||||
 | New Voice $149.99 / €109.99 | ✘ | | | Remedy Mobile PLLC | AAC based on text (British and American English) with favorite phrases | |
 | Predictable $159.99 / €119.99 | | | Therapy Box Limited | AAC based on text with a word prediction engine | ||
| Predictable Dansk $159.99 / €119.99 | |  | |||||
| Predictable Espanol $159.99 / €119.99 | | | |||||
| Predictable norsk $159.99 / €119.99 | |  | |||||
| Predictable Svensk $159.99 / €119.99 | | | |||||
 | Speak It! Text to Speech $1.99 / €1.59 | | | Future Apps Inc. | Text to speech | ||
 | ✘ | Talk Assist Free | | | Mubaloo Limited | Text to speech | |
 | ✘ | Talk To Me - Text to Speech $1.99 / €1.59 | | | Chris Chauvin | Text to speech | |
 | Typ-O HD - writing is for everybody $14.99 / €11.99 | | | SecondGuess ApS | Text to speech with word prediction | ||
✘ | Typ-O $4.99 / €3.99 | | |||||
 | Verbally Free | ✘ | | | Intuary, Inc. | | AAC based on text with a word prediction and common words and phrases; upgrade adds more options and 3 natural voices |
| Verbally Premium $99.99 / €79.99 | ✘ | | |||||
4. EMOTIONS
Apps for describing emotions or showing typical facial expressions, emotion recognition exercises, etc.
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ✘ | ABA Flash Cards - Emotions Free | | | Kindergarten | Flashcards showing emotions | |
 | ABA Flash Cards & Games - Emotions Free | | | Alligator Apps | 200+ images showing 20 emotions plus games and many features | ||
 | ✘ | Anger $0.99 / €0.79 | | | Bee | A simple scale on which emotional intensity can be mapped. | |
 | ✘ | AutismXpress Free | | | StudioEmotion Pty Ltd. Inc. | Shows 12 basic emotions | |
✘ | AutismXpress Pro $1.99 / €1.59 | | |||||
 | emotion x $0.99 / €0.79 | | | Dunedin Multimedia Ltd. | Shows the 30 most commom emotion expressions | ||
 | Emotions and Feelings Social Story $2.99 / €2.39 | | | Touch Autism | A social story about different emotions and feelings, and a simple visual support for asking how someone is feeling, or identifying feelings or emotions. | ||
 | ✘ | face-cards B Free | | | Dunedin Multimedia Ltd. | Face-cards portraying the most common emotions | |
| face-cards C Free | | ||||||
| face-cards F Free | | ||||||
| face-cards G Free | | ||||||
| face-cards H Free | | ||||||
 | ✘ | Facial Expression Recognition Training $0.99 / €0.79 | | | InHo Choi | Matching game for six basic facial expressions | |
| FERT2.0 $0.99 / €0.79 | | ||||||
 | ✘ | Face Reader $4.99 / €3.99 | | | Paul Dabrowski | Training tool for the seven basic emotions | |
 | Feel Electric! Free | | | Sesame Workshop Apps | Uses content and curriculum from The Electric Company to provide opportunities to explore emotional vocabulary and self-expression. Includes 3 vocabulary-based games, a digital diary, and a glossary of 50 emotion vocabulary words. | ||
 | ✘ | Feelings Book $14.99 / €11.99 | | | Communication Crossroads, Inc. | Game for identifying, understanding and regulating emotions | |
 | How Are You? $0.99 / €0.99 | ✘ | | | zuuka! GmbH | Episodes, games and activities to teach feeling | |
 | iTouchiLearn Feelings for Preschool Kids $1.99 / €1.59 | | | Staytooned | Six fun activities that identify core feelings and improve communication skills. With animations that demonstrate cause and effect feelings and emotions and audio directions to facilitate learning and aid children with speech difficulties. | ||
 | iVenting Free | ✘ | | | IdeaBlocks, Inc. | Full-body emotion images by categories | |
 | Micro-Expression Trainer $3.99 / €2.99 | | | Mario Micklisch | Facial images of the seven basic expressions | ||
 | ✘ | Moody Me - Mood Diary and Tracker Free | | | Med Help | Track moods, take pictures, play a slideshow to feel better, and show your evolutions over time. | |
 | ✘ | Smurks $3.99 / €2.99 | | | Iconicast LLC | Allows you to show intensity and nuance of emotion by using your finger to morph a face. | |
 | ✘ | Teach Emotions $4.99 / €3.99 | | | mHealthCoach2010 | Facial emotions, option to record voice | |
 | That's how I feel $2.99 / €2.39 | ✘ | | | Smarty Ears, LLC | Body images (AAC style) to express emotions | |
 | Touch and Learn - Emotions Free | | | Alligator Apps | 100 images showing emotions plus games and many features | ||
 | ✘ | What’s the Expression - Autism Series $0.99 / €0.79 | | | WebTeam Corporation | Learn about various emotions using facial expressions; part of Shanesh COLORS app series based on discrete trial part of ABA | |
 | ✘ | Wonkido Mood Journal $0.99 / €0.79 | | | Brighter Futures for Beautiful Minds | Mood journal to register up to 8 different emotions and the reason for them. | |
5. SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
Apps that show correct social behaviors or skills, or common community situations. They are typically based on multimedia presentations or video clips (video modeling).
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | A Sunny Day 2011 Free | ✘ | | Fee Tan | Behaviors in daily life using DTT and games | ||
 | ✘ | Asking to Play eBook for iPhone2012 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Brighter Futures For Beautiful Minds | E-book with interactive audio about how to ask a friend to play with you. | ||
 | Assistive Chat :D - Chat with Virtual Friends at the Beach! AAC 2011 $29.99 / €23.99 | | Mindskate Limited | Chat with virtual friends | |||
 | ✘ | autism app 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 | | Spurwink Services | Scenarios about every day communication | ||
 | Calm Counter- Anger Management Tool and Social Story for Autism, Down Syndrome and Special Needs 2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Touch Autism | Visual and audio tool to help people calm down when they are angry or anxious | |||
 | Clothing Store Signs and Words HD / Community Signs and Words HD / Dress HD / Emergency Signs and Words HD / Entertainment in the Community HD / Entertainment in the Home HD / Grocery Signs and Words HD / Grooming HD / Hygiene HD / Information Labels HD / Information Signs and Words HD / Pharmacy Signs and Words HD / Public Transportation Signs and Words HD / Restaurant Signs and Words HD / Safety Signs and Words HD / School Signs and Words HD / Shopping Signs and Words HD / Survival Signs and Words HD / Words That Direct HD / Life Skills Sampler HD 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 "Life Skills Sampler HD" is free | Clothing Store Signs and Words / Community Signs and Words / Dress / Emergency Signs and Words / Entertainment in the Community / Entertainment in the Home / Grocery Signs and Words / Grooming / Hygiene / Information Labels / Information Signs and Words / Pharmacy Signs and Words / Public Transportation Signs and Words / Restaurant Signs and Words / Safety Signs and Words / School Signs and Words / Shopping Signs and Words / Survival Signs and Words / Words That Direct / Life Skills Sampler 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 "Life Skills Sampler" is free | | The Conover Company | 19 apps x 80 videos to teach and reinforce common signs and words | ||
 | Compliments - A Social Story and Speech Tool on How to Give a Compliment for Autism, Aspergers, Down Syndrome and Other Special Needs2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Touch Autism | social story about how and why people give compliments, and a simple visual support for giving compliments. | |||
 | Conversation Social Stories and Simple PECS Communication Tool - Autism, Down Syndrome & Special Needs 2012 $3.99 / €2.99 | | Touch Autism | 4 social stories (greetings, asking someone to play, what to talk about in a conversation and tips for great conversations) and simple communication tool based on buttons with images that play whatever part of the conversation the the story is about. | |||
 | Divorce Social Story - A Social Story for Children about Divorce – Autism, Down Syndrome and Special Needs 2012 $0.99 / €0.79 | | Touch Autism | Social story about divorce and what it means for a child. The app uses simple language and graphics to explain that divorce means parents living in separate houses, and that it’s ok. | |||
 | Communication Skills HD / Everyday Social Skills HD / Initiating Social Skills HD / Manners HD / Personal Social Skills HD / Responding Social Skills HD / Social Skills Sampler HD 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 "Social Skills Sampler HD" is free | Communication Skills / Everyday Social Skills / Initiating Social Skills / Manners / Personal Social Skills / Responding Social Skills / Social Skills Sampler 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 "Social Skills Sampler" is free | | The Conover Company | 6 apps x 80 videos to teach basic social skills | ||
 | Everyday Skills 2010 $39.99 / €31.99 | Everyday Skills - Pocket Edition 2010 $14.99 / €11.99 | | AbleLink Technologies, Inc. | Multimedia learning sessions of 40 skills for living independently | ||
 | FindMe(Autism)2012 Free | ✘ | | Interface3 Limited | Help young children with autism practice simple social skills (ability level equivalent to 18 months or over) by finding the person in each scene. It does not require any language or reading. | ||
 | ✘ | Getting Dressed eBook for iPhone2012 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Brighter Futures For Beautiful Minds | E-book with interactive audio about how to get dressed. | ||
 | ✘ | Going Potty eBook for iPhone2012 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Brighter Futures For Beautiful Minds | E-book with interactive audio to learn how to go potty in the toilet. | ||
 | Going Shopping Social Story – A Story About Good Store Behavior For Children with Autism, Down Syndrome & Special Needs / Using Money and Saving Money - A Social Story to Introduce Basic Money Concepts for Aspergers, Autism, Down Syndrome and other Special Needs2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Touch Autism | 'Going shopping' is a story and simple visual tool aimed towards children who have behaviors in stores caused by always wanting to pick out a toy or treat for themselves to buy. 'Using Money' introduces basic money concepts. | |||
 | ✘ | Hidden Curriculum for Adolescents and Adults 2010 $1.99 / €1.59 | | AAPC Publishing | Examples and suggestions for social relationships, community, money matters, workplace, … | ||
 | ✘ | Hidden Curriculum for Kids 2010 $1.99 / €1.59 | | AAPC Publishing | Examples of conversations for every day situations | ||
 | i See-quence... Christmas / My Schedules at School Social Stories 2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | i See-quence... Birthday Parties / Beach / Christmas / Easter Egg Hunts / Fireworks / Grocery Store / My Classmates / My Day at School / My Schedules at School Social Stories / People at School / People in My Community / Playground 2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | | I Get It, LLC | Sequences of images and instructions about birthday, christmas, fireworks, school, playground, grocery store, beach, classmates, Easter egg hunts, and community | ||
 | iDress for Weather 2012 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Pedro Productions | Shows clothes matching the weather conditions | |||
 | ✘ | iModeling 2011 $9.99 / €7.99 | | Mighty Kingdom | To record video, add notes and an image to them, assign them to a specific child account and see them. | ||
 | iModeling Boundaries2012 $2.99 / €2.39 On April: $0.99 / €0.79 | ✘ | | Mighty Kingdom | Teaches a child the boundaries of touch/relationships using photos of people involved in the child’s life that have to be sorted by the type of relationship. | ||
 | Is that Silly? 2011 $9.99 / €7.99 | | Smarty Ears, LLC | To observe, notice, make a decision & verbalize which ones of the 120 images are silly or not silly. Tracks data and generates a report. | |||
 | iTouchiLearn Musical Morning Routines for Toddler and Preschool Kids / iTouchiLearn Musical Morning Routines for Toddler and Preschool Kids Free 2012 $1.99 / €1.59 "Free" is free | | Staytooned | Animations, games and activity secuences to tech morning routine life skills | |||
 | Joke Telling - A Social Story and Speech Tool on How to Tell Jokes to Increase Social Skills for Aspergers, Autism, Down Syndrome and other Special Needs / Knock Knock Numbers - Joke Telling and Conversations Tool for Autism, Aspergers, Down Syndrome & Special Education2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Touch Autism | 2 social stories about how and why people tell jokes, and a simple visual/audio support for telling knock knock jokes. | |||
 | ✘ | Life Skills Winner 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Wise Mind Studios | Show skills made of tasks and give 'prizes' for doing them | ||
 | Living Safely 2010 $29.99 / €23.99 | Living Safely - Pocket Edition 2010 $19.99 / €15.99 | | AbleLink Technologies, Inc. | Multimedia learning sessions for 27 safety skills | ||
 | Making Sequences 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 | ✘ | | Zorten Software | | Exercises based on sorting sequences of images of daily skills and other topics. You can create new sequences. | |
 | Model Me Going Places 2 2010 Free | Model Me Going Places 2010 Free | | Model Me Kids, LLC | | 6 slideshows for typical community situations | |
 | My Day With WH Words - A Social Story and Speech Tool for Autism, Down Syndrome and Other Special Needs 2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Touch Autism | A social story about talking about one’s day, and a simple visual support for “WH” questions (Who, What, When, Where, Why, How). | |||
 | ✘ | My Healthy Smile 2010 $4.99 / €3.99 | | Fraser | | 12 slideshows for typical dentist situations and oral health | |
 | Using My Words to Ask For What I Want Social Story2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Touch Autism | 13 page social story about using words to ask for what you want, and a simple visual support for manding, or asking for different objects or activities. | |||
 | Off We Go - Going on a Plane HD / Off We Go - Going to the Dentist HD 2011 $3.99 / €2.99 | Off We Go - Going on a Plane / Off We Go - Going to the Dentist 2010 $3.99 / €2.99 | | KIWA International Ltd | | Slideshows with sounds and games related to airplanes and dentists | |
 | Potty Training Social Story - Autism, Down Syndrome & Special Needs 2012 $3.99 / €2.99 | | Touch Autism | Interactive social story about potty training customizable for boys or girls. It includes a FAQ page written by a BCBA analyst to common potty training questions. | |||
 | QuickCues 2012 $4.99 / €3.99 | | Fraser | Textual social scripts for communication, life skills, socializing and mental health | |||
 | ✘ | School Skills 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 | | Lorie Dietz | Common situations at school for people with high functioning autism | ||
 | Social Adventures 2011 $14.99 / €11.99 | | all4mychild | 44 activities of interactions, advocating and negotiating, experiencing humor, negotiating personal space, … Includes memorable visuals, catch phrases and a game. | |||
 | ✘ | Social Navigator 2011 $49.99 / €39.99 | | Seven Minds, LLC | To assist children with social and behavioral challenges in adapting their behavior and developing life-long social skills, addressing social situations at home, at school and in the community. Tracks behaviors and development. | ||
 | Social Skill Builder 2012 Free | | Social Skill Builder, Inc. | Interactive videos to teach key social thinking, language and behavior that are critical to everyday living. | |||
 | ✘ | Social Skills 2010 $3.99 / €2.99 | | MDR Inc. | 12 slideshows of social skills | ||
 | Speech with Milo: Sequencing 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Doonan Speech Therapy | | Flashcards-animations to order sequences of actions | ||
 | Staying Safe and Safer Strangers- A Stranger Danger Social Story for Autism, Down Syndrome & Other Special Needs 2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Touch Autism | 2 community safety social stories (safer strangers and buildings, and what to do if you are lost). | |||
 | Taking Care of My Device Social Story2012 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Touch Autism | Nine page social story about proper care and handling of a device. | |||
 | The Social Express / Free 2011 $44.99 / €35.99 "Lite" is free | ✘ | | The Language Express, Inc | | Teaches children how to think about and manage social situations through video modeling, thus enabling them to build social-emotional skills and develop meaningful relationships. It includes hidden rules, Social Thinking® concepts, self-regulation, and problem solving to help the user and adult put it all together. | |
 | TherAd for Autism 2011 $14.99 / €11.99 | | Data Makes the Difference, LLC | Show leisure videos between video modelling clips, in both cases to be added by the user | |||
 | Walk With Me...Bus Travel 2011 $9.99 / €7.99 | | Cordou Limited | A series of real images along with audio to help the user to take the bus step by step. | |||
6. ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE
A variety of apps that help to develop oral and/or written language (even to validate sentences). Some apps are simply vocabulary flashcards accompanied by audio clips. Others include vocabulary exercises or even phrase creation practice. Supported languages are critical. The frontier with generic learning applications is diffuse.
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ✘ | ABA Flash Cards - Actions / ABA Flash Cards ( Alphabet / Emotions / Earth Science / Famous Places / Fruits & Nuts / Musical Instruments / Shapes / Sports / Things You Eat / Things You Play With / Things You Wear / Vegetables / Vehicles / Zoo Animals ) 2009 Free | | Kindergarten | | 15 apps with collection of flashcards with sounds | |
 | ABA Therapy Images 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 | ABA Therapy Images Mobile / ABA First Words 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 | | SlingSpace, LLC | Photos in 3 categories and flashcards to learn first words. | ||
 | Abilipad 2012 $19.99 / €15.99 | ✘ | | Cheryl Bregman | Combines the functionality of a notepad with word prediction, text-to-speech and a customizable keyboard | ||
 | ACT Spell 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 | ✘ | | Cool Tool Apps | Customizable vocabulary and spelling exercises | ||
 | Aeir Talk 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 | ✘ | | Aeir Bio Logic, LLC | Flashcard-based exercises to learn words and numbers but also to construct complete sentences using pictures and audio in a very graphical way. | ||
 | Alphaboard 2010 $9.99 / €7.99 | ✘ | | AdastraSoft | To transition from alphabet board to computer keyboard | ||
 | Animal Zoo - Flash Cards & Games / Flash Cards for Kids - First Food Words / My First Words - Flashcards by Alligator Apps 2011 Free | | Alligator Apps | 200+ flashcards plus games and many features | |||
 | Autism and PDD Basic Questions2012 $14.99 / €11.99 | ✘ | | Linguisystems Inc | Exercises with basic wh- questions through 5 stories. | ||
 | Big or Small / Lite 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 "Lite" is free | | Sanghoon Lee | Structured way based on ABA to check and teach children’s ability for understanding spoken language and basic concept of size, amount, numbers. | |||
 | Conversation Builder / Deluxe 2011 $9.99 / €7.99 Deluxe: $19.99 / €15.99 | Conversation Builder for iPhone 2011 $5.99 / €4.99 | | Mobile Education Store | Practice conversation patterns with visual aids | ||
 | First Phrases HD / Lite2012 $9.99 / €7.99 'Lite' is free | First Phrases / Lite2012 $9.99 / €7.99 'Lite' is free | | Hamaguchi Apps | To learn how to put two or three words together and basic English phrases. 72 different verb + noun combinations. | ||
 | Flash Cards 2010 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Jason Wentworth | Framework to create and store online flashcards | |||
 | ✘ | Flash Cards Game for Kids 2010 $0.99 / €0.79 | | Sascha Modersitkzi | Preload flashcard app with typical categories for kids | ||
 | Fun With Directions HD / Lite / Fun With Directions HD / Lite2012 $9.99 / €7.99 'Lite' are free | Fun With Directions / Lite / Fun With Directions / Lite2012 $9.99 / €7.99 'Lite' are free | | Hamaguchi Apps | Exercises to practice listening, following directions, colors, spatial concepts, auditory memory and auditory processing. | ||
 | ✘ | HaloTalk 2009 $9.99 / €7.99 | | AdastraSoft | 50 pre-defined response/ adjective commonly used daily | ||
 | House of Learning 2011 $6.99 / €5.49 | ✘ | | Smarty Ears, LLC | Flexible tool for learning and playing. Can be used to teach prepositions, story telling, etc. | ||
 | iPractice Verbs 2012 $9.99 / €7.99 | | Smarty Ears, LLC | Flashcards and exercises to practice 120 verbs | |||
 | iTouchiLearn Numbers for Preschool Kids / Lite / Numbers / Numbers Lite 2012 $1.99 / €1.59 "Lite" are free | | Staytoooned | Activities and games to teach numbers and basic words, with colorful animation, interaction and virtual rewards to motivate and focus attention. | |||
 | Kiddie Questions 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Talking Tails | Who/what/ where/why/ when questions game | |||
 | Language Builder for iPad / Deluxe 2011 $7.99 / €5.99 Deluxe: $7.99 / €5.99 | Language Builder for iPhone 2011 $5.99 / €4.99 | | Mobile Education Store | | Sentence ideation and formation; receptive and expressive language | |
 | Language Forest 2012 $24.99 / €19.99 | | Synapse Apps LLC | Flashcard application where each word in a language is shown as being analogous to a tree with the primary meaning and other related words and real life experiences. | |||
 | Language Lab: Core Words 2011 Free | ✘ | | Prentke Romich Company | Helps early language learners as well as children with expressive language delays who use AAC methods to learn core words/pictures | ||
 | ✘ | Learn to Talk / Learn to Talk Sampler 2010 $1.99 / €1.59 "Sampler" is free | | Wikiela LLC | | 160 flashcards with basic vocabulary | |
 | PCS™ Bingo / PCS™ Memory / PCS™ Rhyming Flash Cards / PCS™ Vocabulary Flash Cards / PCS™ Word Scramble2012 Free (In-App Purchases) | | DynaVox Mayer-Johnson | Set of 5 apps to practice vocabulary, articulation, language and rhyming using the same Picture Communication Symbols (PCS™) used in Dynavox communication devices and other AAC devices. Up to 60 packs of vocabulary at $0.99/€0.79 each one. | |||
 | PicBoard 2012 $7.99 / €5.99 | | Mark Ashley | Boards of picture prompts | |||
 | Picture the Sentence HD / Lite2012 $9.99 / €7.99 'Lite' is free | Picture the Sentence / Lite2012 $9.99 / €7.99 'Lite' is free | | Hamaguchi Apps | Exercises to construct phrases using images and text to practice language and auditory processing tasks at the basic sentence level. | ||
 | Preposition Remix 2011 $9.99 / €7.99 | | Smarty Ears, LLC | Games to practice the 20 most common prepositions | |||
 | Question Builder for iPad 2011 $5.99 / €4.99 | Question Builder 2011 $5.99 / €4.99 | | Mobile Education Store | Question and answer exercises | ||
 | Sentence Builder for iPad / Sentence Builder Teen / Preposition Builder 2012 $5.99 / €4.99 Preposition: $9.99 / €7.99 | Sentence Builder 2011 $5.99 / €4.99 | | Mobile Education Store | Exercises for building grammatically correct sentences | ||
 | ✘ | Speaking Images 2009 $0.99 / €0.79 | | Gp Imp. | Preloaded flashcards app | ||
 | Speech With Milo - Adjectives2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Doonan Speech Therapy | Flashcards-animations to learn 55 adjectives | |||
 | Speech with Milo: Prepositions / (Spanish) Speech with Milo: Prepositions 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Doonan Speech Therapy | Flashcards-animations to learn 100 verbs | |||
 | Speech with Milo: Verbs / (Spanish) Speech with Milo: Verbs 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Doonan Speech Therapy | Flashcards-animations to learn 23 prepositions | |||
 | Story Builder for iPad 2011 $7.99 / €5.99 | Story Builder 2011 $5.99 / €4.99 | | Mobile Education Store | Exercises of narrative creation | ||
 | Study Fly / Study Fly German / Study Fly Multilingual / Study Fly Russian / Study Fly Spanish 2011 $2.99-$9.99 / €2.39-€7.99 | | TheraTech Solutions, LLC | Flash cards with text to speech and access to Quizlet.com to download cards | |||
 | Talk To Me 100 / Free 2011 $5.99 / €4.99 | ✘ | | Sydspeak, Inc. | Teaching app to see words, hear words, understand their meaning and experience communication | ||
 | TalkBoard 2012 $16.99 / €13.99 | | Mark Ashley | "Picboard" app (see above) plus communication aids | |||
 | Talking Flashcards / Talking Flashcards Multilingual 2011 $3.99 / €2.99 | | TheraTech Solutions, LLC | | Flash cards with text to speech and access to Quizlet.com to download cards | ||
 | Touch Talking 2012 $2.99 / €1.99 | ✘ | | Proteon Software | 9 categories of pictures with their associated audio clip | ||
 | Tuneville 2012 Free (in-app purchases) | Tuneville LT 2011 Free (in-app purchases) | | Next Thing Productions, Inc. | Learning app based on pesenting songs and repeate them with key omissions, and then do the same with topics related to the songs. Includes fun interactive activities and photos for generalization. | ||
 | VAST Autism 1 - Core / Spanish 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 | | SpeakinMotion, LLC | Video modeling, written words and auditory cues to help individuals acquire words and phrases | |||
 | WhQuestions 2012 $9.99 / €7.99 | | Smarty Ears, LLC | 300 who-what-where-how-why questions | |||
7. LANGUAGE THERAPY / ARTICULATION / SLP
These are tools to practice the pronunciation of certain phonemes and spoken language in general, and are usually presented as applications to treat SLP (Speech Language Pathologies). Supported languages are critical.
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Apraxia Picture Sound Cards APSC / Pro 2011 $179.99 / €129.99 Pro: $299.99 / €239.99 | ✘ | Foundations Developmental House, LLC | Customize therapy sessions using 775 picture cards, 45 phonogram cards & 10 number cards, and the Speech-EZ® Hand Cues in video format | ||
 | Articulate it! 2012 $38.99 / €30.99 | Smarty Ears, LLC | Articulation app with 1,000 images covering all English sounds | |||
 | Articulation Station / Pro2012 Free Pro: $49.99 / €39.99 | ✘ | Little Bee Speech | 6 articulation activities to teach how to pronounce sounds in the English language, with 22 sound programs that target sounds in the initial, medial and final positions of words, sentences and stories. Over 1,000 target words, 1,300 sentences and 151 stories. Data tracking and users management. | ||
 | ArtikPix / ArtikPix - Full 2011 ArtikPix: free Full: $29.99 / €23.99 | RinnApps | | Articulation app with flashcard and matching activities; decks to be purchased separately | ||
 | Auditory Figure Ground AFG2012 $29.99 / €23.99 | ✘ | Foundations Developmental House, LLC | App for improving an individual's ability to accurately perceive speech in the presence of background competing noise. The user is able to select the Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) and the type of background noise, and practice recognizing words. | ||
 | Bilingual Articulation Phonology Assessment -Spanish 2011 $39.99 / €31.99 | ✘ | Smarty Ears, LLC | To assess the articulatory and phonological abilities of Spanish-speaking and bilingual (English-Spanish) children. | ||
 | Comprehension TherAppy / Naming TherAppy / Writing TherAppy 2012 $24.99 / €19.99 Writing TherAppy: $19.99 / €15.99 | Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd. | Auditory and reading comprehension of single words (700 included). | |||
 | Disfluency Index Counter 2010 $8.99 / €6.99 | Smarty Ears, LLC | To perform a live count of the number of fluent or disfluent syllables. | |||
 | Fluency Tracker 2010 $8.99 / €6.99 | Smarty Ears, LLC | To track changes in the frequency of disfluency, changes in avoidance behaviors, and feelings associated with speaking. | |||
 | Hand Cue Sound Match HCSM 2011 $29.99 / €23.99 | ✘ | Foundations Developmental House, LLC | Therapy tool that supports the Speech-EZ® Apraxia Program | ||
 | ✘ | iSpy Phonics 2010 $1.99 / €1.59 | Bappz Ltd. | Matching sounds and letters | ||
 | Match2Say 2012 $19.99 / €15.99 | Smarty Ears, LLC | Matching game based on basic sounds | |||
 | Minimal Pair Pack 2011 $29.99 / €23.99 | Therapy Box Limited | 700 flash cards to work on pair words to improve many speech sounds in the initial position of words. Keeps track of accuracy and includes visual and audio reindorcements. | |||
 | Naming TherAppy 2011 $24.99 / €19.99 | Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd. | Naming exercises with about 500 words. | |||
 | PCS Articulation Flash Cards2012 Free (In-App Purchases) | DynaVox Mayer-Johnson | Articulation practice. 60 PCS Symbols included, and the option to purchase up to 1,300 more. Initial, medial and final position of each sound in each pack (each one for a sound). | |||
 | Pocket Pairs 2011 $24.99 / €19.99 | Synapse Apps, Inc. | Receptive and expressive practice of 12 phonological processes | |||
 | PhonoPix - Full 2011 $24.99 / €19.99 | RinnApps | Minimal pairs app with 10 decks for many phonological processes | |||
 | Pocket SLP Articulation 2012 $29.99 / €23.99 | Synapse Apps, Inc. | 2,100 flashcards to practice pronunciation | |||
 | ✘ | Pruebas de articulación en español o Spanish Artik 2012 $19.99 / €15.99 | Smarty Ears, LLC | Articulation practice app for Spanish | ||
 | /r/ intensive SLP 2011 $19.99 / €15.99 | Smarty Ears, LLC | Articulation app focused on the 'r' phoneme | |||
 | Reading TherAppy 2012 $24.99 / €19.99 | Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd. | 4 reading practice modes with over 450 exercises at phrase -and sentence- level each, for 1,800+ reading comprehension practice items . | |||
 | SI SLP Words HD Communicative Therapy / Light 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 "Light" is free | Word Buttons Light 2011 Free | iEducationApps.com | AAC/SLP tool that allow to define buttons and record voices | ||
 | Simplex Spelling Phonics 1 - English2012 $4.99 / €3.99 | Pyxwise Software Inc. | Combination of phonics lessons, spelling/word patterns and contextually relevant spelling rules to improve English spelling and reading skills. Over 450 high frequency words (US, UK and Canadian English) divided into 42 lists that are organized by spelling patterns and difficulty levels. | |||
 | Simplex Spelling Phonics HD - English Reverse Phonics / Simplex Spelling Free Lite - With Reverse Phonics2012 HD: $4.99 / €3.99 'Free Lite' is free | Pyxwise Software Inc. | Spelling and reading exercises based on combining a unique “reverse phonics” approach with contextually relevant spelling rules that explain why words are spelled in a particular manner. Over 260 high frequency words (US, UK and Canadian English). | |||
 | SLP Field Kit - Consonants HD 2011 $49.99 / €39.99 | SLP Field Kit - Consonants 2011 $29.99 / €23.99 | Michael Engelbrite | 8 interactive activities for consonant phonetic practice | ||
 | SLP Goal Bank 2011 $14.99 / €11.99 | ✘ | Smarty Ears, LLC | Create lists of objectives for SLP treatments | ||
 | ✘ | SmallTalk Aphasia - Female / Aphasia - Male / Common Phrases / Consonant Blends / Conversational Phrases / Daily Activities / Days, Months, Dates / Dysphagia / Letters, Numbers, Colors / Oral Motor Exercises / Phonemes 2010 Free | Lingraphicare, Inc. | Set of applications for aphasia, disphagia, oral motor exercises, practice some specific words and phonemes, etc. | ||
 | Smarty Speech 2011 $19.99 / €15.99 | Smarty Ears, LLC | 2,700 images for articulation practice | |||
 | Sound Matching SM / Syllable Counting SC / Target Sound ID 2011 $29.99 / €23.99 | ✘ | Foundations Developmental House, LLC | Apps to develop phonological awareness, sound order sequencing skills, and auditory attention skills. | ||
 | Speech Journal 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 | ✘ | Mobile Education Store | Voice recorder that lets you pair recorded messages with your own imported images and image sequences | ||
 | Speech Pairs 2011 $9.99 / €7.99 | Synapse Apps, Inc. | A variation of "Minimal Pairs" | |||
 | Speech Sounds on Cue for iPad (Australian English) / Lite 2011 $129.99 / €94.99 "Lite" is free | ✘ | Multimedia Speech Pathology | Speech therapy treatment software for articulation difficulty caused by apraxia of speech or other speech difficulties with all audio and video recorded by an Australian speech pathologist | ||
 | Speech Trainer 3D 2011 $7.99 / €5.99 | Smarty Ears, LLC | 3D demonstration of all sounds in the English language | |||
 | Speech Tutor 2011 $9.99 / €7.99 | Synapse Apps, Inc. | 132 animations showing sound articulations | |||
 | Speech4Good 2011 $19.99 / €15.99 | Balbus Speech, Inc. | Set of tools for monitoring, recording and sharing a speech therapy session | |||
 | SpeechStickers 2012 $14.99 / €11.99 | ✘ | Serious Tree LLC | Practice the basic building blocks of speech | ||
 | Sunny Articulation Test 2012 $49.99 / €39.99 | Smarty Ears, LLC | Articulation test | |||
 | The R App 2011 $7.99 / €5.99 | Synapse Apps, Inc. | Practice the 'r' phoneme at the beginning, middle, and end of words, and also at sentence level. 600 images. Store results and email them. Includes tips and highly detailed diagrams for the tricky tongue positioning that R requires. | |||
 | VAST Songs 1 - Intro / VASTtx - Key Words / VASTtx - Therapy Samples 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 Key Words: $12.99 / €10.49 VASTtx - Therapy Samples: $9.99 / €7.99 | SpeakinMotion, LLC | Song videos to practice sound articulation. Key Works Therapy Samples are focused on apraxia and aphasia. | |||
 | Writing TherAppy 2011 $19.99 / €15.99 | Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd. | Spelling practice with more than 400 words. | |||
8. THERAPIES SUPPORT / DTT / ABA
Applications to perform exercises based on DTT (Discrete Trial Teaching) or ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis), as categorizations, generalizations or practicing receptive language. Some let you set the exercises to perform, execute them and record the results.
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ABA – Problem Solving – What does not belong? Free | | | Alligator Apps | Matching and other exercises with hundreds of images and the option to add more | ||
| Touch and Learn - ABC Alphabet and 123 Numbers Free | | ||||||
| Touch and Learn - My First Shapes Free | | ||||||
 | ✘ | ABA Problem Solving Game - Healthy Habits? $0.99 / €0.79 | | | Kindergarten | Questions showing 4 images as responses | |
| ABA Problem Solving Game - What Rhymes? $0.99 / €0.79 | | ||||||
| ABA Problem Solving Game - Which Does Not Belong? $0.99 / €0.79 | | ||||||
| ABA Problem Solving Game - Which Go Together? $0.99 / €0.79 | | ||||||
 | ABA Receptive Identification $1.99 / €1.59 | | | Kindergarten | Receptive language practice using three images each time | ||
| ABA Receptive Identification - By Class $1.99 / €1.59 | | ||||||
✘ | ABA Receptive Identification - By Feature $1.99 / €1.59 | | |||||
| ABA Receptive Identification - By Function $1.99 / €1.59 | | ||||||
| ABA Receptive Identification - FCC Combined $1.99 / €1.59 | | ||||||
 | ✘ | ABA Touch : Monsters $0.99 / €0.79 | | | SlingSpace, LLC | A touch and tactile response application for children with sensory issues. Pressing the correct monster/train will generate a sound and cause the device to shake. | |
| ABA Touch : Trains $0.99 / €0.79 | | ||||||
 | ✘ | ABA1Program $9.99 / €7.99 | | | Estuary Consulting | Recording sets of discrete trials | |
 | ✘ | ABABasic $2.99 / €1.99 | | | KV Adaptive LLC | Discrete trails training | |
 | ✘ | ABAPref $1.99 / €1.59 | | | KV Adaptive LLC | Preference assessments | |
 | ✘ | Adam's Game - Toddler Voice Flash Cards $1.99 / €1.59 | | | Sol Robots, L.L.C. | Receptive language practice using three images each time | |
| Adam's Spiel - German Voice Flash Cards $1.99 / €1.59 | | | |||||
 | Autism Colors $13.99 / €10.99 | | | ZBobbApps.com | | Discrete trails training to learn the colors (or letters, numbers, shapes or words) | |
| Autism/DTT Letters $6.99 / €5.49 | | ||||||
| Autism/DTT Numbers $6.99 / €5.49 | | ||||||
| Autism/DTT Shapes $7.99 / €5.99 | | ||||||
| DTT Words $2.99 / €2.39 | | ||||||
 | ChoiceBoard-Creator Free | ✘ | | | Techno Chipmunk | Customizable choice boards | |
 | Clean Up: Category Sorting Free | | | Different Roads to Learning, Inc. | Categories game | ||
 | Color SlapPs Free | ✘ | | | Zorten Software | | Identify the names of 12 colors using DTT |
 | ✘ | Cursive Lower Case-Autism Series $0.99 / €0.79 | | | WebTeam Corporation | Set of apps based on ABA/DTT to learn alphabet, colors, objects, ..., and all based on the Shanesh COLORS program | |
| Cursive Upper Case-Autism Series $0.99 / €0.79 | | ||||||
| Lower Case-Autism Series $0.99 / €0.79 | | ||||||
| Map Me for iOS Free | | ||||||
✘ | Upper Case-Autism Series $0.99 / €0.79 | | |||||
| What's Your Expression Free | | ||||||
 | EASe Pro Listening $99.99 / €79.99 | | | Audioforge Labs Inc. | iPad/iPhone version of the EASe Listening Therapy, that uses music to deliver short, intense bursts of sound, creating a sensory palette of sonic experiences that can help a child learn to cope with typical environmental conditions. | ||
| EASe Lite Listening Therapy $0.99 / €0.79 | | ||||||
| EASe Personal Listening Therapy $39.99 / €31.99 | | ||||||
 | Injini: Childhood Development Game Suite $29.99 / €23.99 | ✘ | | | NCsoft Corp. | 9 feature games, 100 puzzles, 50+ hand-painted tracing game illustrations and 8 farm-themed mini-games suited for early intervention (fine motor and language skills, understanding of cause and effect, spatial awareness, memory and visual processing) | |
| Injini: Childhood Development Game Suite Lite Free | ✘ | | |||||
 | ✘ | ITPADD-Integrated Technology for Persons with Autism and Developmental Disabilities $3.99 / €2.99 | | | Mark Mautone | Curriculum database, tally counter, timers, flashcards, … | |
 | Little Matchups - The Matching Game for Toddlers $0.99 / €0.79 | | | Grasshopper Apps | Matching game to learn about animals, fruits, vegetables, home… Recordable audio. | ||
 | Match it up 1 Free | ✘ | | | MyFirstApp.com | Matching exercises with identical, visually related and conceptually related images. | |
| Match it up 2 Free | ✘ | | |||||
| Match it up 3 Free | ✘ | | |||||
 | Matrix Basic Free | ✘ | | | MyFirstApp.com | Exercises based on a matrix where you have to put images in the cell that best matches. | |
| Matrix Game Free | ✘ | | |||||
 | ✘ | NLConcepts Autism: Sort & Categorize Free | | | Natural Learning Concepts | | Category exercises |
 | Odd One Out Pack $29.99 / €23.99 | | | Therapy Box Limited | 3 levels x 6 sets of cards for working on semantic reasoning skills with vibrant symbols and clear visual and auditory feedback, and data collection. | ||
 | Parents Magazine Flash Cards Free | | | Meredith Corporation | Flash cards and activities | ||
 | Picaa Free | |   | UGR | | Association, puzzle, exploration and selection activities | |
 | ✘ | Picture Card Maker - For Communication and More! Free | | | Tony Bo | App to take photos, create picture cards adding texts and print them | |
| Picture Card Maker Plus $1.99 / €1.59 | | ||||||
 | Preference & Reinforcer Assessment - Autism & Special Education $9.99 / €7.99 | | | Touch Autism | App to evaluate which reinforcers work better | ||
 | See.Touch.Learn. Free (image packs are $0.99-$6.99 / €0.79-€5.49) | ✘ | | | Brain Parade LLC | | Create and execute cards-based exercises (for ABA programs). |
| See-Touch.Learn. Pro 2012 $24.99 / €19.99 | ✘ | | |||||
 | Sequencing! $0.99 / €0.79 | | | Miss Robin's Room | Exercices for sorting sequences | ||
 | SI SLP Education Jumping Numbers Learn Basic Number Counting $0.99 / €0.79 | ✘ | | | iEducationApps.com | Receptive language exercises to learn numbers and colors | |
| SI SLP Education Sliding Colors Learn Basic Colors $0.99 / €0.79 | ✘ | | |||||
 | SpeakColors Free | ✘ | | | RWH Technology | Practice two word phrases with color words and common objects | |
| SpeakColors HD $1.99 / €1.59 | ✘ | | |||||
 | Special Words $13.99 / €10.99 | |  | Special iApps | | To teach children to recognize written words, using pictures and sounds. Includes 4 games with increasing difficulty, matching pictures, words, and both. You can personalize it by reordering, deleting and adding your own words, pictures and audio. | |
 | Things That Go Together Free | | | Grasshopper Apps | Exercises based on over 100 matching pairs of real images that go together with audio hints and the option to add more images. | ||
 | Touch & Say Free | Touch & Say SD Free | | | Interbots LLC | Six activities: emotions, colors, songs, ... | |
 | What Goes Together? $1.99 / €1.59 | | | Different Roads to Learning, Inc. | Categories practice using 3 images each time | ||
 | What’s That Sound? Learning to Listen and Identify Sounds $1.99 / €1.59 | | | Different Roads to Learning, Inc. | Sound recognition practice using 3 images each time | ||
 | Word SlapPs Vocabulary $4.99 / €3.99 | ✘ | | | Zorten Software | | Teach vocabulary words using images and discrete trial teaching |
9. MOTOR SKILLS / EYE CONTACT
Apps to practice motor skills (fine motor skills, oral motor skills, etc.) or just to practice the gestures necessary to use a touch device or even eye contact, smile or dance.
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ✘ | Dance Party Dino / Dance Party Cars / Dance Party Zoo 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 | | FizzBrain | Dancing app for motor and balance skills practicing | ||
 | Dexteria - Fine Motor Skill Development 2012 $4.99 / €3.99 | | BinaryLabs, Inc. | Fine motor skills and handwriting readiness exercises | |||
 | ✘ | Eye Contact Toybox / Eye Contact Zoo 2010 $2.99 / €2.39 | | FizzBrain | | Game to exercise eye contact | |
 | iGaze 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 | ✘ | | Dunedin Multimedia Ltd. | Eye contact simulator | ||
 | InfinitiTrack 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 | ✘ | | therAPPy | Tracing app to practice fine motor skills | ||
 | ✘ | Look in My Eyes Dinosaur / Look in My Eyes 1 Restaurant / Look in My Eyes 2 Car Mechanic / Look in My Eyes 3 Undersea / Look in My Eyes Steam House / Look in My Eyes Steam Math Facts / Look in My Eyes Steam Train / Look in My Eyes Steam Train 2 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 | | FizzBrain | | Game to exercise eye contact | |
 | Point To Pictures 2012 $29.99 / €23.99 | ✘ | | RJ Cooper & Associates, Inc. | AAC training app for learning to point/select a picture in order to get that item in real life. | ||
 | Slide 2 Unlock 2011 $9.99 / €7.99 | ✘ | | RJ Cooper & Associates, Inc. | Practice slide gestures, including the unlock mechanism | ||
 | Slide & Spin 2012 $0.99 / €0.79 | ✘ |  | MyFirstApp.com | Develop fine motor skills using four basic motions: turning, sliding, spinning, and pushing of a button | ||
 | Smart Oral Motor 2011 $5.99 / €4.99 | | Smarty Ears, LLC | Practice oral motor skills | |||
 | ✘ | Smile at Me 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 | | FizzBrain | | Practice the social skill of smiling | |
 | Tic-Toc-Tiles 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 | ✘ | | Social Apps Lab at CITRIS - UC Berkeley | | To develop and test fine motor skills for left and right hands by dragging geometric tiles into fitting slots. Various game levels and a scoring system that tracks players' progression over weeks and months. | |
 | ✘ | Touch Trainer - Autism & Special Education / Lite 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 "Lite" is free | | Touch Autism | | Exercises to learn how to touch a button in a tactile screen | |
 | Touch Tutorial - Elderly, Autism & Special Needs / Lite 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 "Lite" is free | | Touch Autism | Exercises to learn how to do some gestures on a tactile screen | |||
10. TOKEN REINFORCEMENT / TOKEN ECONOMY
Apps that allow you to define a prize (for example, an image or a text) and a series of actions to perform in order to get it. These are generic applications aimed at all children, but used especially for people with autism.
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Chore Pad HD / Chore Pad Lite 2012 $4.99 / €3.99 "Lite" is free | Chore Pad / Chore Pad Lite 2011 $2.99 / €1.99 "Lite" is free | | Nannek | | Token economy with weekly and daily chart views | |
 | ✘ | Great Job! / Great Job! Lite 2012 $0.99 / €0.79 "Lite" is free | | B&T Solutions | Token economy based on getting and spending coins | ||
 | ✘ | iEarnedThat / iEarnedThat Lite 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 "Lite" is free | | Kidoc, LLC | Token economy using puzzles based on images of the rewards | ||
 | iPraiseU 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Pyramid Educational Consultants | Shake or tap the device to randomly generate a praise statement (100 included), say it (5 different voices) and show an animation. | |||
 | iReward 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 | | Grembe Inc. | | Token economy app based on images | ||
 | ✘ | iReward Chart: Parents Reward Tracker Behavior Chore Chart / Lite 2012 $3.99 / €2.99 "Lite" is free | | Gotclues, Inc | Token economy based on stars; weekly view | ||
 | My Potty Chart 2010 $0.99 / €0.79 | ✘ | | Red Piston | Token economy based on checkmarks, hearts, or stars, with lots of hidden sounds and animations, to encourage any toddler to use the toilet. | ||
 | ✘ | Potty Chart 2009 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Thats a Girls Name Solutions, LLC. | Token economy based on stars to encourage any toddler to use the toilet. | ||
 | ✘ | Reward Chart 2010 Free | | Mark Placzek | Token economy based on stars; weekly view | ||
 | Reward Chart for iPad 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 | ✘ | | Matt Cowlin | A reward chart specifically designed to encourage children to behave better. | ||
 | ✘ | RewardTimer 2010 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Hidden View Software, LLC | Timer with tally counter, data export and rewards | ||
 | ✘ | Smart Charts 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Happy Face Kidz | Tool to track, reward and reinforce positive behaviors, chores and responsibilities | ||
 | Waitstrip 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 | ✘ | | Josh Bean | Visual representation of increments of time, amount of steps to be completed, number of minutes to work, etc. | ||
 | Working4 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Pyramid Educational Consultants | | Define a goal, the number of tokens (1-5) and the reinforcers (1-6 from the included images or other added). | ||
11. TIMERS / TURN TAKERS
Apps -mostly generic- that allow you to set up a timer or take turns in a particularly graphic way.
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ✘ | ASD Timer 2010 $2.99 / €2.39 | | The Round Studios | Visual timer | ||
 | ✘ | Autism Timer 2010 $2.99 / €2.39 | | ROUGE41 | Tripple visual timer | ||
 | ✘ | Interval Minder 2010 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Notchland Labs, LLC | Interval timer | ||
 | iTake Turns 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Smarty Ears, LLC | Turn taking app with voice output | |||
 | ✘ | Kiddie Countdown - Activity Timer / (Free) 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 '(Free)' is free | | Ordinary Toucan LLP | Visual timer | ||
 | R+Remind 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Pyramid Educational Consultants | Set a 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10 or 15-minute interval. A tone will sound at each interval. Designed as a tool to help educators remember to reinforce good behavior. | |||
 | SharingTimer 2011 $7.99 / €5.99 | | HandHold Adaptive, LLC | | Turn taking and timer with many extra functions | ||
 | Take Turn Timer 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 | | Cool Tool Apps | Turn taking | |||
 | ✘ | Take Turns 2010 $0.99 / €0.79 | | Kringelbach IT | | Automatic egg timer | |
 | ✘ | Time Timer 2010 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Time Timer LLC | Visual timer with repetitions | ||
 | Timer with Sections 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Christian Fries | Timer with sections | |||
 | Turn Taker - Sharing Tool and Social Story for Autism, Down Syndrome and Special Needs 2012 $4.99 / €3.99 | | Touch Autism | | Visual turn taker for two players. Includes a learning mode. | ||
 | ✘ | VisuoTimer 2010 Free | | StøtteCompagniet | Visual timer | ||
 | VisTimer / VisTimerFree 2011 VisTimer: $1.99 / €1.59 VisTimerFree: Free | | Mindfultools | Visual timer with a very clean design | |||
12. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS
Database apps created to collect data (typically on the behavior of people) and then even to analyze that data (generating trends and graphics), send it e-mail or share it via the Internet. Some of them allow you to monitor medications and diets. Some are fairly generic applications.
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ✘ | ABC Behavior Assessment 2010 $0.99 / €0.79 | | Reticent Arts | ABC (Antecedents, Behaviors, Consequences) basic data collection tool. | ||
 | ✘ | ABC Data 2009 $4.99 / €3.99 | | CBTAonline | Data collection tool for counting behaviors and recording session duration | ||
 | ✘ | ABC Data Pro 2011 $27.99 / €21.99 | | CBTAonline | Multi-mode data collection app. Behavior count, partial and full interval, and ABC recording | ||
 | ✘ | ABC Logbook 2011 $27.99 / €21.99 | | CBTAonline | Data recording for many students simultaneously | ||
 | Autism Tracker Pro (Track Analyze Share ASD Daily) / Lite 2011 $19.99 / €15.99 "Lite" is free | | Track & Share Apps, LLC | Tracks data, view and discuss patters using the multi-item graphs and the visual calendar, and share data using email or Twitter. | |||
 | ✘ | AutismTrack 2011 $49.99 / €39.99 | | HandHold Adaptive, LLC | | Journaling tool to track interventions, behaviors and symptoms | |
 | ✘ | Behavior Assessment Pro 2010 $9.99 / €7.99 | | Vermont Behavioral Solutions, LLC | Identifies potential factors related to problem behaviors based on a assessment questionnaire | ||
 | ✘ | Behavior Counter 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 | | Noorl Software | Keeps a tally of different events or behaviors simultaneosly | ||
 | ✘ | Behavior Journal 2010 $9.99 / €7.99 | | mHealthCoach2010 | Monitors and documents behavioral issues using the ABC's of ABA | ||
 | Behavior Tracker Pro 2012 $29.99 / €23.99 | | Data Makes the Difference, LLC | | Tracks and graphs behaviors, specifically designed to support behavioral treatment plans | ||
 | Caseload Tracker 2011 $14.99 / €11.99 | | Smarty Ears, LLC | Keeps track of IEP meetings due dates, evaluation due dates, and eligibility due date. | |||
 | Catalyst HD 2012 Free (and free and paid online services) | ✘ | | Compass Solutions for Autism | Data collection tool plus an online system for data storage, management, graphing, and analysis | ||
 | ✘ | DTdata 2011 Free | | Shawnee Behavioral Services, LLC | Collects discrete trial data | ||
 | ✘ | Duration, An ABA Duration Recording App / Intervals, An ABA Interval Recording App 2012 Duration: $0.99 / €0.79 Frequency: $4.99 / €3.99 Intervals: $2.99 / €2.39 | | elocinSoft | Record and export ABA duration or intervals recordings | ||
 | ✘ | Functional Assessment Data Collection 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 | | Seth Whiting | Records behaviors (Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence) | ||
 | ✘ | iBAA 2012 $129.99 / €94.99 | | Future Help Designs | Records qualitative observations, cumulative tabulation, interval recording, and functional behavioral assessment | ||
 | ✘ | iBehaveWell 2010 $0.99 / €0.79 | | Derrick Brown | Tracks, charts and shares behavior data | ||
 | iBiomed 2011 Free | | MyRoster, LLC | | Health records, journal, meal planner and evaluations | ||
 | ✘ | iDidIt 2009 Free | | Excelcis Consulting | Journaling tool to record events, pictures, location and people | ||
 | ✘ | IEP Checklist 2010 Free | | Nurvee LLC | IEP checklist (US only) | ||
 | IEPPAL 2011 $95 / year | ✘ | | Perceptum Solutions, LLC | Data collection tool for Speech and Language Pathologists (SLP) to capture observed student event data during structured sit down sessions or in ad-hoc field environments | ||
 | No More Meltdowns 2011 $10.99 / €8.99 | | SymTrend, Inc. | "SymTrend" app (see below) plus plans and advice taken from the book "No More Meltdowns" | |||
 | ✘ | Percentally 2010 $2.99 / €2.39 | | RinnApps | Tally counter that automatically converts tallies to percentages | ||
 | ✘ | Skill Tracker Pro 2012 $29.99 / €23.99 | | Data Makes the Difference, LLC | | Collects skills data, charts results and creates skill sheets | |
 | Special Education Edition: eCOVE Observation Software for iPad 2011 Free | Special Education Edition: eCOVE Observation Software 2011 Free | | eCOVE Observation Software | Timer, counter, checklist and scale tools | ||
 | SymTrend / SymTrend ADL / SymTrend Toilet / SymTrials 2011 SymTrend ADL: $10.99 / €8.99 The rest are free | | SymTrend, Inc. | Records data, real time guidance, charts and trends. | |||
 | ✘ | The Habit Factor® (Daily Habits & Goals Tracker / Productivity) / Lite 2012 $3.99 / €2.99 "Lite" is free | | Equilibrium Enterprises, Inc | Define goals or habits and track them | ||
 | ✘ | TimeJot: a time log - journal 2009 $0.99 / €0.79 | | Niftybrick Software | Time-based journal | ||
13. AUTISM TESTS & OTHER APPS
Autism tests and other apps difficult to be categorized.
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ✘ | All About Me by i Get It!, LLC 2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | | I Get It, LLC | Keeps text and images about yourself | ||
 | ✘ | AQ Test 2011 Free | | Dobler Design | Simon Baron-Cohen's Autism Spectrum Quotient questionnaire | ||
 | ✘ | Community Sidekick 2011 $19.99 / €14.99 | | AbleLink Technologies, Inc. | Sends mails continuously including the position of the device | ||
 | ✘ | iAutism Toddler Screening Tool 2010 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Crysta Pleatman / iSecret Solutions | | M-CHAT Toddler Autism Check |
14. LEISURE AND LEARNING
As explained in the post titled Leisure and learning apps, there are thousands of applications non-specific to people with special needs but that can be very useful for them. To compile a list of these applications would be endless. In the mentioned post we’ve included links to some long lists of such applications, and here we simply list those we have just found and had time to review in iAutism, so it can be easier to find the respective reviews.
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Animals iSpy - Junior 2010 Free | ✘ | | Toytek Ltd | | "Wood" puzzle | |
 | FirstWords: Deluxe / Animals / At Home / Christmas / Español / German / Japanese / Sampler / Vehicles 2010 $4.99 / €3.99 Other are between $1.99 and $4.99 / €1.59 and €3.99 "Sampler" is free | All the iPad versions plus: Animaux / Shapes | | Learning Touch | | Words construction game | |
 | Intro to Letters, by Montessorium 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 | | Montessorium, LLC | | Letters learning | ||
 | Kids Song Machine HD + 10 songs / Kids Song Machine HD Lite 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 "Lite" is free | Kids Song Machine + 10 songs / Kids Song Machine Lite 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 "Lite" is free | | Genera Interactive | | Multimedia scenarios | |
 | Kids Song Machine 2 - Around the World HD / Lite 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 "Lite" is free | | Genera Interactive | | Multimedia scenarios | ||
 | Look Again Jr 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Smappsoft | | 120 exercises for learning logic reasoning, the association of concepts, spatial abstraction, mental arithmetic and, in general, the attention. | ||
 | Lola's Alphabet Train HD / Lite 2012 $1.99 / €1.59 "Lite" is free | Lola's Alphabet Train / Lite 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 "Lite" is free | | BeiZ Ltd | | Words construction game | |
 | Lola's Magic Cube HD / Lite 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 "Lite" is free | Lola's Magic Cube / Lite 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 "Lite" is free |  | BeiZ Ltd | | Cube puzzles | |
 | My First Songs 2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | My First Songs for iPhone 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Ringzero Game Studio | | Scenarios with songs for kids | |
 | My Underwear 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 | | Thumb Arcade & Todd Parr | | Games for children (coloring, “memory”, …) with underwear. | ||
 | PegLight for iPad / PegLight Free for iPad 2010 $1.99 / €1.59 "Free" is free :D | PegLight / PegLight FREE 2010 $1.99 / €1.59 "FREE" is free :D | | Knert Software | | Drawing with pins or "pegs" | |
 | Playing Teddy Bear HD 2012 Free Extra 5 songs pack is $2.99 / €2.39 | Playing Teddy Bear 2011 Free Extra 5 songs pack is $2.99 / €2.39 | | Genera Interactive | | Musical game for recording and listening your own voice, play with a bear and see it singing and playing music. | |
 | Tam & Tao in Numberland - Learn numbers with Montessori HD 2012 HD: $4.99 / €3.99 | Tam & Tao in Numberland - Learn numbers with Montessori / HD 2012 $1.99 / €1.59 HD: $4.99 / €3.99 | | Les Trois Elles Interactive | | Exercises to learn numbers 0 to 9. | |
 | PlayTales Kid’s Interactive Books HD 2012 Free (books are $0.99-$2.99 / €0.79-€2.39) | PlayTales Kid’s Interactive Books 2012 Free (books are $0.99-$2.99 / €0.79-€2.39) | | Genera Interactive | | Multimedia books for kids | |
 | Vine Time 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 | ✘ | | FunBrain | | Lesiure and learning app focused on numbers an colors that exercises fine motor skills and coordination. | |
 | Wood Puzzle HD / Lite 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 "Lite" is free | Wood Puzzle / Lite 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 "Lite" is free | | Tropisounds Corporation | | Wood puzzles | |
List by Categories
Apps created to support communication based on images, usually offering a set of pre-loaded images (between dozens and thousands) but allowing also to add many others, to group them into categories, to add audio clips, etc., or apps that provide other forms of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC).
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✘ | 2CanTalk $14.99 / €11.99 | | | Noodle Me This | AAC based on pictures and audio clips | |
| AAC - Scroll and Speak $49.99 / €39.99 | ✘ | | | Speech Concepts, LLC | AAC that combines pictures, words, phrases, text-to-speech, male and female voices, most frequent words/phrases, folders, ... | |
| AACSpeechBuddy $39.99 / €31.99 | | | CodeDimensions | AAC based on images; 2,000 symbols and Web image repository | ||
| Ablah HD $18.99 / €14.99 | Ablah $18.99 / €14.99 | | | Juan Carlos González Montesino | AAC based on images; 44 preloaded | |
| Alexicom AAC Free Some advanced services are $40 per month | | | Alexicom Tech LLC | AAC based on 7,000 images; online service | ||
| Alexicom Elements Child Home (Female) $19.99 / €15.99 | ✘ | | | Alexicom Tech LLC | Collections of linked augmentative communication pages with images and text for a child/teenager in the home environment. Core 280 includes 280 frequent words (text only), and Story Maker has 3 story templates for entering your own stories for retell. | |
| Alexicom Elements Child Home (Male) $19.99 / €15.99 | ✘ | | |||||
| Alexicom Elements Core 280 (Female) $9.99 / €7.99 | ✘ | | |||||
| Alexicom Elements Core 280 (Male) $9.99 / €7.99 | ✘ | | |||||
| Alexicom Elements Story Maker $9.99 / €7.99 | ✘ | | |||||
| Alexicom Elements Teen Home (Female) $19.99 / €15.99 | ✘ | | |||||
| Alexicom Elements Teen Home (Male) $19.99 / €15.99 | ✘ | | |||||
| Answers:YesNo HD $3.99 / €2.99 | Answers:YesNo $0.99 / €0.79 | | | SimplifiedTouch | Yes/No and other similar buton choices | |
| Answers:YesNo Free Free | | ||||||
| Attainment Switch $4.99 / €3.99 | | | Attainment Company, Inc. | Turns an iOS device into a wireless accessibility switch | ||
| Augie AAC $159.99 / €119.99 | ✘ | | | Intervention Development LLC | AAC plus schedules and other functions | |
| ✘ | Autism 5-Point Scale EP Free | | | Autism Society of Minnesota | Simple app to communicate the level of anxiety and needs in a high stress situation utilizing a 5 point scale | |
| AutisMate $49.99 / €39.99 | ✘ | | | SpecialNeedsWare LLC. | | Communication, visual scheduling, and video modeling tool. It allows to communicate through familiar scenes that can include video and audio clips, symbols, and social stories. 12,000 symbols included, custom voice recordings, and synthesized voice. Content can be shared between iPads. Generalization by assigning multiple phrases to the same image. |
| AutoVerbal Pro Talking Soundboard $19.99 / €15.99 | | | No Tie, LLC | AAC based on 100's of built-in phrases with text to speech and icons | ||
| AutoVerbal GirlTalk $9.99 / €7.99 | | ||||||
| AutoVerbal GuyTalk $9.99 / €7.99 | | ||||||
| AutoVerbal Español $9.99 / €7.99 | | | |||||
| AutoVerbal Français $9.99 / €7.99 | | | |||||
| Baluh $5.99 / €4.99 | | | Baluh | | AAC based on images with 400 preloaded and access to a website with thousands more | |
| Click n' Talk $2.99 / €2.39 | | | Intermediate District 287 | Attach text and voice to individual pictures, and organize them in photo albums | ||
| ✘ | ComApp Free | | | Special Learning, Inc. | AAC based on images (real pictures) | |
| ComApp.i $39.99 / €31.99 | ComApp.2 $39.99 / €31.99 | | |||||
| Connect Cards Free | ✘ | | | Smile Kid | AAC based on images stored in your Picasa Web Album. The app speaks aloud the text associated to each image. | |
| C.P.A. Free | CPA Free | | | CPA | AAC based on images and texts; 600 preloaded | |
| Custom Boards - Premium $99.99 / €79.99 | ✘ | | | Smarty Ears | Board and activity creator for communicating and learning with 11,000 symbols preloaded | |
| DIME $74.99 / €59.99 | ✘ | | | Desarrollo e Innovacion Multiplataforma Especial, S.L. | Set of 5 tools: communicator (to form sentences with 3 graphical elements: person, verb and complement), I want / I am (sentences with to be or to want), clock (timer), blackboard (to draw with your fingers), and album (to familiarize with the images). | |
| DIME Lite Free | ✘ | | |||||
| Discover MyVoice for iOS $49.99 / €39.99 | | | PDAscent Inc | Attach text and voice to individual pictures, and organize them in categories | ||
| Easy Speak HD - AAC $49.99 / €39.99 | ✘ | | | Pocket Apps Canada Inc. | AAC based on pictures and audio clips with 800 preloaded symbols | |
| ✘ | Expressionist $9.99 / €7.99 | | | AdastraSoft | Combines pictures to illustrate expressions and concepts (1,000) | |
| Expressive $25.99 / €20.99 | | | Smarty Ears | | AAC based on pictures and audio clips with 600 preloaded symbols | |
| ✘ | Fat Cat Snappy Chat $0.99 / €0.79 | | | Point-and-Read, Inc. | A funny AAC app to practice 160 common phrases and their pictos | |
| Fat Cat Pirate Chat $0.99 / €0.79 | | ||||||
| ✘ | Flashables 50 English Audio Free | | | Hotsource ESD | 50 flashcards with audio | |
| Chinese Free | | | |||||
| Japanese Free | | | |||||
| Functional Communication System $49.99 / €39.99 | ✘ | | | The Conover Company | Customizable, video-based communication tool that combines real images, audio and video rather than symbol. 500 core vocabulary words. | |
| GoTalk Now $79.99 / €62.99 | ✘ | | | Attainment Company, Inc. | AAC based on images and sound with TTS in 20 languages | |
| Grace - Picture Exchange for Non-Verbal People $37.99 / €29.99 | | | Steven Troughton-Smith | | AAC based on building sentences from relevant images | |
| Grid Player2012 Free (not The Grid 2 service) | | | Sensory Software International Ltd | Client app for The Grid 2 system (12,000 Widgit Symbols), allowing to play your grids on iPad or use 3 complete grid sets with 2,000 words and 100 phrases. Natural male and female voices and word prediction. | ||
| I Click I Talk - Single Student $39.99 / €31.99 | | | TOOKTY LLC | AAC based on images, text and sound; 500 preloaded | ||
| I Click I Talk - Multi Student $89.99 / €69.99 | | ||||||
| I Click I Talk - Compact $3.99 / €2.99 | | ||||||
| Yo Click Yo Hablo $9.99 / €7.99 | | | |||||
| Yo Click Yo Hablo - UN ESTUDIANTE $4.99 / €3.99 | | ||||||
| Parla con un click Mono Studente $39.99 / €31.99 | | | |||||
| Parla con un click Multi Studente $89.99 / €69.99 | | ||||||
| Parla con un click Compact $3.99 / €2.99 | | ||||||
| I Click I Talk - Mini $19.99 / €15.99 | | | |||||
| Parla con un click Mini $19.99 / €15.99 | | ||||||
| i-Lexis HD $19.99 / €15.99 | i-Lexis $11.99 / €9.99 | | | Alessandro Benedettini | | AAC based on images, scenarios, text and sound; 265 preloaded |
| i-Lexis HD Lite Free | i-Lexis Lite | | |||||
| i-Lexis HD (ITA) $19.99 / €15.99 | i-Lexis (Italian Version) $11.99 / €9.99 | | | ||||
| i-Lexis HD Lite (ITA) Free | i-Lexis Lite (Italian Version) Free | | |||||
| ✘ | iAssist Communicator $29.99 / €23.99 | | | The iAssist Company - Cyndy Hayes | | AAC based on images and sound; 240 preloaded |
| ✘ | iComm Free | | | Bappz Ltd. | AAC based on images and sound | |
| ✘ | iConverse - Assisted Communication $9.99 / €7.99 | | | Xcellent Creations, Inc. | AAC based on images, text and sound | |
| iGreet You $0.99 / €0.79 | | | Smarty Ears | Simple communication aid for children who need to work on greetings | ||
| ✘ | iInteract $8.99 / €6.99 | | | iJaz Software | Basic board communication system | |
| ✘ | iPACS $9.99 / €7.99 | | | AdastraSoft | AAC based on images and sound with TTS | |
| iPicto $1.99 / €1.59 | | | Erwin van den Hout | AAC based on 4,500 pictograms, with e-mail | ||
| iPicto Lite Free | | ||||||
| iSpeak Button $3.99 / €2.99 | | | Goatella | Record any message you want, and play it back with the touch of a button | ||
| Touch Switch $3.99 / €2.99 | | ||||||
| ✘ | iTalker for Augmentated and Assisted Communication $9.99 / €7.99 | | | Andreas Bungert | Record and play back many audio files and associate images to them | |
| ✘ | Let's Talk! $2.99 / €2.39 | | | Toriken Media Information Lab | AAC based on pictures | |
| ✘ | Lil Rhino Says $0.99 / €0.79 | | | rhinoceros inc | Basic AAC app that allows anyone to communicate hunger, thirst, quick yes or no answer, notify someone if a bathroom break is needed and alert someone if they are in trouble. | |
| ✘ | Look2Learn - AAC $14.99 / €11.99 | | | MDR Inc. | AAC based on pictures; 80 preloaded; sound | |
| MetaTalk $179.99 / €129.99 | ✘ | | | Cidar Health Care LLC | AAC based on Metacom 5 symbols | |
| MetaTalkLite $9.99 / €7.99 | ✘ | | |||||
| MetaTouch $29.99 / €23.99 | ✘ | | |||||
| MetaTalkDE $179.99 / €129.99 | ✘ | | | ||||
| ✘ | My Choice Board $9.99 / €7.99 | | | Good Karma Applications, Inc. | Image-based choice system | |
| My First AAC $24.99 / €19.99 | ✘ | | | Injini | AAC based on pictures and sounds designed for very young children | |
| My Own Voice $2.99 / €2.39 | | | My Own Voice | AAC based on images and sound | ||
| ✘ | My Words $9.99 / €7.99 | | | Jafferson Software | AAC based on images and texts | |
| MyTalkTools Mobile $49.99 / €39.99 | | | 2nd Half Enterprises LLC | AAC based on images and a Web service | ||
| MyTalkTools Mobile Lite Free | | ||||||
| MyVoice Communication Aid 2012 $189.99 / €139.99 | ✘ | | | MyVoice, Inc. | AAC based on images, text and audio and a Web and positioning service | |
| ✘ | Parlerai Free (but not the Web service) | | | Parlerai | AAC based on images and a Web service plus behavior and other data recording | |
| OneVoice - AAC $199.99 / €149.99 | | | Legend | | AAC based on images to generate sentences in text format; over 200 images preloaded; 4 natural voices. | |
| OneVoice - AAC Lite Free | | ||||||
| PandaPal - Autism Communication System $45.99 / €36.99 | ✘ | | | PandaPal.com | Combination of AAC based on real images with a "first & then" and a schedule board. AAC has 12 categories with 20+ images each one, recorded natural voice, icon size customizable. | |
| Pics Aloud $4.99 / €3.99 | | | Allan Burrington | AAC based on images; 100 preloaded | ||
| Pics Aloud Lite Free | | ||||||
| ✘ | Pictogram Dictionary $3.99 / €2.99 | | | Mindglowing Design | Dictionary with 1,700 pictograms | |
| Picture AAC $29.99 / €23.99 | | | Hearty SPIN Pte Ltd | AAC based on images and native speaker voice. Options to add own images & voice. Training levels for those new to picture communication systems. | ||
| ✘ | Picture Card Communication $3.99 / €2.99 | | | Noriya Kobayashi | AAC based on images and sound | |
| Picture Talk $4.99 / €3.99 | | | Explorer Technologies | AAC based on images | ||
| PictureCanTalk $34.99 / €27.99 | | | Benster Tan | AAC based on images and sound with TTS | ||
| ✘ | PocketAAC $99.99 / €79.99 | | | Wonjin Apps | AAC based on images with text to speech and 1,800 symbols | |
| PocketAAC-Lite Free | | ||||||
| Proloquo2Go $189.99 / €139.99 | | | AssistiveWare B.V. | AAC based on images with text to speech, a vocabulary of 7,000 symbols, conjugations, … | ||
| Quick Talk AAC $14.99 / €11.99 | | | Digital Scribbler, Inc. | AAC based on categories of pairs of buttons to select phrases and words (100 maximum). 11,000 images and symbols from the Smarty Symbols library. Uses any voice already installed and allows to install third-party voices. | ||
| Scene Speak $9.99 / €7.99 | ✘ | | | Good Karma Applications, Inc. | AAC based on images-scenes including "sound areas" | |
| ✘ | SmallTalk Pain Scale Free | | | Lingraphicare, Inc. | Pain descriptions and images from the Wong-Baker Faces Pain Scale | |
| SmallTalk Intensive Care Free | | ||||||
| So Much 2 Say - Picture Communication $24.99 / €19.99 | ✘ | | | Close 2 Home Apps, LLC | AAC based on images with fast card creation, real pictures and recorded voice, and flexible layout options. | |
| Sono Flex $99.99 / €79.99 | | | Tobii Technology AB | AAC based on images with 11,000 SymbolStix symbols and 5 natural voices | ||
| Sono Flex Lite Free | | ||||||
| Sono Flex DE $219.99 / €159.99 | | | |||||
| Sono Flex Lite DE Free | | ||||||
| ✘ | SoundingBoard $49.99 / €39.99 | | | AbleNet, Inc. | AAC based on images which can be combined in boards | |
| Speak for Yourself $299.99 / €239.99 | ✘ | | | Speak for Yourself LLC | AAC based on images with almost 11,000 Smarty Symbols. Natural voice powered by CereProc's speech system to give voices character, emotion, and personality | |
| Speakall! Free | ✘ | | | Purdue University | AAC based on images with recordable sound | |
| Speech Teach $8.99 / €6.99 | | | Mark Jarred | AAC based on images | ||
| ✘ | Spubble Lite Free | | | Moblue Tech | AAC based on combining icons to create phrases | |
| Switchamajig Free | ✘ | | | PAW Solutions LLC | Switch controller | |
| Talk4Me Free | | | Javier Algaba Borrego | AAC based on images; 80 preloaded | ||
| Talking Cards $28.99 / €22.99 | ✘ | | | Timagine HB | AAC based on images; 450 preloaded | |
| TalkTablet HD $79.99 / €62.99 | ✘ | | | Gus Communication Devices, Inc. | AAC based on images with 12,000 SymbolStix communication symbols, male and female Neospeech premium voices (English and Latin American Spanish), and multiple vocabularies for multiple users. | |
| TapSpeak Button Standard for iPad $29.99 / €23.99 | | | TapSpeak, LLC | | Communication application based on touching a single message button (equivalent to a mechanical switch). | |
| TapSpeak Button Plus for iPad $49.99 / €39.99 | | ||||||
| TapSpeak Button $14.99 / €11.99 | | ||||||
| TapSpeak Choice for iPad $149.99 / €109.99 | ✘ | | | TapSpeak, LLC | AAC based on constructing sequences of images | |
| TapSpeak Sequence Standard $29.99 / €23.99 | | | TapSpeak, LLC | AAC based on boards containing images with 4,500 preloaded | ||
| TapSpeak Sequence Plus $49.99 / €39.99 | | ||||||
| TapToTalk Free Optional web service: $99.95 per year or $179.95 "forever" | | | Assistyx LLC | AAC based on 2,500 images plus an optional web service to incorporate 12,000 more. Support for 20 languages. | ||
| TapToTalk Uploader Free | | ||||||
| TouchChat HD - AAC $149.99 / €109.99 | TouchChat - AAC $149.99 / €109.99 | | | Silver Kite | AAC based on images with text to speech, 5 voices and 12,000 symbols; WordPower series of AAC vocabularies are optional | |
| TouchChat HD - AAC with WordPower $299.99 / €239.99 | TouchChat - AAC with WordPower $299.99 / €239.99 | | |||||
| TouchChat HD - AAC Lite $9.99 / €7.99 | TouchChat - AAC Lite $9.99 / €7.99 | | |||||
| Use2Talk $79.99 / €62.99 | ✘ | | | Pablo La Roche | AAC based on images and audio clips, and even some video clips that depict daily living actions that help to understand the meaning of action symbols. Includes a basic scheduling function based on images. | |
| Verbal Victor $6.99 / €5.49 | | | Seed Stage Associates, LLC | AAC based on images | ||
| ✘ | VocaBeansEN $9.99 / €7.99 | | | VocaBeans LLC | AAC based on images | |
| VocaBeansLite Free | | ||||||
| VocaBeansES $9.99 / €7.99 | | | |||||
| VocaBeansDE $9.99 / €7.99 | | | |||||
| VocaBeansFR $9.99 / €7.99 | | | |||||
| Voice4u $49.99 / €39.99 | | | Spectrum Visions LLC | | AAC based on images with 150 preloaded icons | |
| Voice4u JP $49.99 / €39.99 | | | |||||
| Yes-No $1.99 / €1.59 | | | Smarty Ears | AAC for yes/no questions | ||
| Si/No Espanol $1.99 / €1.59 | | | |||||
Apps for showing or constructing sequences of images, typically of actions to perform, to provide a framework known of what to do or what it is going to happen, a schedule of activities to do, etc. Many also allow you to work as AAC, so this category can be considered as a subset of the previous one but consisting on apps with even more features.
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✘ | AA Visual Schedule $9.99 / €7.99 | | | mHealthCoach2010 | Picture schedules including 100 preloaded images | |
| ✘ | Autism Scheduler $49.99 / €39.99 | | Special Education Apps | Visual schedules, 89 pre-loaded picture symbols, control of finished taks | ||
| ✘ | Catalyst N Free | | | Jason Poh | To define and display the day-to-day tasks. | |
| Choiceworks $14.99 / €11.99 | | | Bee Visual LLC | Tool for helping children complete daily routines (morning, day, and night), understand and control their feelings and improve their waiting skills (taking turns and not interrupting). Based on the Choiceworks Visual Support System. It includes 3 boards (Schedule, Waiting, and Feelings), 3 companion books and 165 preloaded images. | ||
| ✘ | DayLeaf $1.99 / €1.59 | | Adam Templeton | Simple visual schedules | ||
| iCommunicate $49.99 / €39.99 | | | Grembe Apps Inc. | | Flashcards, storyboards, routines and visual schedules with custom audio and 100 preloaded images | |
| ✘ | First Then Visual Schedule $9.99 / €7.99 | | | Good Karma Applications, Inc. | Picture schedules | |
| Functional Planning System $19.99 / €15.99 | | | The Conover Company | Video-based prompting tool and visual scheduler with step-by-step videos. Over 4,000 images and videos downloadable. | ||
| iPrompts XL $49.99 / €39.99 | iPrompts $49.99 / €39.99 | | | HandHold Adaptive, LLC | | Picture schedules, visual countdown timers and choice prompts |
| iScheduler for special needs $0.99 / €0.79 | | | ERP Rules | Scheduler based on list of tasks finished/not finished, and with music voice, stars and fun words when tasks are done. | ||
| My Pictures Talk - Video Modeling Tool $4.99 / €3.99 | | | Grembe Apps Inc. | Visual stories with images, text, sound and video | ||
| My Stories $2.99 / €2.39 | ✘ | | | SimplifiedTouch | Visual stories with images, text, and sound | |
| ✘ | My Video Schedule $18.99 / €14.99 | | | Acceptional Possibilities, LLC. | Combines video modeling within a structured schedule while providing positive reinforcement | |
| Now What Free | | | Richard Humphrey | Text schedules | ||
| Pictello $18.99 / €14.99 | | | AssistiveWare B.V. | Talking photo albums and talking books | ||
| ✘ | Pictoplace Free (not the web service) | | | Autivision | Shows planning information created with the web service | |
| Picture Scheduler $2.99 / €2.39 | | | Petr Jankuj | Task schedules including time, audio and video clips | ||
| PictureAssistive $34.99 / €27.99 | | | Benster Tan | Visual schedules with 1000+ picture symbols, recordable voice, text-to-speech, choice boards, story boards, timer, text to image and image editing capabilities. | ||
| Pocket Picture Planner HD Free (not the Win/Mac app) | Pocket Picture Planner Free (not the Win/Mac app) | | | Cognitopia Software LLC | Shows visual calendars of scheduled activities created in Picture Planner for Windows or Mac | |
| Scene&Heard $49.99 / €39.99 | | | Therapy Box Limited | Creates scenes, including video, pictures, Widgit symbols (10,000) and audio | ||
| Scene&Heard Lite Free | | ||||||
| Special Stories $13.99 / €10.99 | | | Special iApps | Creates stories containing text, pictures and sound. Stories can be printed and sent by e-mail. | ||
| Speech with Milo: Interactive Storybook $1.99 / €1.59 | | | Doonan Speech Therapy | Interactive story book that allows children to record their own story. | ||
| Step-by-Step $2.99 / €2.39 | ✘ | | | Cool Tool Apps | Picture schedules that keep track of how long the learner needs to complete each step. | |
| ✘ | Steps $9.99 / €7.99 | | | AdastraSoft | Checklists and visual schedules, including audio and text to speech | |
| Stories2Learn $13.99 / €10.99 | | | MDR Inc. | Visual stories | ||
| ✘ | StoryKit Free | | | ICDL Foundation | Stories using images, drawings and sound clips | |
| Tapikeo HD $2.99 / €2.39 | Tapikeo Free | | | Jean-Eudes Lepelletier | To create your own combinations or grids of up to 45 pictures, audio, and caption to get customized audio flashcards, talking photo albums, storybooks, talking visual schedules, verbal prompts... Grids can be shared by email. | |
| TASUC Schedule for iPad $28.99 / €22.99 | TASUC Schedule $20.99 / €16.99 | | | TASUC Inc. & Info Lounge LLC | | Visual scheduler with timers |
| Time This $5.99 / €4.99 | ✘ | | | Speech Concepts, LLC | Visual scheduler with clock, hourglass and digital timers | |
| Video Scheduler $12.99 / €10.49 | | | MDR | Picture and video schedules and video modeling. | ||
| Visual Cue $9.99 / €7.99 | | | Sanghoon Lee | A mix of tools, including prompt using pictures, first…then, which one?, count down and visual scheduler | ||
| Visual Cue Lite Free | | ||||||
| Visual Prompts Board $9.99 / €7.99 | ✘ | | Garage Angels | A mix of Choice Board, Social Story Aid, Picture Schedules and AAC | ||
| Visual Routine $5.99 / €4.99 | ✘ | | | Proteon Software | Visual schedules based on images plus text. | |
| Visual Schedule Planner $14.99 / €11.99 | ✘ | | | Good Karma Applications, Inc | Visual schedule app to give an audio/visual representation of the “events in their day". Events that require more support can be linked to an “activity schedule” or “video clip”. Daily, weekly or via a monthly calendar, timer, checklist, reminders, notes that can be emailed as a PDF, filesharing. | |
| Visual Working For $4.99 / €3.99 | | | Sanghoon Lee | Simple two-part board that communicates to children what they are doing now and what they will be doing next | ||
| Visual Working For Lite Free | | ||||||
| ✘ | Visules 2009 $4.99 / €3.99 | | | Dean Huff | Visual cues and checklists | |
| Work System (Autism) Free | | | Visual Edvantage | Implementation of a TEACCH work system based on lists of tasks (text only). | ||
Text-to-speech (TTS) apps that allow you to type or select words or phrases which are then converted to a human voice. These apps with an iPad or iPhone can be considered equivalent to an SGD (Speech Generation Device). They also are categorized as AAC. One key aspect, which also largely determines the price, is the type of voice generated. It can be “metallic” or “natural” (based on thousands of stored audio clips, even for voices of men and women). Supported languages are critical. I do not include apps for translating texts, apps to read emails, web pages, etc, or those apps with very low prices that offer only a very simple synthesized speech without any other feature.
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assistive Chat $24.99 / €19.99 | | | Assistive Apps | | Text to speech with word prediction | |
| Assistive Chat German $24.99 / €19.99 | | | |||||
| Easy Speak $1.99 / €1.59 | | | Farell IT Ltd. | Text to speech with word prediction | ||
| EZSpeechPRO Female (US) $99.99 / €79.99 | | | Gus Communications Inc. | Text to speech, natural male and female voices, phrases organizer | ||
| EZSpeechPRO Male (US) $99.99 / €79.99 | | ||||||
| Get Talking – Text To Speech (AAC) $209.99 / €159.99 | | | Agile Computers Limited | Text to speech with word prediction | ||
| iMean $4.99 / €3.99 | ✘ | | | Michael Bergmann | Letterboard with large easy-to-read keys and word suggestions | |
| ✘ | Locabulary Pro $129.99 / €94.99 | | | Red Mountain Labs, Inc. | AAC based on words and short phrases with 8 natural voices, vocabulary lists for generic and concrete places, backup and file sharing, ... | |
| Locabulary Lite Free | | ||||||
| MintyVox AAC - Assistive and Augmentative Communication Aid - Speech Synthesis for Conversation - a Voice with which to Talk $49.99 / €39.99 | | | Mindskate Limited | Text to speech with word prediction, 32,000 words dictionary and natural voice | ||
| ✘ | NeoJulie Free | | | NeoSpeech, Inc. | Text to speech (3 apps for 3 different voices) | |
| NeoKate Free | | ||||||
| NeoPaul Free | | ||||||
| New Voice $149.99 / €109.99 | ✘ | | | Remedy Mobile PLLC | AAC based on text (British and American English) with favorite phrases | |
| Predictable $159.99 / €119.99 | | | Therapy Box Limited | AAC based on text with a word prediction engine | ||
| Predictable Dansk $159.99 / €119.99 | | | |||||
| Predictable Espanol $159.99 / €119.99 | | | |||||
| Predictable norsk $159.99 / €119.99 | | | |||||
| Predictable Svensk $159.99 / €119.99 | | | |||||
| Speak It! Text to Speech $1.99 / €1.59 | | | Future Apps Inc. | Text to speech | ||
| ✘ | Talk Assist Free | | | Mubaloo Limited | Text to speech | |
| ✘ | Talk To Me - Text to Speech $1.99 / €1.59 | | | Chris Chauvin | Text to speech | |
| Typ-O HD - writing is for everybody $14.99 / €11.99 | | | SecondGuess ApS | Text to speech with word prediction | ||
✘ | Typ-O $4.99 / €3.99 | | |||||
| Verbally Free | ✘ | | | Intuary, Inc. | | AAC based on text with a word prediction and common words and phrases; upgrade adds more options and 3 natural voices |
| Verbally Premium $99.99 / €79.99 | ✘ | | |||||
Apps for describing emotions or showing typical facial expressions, emotion recognition exercises, etc.
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✘ | ABA Flash Cards - Emotions Free | | | Kindergarten | Flashcards showing emotions | |
| ABA Flash Cards & Games - Emotions Free | | | Alligator Apps | 200+ images showing 20 emotions plus games and many features | ||
| ✘ | Anger $0.99 / €0.79 | | | Bee | A simple scale on which emotional intensity can be mapped. | |
| ✘ | AutismXpress Free | | | StudioEmotion Pty Ltd. Inc. | Shows 12 basic emotions | |
✘ | AutismXpress Pro $1.99 / €1.59 | | |||||
| emotion x $0.99 / €0.79 | | | Dunedin Multimedia Ltd. | Shows the 30 most commom emotion expressions | ||
| Emotions and Feelings Social Story $2.99 / €2.39 | | | Touch Autism | A social story about different emotions and feelings, and a simple visual support for asking how someone is feeling, or identifying feelings or emotions. | ||
| ✘ | face-cards B Free | | | Dunedin Multimedia Ltd. | Face-cards portraying the most common emotions | |
| face-cards C Free | | ||||||
| face-cards F Free | | ||||||
| face-cards G Free | | ||||||
| face-cards H Free | | ||||||
| ✘ | Facial Expression Recognition Training $0.99 / €0.79 | | | InHo Choi | Matching game for six basic facial expressions | |
| FERT2.0 $0.99 / €0.79 | | ||||||
| ✘ | Face Reader $4.99 / €3.99 | | | Paul Dabrowski | Training tool for the seven basic emotions | |
| Feel Electric! Free | | | Sesame Workshop Apps | Uses content and curriculum from The Electric Company to provide opportunities to explore emotional vocabulary and self-expression. Includes 3 vocabulary-based games, a digital diary, and a glossary of 50 emotion vocabulary words. | ||
| ✘ | Feelings Book $14.99 / €11.99 | | | Communication Crossroads, Inc. | Game for identifying, understanding and regulating emotions | |
| How Are You? $0.99 / €0.99 | ✘ | | | zuuka! GmbH | Episodes, games and activities to teach feeling | |
| iTouchiLearn Feelings for Preschool Kids $1.99 / €1.59 | | | Staytooned | Six fun activities that identify core feelings and improve communication skills. With animations that demonstrate cause and effect feelings and emotions and audio directions to facilitate learning and aid children with speech difficulties. | ||
| iVenting Free | ✘ | | | IdeaBlocks, Inc. | Full-body emotion images by categories | |
| Micro-Expression Trainer $3.99 / €2.99 | | | Mario Micklisch | Facial images of the seven basic expressions | ||
| ✘ | Moody Me - Mood Diary and Tracker Free | | | Med Help | Track moods, take pictures, play a slideshow to feel better, and show your evolutions over time. | |
| ✘ | Smurks $3.99 / €2.99 | | | Iconicast LLC | Allows you to show intensity and nuance of emotion by using your finger to morph a face. | |
| ✘ | Teach Emotions $4.99 / €3.99 | | | mHealthCoach2010 | Facial emotions, option to record voice | |
| That's how I feel $2.99 / €2.39 | ✘ | | | Smarty Ears, LLC | Body images (AAC style) to express emotions | |
| Touch and Learn - Emotions Free | | | Alligator Apps | 100 images showing emotions plus games and many features | ||
| ✘ | What’s the Expression - Autism Series $0.99 / €0.79 | | | WebTeam Corporation | Learn about various emotions using facial expressions; part of Shanesh COLORS app series based on discrete trial part of ABA | |
| ✘ | Wonkido Mood Journal $0.99 / €0.79 | | | Brighter Futures for Beautiful Minds | Mood journal to register up to 8 different emotions and the reason for them. | |
Apps that show correct social behaviors or skills, or common community situations. They are typically based on multimedia presentations or video clips (video modeling).
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Sunny Day 2011 Free | ✘ | | Fee Tan | Behaviors in daily life using DTT and games | ||
| ✘ | Asking to Play eBook for iPhone2012 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Brighter Futures For Beautiful Minds | E-book with interactive audio about how to ask a friend to play with you. | ||
| Assistive Chat :D - Chat with Virtual Friends at the Beach! AAC 2011 $29.99 / €23.99 | | Mindskate Limited | Chat with virtual friends | |||
| ✘ | autism app 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 | | Spurwink Services | Scenarios about every day communication | ||
| Calm Counter- Anger Management Tool and Social Story for Autism, Down Syndrome and Special Needs 2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Touch Autism | Visual and audio tool to help people calm down when they are angry or anxious | |||
| Clothing Store Signs and Words HD / Community Signs and Words HD / Dress HD / Emergency Signs and Words HD / Entertainment in the Community HD / Entertainment in the Home HD / Grocery Signs and Words HD / Grooming HD / Hygiene HD / Information Labels HD / Information Signs and Words HD / Pharmacy Signs and Words HD / Public Transportation Signs and Words HD / Restaurant Signs and Words HD / Safety Signs and Words HD / School Signs and Words HD / Shopping Signs and Words HD / Survival Signs and Words HD / Words That Direct HD / Life Skills Sampler HD 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 "Life Skills Sampler HD" is free | Clothing Store Signs and Words / Community Signs and Words / Dress / Emergency Signs and Words / Entertainment in the Community / Entertainment in the Home / Grocery Signs and Words / Grooming / Hygiene / Information Labels / Information Signs and Words / Pharmacy Signs and Words / Public Transportation Signs and Words / Restaurant Signs and Words / Safety Signs and Words / School Signs and Words / Shopping Signs and Words / Survival Signs and Words / Words That Direct / Life Skills Sampler 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 "Life Skills Sampler" is free | | The Conover Company | 19 apps x 80 videos to teach and reinforce common signs and words | ||
| Compliments - A Social Story and Speech Tool on How to Give a Compliment for Autism, Aspergers, Down Syndrome and Other Special Needs2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Touch Autism | social story about how and why people give compliments, and a simple visual support for giving compliments. | |||
| Conversation Social Stories and Simple PECS Communication Tool - Autism, Down Syndrome & Special Needs 2012 $3.99 / €2.99 | | Touch Autism | 4 social stories (greetings, asking someone to play, what to talk about in a conversation and tips for great conversations) and simple communication tool based on buttons with images that play whatever part of the conversation the the story is about. | |||
| Divorce Social Story - A Social Story for Children about Divorce – Autism, Down Syndrome and Special Needs 2012 $0.99 / €0.79 | | Touch Autism | Social story about divorce and what it means for a child. The app uses simple language and graphics to explain that divorce means parents living in separate houses, and that it’s ok. | |||
| Communication Skills HD / Everyday Social Skills HD / Initiating Social Skills HD / Manners HD / Personal Social Skills HD / Responding Social Skills HD / Social Skills Sampler HD 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 "Social Skills Sampler HD" is free | Communication Skills / Everyday Social Skills / Initiating Social Skills / Manners / Personal Social Skills / Responding Social Skills / Social Skills Sampler 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 "Social Skills Sampler" is free | | The Conover Company | 6 apps x 80 videos to teach basic social skills | ||
| Everyday Skills 2010 $39.99 / €31.99 | Everyday Skills - Pocket Edition 2010 $14.99 / €11.99 | | AbleLink Technologies, Inc. | Multimedia learning sessions of 40 skills for living independently | ||
| FindMe(Autism)2012 Free | ✘ | | Interface3 Limited | Help young children with autism practice simple social skills (ability level equivalent to 18 months or over) by finding the person in each scene. It does not require any language or reading. | ||
| ✘ | Getting Dressed eBook for iPhone2012 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Brighter Futures For Beautiful Minds | E-book with interactive audio about how to get dressed. | ||
| ✘ | Going Potty eBook for iPhone2012 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Brighter Futures For Beautiful Minds | E-book with interactive audio to learn how to go potty in the toilet. | ||
| Going Shopping Social Story – A Story About Good Store Behavior For Children with Autism, Down Syndrome & Special Needs / Using Money and Saving Money - A Social Story to Introduce Basic Money Concepts for Aspergers, Autism, Down Syndrome and other Special Needs2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Touch Autism | 'Going shopping' is a story and simple visual tool aimed towards children who have behaviors in stores caused by always wanting to pick out a toy or treat for themselves to buy. 'Using Money' introduces basic money concepts. | |||
| ✘ | Hidden Curriculum for Adolescents and Adults 2010 $1.99 / €1.59 | | AAPC Publishing | Examples and suggestions for social relationships, community, money matters, workplace, … | ||
| ✘ | Hidden Curriculum for Kids 2010 $1.99 / €1.59 | | AAPC Publishing | Examples of conversations for every day situations | ||
| i See-quence... Christmas / My Schedules at School Social Stories 2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | i See-quence... Birthday Parties / Beach / Christmas / Easter Egg Hunts / Fireworks / Grocery Store / My Classmates / My Day at School / My Schedules at School Social Stories / People at School / People in My Community / Playground 2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | | I Get It, LLC | Sequences of images and instructions about birthday, christmas, fireworks, school, playground, grocery store, beach, classmates, Easter egg hunts, and community | ||
| iDress for Weather 2012 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Pedro Productions | Shows clothes matching the weather conditions | |||
| ✘ | iModeling 2011 $9.99 / €7.99 | | Mighty Kingdom | To record video, add notes and an image to them, assign them to a specific child account and see them. | ||
| iModeling Boundaries2012 $2.99 / €2.39 On April: $0.99 / €0.79 | ✘ | | Mighty Kingdom | Teaches a child the boundaries of touch/relationships using photos of people involved in the child’s life that have to be sorted by the type of relationship. | ||
| Is that Silly? 2011 $9.99 / €7.99 | | Smarty Ears, LLC | To observe, notice, make a decision & verbalize which ones of the 120 images are silly or not silly. Tracks data and generates a report. | |||
| iTouchiLearn Musical Morning Routines for Toddler and Preschool Kids / iTouchiLearn Musical Morning Routines for Toddler and Preschool Kids Free 2012 $1.99 / €1.59 "Free" is free | | Staytooned | Animations, games and activity secuences to tech morning routine life skills | |||
| Joke Telling - A Social Story and Speech Tool on How to Tell Jokes to Increase Social Skills for Aspergers, Autism, Down Syndrome and other Special Needs / Knock Knock Numbers - Joke Telling and Conversations Tool for Autism, Aspergers, Down Syndrome & Special Education2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Touch Autism | 2 social stories about how and why people tell jokes, and a simple visual/audio support for telling knock knock jokes. | |||
| ✘ | Life Skills Winner 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Wise Mind Studios | Show skills made of tasks and give 'prizes' for doing them | ||
| Living Safely 2010 $29.99 / €23.99 | Living Safely - Pocket Edition 2010 $19.99 / €15.99 | | AbleLink Technologies, Inc. | Multimedia learning sessions for 27 safety skills | ||
| Making Sequences 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 | ✘ | | Zorten Software | | Exercises based on sorting sequences of images of daily skills and other topics. You can create new sequences. | |
| Model Me Going Places 2 2010 Free | Model Me Going Places 2010 Free | | Model Me Kids, LLC | | 6 slideshows for typical community situations | |
| My Day With WH Words - A Social Story and Speech Tool for Autism, Down Syndrome and Other Special Needs 2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Touch Autism | A social story about talking about one’s day, and a simple visual support for “WH” questions (Who, What, When, Where, Why, How). | |||
| ✘ | My Healthy Smile 2010 $4.99 / €3.99 | | Fraser | | 12 slideshows for typical dentist situations and oral health | |
| Using My Words to Ask For What I Want Social Story2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Touch Autism | 13 page social story about using words to ask for what you want, and a simple visual support for manding, or asking for different objects or activities. | |||
| Off We Go - Going on a Plane HD / Off We Go - Going to the Dentist HD 2011 $3.99 / €2.99 | Off We Go - Going on a Plane / Off We Go - Going to the Dentist 2010 $3.99 / €2.99 | | KIWA International Ltd | | Slideshows with sounds and games related to airplanes and dentists | |
| Potty Training Social Story - Autism, Down Syndrome & Special Needs 2012 $3.99 / €2.99 | | Touch Autism | Interactive social story about potty training customizable for boys or girls. It includes a FAQ page written by a BCBA analyst to common potty training questions. | |||
| QuickCues 2012 $4.99 / €3.99 | | Fraser | Textual social scripts for communication, life skills, socializing and mental health | |||
| ✘ | School Skills 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 | | Lorie Dietz | Common situations at school for people with high functioning autism | ||
| Social Adventures 2011 $14.99 / €11.99 | | all4mychild | 44 activities of interactions, advocating and negotiating, experiencing humor, negotiating personal space, … Includes memorable visuals, catch phrases and a game. | |||
| ✘ | Social Navigator 2011 $49.99 / €39.99 | | Seven Minds, LLC | To assist children with social and behavioral challenges in adapting their behavior and developing life-long social skills, addressing social situations at home, at school and in the community. Tracks behaviors and development. | ||
| Social Skill Builder 2012 Free | | Social Skill Builder, Inc. | Interactive videos to teach key social thinking, language and behavior that are critical to everyday living. | |||
| ✘ | Social Skills 2010 $3.99 / €2.99 | | MDR Inc. | 12 slideshows of social skills | ||
| Speech with Milo: Sequencing 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Doonan Speech Therapy | | Flashcards-animations to order sequences of actions | ||
| Staying Safe and Safer Strangers- A Stranger Danger Social Story for Autism, Down Syndrome & Other Special Needs 2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Touch Autism | 2 community safety social stories (safer strangers and buildings, and what to do if you are lost). | |||
| Taking Care of My Device Social Story2012 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Touch Autism | Nine page social story about proper care and handling of a device. | |||
| The Social Express / Free 2011 $44.99 / €35.99 "Lite" is free | ✘ | | The Language Express, Inc | | Teaches children how to think about and manage social situations through video modeling, thus enabling them to build social-emotional skills and develop meaningful relationships. It includes hidden rules, Social Thinking® concepts, self-regulation, and problem solving to help the user and adult put it all together. | |
| TherAd for Autism 2011 $14.99 / €11.99 | | Data Makes the Difference, LLC | Show leisure videos between video modelling clips, in both cases to be added by the user | |||
| Walk With Me...Bus Travel 2011 $9.99 / €7.99 | | Cordou Limited | A series of real images along with audio to help the user to take the bus step by step. | |||
A variety of apps that help to develop oral and/or written language (even to validate sentences). Some apps are simply vocabulary flashcards accompanied by audio clips. Others include vocabulary exercises or even phrase creation practice. Supported languages are critical. The frontier with generic learning applications is diffuse.
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✘ | ABA Flash Cards - Actions / ABA Flash Cards ( Alphabet / Emotions / Earth Science / Famous Places / Fruits & Nuts / Musical Instruments / Shapes / Sports / Things You Eat / Things You Play With / Things You Wear / Vegetables / Vehicles / Zoo Animals ) 2009 Free | | Kindergarten | | 15 apps with collection of flashcards with sounds | |
| ABA Therapy Images 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 | ABA Therapy Images Mobile / ABA First Words 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 | | SlingSpace, LLC | Photos in 3 categories and flashcards to learn first words. | ||
| Abilipad 2012 $19.99 / €15.99 | ✘ | | Cheryl Bregman | Combines the functionality of a notepad with word prediction, text-to-speech and a customizable keyboard | ||
| ACT Spell 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 | ✘ | | Cool Tool Apps | Customizable vocabulary and spelling exercises | ||
| Aeir Talk 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 | ✘ | | Aeir Bio Logic, LLC | Flashcard-based exercises to learn words and numbers but also to construct complete sentences using pictures and audio in a very graphical way. | ||
| Alphaboard 2010 $9.99 / €7.99 | ✘ | | AdastraSoft | To transition from alphabet board to computer keyboard | ||
| Animal Zoo - Flash Cards & Games / Flash Cards for Kids - First Food Words / My First Words - Flashcards by Alligator Apps 2011 Free | | Alligator Apps | 200+ flashcards plus games and many features | |||
| Autism and PDD Basic Questions2012 $14.99 / €11.99 | ✘ | | Linguisystems Inc | Exercises with basic wh- questions through 5 stories. | ||
| Big or Small / Lite 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 "Lite" is free | | Sanghoon Lee | Structured way based on ABA to check and teach children’s ability for understanding spoken language and basic concept of size, amount, numbers. | |||
| Conversation Builder / Deluxe 2011 $9.99 / €7.99 Deluxe: $19.99 / €15.99 | Conversation Builder for iPhone 2011 $5.99 / €4.99 | | Mobile Education Store | Practice conversation patterns with visual aids | ||
| First Phrases HD / Lite2012 $9.99 / €7.99 'Lite' is free | First Phrases / Lite2012 $9.99 / €7.99 'Lite' is free | | Hamaguchi Apps | To learn how to put two or three words together and basic English phrases. 72 different verb + noun combinations. | ||
| Flash Cards 2010 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Jason Wentworth | Framework to create and store online flashcards | |||
| ✘ | Flash Cards Game for Kids 2010 $0.99 / €0.79 | | Sascha Modersitkzi | Preload flashcard app with typical categories for kids | ||
| Fun With Directions HD / Lite / Fun With Directions HD / Lite2012 $9.99 / €7.99 'Lite' are free | Fun With Directions / Lite / Fun With Directions / Lite2012 $9.99 / €7.99 'Lite' are free | | Hamaguchi Apps | Exercises to practice listening, following directions, colors, spatial concepts, auditory memory and auditory processing. | ||
| ✘ | HaloTalk 2009 $9.99 / €7.99 | | AdastraSoft | 50 pre-defined response/ adjective commonly used daily | ||
| House of Learning 2011 $6.99 / €5.49 | ✘ | | Smarty Ears, LLC | Flexible tool for learning and playing. Can be used to teach prepositions, story telling, etc. | ||
| iPractice Verbs 2012 $9.99 / €7.99 | | Smarty Ears, LLC | Flashcards and exercises to practice 120 verbs | |||
| iTouchiLearn Numbers for Preschool Kids / Lite / Numbers / Numbers Lite 2012 $1.99 / €1.59 "Lite" are free | | Staytoooned | Activities and games to teach numbers and basic words, with colorful animation, interaction and virtual rewards to motivate and focus attention. | |||
| Kiddie Questions 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Talking Tails | Who/what/ where/why/ when questions game | |||
| Language Builder for iPad / Deluxe 2011 $7.99 / €5.99 Deluxe: $7.99 / €5.99 | Language Builder for iPhone 2011 $5.99 / €4.99 | | Mobile Education Store | | Sentence ideation and formation; receptive and expressive language | |
| Language Forest 2012 $24.99 / €19.99 | | Synapse Apps LLC | Flashcard application where each word in a language is shown as being analogous to a tree with the primary meaning and other related words and real life experiences. | |||
| Language Lab: Core Words 2011 Free | ✘ | | Prentke Romich Company | Helps early language learners as well as children with expressive language delays who use AAC methods to learn core words/pictures | ||
| ✘ | Learn to Talk / Learn to Talk Sampler 2010 $1.99 / €1.59 "Sampler" is free | | Wikiela LLC | | 160 flashcards with basic vocabulary | |
| PCS™ Bingo / PCS™ Memory / PCS™ Rhyming Flash Cards / PCS™ Vocabulary Flash Cards / PCS™ Word Scramble2012 Free (In-App Purchases) | | DynaVox Mayer-Johnson | Set of 5 apps to practice vocabulary, articulation, language and rhyming using the same Picture Communication Symbols (PCS™) used in Dynavox communication devices and other AAC devices. Up to 60 packs of vocabulary at $0.99/€0.79 each one. | |||
| PicBoard 2012 $7.99 / €5.99 | | Mark Ashley | Boards of picture prompts | |||
| Picture the Sentence HD / Lite2012 $9.99 / €7.99 'Lite' is free | Picture the Sentence / Lite2012 $9.99 / €7.99 'Lite' is free | | Hamaguchi Apps | Exercises to construct phrases using images and text to practice language and auditory processing tasks at the basic sentence level. | ||
| Preposition Remix 2011 $9.99 / €7.99 | | Smarty Ears, LLC | Games to practice the 20 most common prepositions | |||
| Question Builder for iPad 2011 $5.99 / €4.99 | Question Builder 2011 $5.99 / €4.99 | | Mobile Education Store | Question and answer exercises | ||
| Sentence Builder for iPad / Sentence Builder Teen / Preposition Builder 2012 $5.99 / €4.99 Preposition: $9.99 / €7.99 | Sentence Builder 2011 $5.99 / €4.99 | | Mobile Education Store | Exercises for building grammatically correct sentences | ||
| ✘ | Speaking Images 2009 $0.99 / €0.79 | | Gp Imp. | Preloaded flashcards app | ||
| Speech With Milo - Adjectives2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Doonan Speech Therapy | Flashcards-animations to learn 55 adjectives | |||
| Speech with Milo: Prepositions / (Spanish) Speech with Milo: Prepositions 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Doonan Speech Therapy | Flashcards-animations to learn 100 verbs | |||
| Speech with Milo: Verbs / (Spanish) Speech with Milo: Verbs 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Doonan Speech Therapy | Flashcards-animations to learn 23 prepositions | |||
| Story Builder for iPad 2011 $7.99 / €5.99 | Story Builder 2011 $5.99 / €4.99 | | Mobile Education Store | Exercises of narrative creation | ||
| Study Fly / Study Fly German / Study Fly Multilingual / Study Fly Russian / Study Fly Spanish 2011 $2.99-$9.99 / €2.39-€7.99 | | TheraTech Solutions, LLC | Flash cards with text to speech and access to Quizlet.com to download cards | |||
| Talk To Me 100 / Free 2011 $5.99 / €4.99 | ✘ | | Sydspeak, Inc. | Teaching app to see words, hear words, understand their meaning and experience communication | ||
| TalkBoard 2012 $16.99 / €13.99 | | Mark Ashley | "Picboard" app (see above) plus communication aids | |||
| Talking Flashcards / Talking Flashcards Multilingual 2011 $3.99 / €2.99 | | TheraTech Solutions, LLC | | Flash cards with text to speech and access to Quizlet.com to download cards | ||
| Touch Talking 2012 $2.99 / €1.99 | ✘ | | Proteon Software | 9 categories of pictures with their associated audio clip | ||
| Tuneville 2012 Free (in-app purchases) | Tuneville LT 2011 Free (in-app purchases) | | Next Thing Productions, Inc. | Learning app based on pesenting songs and repeate them with key omissions, and then do the same with topics related to the songs. Includes fun interactive activities and photos for generalization. | ||
| VAST Autism 1 - Core / Spanish 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 | | SpeakinMotion, LLC | Video modeling, written words and auditory cues to help individuals acquire words and phrases | |||
| WhQuestions 2012 $9.99 / €7.99 | | Smarty Ears, LLC | 300 who-what-where-how-why questions | |||
These are tools to practice the pronunciation of certain phonemes and spoken language in general, and are usually presented as applications to treat SLP (Speech Language Pathologies). Supported languages are critical.
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apraxia Picture Sound Cards APSC / Pro 2011 $179.99 / €129.99 Pro: $299.99 / €239.99 | ✘ | Foundations Developmental House, LLC | Customize therapy sessions using 775 picture cards, 45 phonogram cards & 10 number cards, and the Speech-EZ® Hand Cues in video format | ||
| Articulate it! 2012 $38.99 / €30.99 | Smarty Ears, LLC | Articulation app with 1,000 images covering all English sounds | |||
| Articulation Station / Pro2012 Free Pro: $49.99 / €39.99 | ✘ | Little Bee Speech | 6 articulation activities to teach how to pronounce sounds in the English language, with 22 sound programs that target sounds in the initial, medial and final positions of words, sentences and stories. Over 1,000 target words, 1,300 sentences and 151 stories. Data tracking and users management. | ||
| ArtikPix / ArtikPix - Full 2011 ArtikPix: free Full: $29.99 / €23.99 | RinnApps | | Articulation app with flashcard and matching activities; decks to be purchased separately | ||
| Auditory Figure Ground AFG2012 $29.99 / €23.99 | ✘ | Foundations Developmental House, LLC | App for improving an individual's ability to accurately perceive speech in the presence of background competing noise. The user is able to select the Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) and the type of background noise, and practice recognizing words. | ||
| Bilingual Articulation Phonology Assessment -Spanish 2011 $39.99 / €31.99 | ✘ | Smarty Ears, LLC | To assess the articulatory and phonological abilities of Spanish-speaking and bilingual (English-Spanish) children. | ||
| Comprehension TherAppy / Naming TherAppy / Writing TherAppy 2012 $24.99 / €19.99 Writing TherAppy: $19.99 / €15.99 | Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd. | Auditory and reading comprehension of single words (700 included). | |||
| Disfluency Index Counter 2010 $8.99 / €6.99 | Smarty Ears, LLC | To perform a live count of the number of fluent or disfluent syllables. | |||
| Fluency Tracker 2010 $8.99 / €6.99 | Smarty Ears, LLC | To track changes in the frequency of disfluency, changes in avoidance behaviors, and feelings associated with speaking. | |||
| Hand Cue Sound Match HCSM 2011 $29.99 / €23.99 | ✘ | Foundations Developmental House, LLC | Therapy tool that supports the Speech-EZ® Apraxia Program | ||
| ✘ | iSpy Phonics 2010 $1.99 / €1.59 | Bappz Ltd. | Matching sounds and letters | ||
| Match2Say 2012 $19.99 / €15.99 | Smarty Ears, LLC | Matching game based on basic sounds | |||
| Minimal Pair Pack 2011 $29.99 / €23.99 | Therapy Box Limited | 700 flash cards to work on pair words to improve many speech sounds in the initial position of words. Keeps track of accuracy and includes visual and audio reindorcements. | |||
| Naming TherAppy 2011 $24.99 / €19.99 | Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd. | Naming exercises with about 500 words. | |||
| PCS Articulation Flash Cards2012 Free (In-App Purchases) | DynaVox Mayer-Johnson | Articulation practice. 60 PCS Symbols included, and the option to purchase up to 1,300 more. Initial, medial and final position of each sound in each pack (each one for a sound). | |||
| Pocket Pairs 2011 $24.99 / €19.99 | Synapse Apps, Inc. | Receptive and expressive practice of 12 phonological processes | |||
| PhonoPix - Full 2011 $24.99 / €19.99 | RinnApps | Minimal pairs app with 10 decks for many phonological processes | |||
| Pocket SLP Articulation 2012 $29.99 / €23.99 | Synapse Apps, Inc. | 2,100 flashcards to practice pronunciation | |||
| ✘ | Pruebas de articulación en español o Spanish Artik 2012 $19.99 / €15.99 | Smarty Ears, LLC | Articulation practice app for Spanish | ||
| /r/ intensive SLP 2011 $19.99 / €15.99 | Smarty Ears, LLC | Articulation app focused on the 'r' phoneme | |||
| Reading TherAppy 2012 $24.99 / €19.99 | Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd. | 4 reading practice modes with over 450 exercises at phrase -and sentence- level each, for 1,800+ reading comprehension practice items . | |||
| SI SLP Words HD Communicative Therapy / Light 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 "Light" is free | Word Buttons Light 2011 Free | iEducationApps.com | AAC/SLP tool that allow to define buttons and record voices | ||
| Simplex Spelling Phonics 1 - English2012 $4.99 / €3.99 | Pyxwise Software Inc. | Combination of phonics lessons, spelling/word patterns and contextually relevant spelling rules to improve English spelling and reading skills. Over 450 high frequency words (US, UK and Canadian English) divided into 42 lists that are organized by spelling patterns and difficulty levels. | |||
| Simplex Spelling Phonics HD - English Reverse Phonics / Simplex Spelling Free Lite - With Reverse Phonics2012 HD: $4.99 / €3.99 'Free Lite' is free | Pyxwise Software Inc. | Spelling and reading exercises based on combining a unique “reverse phonics” approach with contextually relevant spelling rules that explain why words are spelled in a particular manner. Over 260 high frequency words (US, UK and Canadian English). | |||
| SLP Field Kit - Consonants HD 2011 $49.99 / €39.99 | SLP Field Kit - Consonants 2011 $29.99 / €23.99 | Michael Engelbrite | 8 interactive activities for consonant phonetic practice | ||
| SLP Goal Bank 2011 $14.99 / €11.99 | ✘ | Smarty Ears, LLC | Create lists of objectives for SLP treatments | ||
| ✘ | SmallTalk Aphasia - Female / Aphasia - Male / Common Phrases / Consonant Blends / Conversational Phrases / Daily Activities / Days, Months, Dates / Dysphagia / Letters, Numbers, Colors / Oral Motor Exercises / Phonemes 2010 Free | Lingraphicare, Inc. | Set of applications for aphasia, disphagia, oral motor exercises, practice some specific words and phonemes, etc. | ||
| Smarty Speech 2011 $19.99 / €15.99 | Smarty Ears, LLC | 2,700 images for articulation practice | |||
| Sound Matching SM / Syllable Counting SC / Target Sound ID 2011 $29.99 / €23.99 | ✘ | Foundations Developmental House, LLC | Apps to develop phonological awareness, sound order sequencing skills, and auditory attention skills. | ||
| Speech Journal 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 | ✘ | Mobile Education Store | Voice recorder that lets you pair recorded messages with your own imported images and image sequences | ||
| Speech Pairs 2011 $9.99 / €7.99 | Synapse Apps, Inc. | A variation of "Minimal Pairs" | |||
| Speech Sounds on Cue for iPad (Australian English) / Lite 2011 $129.99 / €94.99 "Lite" is free | ✘ | Multimedia Speech Pathology | Speech therapy treatment software for articulation difficulty caused by apraxia of speech or other speech difficulties with all audio and video recorded by an Australian speech pathologist | ||
| Speech Trainer 3D 2011 $7.99 / €5.99 | Smarty Ears, LLC | 3D demonstration of all sounds in the English language | |||
| Speech Tutor 2011 $9.99 / €7.99 | Synapse Apps, Inc. | 132 animations showing sound articulations | |||
| Speech4Good 2011 $19.99 / €15.99 | Balbus Speech, Inc. | Set of tools for monitoring, recording and sharing a speech therapy session | |||
| SpeechStickers 2012 $14.99 / €11.99 | ✘ | Serious Tree LLC | Practice the basic building blocks of speech | ||
| Sunny Articulation Test 2012 $49.99 / €39.99 | Smarty Ears, LLC | Articulation test | |||
| The R App 2011 $7.99 / €5.99 | Synapse Apps, Inc. | Practice the 'r' phoneme at the beginning, middle, and end of words, and also at sentence level. 600 images. Store results and email them. Includes tips and highly detailed diagrams for the tricky tongue positioning that R requires. | |||
| VAST Songs 1 - Intro / VASTtx - Key Words / VASTtx - Therapy Samples 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 Key Words: $12.99 / €10.49 VASTtx - Therapy Samples: $9.99 / €7.99 | SpeakinMotion, LLC | Song videos to practice sound articulation. Key Works Therapy Samples are focused on apraxia and aphasia. | |||
| Writing TherAppy 2011 $19.99 / €15.99 | Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd. | Spelling practice with more than 400 words. | |||
Applications to perform exercises based on DTT (Discrete Trial Teaching) or ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis), as categorizations, generalizations or practicing receptive language. Some let you set the exercises to perform, execute them and record the results.
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABA – Problem Solving – What does not belong? Free | | | Alligator Apps | Matching and other exercises with hundreds of images and the option to add more | ||
| Touch and Learn - ABC Alphabet and 123 Numbers Free | | ||||||
| Touch and Learn - My First Shapes Free | | ||||||
| ✘ | ABA Problem Solving Game - Healthy Habits? $0.99 / €0.79 | | | Kindergarten | Questions showing 4 images as responses | |
| ABA Problem Solving Game - What Rhymes? $0.99 / €0.79 | | ||||||
| ABA Problem Solving Game - Which Does Not Belong? $0.99 / €0.79 | | ||||||
| ABA Problem Solving Game - Which Go Together? $0.99 / €0.79 | | ||||||
| ABA Receptive Identification $1.99 / €1.59 | | | Kindergarten | Receptive language practice using three images each time | ||
| ABA Receptive Identification - By Class $1.99 / €1.59 | | ||||||
✘ | ABA Receptive Identification - By Feature $1.99 / €1.59 | | |||||
| ABA Receptive Identification - By Function $1.99 / €1.59 | | ||||||
| ABA Receptive Identification - FCC Combined $1.99 / €1.59 | | ||||||
| ✘ | ABA Touch : Monsters $0.99 / €0.79 | | | SlingSpace, LLC | A touch and tactile response application for children with sensory issues. Pressing the correct monster/train will generate a sound and cause the device to shake. | |
| ABA Touch : Trains $0.99 / €0.79 | | ||||||
| ✘ | ABA1Program $9.99 / €7.99 | | | Estuary Consulting | Recording sets of discrete trials | |
| ✘ | ABABasic $2.99 / €1.99 | | | KV Adaptive LLC | Discrete trails training | |
| ✘ | ABAPref $1.99 / €1.59 | | | KV Adaptive LLC | Preference assessments | |
| ✘ | Adam's Game - Toddler Voice Flash Cards $1.99 / €1.59 | | | Sol Robots, L.L.C. | Receptive language practice using three images each time | |
| Adam's Spiel - German Voice Flash Cards $1.99 / €1.59 | | | |||||
| Autism Colors $13.99 / €10.99 | | | ZBobbApps.com | | Discrete trails training to learn the colors (or letters, numbers, shapes or words) | |
| Autism/DTT Letters $6.99 / €5.49 | | ||||||
| Autism/DTT Numbers $6.99 / €5.49 | | ||||||
| Autism/DTT Shapes $7.99 / €5.99 | | ||||||
| DTT Words $2.99 / €2.39 | | ||||||
| ChoiceBoard-Creator Free | ✘ | | | Techno Chipmunk | Customizable choice boards | |
| Clean Up: Category Sorting Free | | | Different Roads to Learning, Inc. | Categories game | ||
| Color SlapPs Free | ✘ | | | Zorten Software | | Identify the names of 12 colors using DTT |
| ✘ | Cursive Lower Case-Autism Series $0.99 / €0.79 | | | WebTeam Corporation | Set of apps based on ABA/DTT to learn alphabet, colors, objects, ..., and all based on the Shanesh COLORS program | |
| Cursive Upper Case-Autism Series $0.99 / €0.79 | | ||||||
| Lower Case-Autism Series $0.99 / €0.79 | | ||||||
| Map Me for iOS Free | | ||||||
✘ | Upper Case-Autism Series $0.99 / €0.79 | | |||||
| What's Your Expression Free | | ||||||
| EASe Pro Listening $99.99 / €79.99 | | | Audioforge Labs Inc. | iPad/iPhone version of the EASe Listening Therapy, that uses music to deliver short, intense bursts of sound, creating a sensory palette of sonic experiences that can help a child learn to cope with typical environmental conditions. | ||
| EASe Lite Listening Therapy $0.99 / €0.79 | | ||||||
| EASe Personal Listening Therapy $39.99 / €31.99 | | ||||||
| Injini: Childhood Development Game Suite $29.99 / €23.99 | ✘ | | | NCsoft Corp. | 9 feature games, 100 puzzles, 50+ hand-painted tracing game illustrations and 8 farm-themed mini-games suited for early intervention (fine motor and language skills, understanding of cause and effect, spatial awareness, memory and visual processing) | |
| Injini: Childhood Development Game Suite Lite Free | ✘ | | |||||
| ✘ | ITPADD-Integrated Technology for Persons with Autism and Developmental Disabilities $3.99 / €2.99 | | | Mark Mautone | Curriculum database, tally counter, timers, flashcards, … | |
| Little Matchups - The Matching Game for Toddlers $0.99 / €0.79 | | | Grasshopper Apps | Matching game to learn about animals, fruits, vegetables, home… Recordable audio. | ||
| Match it up 1 Free | ✘ | | | MyFirstApp.com | Matching exercises with identical, visually related and conceptually related images. | |
| Match it up 2 Free | ✘ | | |||||
| Match it up 3 Free | ✘ | | |||||
| Matrix Basic Free | ✘ | | | MyFirstApp.com | Exercises based on a matrix where you have to put images in the cell that best matches. | |
| Matrix Game Free | ✘ | | |||||
| ✘ | NLConcepts Autism: Sort & Categorize Free | | | Natural Learning Concepts | | Category exercises |
| Odd One Out Pack $29.99 / €23.99 | | | Therapy Box Limited | 3 levels x 6 sets of cards for working on semantic reasoning skills with vibrant symbols and clear visual and auditory feedback, and data collection. | ||
| Parents Magazine Flash Cards Free | | | Meredith Corporation | Flash cards and activities | ||
| Picaa Free | | | UGR | | Association, puzzle, exploration and selection activities | |
| ✘ | Picture Card Maker - For Communication and More! Free | | | Tony Bo | App to take photos, create picture cards adding texts and print them | |
| Picture Card Maker Plus $1.99 / €1.59 | | ||||||
| Preference & Reinforcer Assessment - Autism & Special Education $9.99 / €7.99 | | | Touch Autism | App to evaluate which reinforcers work better | ||
| See.Touch.Learn. Free (image packs are $0.99-$6.99 / €0.79-€5.49) | ✘ | | | Brain Parade LLC | | Create and execute cards-based exercises (for ABA programs). |
| See-Touch.Learn. Pro 2012 $24.99 / €19.99 | ✘ | | |||||
| Sequencing! $0.99 / €0.79 | | | Miss Robin's Room | Exercices for sorting sequences | ||
| SI SLP Education Jumping Numbers Learn Basic Number Counting $0.99 / €0.79 | ✘ | | | iEducationApps.com | Receptive language exercises to learn numbers and colors | |
| SI SLP Education Sliding Colors Learn Basic Colors $0.99 / €0.79 | ✘ | | |||||
| SpeakColors Free | ✘ | | | RWH Technology | Practice two word phrases with color words and common objects | |
| SpeakColors HD $1.99 / €1.59 | ✘ | | |||||
| Special Words $13.99 / €10.99 | | | Special iApps | | To teach children to recognize written words, using pictures and sounds. Includes 4 games with increasing difficulty, matching pictures, words, and both. You can personalize it by reordering, deleting and adding your own words, pictures and audio. | |
| Things That Go Together Free | | | Grasshopper Apps | Exercises based on over 100 matching pairs of real images that go together with audio hints and the option to add more images. | ||
| Touch & Say Free | Touch & Say SD Free | | | Interbots LLC | Six activities: emotions, colors, songs, ... | |
| What Goes Together? $1.99 / €1.59 | | | Different Roads to Learning, Inc. | Categories practice using 3 images each time | ||
| What’s That Sound? Learning to Listen and Identify Sounds $1.99 / €1.59 | | | Different Roads to Learning, Inc. | Sound recognition practice using 3 images each time | ||
| Word SlapPs Vocabulary $4.99 / €3.99 | ✘ | | | Zorten Software | | Teach vocabulary words using images and discrete trial teaching |
Apps to practice motor skills (fine motor skills, oral motor skills, etc.) or just to practice the gestures necessary to use a touch device or even eye contact, smile or dance.
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✘ | Dance Party Dino / Dance Party Cars / Dance Party Zoo 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 | | FizzBrain | Dancing app for motor and balance skills practicing | ||
| Dexteria - Fine Motor Skill Development 2012 $4.99 / €3.99 | | BinaryLabs, Inc. | Fine motor skills and handwriting readiness exercises | |||
| ✘ | Eye Contact Toybox / Eye Contact Zoo 2010 $2.99 / €2.39 | | FizzBrain | | Game to exercise eye contact | |
| iGaze 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 | ✘ | | Dunedin Multimedia Ltd. | Eye contact simulator | ||
| InfinitiTrack 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 | ✘ | | therAPPy | Tracing app to practice fine motor skills | ||
| ✘ | Look in My Eyes Dinosaur / Look in My Eyes 1 Restaurant / Look in My Eyes 2 Car Mechanic / Look in My Eyes 3 Undersea / Look in My Eyes Steam House / Look in My Eyes Steam Math Facts / Look in My Eyes Steam Train / Look in My Eyes Steam Train 2 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 | | FizzBrain | | Game to exercise eye contact | |
| Point To Pictures 2012 $29.99 / €23.99 | ✘ | | RJ Cooper & Associates, Inc. | AAC training app for learning to point/select a picture in order to get that item in real life. | ||
| Slide 2 Unlock 2011 $9.99 / €7.99 | ✘ | | RJ Cooper & Associates, Inc. | Practice slide gestures, including the unlock mechanism | ||
| Slide & Spin 2012 $0.99 / €0.79 | ✘ | | MyFirstApp.com | Develop fine motor skills using four basic motions: turning, sliding, spinning, and pushing of a button | ||
| Smart Oral Motor 2011 $5.99 / €4.99 | | Smarty Ears, LLC | Practice oral motor skills | |||
| ✘ | Smile at Me 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 | | FizzBrain | | Practice the social skill of smiling | |
| Tic-Toc-Tiles 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 | ✘ | | Social Apps Lab at CITRIS - UC Berkeley | | To develop and test fine motor skills for left and right hands by dragging geometric tiles into fitting slots. Various game levels and a scoring system that tracks players' progression over weeks and months. | |
| ✘ | Touch Trainer - Autism & Special Education / Lite 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 "Lite" is free | | Touch Autism | | Exercises to learn how to touch a button in a tactile screen | |
| Touch Tutorial - Elderly, Autism & Special Needs / Lite 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 "Lite" is free | | Touch Autism | Exercises to learn how to do some gestures on a tactile screen | |||
Apps that allow you to define a prize (for example, an image or a text) and a series of actions to perform in order to get it. These are generic applications aimed at all children, but used especially for people with autism.
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chore Pad HD / Chore Pad Lite 2012 $4.99 / €3.99 "Lite" is free | Chore Pad / Chore Pad Lite 2011 $2.99 / €1.99 "Lite" is free | | Nannek | | Token economy with weekly and daily chart views | |
| ✘ | Great Job! / Great Job! Lite 2012 $0.99 / €0.79 "Lite" is free | | B&T Solutions | Token economy based on getting and spending coins | ||
| ✘ | iEarnedThat / iEarnedThat Lite 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 "Lite" is free | | Kidoc, LLC | Token economy using puzzles based on images of the rewards | ||
| iPraiseU 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Pyramid Educational Consultants | Shake or tap the device to randomly generate a praise statement (100 included), say it (5 different voices) and show an animation. | |||
| iReward 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 | | Grembe Inc. | | Token economy app based on images | ||
| ✘ | iReward Chart: Parents Reward Tracker Behavior Chore Chart / Lite 2012 $3.99 / €2.99 "Lite" is free | | Gotclues, Inc | Token economy based on stars; weekly view | ||
| My Potty Chart 2010 $0.99 / €0.79 | ✘ | | Red Piston | Token economy based on checkmarks, hearts, or stars, with lots of hidden sounds and animations, to encourage any toddler to use the toilet. | ||
| ✘ | Potty Chart 2009 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Thats a Girls Name Solutions, LLC. | Token economy based on stars to encourage any toddler to use the toilet. | ||
| ✘ | Reward Chart 2010 Free | | Mark Placzek | Token economy based on stars; weekly view | ||
| Reward Chart for iPad 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 | ✘ | | Matt Cowlin | A reward chart specifically designed to encourage children to behave better. | ||
| ✘ | RewardTimer 2010 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Hidden View Software, LLC | Timer with tally counter, data export and rewards | ||
| ✘ | Smart Charts 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Happy Face Kidz | Tool to track, reward and reinforce positive behaviors, chores and responsibilities | ||
| Waitstrip 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 | ✘ | | Josh Bean | Visual representation of increments of time, amount of steps to be completed, number of minutes to work, etc. | ||
| Working4 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Pyramid Educational Consultants | | Define a goal, the number of tokens (1-5) and the reinforcers (1-6 from the included images or other added). | ||
Apps -mostly generic- that allow you to set up a timer or take turns in a particularly graphic way.
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✘ | ASD Timer 2010 $2.99 / €2.39 | | The Round Studios | Visual timer | ||
| ✘ | Autism Timer 2010 $2.99 / €2.39 | | ROUGE41 | Tripple visual timer | ||
| ✘ | Interval Minder 2010 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Notchland Labs, LLC | Interval timer | ||
| iTake Turns 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Smarty Ears, LLC | Turn taking app with voice output | |||
| ✘ | Kiddie Countdown - Activity Timer / (Free) 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 '(Free)' is free | | Ordinary Toucan LLP | Visual timer | ||
| R+Remind 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Pyramid Educational Consultants | Set a 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10 or 15-minute interval. A tone will sound at each interval. Designed as a tool to help educators remember to reinforce good behavior. | |||
| SharingTimer 2011 $7.99 / €5.99 | | HandHold Adaptive, LLC | | Turn taking and timer with many extra functions | ||
| Take Turn Timer 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 | | Cool Tool Apps | Turn taking | |||
| ✘ | Take Turns 2010 $0.99 / €0.79 | | Kringelbach IT | | Automatic egg timer | |
| ✘ | Time Timer 2010 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Time Timer LLC | Visual timer with repetitions | ||
| Timer with Sections 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Christian Fries | Timer with sections | |||
| Turn Taker - Sharing Tool and Social Story for Autism, Down Syndrome and Special Needs 2012 $4.99 / €3.99 | | Touch Autism | | Visual turn taker for two players. Includes a learning mode. | ||
| ✘ | VisuoTimer 2010 Free | | StøtteCompagniet | Visual timer | ||
| VisTimer / VisTimerFree 2011 VisTimer: $1.99 / €1.59 VisTimerFree: Free | | Mindfultools | Visual timer with a very clean design | |||
Database apps created to collect data (typically on the behavior of people) and then even to analyze that data (generating trends and graphics), send it e-mail or share it via the Internet. Some of them allow you to monitor medications and diets. Some are fairly generic applications.
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✘ | ABC Behavior Assessment 2010 $0.99 / €0.79 | | Reticent Arts | ABC (Antecedents, Behaviors, Consequences) basic data collection tool. | ||
| ✘ | ABC Data 2009 $4.99 / €3.99 | | CBTAonline | Data collection tool for counting behaviors and recording session duration | ||
| ✘ | ABC Data Pro 2011 $27.99 / €21.99 | | CBTAonline | Multi-mode data collection app. Behavior count, partial and full interval, and ABC recording | ||
| ✘ | ABC Logbook 2011 $27.99 / €21.99 | | CBTAonline | Data recording for many students simultaneously | ||
| Autism Tracker Pro (Track Analyze Share ASD Daily) / Lite 2011 $19.99 / €15.99 "Lite" is free | | Track & Share Apps, LLC | Tracks data, view and discuss patters using the multi-item graphs and the visual calendar, and share data using email or Twitter. | |||
| ✘ | AutismTrack 2011 $49.99 / €39.99 | | HandHold Adaptive, LLC | | Journaling tool to track interventions, behaviors and symptoms | |
| ✘ | Behavior Assessment Pro 2010 $9.99 / €7.99 | | Vermont Behavioral Solutions, LLC | Identifies potential factors related to problem behaviors based on a assessment questionnaire | ||
| ✘ | Behavior Counter 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 | | Noorl Software | Keeps a tally of different events or behaviors simultaneosly | ||
| ✘ | Behavior Journal 2010 $9.99 / €7.99 | | mHealthCoach2010 | Monitors and documents behavioral issues using the ABC's of ABA | ||
| Behavior Tracker Pro 2012 $29.99 / €23.99 | | Data Makes the Difference, LLC | | Tracks and graphs behaviors, specifically designed to support behavioral treatment plans | ||
| Caseload Tracker 2011 $14.99 / €11.99 | | Smarty Ears, LLC | Keeps track of IEP meetings due dates, evaluation due dates, and eligibility due date. | |||
| Catalyst HD 2012 Free (and free and paid online services) | ✘ | | Compass Solutions for Autism | Data collection tool plus an online system for data storage, management, graphing, and analysis | ||
| ✘ | DTdata 2011 Free | | Shawnee Behavioral Services, LLC | Collects discrete trial data | ||
| ✘ | Duration, An ABA Duration Recording App / Intervals, An ABA Interval Recording App 2012 Duration: $0.99 / €0.79 Frequency: $4.99 / €3.99 Intervals: $2.99 / €2.39 | | elocinSoft | Record and export ABA duration or intervals recordings | ||
| ✘ | Functional Assessment Data Collection 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 | | Seth Whiting | Records behaviors (Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence) | ||
| ✘ | iBAA 2012 $129.99 / €94.99 | | Future Help Designs | Records qualitative observations, cumulative tabulation, interval recording, and functional behavioral assessment | ||
| ✘ | iBehaveWell 2010 $0.99 / €0.79 | | Derrick Brown | Tracks, charts and shares behavior data | ||
| iBiomed 2011 Free | | MyRoster, LLC | | Health records, journal, meal planner and evaluations | ||
| ✘ | iDidIt 2009 Free | | Excelcis Consulting | Journaling tool to record events, pictures, location and people | ||
| ✘ | IEP Checklist 2010 Free | | Nurvee LLC | IEP checklist (US only) | ||
| IEPPAL 2011 $95 / year | ✘ | | Perceptum Solutions, LLC | Data collection tool for Speech and Language Pathologists (SLP) to capture observed student event data during structured sit down sessions or in ad-hoc field environments | ||
| No More Meltdowns 2011 $10.99 / €8.99 | | SymTrend, Inc. | "SymTrend" app (see below) plus plans and advice taken from the book "No More Meltdowns" | |||
| ✘ | Percentally 2010 $2.99 / €2.39 | | RinnApps | Tally counter that automatically converts tallies to percentages | ||
| ✘ | Skill Tracker Pro 2012 $29.99 / €23.99 | | Data Makes the Difference, LLC | | Collects skills data, charts results and creates skill sheets | |
| Special Education Edition: eCOVE Observation Software for iPad 2011 Free | Special Education Edition: eCOVE Observation Software 2011 Free | | eCOVE Observation Software | Timer, counter, checklist and scale tools | ||
| SymTrend / SymTrend ADL / SymTrend Toilet / SymTrials 2011 SymTrend ADL: $10.99 / €8.99 The rest are free | | SymTrend, Inc. | Records data, real time guidance, charts and trends. | |||
| ✘ | The Habit Factor® (Daily Habits & Goals Tracker / Productivity) / Lite 2012 $3.99 / €2.99 "Lite" is free | | Equilibrium Enterprises, Inc | Define goals or habits and track them | ||
| ✘ | TimeJot: a time log - journal 2009 $0.99 / €0.79 | | Niftybrick Software | Time-based journal | ||
Autism tests and other apps difficult to be categorized.
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✘ | All About Me by i Get It!, LLC 2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | | I Get It, LLC | Keeps text and images about yourself | ||
| ✘ | AQ Test 2011 Free | | Dobler Design | Simon Baron-Cohen's Autism Spectrum Quotient questionnaire | ||
| ✘ | Community Sidekick 2011 $19.99 / €14.99 | | AbleLink Technologies, Inc. | Sends mails continuously including the position of the device | ||
| ✘ | iAutism Toddler Screening Tool 2010 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Crysta Pleatman / iSecret Solutions | | M-CHAT Toddler Autism Check |
As explained in the post titled Leisure and learning apps, there are thousands of applications non-specific to people with special needs but that can be very useful for them. To compile a list of these applications would be endless. In the mentioned post we’ve included links to some long lists of such applications, and here we simply list those we have just found and had time to review in iAutism, so it can be easier to find the respective reviews.
| iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animals iSpy - Junior 2010 Free | ✘ | | Toytek Ltd | | "Wood" puzzle | |
| FirstWords: Deluxe / Animals / At Home / Christmas / Español / German / Japanese / Sampler / Vehicles 2010 $4.99 / €3.99 Other are between $1.99 and $4.99 / €1.59 and €3.99 "Sampler" is free | All the iPad versions plus: Animaux / Shapes | | Learning Touch | | Words construction game | |
| Intro to Letters, by Montessorium 2011 $4.99 / €3.99 | | Montessorium, LLC | | Letters learning | ||
| Kids Song Machine HD + 10 songs / Kids Song Machine HD Lite 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 "Lite" is free | Kids Song Machine + 10 songs / Kids Song Machine Lite 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 "Lite" is free | | Genera Interactive | | Multimedia scenarios | |
| Kids Song Machine 2 - Around the World HD / Lite 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 "Lite" is free | | Genera Interactive | | Multimedia scenarios | ||
| Look Again Jr 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 | | Smappsoft | | 120 exercises for learning logic reasoning, the association of concepts, spatial abstraction, mental arithmetic and, in general, the attention. | ||
| Lola's Alphabet Train HD / Lite 2012 $1.99 / €1.59 "Lite" is free | Lola's Alphabet Train / Lite 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 "Lite" is free | | BeiZ Ltd | | Words construction game | |
| Lola's Magic Cube HD / Lite 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 "Lite" is free | Lola's Magic Cube / Lite 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 "Lite" is free | | BeiZ Ltd | | Cube puzzles | |
| My First Songs 2012 $2.99 / €2.39 | My First Songs for iPhone 2011 $2.99 / €2.39 | | Ringzero Game Studio | | Scenarios with songs for kids | |
| My Underwear 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 | | Thumb Arcade & Todd Parr | | Games for children (coloring, “memory”, …) with underwear. | ||
| PegLight for iPad / PegLight Free for iPad 2010 $1.99 / €1.59 "Free" is free :D | PegLight / PegLight FREE 2010 $1.99 / €1.59 "FREE" is free :D | | Knert Software | | Drawing with pins or "pegs" | |
| Playing Teddy Bear HD 2012 Free Extra 5 songs pack is $2.99 / €2.39 | Playing Teddy Bear 2011 Free Extra 5 songs pack is $2.99 / €2.39 | | Genera Interactive | | Musical game for recording and listening your own voice, play with a bear and see it singing and playing music. | |
| Tam & Tao in Numberland - Learn numbers with Montessori HD 2012 HD: $4.99 / €3.99 | Tam & Tao in Numberland - Learn numbers with Montessori / HD 2012 $1.99 / €1.59 HD: $4.99 / €3.99 | | Les Trois Elles Interactive | | Exercises to learn numbers 0 to 9. | |
| PlayTales Kid’s Interactive Books HD 2012 Free (books are $0.99-$2.99 / €0.79-€2.39) | PlayTales Kid’s Interactive Books 2012 Free (books are $0.99-$2.99 / €0.79-€2.39) | | Genera Interactive | | Multimedia books for kids | |
| Vine Time 2011 $0.99 / €0.79 | ✘ | | FunBrain | | Lesiure and learning app focused on numbers an colors that exercises fine motor skills and coordination. | |
| Wood Puzzle HD / Lite 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 "Lite" is free | Wood Puzzle / Lite 2011 $1.99 / €1.59 "Lite" is free | | Tropisounds Corporation | | Wood puzzles | |
-Francesc Sistach
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What do you think or Articulateit?
Shelley, I love articulateit. I use it regularly in my sessions and think it’s great. it’s totally worth the price in my opinion. There are a lot of different features and i really like that you can use it with multiple students who have different goals, track data over multiple sessions, customize what processes or sounds you’re working on and even what words from the set you want to target. I recommend it to SLPs all the time.
Hi Shelley,
I haven’t seen it yet. As you are interested, I’ll try to test it soon.
Hi,
I’m just starting to do the research on apps and seriously considering getting an iPad for our 9yo son who has Aspergers.
My question is this–is there any sort of rating for these apps as far as age goes? It seems like a lot of them are preschool or younger kids, and I really want to see what is available for a 9-10yo child.
Thanks!
Ann
Hi Ann,
I do not have this kind of rating neither I have seen it anywhere. Assuming that your son is verbal, categories 5, 6 and 7 are probably the ones more useful for you -if any-, and include many apps suitable for young people.
But perhaps you should determine which are the special education needs that your son has and look for generic education apps adequate for those needs. The number of generic education apps is very, very high.
Francesc
Are there any apps for a 15 year old boy who loves snowboarding, basketball, hiking, and the great outdoors……
Also wants to get an Education……
Thank you for your suggestions
I came across this blog. I am a mom of a six year old little girl. We have been working on Touch Chat Suite by Silver Kite for one year this January. We were fortunate to begin this journey as it grew and my daughter has come a long way with using the program help other understand her wants.
I am starting to explore other AAC options to insure there is not a better suited app for a young child considering she has a visual impairment and CP. I am especially interested in any apps that have simple pictures such as real images on white background included in it’s image database. Touch Chat utilizes the stixsymbol system.. I see examples of what I am looking for in the detailed info of other apps but I wonder if I will have to import these myself or if you know if for example proloquo2go has these simple picture images in it’s library of images. I have looked at Tap 2 Speak too. Thanks for any suggestions. Her auditory memory is remarkable, but visual memory is unreliable.
You should take a look at ComApp2. It includes many real images.
Purdue EPICS’s SPEAKall! is looking for someone who might be interested in comercializing our app. If anyone is interested contact us at nschuetz@purdue.edu