List of Apps for iPad / iPhone / iPod touch

This post presents a list of applications for iPad/iPhone/iPod touch (or “apps”) divided by categories. Those categories are only indicative, and some apps could be included in more than one category. There are apps specifically designed for people with autism and other which are aimed to help people with special needs in general, and other that are totally generic.
The list is divided into 21 categories (8 for AAC). For each one, there is an app table with the following columns:
- App logo.
- iPad version data: app name, additional editions, and prices in dollars and euros.
- iPhone / iPod touch version data. In case this app also supports the iPad, this cell and the previous one will be combined. (Keep in mind that iPhone apps can be used in an iPad using the “2x” display mode).
- Doucle link to the iTunes webpage and to the App Store.
- List of languages supported by the app.
- Developer’s website.
- A link to the review of the application published in iAutism, 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.
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These apps allow you to create pages with buttons. Each image is a button that plays an audio clip. Some are very focused on Yes/No choices, or on very specific topics (communicating health information) or common phrases.
iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description |
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![]() | Answers:YesNo HD $3.99 / €3.59 | Answers:YesNo $1.99 / €1.79 | ![]() ![]() | SimplifiedTouch | Yes/No button plus the option of creating up to 30 two-images pages with your own texts, images and voice recordings, and lessons plans that include up to 12 pages. | ||
✘ | Answers:YesNo Free Free | ![]() |
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![]() | ✘ | 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. | ||
![]() | AutoVerbal Pro Talking Soundboard $29.99 / €26.99 | No Tie, LLC | AAC based on 100's of built-in phrases in over a dozen categories with natural voices and icons, programmable buttons, and computer TTS. Natural voice (male and female) when Internet is available. | ||||
| AutoVerbal GirlTalk $9.99 / €8.99 | ![]() | Editions with only one voice and more limited customization capabilities. | |||||
| AutoVerbal GuyTalk $9.99 / €8.99 | ![]() |
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| AutoVerbal Español $19.99 / €17.99 | ![]() | ||||||
| AutoVerbal Français $19.99 / €17.99 | ![]() | ||||||
![]() | ✘ | Expressionist $9.99 / €8.99 | ![]() | AdastraSoft | 120 commonly used expressions and over 1,000 commoly used nouns illustrated as composite pictures (so there is no symbols encoding). | ||
![]() | ✘ | Fat Cat Snappy Chat $0.99 / €0.89 | ![]() | Point-and-Read, Inc. | A funny AAC app to practice 160 common phrases and their pictos. | ||
| Fat Cat Pirate Chat Free | ![]() |
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![]() | ✘ | Flashables 50 English Audio Free | ![]() | Hotsource ESD | 50 flashcards of food, toys, ... with audio. | ||
| Flashables 50 Chinese Audio Free | ![]() | ||||||
| Flashables 50 Japanese Audio Free | ![]() | ||||||
✘ | iConverse - Assisted Communication $9.99 / €8.99 | ![]() | Xcellent Creations, Inc. | AAC based on selecting images with associated audio (recorded or TTS). It uses pages with 6 buttons. | |||
![]() | iGreet You $0.99 / €0.89 | ![]() | Smarty Ears | Simple communication aid for children who need to work on greetings. 2 buttons (Good bye and Hello). | |||
![]() | image2talk - functional communication app using real images $24.99 / €21.99 | Het is Simpel | Simple overview screen based on rows of images that eliminates the need to navigate through category and menu pages. Full galleries available for English and Dutch. Automatically generated speech in 10 languages. | ||||
![]() | ✘ | Present A Choice Free | Pufferfish Apps | To quickly present a set of choices, allowing 2, 3, or 4 options. Each choice has a picture and a line of text below it. Some photos included. Choices are recordable. | |||
![]() | Quick Talk AAC $14.99 / €13.99 | ![]() | 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 recorded voice or TTS. | |||
![]() | ✘ | SmallTalk Pain Scale Free | ![]() | Lingraphicare, Inc. | Pain descriptions and images from the Wong-Baker Faces Pain Scale. | ||
| SmallTalk Intensive Care Free | ![]() |
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![]() | Speech Button $7.99 / €6.99 | ![]() | Wip It Up | AAC with the 25 most basic words with images and audio associated. It can show 1, 2 or 4 words per page. | |||
![]() | Speech Buttons $4.99 / €4.49 | ![]() | fishdog.net, LLC | AAC with 150 buttons that speak aloud the associated text. Grouped into 56 screens. Biy and girl voices. | |||
| Speech Buttons Free Free | ![]() |
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![]() | Verbal Victor $6.99 / €5.99 | ![]() | Seed Stage Associates, LLC | AAC based on images with audio clips assigned to buttons. 1 to 8 buttons per screen. | |||
![]() | Yes-No $1.99 / €1.79 | ![]() | Smarty Ears | AAC for yes/no questions. | |||
| Si/No Espanol $1.99 / €1.79 | ![]() | ||||||
2. AAC - SELECTING IMAGES FROM CATEGORIES
These apps allow you to create categories of images, usually with their associated audio clip. The user chooses a category and, within it, a particular image.
iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description |
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![]() | ✘ | 2CanTalk $7.99 / €6.99 | ![]() | Noodle Me This | AAC based on images and corresponding voice recordings and texts structured into groupings and layers or themes (text only) of up to 42 images displayed in pages of up to 6. | ||
![]() | Alexicom AAC Free Online services: $40/month | ![]() | Alexicom Tech LLC | AAC based on creating communication pages with text, images and 20 AT&T Natural Voices in 5 languages. The app includes 36 pages, and you can create more for free, but 1,500 pre-made pages and over 7,000 images more are available for download if you pay for the online service, which also allows you to access pages from any device with a standard web browser and share them. The free app also includes data tracking (30 days), word prediction with a 150,000 word library, recordable audio, and support for switches. | |||
![]() | Alexicom Elements Child Home (Female) $19.99 / €17.99 | ✘ | Alexicom Tech LLC | Alexicom AAC with 57 specific pages (home environment of the child) and 22 Core Word pages preloaded. | |||
| Alexicom Elements UK Child Home (Female) $19.99 / €17.99 | ✘ | ||||||
| Alexicom Elements Child Home (Male) $19.99 / €17.99 | ✘ | ||||||
| Alexicom Elements UK Child Home (Male) $19.99 / €17.99 | ✘ | ||||||
| Alexicom Elements Child Home (F) SymbolStix $19.99 / €17.99 | ✘ | Similar app but including SymbolStix symbols. | |||||
| Alexicom Elements Child Home (M) SymbolStix $19.99 / €17.99 | ✘ | ||||||
| Alexicom Elements Child Pre (Female) $19.99 / €17.99 | ✘ | Similar app but focused on "emergent" AAC users. | |||||
| Alexicom Elements Child Pre (Male) $19.99 / €17.99 | ✘ | ||||||
| Alexicom Elements Child Pre (F) SymbolStix $19.99 / €17.99 | ✘ | Similar app but focused on "emergent" AAC users and including SymbolStix symbols. | |||||
| Alexicom Elements Child Pre (M) SymbolStix $19.99 / €17.99 | ✘ | ||||||
| Alexicom Elements Core 280 (Female) $9.99 / €8.99 | ✘ | Alexicom AAC with 280 frequently used words grouped grammatically and color-coded using the Fitzgerald Key format. | |||||
| Alexicom Elements Core 280 (Male) $9.99 / €8.99 | ✘ | ||||||
| Alexicom Elements Story Maker $9.99 / €8.99 | ✘ | Alexicom AAC plus 3 story templates for entering your own stories for retell. | |||||
| Alexicom Elements Teen Home (Female) $19.99 / €17.99 | ✘ | Alexicom AAC with 74 specific pages (home environment of the teenager) and 35 Core Word pages preloaded. | |||||
| Alexicom Elements UK Teen Home (Female) $19.99 / €17.99 | ✘ | ||||||
| Alexicom Elements Teen Home (Male) $19.99 / €17.99 | ✘ | ||||||
| Alexicom Elements UK Teen Home (Male) $19.99 / €17.99 | ✘ | ||||||
| Alexicom Elements Adult Home (Female) $19.99 / €17.99 | ✘ | Alexicom AAC with 101 specific pages (home environment of the teenager) and 35 Core Word pages preloaded. | |||||
| Alexicom Elements Adult Home (Male) $19.99 / €17.99 | ✘ | ||||||
![]() | Augie AAC $159.99 / €139.99 | ✘ | Intervention Development LLC | Combines an AAC based on categories of images with schedules, note pad, and other functions. Home, School and Work vocabulary included. | |||
![]() | Click n' Talk $2.99 / €2.69 | Intermediate District 287 | Attach text and voice to individual pictures, and organize them in photo albums. | ||||
![]() | ✘ | ComApp Free | Special Learning, Inc. | AAC based on categories of pictures (over 100 preloaded) with 4 voices, 5 backgrounds, 3 picture sizes, the option of having up to 3 images of each item and use them randomly and data tracking. Designed to be used as part of a child's ABA therapy. | |||
| ComApp.i $39.99 / €35.99 | ComApp.2 $39.99 / €35.99 | This edition adds extensive customization and reporting functions and an online service to upload images and voice files to replace the preloaded content, and store and download statistical data. | |||||
| ComApp.i.3 $4.99 / €4.49 (only this month) | ComApp.3 $4.99 / €4.49 (only this month) | Third edition of the app. | |||||
![]() | Communicate Easy - Autism App for iPad for Special Needs Communication $1.99 / €1.79 | ✘ | ![]() | Pluja Apps Limited | AAC based on images and videos stored into folders and subfolders, with audio clip and some states, and some other advanced features. Can be used for AAC, choice making, visual prompts, or grouped together to form a schedules. | ||
![]() | Connect Cards Free | ✘ | ![]() | Smile Kid | AAC based on images stored in your Picasa Web Album and organized in categories and subcategories. The app speaks aloud the text associated to each image. | ||
![]() | Discover MyVoice for iOS $49.99 / €44.99 | ![]() | PDAscent Inc | Attach text and voice to individual pictures, and organize them in categories. | |||
![]() | ✘ | iAssist Communicator $29.99 / €26.99 | The iAssist Company - Cyndy Hayes | AAC based on selecting images from files with 4 images each one. 240 images preloaded. | |||
![]() | ✘ | iComm Free In-App Purchases | ![]() | Bappz Ltd. | AAC based on categories of pictures. Only 4 categories or images are shown in each screen. | ||
![]() | ✘ | iInteract $8.99 / €7.99 | ![]() | iJaz Software | AAC based on 7 preconfigured categories (text only) of images. | ||
![]() | ✘ | iPACS $9.99 / €8.99 | ![]() | AdastraSoft | AAC based on categories of pictures. TTS and recorded voice. | ||
![]() | iPicto $1.99 / €1.79 | ![]() | Erwin van den Hout | AAC based on 37 categories and 4,000 B&W pictograms (and text in the iPad version), with e-mail. | |||
| iPicto Lite Free | ![]() |
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![]() | iVocalize $9.99 / €8.99 | Goatella | AAC based on categories of icons and pictures. 650 icons included. 4 TTS voices. | ||||
![]() | ✘ | Let's Talk! $2.99 / €2.69 | ![]() | Toriken Media Information Lab | AAC based on categories of pictures where the adult has to select 4 images to be presented to the child. | ||
![]() | ✘ | Lil Rhino Says Free | ![]() | rhinoceros inc | Basic AAC app with 2 categories (food, clothes) and buttons for yes, no, bathroom and help. | ||
![]() | ✘ | Look2Learn - AAC $14.99 / €13.99 | ![]() | MDR Inc. | AAC based on categories of pictures with recordable audio. 80 preloaded. Image size customizable. | ||
![]() | ✘ | My Choice Board $9.99 / €8.99 | ![]() | Good Karma Applications, Inc. | To create boards with possible choices (images and audio) by category (text only) and choose one of them. | ||
![]() | My First AAC $24.99 / €21.99 | ✘ | ![]() | Injini | AAC based on categories of pictures and audio designed for very young children. | ||
![]() | My Own Voice $2.99 / €2.69 | ![]() | My Own Voice | AAC based on categories (text only) of images and audio, and learning vocabulary exercises. | |||
![]() | My Words $9.99 / €8.99 | Jafferson Software | AAC based on categories (text only) of images, audio and text. | ||||
![]() | Pics Aloud $4.99 / €4.49 | ![]() | Allan Burrington | AAC based on selecting images from 2 sets. 118 images preloaded. Male and female voices. Simple scheduling capabilities. | |||
| Pics Aloud Lite Free | ![]() |
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![]() | ✘ | Pictogram Dictionary $3.99 / €3.59 | ![]() | Mindglowing Design | Dictionary with 1,700 pictograms in 15 languages. | ||
![]() | Picture Talk $4.99 / €4.49 | ![]() | Explorer Technologies | AAC based on categories (only text) of images with audio clips that you can select 1 by 1. | |||
![]() | ✘ | PocketAAC $99.99 / €89.99 | ![]() | Wonjin Apps | AAC based on categories of images with audio clips that you can select 1 by 1. It includes 1,800 symbols. | ||
| PocketAAC-Lite Free | ![]() |
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![]() | So Much 2 Say - Picture Communication $24.99 / €21.99 | ✘ | Close 2 Home Apps, LLC | AAC based on categories of images with audio clips that you can select 1 by 1. It has a flexible page layout options ranging from a single card per page to multiple pages of categories qith up to 12 objects per page. | |||
![]() | Speech Teach $8.99 / €7.99 | ![]() | Mark Jarred | AAC based on categories of images with audio clips that you can select 1 by 1. | |||
![]() | Talk4Me Free | ![]() | Javier Algaba Borrego | AAC based on categories of images with audio clips that you can select 1 by 1. 80 preloaded. | |||
![]() | Talking Cards $28.99 / €25.99 | ✘ | ![]() | Timagine HB | AAC based on categories of images with audio clips that you can select 1 by 1. 500 preloaded. | ||
| Talking Cards LITE Free | ✘ | ![]() |
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![]() | Use2Talk $24.99 / €21.99 | ✘ | 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. Images are selected 1 by 1. Image size and screen design are highly customizables. It includes a basic scheduling function based on images. | |||
![]() | ✘ | VocaBeansEN $9.99 / €8.99 | ![]() | VocaBeans LLC | AAC based on categories of images with audio clips that you can select 1 by 1. You can add contact information and common phrases associated with images. 600 images preloaded. | ||
| VocaBeansLite Free | ![]() |
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| VocaBeansES $9.99 / €8.99 | ![]() | ||||||
| VocaBeansDE $9.99 / €8.99 | ![]() | ||||||
| VocaBeansFR $9.99 / €8.99 | ![]() | ||||||
![]() | Voice4u $49.99 / €44.99 | ![]() | Spectrum Visions LLC | AAC based on categories or the complete list of images with audio clips that you can select 1 by 1. Includes 150 icons. | |||
| Voice4u JP $49.99 / €44.99 | ![]() | ||||||
3. AAC - SELECTING IMAGES FROM SCENES
These apps allow to select a single image, but the search is noy by category but by using real scenes showing objects.
iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description |
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![]() | AutisMate $149.99 / €129.99 | ✘ | SpecialNeeds Ware 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. | |||
![]() | i-Lexis HD $19.99 / €17.99 | i-Lexis $11.99 / €10.99 | ![]() ![]() | Alessandro Benedettini | AAC based on images located into pictures of real scenarios, text and recorded natural voice; 265 words preloaded, | ||
| i-Lexis HD Lite Free | i-Lexis Lite Free | ![]() ![]() |
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| i-Lexis HD (ITA) $24.99 / €21.99 | i-Lexis (Italian Version) $11.99 / €10.99 | ![]() ![]() | |||||
| i-Lexis HD Lite (ITA) Free | i-Lexis Lite (Italian Version) Free | ![]() ![]() |
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| i-Lexis HD (Spanish version) $24.99 / €21.99 | i-Lexis HD (Spanish version) $11.99 / €10.99 | ![]() | |||||
| i-Lexis HD Free- Multilanguage version Free | ✘ | ![]() | |||||
![]() | Scene Speak $9.99 / €8.99 | ✘ | ![]() | Good Karma Applications, Inc. | AAC based on creating visual scene displays that include active "sound areas" that can be selected. Images can be uploaded, taken or be selected through an online image search, and audio can be recorded or generated using 1 of 5 preloaded voices. Scenes can be grouped info books that can be shared. |
4. AAC - CREATING PHRASES WITH IMAGES
Construction of a phrase based on concatenating images selected from categories.
iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description |
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![]() | AAC - Scroll and Speak $49.99 / €44.99 | ✘ | ![]() | Speech Concepts, LLC | AAC based on creating phrases that combines pictures, words, phrases, text-to-speech, male and female voices, most frequent words/phrases, folders, and its own scroll system. | ||
![]() | Ablah HD $16.99 / €14.99 | Ablah $16.99 / €14.99 | Maiz Apps | AAC based on creating phrases using images; 44 preloaded. | |||
![]() | Baluh $5.99 / €5.49 | ![]() | Baluh | AAC based on creating phrases using images; 400 preloaded plus the option of downloading for free ARASAAC images and audio clips (over 12,000). | |||
![]() | C.P.A. Free | CPA Free | ![]() ![]() | CPA | AAC based on creating phrases using images; 600 preloaded. | ||
![]() | DIME $14.99 / €13.99 | ✘ | ![]() | 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). | ||
![]() | Easy Speak HD - AAC $49.99 / €44.99 | ✘ | ![]() | Pocket Apps Canada Inc. | AAC based on creating phrases using images; 800 symbols preloaded. | ||
![]() | Expressive $25.99 / €22.99 | ![]() | Smarty Ears | AAC based on creating phrases using images; 600 Smarty Symbols preloaded. | |||
![]() | FreeSpeech $0.99 / €0.89 | ✘ | ![]() | Give Speech Foundation, Inc. | AAC based on creating text phrases by selecting images. | ||
![]() | Functional Communication System $19.99 / €17.99 In-App Purchases | ✘ | The Conover Company | Customizable, video-based communication tool to create phrases that combines real images, audio and video rather than symbol. 500 core vocabulary words. | |||
| Functional Communication System Lite Free | ✘ | ||||||
![]() | Grace - Picture Exchange for Non-Verbal People $24.99 / €21.99 | Steven Troughton-Smith | AAC based on creating phrases using images; no audio. | ||||
![]() | I Click I Talk - Single Student $3.99 / €3.59 | ✘ | ![]() | TOOKTY LLC | AAC based on images with customizable layout (single images or phrases) and image size. Data tracking and analysis functions. Images can show only text. 70 images preloaded plus free access to an online repository of over 1,000 cartoon-like images. | ||
| I Click I Talk - Multi Student $9.99 / €8.99 | ✘ | ![]() |
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| I Click I Talk - Compact $0.99 / €0.89 | ✘ | ![]() |
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| Yo Click Yo Hablo $9.99 / €8.99 | ✘ | ![]() | |||||
| Yo Click Yo Hablo - UN ESTUDIANTE $3.99 / €3.59 | ✘ | ![]() |
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| Parla con un click Mono Studente $3.99 / €3.59 | ✘ | ![]() | |||||
| Parla con un click Multi Studente $9.99 / €8.99 | ✘ | ![]() |
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| Parla con un click Compact $0.99 / €0.89 | ✘ | ![]() |
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✘ | I Click I Talk - Mini $1.99 / €1.79 | ![]() | |||||
✘ | Parla con un click Mini $1.99 / €1.79 | ![]() | |||||
![]() | Picture AAC $29.99 / €26.99 | Hearty SPIN Pte Ltd | AAC based on creating phrases with images and native speaker voice. Recordable voice. Training levels for those new to picture communication systems. | ||||
![]() | ✘ | Picture Card Communication $3.99 / €3.59 | ![]() | Noriya Kobayashi | AAC based on creating phrases with images and recorded voice. Internet-image-search. Logs of used pictures. | ||
![]() | See Me Talk $59.99 / €54.99 | ✘ | Kevin Hanasyk | AAC based on creating phrases with images. Male and female voices. Automatic favourites category, search function and category carrousel to easily navigate trough images. Sentence can be printed. 116 images preloaded. | |||
![]() | Speakall! Free | ✘ | ![]() | Purdue University | AAC based on creating short phrases using images. | ||
![]() | ✘ | Spubble Lite Free | ![]() | Moblue Tech | AAC based on creating phrases with images; 160 preloaded. | ||
![]() | urTalker Pro $99.99 / €89.99 | Nolan Technologies LLC | AAC based on categories of images with audio clips. Flexible grids with 2 to 16 images. To communicate trough phrases (images and/or words) or single images. Over 2,500 pictograms preloaded. Security options. | ||||
| urTalker Lite $19.99 / €17.99 | Similar app. Only 150 images preloaded. | ||||||
5. AAC – ADVANCED
These apps include many thousands of images and many categories, but also allow you to build communication boards and/or include natural voices, etc. Its price, consistent with that functionality, easily exceeds $100.
iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description |
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![]() | Able AAC $99.99 / €89.99 | AbleVox | AAC based on 26 categories of images to generate sentences in text format; 800 images preloaded; 20 languages supported and 83 voice engines (4 English child voices). It also includes scheduling functionality, a video and audio learning system and a points motivational reward system. | ||||
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![]() | Avaz for Autism $99.99 / €89.99 | ✘ | Invention Labs Engineering Products | AAC based on creating phrases with picture symbols. 5 Acapela voices (two accents, male, female and child voices), a keyboard to help users transitioning to text. Up to 10,000+ Symbolstix symbols. Designed for people with ASD, with animation for maximizing reinforcement, the ability to remove distracting content from the screen, fine-grained control over the speech output, a high-contrast mode, image size adjustable, ... | |||
![]() | Custom Boards - Premium $29.99 / €27.99 | ✘ | ![]() | Smarty Ears | Board and activity creator for communicating and learning with 11,000 Smarty Symbols preloaded and the ability to add your own images. Over 100 templates for the boards, that can be sent by e-mail, printed and saved as PDF. | ||
![]() | GoTalk Now $79.99 / €69.99 In-App Purchases | ✘ | ![]() | Attainment Company, Inc. | AAC based on GoTalks (an AAC device). It allows to create communication books, each with unique settings and unlimited pages with 1 to 25 locations each one. Pages can be shared and printed, and can include videos, music and jump to actions. Highly customizable app, with recorded and text to speech capabilities in over 20 languages and access to an icon library. It can be used to create social stories and step-by-step instruction books. Compatible with the Attainment Switch. | ||
![]() | LAMP Words For Life $299.99 / €269.99 | ✘ | Prentke Romich Company (PRC) | Combines the power of the PRC Unity® language system with Language Acquisition through Motor Planning (LAMP™) principles and strategies. (LAMP™ is a therapeutic approach). The app is symbol based. Symbols are paired with text to support literacy development. High quality Ivona text-to-speech voices. Three developmentally progressive vocabulary files (83 core words, +3,000 words in total plus verb conjugations and word endings). | |||
![]() | MetaTalk $179.99 / €159.99 | ✘ | ![]() | Cidar Health Care LLC | AAC based on creating phrases with 2,300 Metacom 5 symbols and with Acapela voices (male and female). MetaTouch only has 1,200 symbols. | ||
| MetaTalkLite $9.99 / €8.99 | ✘ | ![]() |
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| MetaTouch $29.99 / €26.99 | ✘ | ![]() |
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| MetaTalkDE $179.99 / €159.99 | ✘ | ![]() | |||||
![]() | OneVoice - AAC $199.99 / €179.99 In-App Purchases | ![]() | Legend | AAC based on categories of images to generate sentences in text format; over 200 images preloaded; 4 natural voices in English. Voices in 22 languages as In-App Purchases. | |||
| OneVoice - AAC Lite Free | ![]() |
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![]() | PandaPal - Autism Communication System $45.99 / €40.99 | ✘ | ![]() | PandaPal.com | Combination of AAC to construct phrases 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. | ||
| PandaPal (AAC) Application for iPad Free | ✘ | ![]() |
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![]() | PictureCanTalk $34.99 / €30.99 In-App Purchases | Benster Tan | AAC based on communication boards with 1 or 3 pictures per board or a free-form mode. Boards can be grouped by category, sent by email and exported in PDF format. It includes 2,000 symbols. Images can also consist on text. Some matching, … games included. TTS in 10 languages. | ||||
| PictureCanTalk Premium $59.99 / €54.99 | It adds an Internet browser to look for images, multi student support and colored frames. | ||||||
![]() | Proloquo2Go $189.99 / €169.99 | ![]() | AssistiveWare B.V. | AAC based on page sets of images (9 to 64 per page) with natural male, female, girl and boy voices (for American, British, Australian and Indian English), 14,000 symbols, multiuser support, automatic conjugations, word prediction and two pre-programmed vocabulary organizations. | |||
![]() | Sono Flex $99.99 / €89.99 | ![]() | Tobii Technology AB | AAC based on creating phrases with 11,000 SymbolStix symbols and 5 natural voices. | |||
| Sono Flex Lite Free | ![]() |
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| Sono Flex DE $179.99 / €159.99 | ![]() | ||||||
| Sono Flex Lite DE Free | ![]() |
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![]() | ✘ | SoundingBoard Free In-App purchases | ![]() | AbleNet, Inc. | AAC based on images which can be combined in boards. | ||
![]() | TalkTablet NEO $79.99 / €69.99 | ✘ | ![]() | 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. Different page layouts can be combined and include phrases, buttons, etc. | ||
| TalkTablet US $89.99 / €79.99 | ✘ | ![]() | Same app but with 6 US Acapela voices. | ||||
| TalkTablet UK $89.99 / €79.99 | ✘ | ![]() | 6 UK voices. | ||||
| TalkTablet AR $89.99 / €79.99 | ✘ | ![]() | 4 Arabic voices. | ||||
| TalkTablet CA $89.99 / €79.99 | ✘ | ![]() | 6 English, 6 French and 1 French Canadian voices. | ||||
| TalkTablet DA $89.99 / €79.99 | ✘ | ![]() | 2 Danish and 3 German voices. | ||||
| TalkTablet FI $89.99 / €79.99 | ✘ | ![]() | 1 English and 2 Finish voices. | ||||
| TalkTablet FR $89.99 / €79.99 | ✘ | ![]() | French, French Canadian and US English. | ||||
| TalkTablet GE $89.99 / €79.99 | ✘ | ![]() | 2 US English and 3 German voices. | ||||
| TalkTablet IT $89.99 / €79.99 | ✘ | ![]() | 2 Italian voices. | ||||
| TalkTablet NO $89.99 / €79.99 | ✘ | ![]() | 1 English and 2 Norwegian voices. | ||||
| TalkTablet SW $89.99 / €79.99 | ✘ | ![]() | 3 Swedish voices. | ||||
![]() | TouchChat HD - AAC $149.99 / €129.99 | TouchChat - AAC $149.99 / €129.99 | ![]() ![]() | Silver Kite | AAC based on page sets with buttons/images with words/phrases/messages, text to speech, 5 US and 2 UK voices and 12,000 Symbolstix; WordPower series of AAC vocabularies are optional. Pages can be shared. | ||
| TouchChat HD - AAC with WordPower $299.99 / €269.99 | TouchChat - AAC with WordPower $299.99 / €269.99 | ![]() ![]() |
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| TouchChat HD - AAC Lite $9.99 / €8.99 | TouchChat - AAC Lite $9.99 / €8.99 | ![]() ![]() |
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![]() | Vox4All $109.99 / €99.99 | Imagina | AAC based on page sets with buttons/images and 11,000 Widgit Literacy Symbols. | ||||
| Vox4All PT $79.99 / €69.99 | |||||||
| Vox4All Free Free | Demo version with 500 symbols. | ||||||
6. AAC - WITH WEB SERVICES
Apps that are advanced, with a lot of functionality and web services that provide access to image libraries, allow to share content and manage it via a browser, can manage users, give the option of downloading more voices and languages, etc.
iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description |
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![]() | AACSpeechBuddy $39.99 / €35.99 | ![]() | CodeDimensions | AAC based on boards or sets of images that can be created and shared using a free online service that includes over 2,000 images from the Mulberry Symbols collection; 6 TTS voices. | |||
![]() | Grid Player Free (not The Grid 2 service) | ![]() | Sensory Software International Ltd | Client app for The Grid 2 system (12,000 Widgit Symbols available online), allowing to play your grids on iPad and to use 3 included grid sets with 2,000 words and 100 phrases. Natural male and female voices and word prediction. | |||
![]() | MyTalkTools Mobile $49.99 / €44.99 In-App Purchases | ![]() | 2nd Half Enterprises LLC | AAC based on selecting images or constructing phrases based on images, recorded or natural TTS voices, text and even video. It includes access to a personal web space to storage and organize the content, and you can pay for getting access to an online library of images and Symbolstix symbols. It supports scanning and switches, and you can buy multiple voices in 17 languages. | |||
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![]() | Niki Talk Free Web service: $50 (never expires) | Alessandro La Rocca | AAC based on creating phrases using images (with text and audio associated) grouped into categories. Includes a keyboard, and a "drawing" function to create symbols. It can show velcro strips. Web service allows to create pages, upload images, and access to 70 voices. | ||||
![]() | TalkRocket Go $99.99 / €89.99 | ✘ | ![]() | MyVoice, Inc. | AAC based on images, text and audio with positioning, support for scanning and a web service to customize content. | ||
![]() | ✘ | Parlerai Free Web service: $29.95 per month | ![]() | Parlerai | AAC based on images and a Web service plus behavior and other data recording. | ||
![]() | TalkingTiles Free 10$/month (less for longer periods) | ✘ | ![]() | Mozzaz Corporation | AAC based on creating phrases using images (with text and audio associated) grouped into categories. Cloud services to add and share content. Library with more than 50,000 symbols and words in over 30 different languages, accents and voices. | ||
![]() | TapToTalk Free Optional web service: $99.95 per year or $179.95 "forever" | ![]() | Assistyx LLC | AAC based on albums, pages and 2,600 images plus an optional web service to incorporate 12,000 SymbolStix symbols and create your own albums. Support for 20 languages. | |||
| TapToTalk Uploader $1.99 / €1.79 | ![]() |
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7. AAC – TEXT-TO-SPEECH
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 |
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![]() | Assistive Chat $24.99 / €21.99 | ![]() | Assistive Apps | Text to speech with word prediction | |||
| Assistive Chat German $24.99 / €21.99 | ![]() | ||||||
![]() | Easy Speak $1.99 / €1.79 | ![]() | Farell IT Ltd. | Text to speech with word prediction | |||
![]() | EZSpeechPRO Female (US) $99.99 / €89.99 | ![]() | Gus Communications Inc. | Text to speech, natural male and female voices, phrases organizer | |||
| EZSpeechPRO Male (US) $99.99 / €89.99 | ![]() |
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![]() | Get Talking – Text To Speech (AAC) $209.99 / €189.99 | ![]() | Agile Computers Limited | Text to speech with word prediction | |||
![]() | HandySpeech $29.99 / €26.99 | ✘ | ![]() | iSpeak4u | Handwriting-to-speech app with automatic correction based on context, multilingual support with 13 major languages in a male or female voice, adaptive learning of the user writing patterns, and alternative keyboard input. | ||
![]() | iMean $4.99 / €4.49 | ✘ | ![]() | Michael Bergmann | Letterboard with large easy-to-read keys and word suggestions | ||
![]() | ✘ | Locabulary Pro $129.99 / €109.99 | 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, ... | |||
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![]() | MintyVox Pro - Male Voice - AAC Speech Support $49.99 / €44.99 | Mindskate Limited | Text to speech with word prediction, spelling correction, 64,000 words dictionary and natural voice (US and UK). Phrases can be stored. | ||||
| MintyVox Pro - Female Voice - AAC Speech Support $49.99 / €44.99 | |||||||
![]() | ✘ | NeoJulie Free | ![]() | NeoSpeech, Inc. | Text to speech (3 apps for 3 different voices) | ||
| NeoKate Free | ![]() |
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![]() | Predictable $159.99 / €139.99 | ![]() | Therapy Box Limited | AAC based on text with a word prediction engine | |||
| Predictable Dansk $159.99 / €139.99 | ![]() | ||||||
| Predictable Espanol $159.99 / €139.99 | ![]() | ||||||
| Predictable Norsk $159.99 / €139.99 | ![]() | ||||||
| Predictable Svensk $159.99 / €139.99 | ![]() | ||||||
![]() | Something to Say $9.99 / €8.99 | ✘ | Pedro Productions | Text-to-Speech; unlimited messages can be stored in personally designed folders. Natural Acapela voices plus the option to record your own voice. Highly customizable. | |||
![]() | Speak It! Text to Speech $1.99 / €1.79 | ![]() | Future Apps Inc. | Text to speech | |||
![]() | ✘ | Talk Assist Free | ![]() | Mubaloo Limited | Text to speech | ||
![]() | ✘ | Talk To Me - Text to Speech $1.99 / €1.79 | ![]() | Chris Chauvin | Text to speech | ||
![]() | Touch Voice $19.99 / €17.99 | ✘ | ![]() | Touch Voice | TTS with 142 common phrases, extra-large keyboard size, and male and female voices. | ||
![]() | Typ-O HD - writing is for everybody $14.99 / €13.99 | ![]() | SecondGuess ApS | Text to speech with word prediction | |||
![]() | 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 / €89.99 | ✘ | ![]() |
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8. AAC - WITH SWITCH SUPPORT
Apps designed for people with cerebral palsy, motor problems, etc. They include scanning and control functions for external switches.
iPad | iPhone & iPod touch | App Store | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description |
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![]() | Attainment Switch $4.99 / €4.49 | ![]() | Attainment Company, Inc. | Turns an iOS device into a wireless accessibility switch with 1 or 2 buttons. | |||
![]() | iSpeak Button $3.99 / €3.59 | ![]() | Goatella | Record any message you want, and play it back with the touch of a button. | |||
![]() | iSpeak Sequences $4.99 / €4.49 | Goatella | Similar app, but allowing to record up to 10 messages to be played in sequence. | ||||
![]() | ✘ | iTalker for Augmentated and Assisted Communication $9.99 / €8.99 | ![]() | Andreas Bungert | Record and play back using a single button many audio files and associate images to them. | ||
![]() | Say Hi! Free | ![]() | Gwendolyn Strong Foundation | AAC for people with severe physical disabilities. Based on pages with up to 9 boxes associated to words, phrases, pictures or recorded sounds. 2 iPhone can be used to move between boxes and to select the current box. | |||
![]() | Switchamajig Free | ✘ | ![]() | PAW Solutions LLC | Switch controller for basic buttons interaction. | ||
![]() | TapSpeak Button Standard for iPad $29.99 / €26.99 | ✘ | ![]() | TapSpeak, LLC | AAC based on touching a single message button (equivalent to a mechanical switch). Switches supported. Plus edition adds 4,500 Dynavox/Mayer-Johnson PCS symbols. | ||
| TapSpeak Button Plus for iPad $49.99 / €44.99 | ✘ | ![]() |
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✘ | TapSpeak Button $14.99 / €13.99 | ![]() |
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![]() | TapSpeak Choice for iPad $149.99 / €129.99 | ✘ | ![]() | TapSpeak, LLC | AAC based on creating phrases with images. 43 Acapela voices in 20 languages. 4,500 Dynavox/Mayer-Johnson PCS symbols. Switches supported. | ||
![]() | TapSpeak Sequence Standard $29.99 / €26.99 In-App Purchase for Plus version | ![]() | TapSpeak, LLC | AAC based on boards containing sequences of images. Switches supported. | |||
| TapSpeak Sequence Plus $49.99 / €44.99 | ![]() | The same as the Standard edition but adds 4,500 Dynavox/Mayer-Johnson PCS symbols. | |||||
![]() | Touch Switch $4.99 / €4.49 | Goatella | A button that when pressed displays one for 10 random stimulating videos accompanied by one of 14 random musical selections. | ||||
9. PICTURE SCHEDULING / SOCIAL STORIES
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 |
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![]() | Autism Activity Routines Free | ✘ | ![]() | Zone in for Autism | Daily routines (washing hands) based on image sequences | ||
![]() | ✘ | Catalyst N Free | ![]() | Jason Poh | To define and display the day-to-day tasks. | ||
![]() | Choiceworks $4.99 / €4.49 | 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 / €44.99 | ![]() | Grembe Apps Inc. | Flashcards, storyboards, routines and visual schedules with custom audio and 100 preloaded images | |||
![]() | ✘ | First Then Visual Schedule $9.99 / €8.99 | ![]() | Good Karma Applications, Inc. | Picture schedules | ||
| FTVS HD - First Then Visual Schedule HD $9.99 / €8.99 | First Then boards, visual schedules, task analyses, social stories, choice boards and video models. 10,000 Smarty Ears symbols and some stock images included. 5 different view options. | ||||||
![]() | Functional Planning System $9.99 / €8.99 | The Conover Company | Video-based prompting tool and visual scheduler with step-by-step videos. Over 4,000 images and videos downloadable. | ||||
![]() | iPrompts XL $39.99 / €35.99 | iPrompts $39.99 / €35.99 | ![]() ![]() | HandHold Adaptive, LLC | Picture schedules, visual countdown timers and choice prompts | ||
![]() | iScheduler for special needs $0.99 / €0.89 | ![]() | ERP Rules | Scheduler based on list of tasks finished/not finished, and with music voice, stars and fun words when tasks are done. | |||
![]() | Kid in Story $9.99 / €8.99 | ✘ | LocoMotive Labs Inc | Create visual stories to support learning, social modeling, and early literacy with your student or child as the star character (by superimposing a picture of the student on the stories). It includes 6 templates (washing you hands, emotions and facial expressions, a visit to San Francisco, …) and you can create entirely new stories. | |||
![]() | My Pictures Talk - Video Modeling Tool $4.99 / €4.49 | ![]() | Grembe Apps Inc. | Visual stories with images, text, sound and video | |||
![]() | My Stories $2.99 / €2.69 | ✘ | ![]() | SimplifiedTouch | Visual stories with images, text, and sound | ||
![]() | ✘ | My Video Schedule $11.99 / €10.99 | Acceptional Possibilities, LLC. | Combines video modeling within a structured schedule while providing positive reinforcement | |||
![]() | Niki Agenda $4.99 / €4.49 | Niki Agenda Mobile $4.99 / €4.49 | Alessandro La Rocca | Visual daily/weekly calendar. It divides the day into three times (morning, afternoon and evening). Each activity can be easily marked with a comprehensible symbol indicating its state (completed, canceled, next) or type (preferred, timed, rewarded). The app includes a basic library of pictograms; more images can be added. It also provides a token economy feature. | |||
![]() | Now What Free | ![]() | Richard Humphrey | Text schedules | |||
![]() | Pictello $18.99 / €16.99 | ![]() | 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 / €2.69 | ![]() | Petr Jankuj | Task schedules including time, audio and video clips | |||
![]() | PictureAssistive $34.99 / €30.99 | ![]() | 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. | |||
![]() | PictureCanPlan $29.99 / €26.99 | App Consult Pte Ltd | Visual schedules with 2,000 symbols, voice recording and text-to-speech in 10 languages, optional duration for each picture, voice count down at last 10 seconds, bulk upload of images, category management, etc. | ||||
![]() | 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 / €44.99 | ![]() | Therapy Box Limited | Creates scenes, including video, pictures, Widgit symbols (10,000) and audio | |||
| Scene&Heard Lite Free | ![]() |
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![]() | Special Stories $19.99 / €17.99 | ![]() | 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 / €1.79 | Doonan Speech Therapy | Interactive story book that allows children to record their own story. | ||||
![]() | Step-by-Step $2.99 / €2.69 | ✘ | ![]() | Cool Tool Apps | Picture schedules that keep track of how long the learner needs to complete each step. | ||
![]() | ✘ | Steps $9.99 / €8.99 | ![]() | AdastraSoft | Checklists and visual schedules, including audio and text to speech | ||
![]() | Stories2Learn $13.99 / €12.99 | ![]() | MDR Inc. | Visual stories | |||
![]() | ✘ | StoryKit Free | ![]() | ICDL Foundation | Stories using images, drawings and sound clips | ||
| Talk'n Photos $2.99 / €2.69 | Intermediate District 287 | Simple to navigate talking photo album. It allows you to add text and voice recording to each picture, dowload pictures, edit photos, create grids of three pictures horizontally and unlimited choices vertically and lock the content. | |||||
![]() | Tapikeo HD $3.99 / €3.59 | Tapikeo $1.99 / €1.79 | ![]() ![]() | 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 / €25.99 | TASUC Schedule $20.99 / €18.99 | ![]() ![]() | TASUC Inc. & Info Lounge LLC | Visual scheduler with timers | ||
![]() | Time This $5.99 / €5.49 | ✘ | ![]() | Speech Concepts, LLC | Visual scheduler with clock, hourglass and digital timers | ||
![]() | Video Scheduler $12.99 / €11.99 | ![]() | MDR | Picture and video schedules and video modeling. | |||
![]() | Visual Cue $9.99 / €8.99 | ![]() | Sanghoon Lee | A mix of tools, including prompt using pictures, first…then, which one?, count down and visual scheduler | |||
| Visual Cue Lite Free | ![]() |
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![]() | Visual Routine $3.99 / €3.59 | Pufferfish Apps | Visual schedules based on images plus text. | ||||
![]() | Visual Schedule Planner $14.99 / €13.99 | ✘ | ![]() | 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 / €4.49 | ![]() | 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 | ![]() |
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![]() | ✘ | Visules $4.99 / €4.49 | ![]() | Dean Huff | Visual cues and checklists | ||
![]() | Work System (Autism) $0.99 / €0.89 | ![]() | Visual Edvantage | Implementation of a TEACCH work system based on lists of tasks (text only). | |||
![]() | You’re the Storyteller: The Surprise (Home Edition) HD $5.99 / €5.49 | ✘ | Hamaguchi Apps | In this story, a boy brings home a stray dog and attempts to hide it from his mother. It uses body language, facial expressions, and sound effects. After watching each of the 8 scenes, you can record and/or write your own narration. You can also email the story and print it. Optional “Challenge Words”. The “Questions” bone provides 3 questions for each chapter. | |||
| You’re the Storyteller: The Surprise Pro HD $9.99 / €8.99 | ✘ | Pro edition allows up to 30 users. | |||||
10. 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 |
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![]() | ✘ | 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 / €0.89 | ![]() | 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 / €1.79 | ![]() |
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![]() | ✘ | Emotion Cards $0.99 / €0.89 | Pufferfish Apps | To select the emotion that you are feeling. Pronunciation included. 9 categories of 9 emotions. Can be used as an AAC for emotions. | |||
![]() | Emotion Detective $9.99 / €8.99 | ✘ | InGenius Labs | 4 fun games with eye spy screens, interactive animations and exciting sounds mixed with learning activities that aim to teach basic emotions, body language, conversation and perspective taking. | |||
![]() | emotion x $0.99 / €0.89 | Dunedin Multimedia Ltd. | Shows the 30 most commom emotion expressions | ||||
![]() | Emotions and Feelings Social Story $2.99 / €2.69 | ![]() | 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. | |||
![]() | Expressions by EdNinja $3.99 / €3.59 | ✘ | EdNinja | Exercises designed to train and improve human emotion recognition by recreating facial expressions through the correct placement of facial features – eyebrows, eyes, nose and mouth. Data tracking, rewards, ... | |||
| Expressions for Autism $3.99 / €3.59 | ✘ | ||||||
![]() | ✘ | face-cards B Free | ![]() | Dunedin Multimedia Ltd. | Face-cards portraying the most common emotions | ||
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![]() | Face Read 1 - S Free | WebTeam Corporation | Learn about various emotions using facial expressions; part of Shanesh COLORS app series based on discrete trial part of ABA | ||||
| Face Read 2 - S $0.99 / €0.89 | |||||||
![]() | ✘ | Facial Expression Recognition Training $0.99 / €0.89 | ![]() | InHo Choi | Matching game for six basic facial expressions | ||
| FERT2.0 $0.99 / €0.89 | ![]() |
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![]() | 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 $8.99 / €7.99 | ![]() | Communication Crossroads, Inc. | Game for identifying, understanding and regulating emotions | ||
![]() | How Are You? $0.99 / €0.89 | ✘ | ![]() | zuuka! GmbH | Episodes, games and activities to teach feeling | ||
![]() | iTouchiLearn Feelings for Preschool Kids $1.99 / €1.79 | ![]() | 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 | ||
![]() | iVisage $1.99 / €1.79 | ✘ | Dunedin Multimedia Ltd. | 5 tools to study emotion expressions: slow-motion animations of common facial expressions; 11 scenes to practice recognizing emotions; emotion vocabulary with 29 emotion expressions; lip reader with 16 animated phonemes; and face match with 3 expressions on 4 faces. | |||
![]() | Micro-Expression Trainer $3.99 / €3.59 | ![]() | 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 Free | ![]() | Iconicast LLC | Allows you to show intensity and nuance of emotion by using your finger to morph a face. | ||
![]() | That's how I feel $2.99 / €2.69 | ✘ | ![]() | 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 | |||
![]() | Training Faces $2.99 / €2.69 | Training with Gaming Inc. | Game to recognize emotions and the cause behind them. | ||||
| Training Faces Espanol $2.99 / €2.69 | |||||||
![]() | ✘ | What’s the Expression - Autism Series $0.99 / €0.89 | ![]() | 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 HD $0.99 / €0.89 | Wonkido Mood Journal $0.99 / €0.89 | Brighter Futures for Beautiful Minds | Mood journal to register up to 8 different emotions and the reason for them. | |||
11. 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).
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![]() | A Sunny Day Free | ✘ | ![]() | Fee Tan | Behaviors in daily life using DTT and games | ||
![]() | All About Me Storybook $2.99 / €2.69 | I Get It, LLC | To create a social story and compile information on yourself. Security and users management. | ||||
![]() | ✘ | Asking to Play eBook for iPhone $1.99 / €1.79 | ![]() | 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 $29.99 / €26.99 | ![]() | Mindskate Limited | Chat with virtual friends | |||
![]() | Between the Lines Level 1 HD $15.99 / €14.49 | Between the Lines Level 1 $15.99 / €14.49 | Hamaguchi Apps | Using real photographs, voices and short mini-video clips of a variety of social situations and expressions, these apps provides a dynamic way to help learn and practice interpreting the messages that are “between the lines” and simply can’t be replicated with worksheets and static flashcards. Scenes for the body language activity include a shopping mall, kitchen, restaurant, park, bedroom, school, gym, birthday party, in front of a school, family room, dining room, fitness center and more. Progress can be tracked, stored and emailed. Reward animations. Each app includes about 200 tasks. Lite versions include 12 sample tasks. | |||
| Between the Lines Level 1 Lite HD $0.99 / €0.89 | Between the Lines Level 1 Lite $0.99 / €0.89 | ||||||
| Between the Lines Level 2 HD $15.99 / €14.49 | Between the Lines Level 2 $15.99 / €14.49 | ||||||
| Between the Lines Level 2 Lite HD $0.99 / €0.89 | Between the Lines Level 2 Lite $0.99 / €0.89 | ||||||
| Between the Lines Advanced HD $15.99 / €14.49 | Between the Lines Advanced $15.99 / €14.49 | ||||||
| Between the Lines Advanced Lite HD $0.99 / €0.89 | Between the Lines Advanced Lite $0.99 / €0.89 | ||||||
![]() | Calm Counter- Anger Management Tool and Social Story for Autism, Down Syndrome and Special Needs $2.99 / €2.69 | ![]() | 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 $1.99 / €1.79 | 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 $0.99 / €0.89 | ![]() ![]() | The Conover Company | 19 apps x 80 videos to teach and reinforce common signs and words | ||
| Life Skills Sampler HD Free | Life Skills Sampler | ![]() ![]() |
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![]() | Compliments - A Social Story and Speech Tool on How to Give a Compliment for Autism, Aspergers, Down Syndrome and Other Special Needs $2.99 / €2.69 | ![]() | 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 $3.99 / €3.59 | ![]() | 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 $0.99 / €0.89 | ![]() | 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 $1.99 / €1.79 | Communication Skills / Everyday Social Skills / Initiating Social Skills / Manners / Personal Social Skills / Responding Social Skills $0.99 / €0.89 | ![]() ![]() | The Conover Company | 6 apps x 80 videos to teach basic social skills | ||
| Social Skills Sampler HD Free | Social Skills Sampler Free | ![]() ![]() |
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![]() | Everyday Skills $39.99 / €35.99 | Everyday Skills - Pocket Edition $19.99 / €17.99 | ![]() ![]() | AbleLink Technologies, Inc. | Multimedia learning sessions of 40 skills for living independently | ||
![]() | FindMe(Autism) 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 iPhone $1.99 / €1.79 | ![]() | Brighter Futures For Beautiful Minds | E-book with interactive audio about how to get dressed. | ||
![]() | ✘ | Going Potty eBook for iPhone $1.99 / €1.79 | ![]() | 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 $2.99 / €2.69 | ![]() | Touch Autism | 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. | |||
![]() | ✘ | Hidden Curriculum for Adolescents and Adults $1.99 / €1.79 | ![]() | AAPC Publishing | Examples and suggestions for social relationships, community, money matters, workplace, … | ||
![]() | ✘ | Hidden Curriculum for Kids $1.99 / €1.79 | ![]() | AAPC Publishing | Examples of conversations for every day situations | ||
![]() | i Create... Social Skills Stories $4.99 / €4.49 | I Get It, LLC | To create a sequence of images and instructions about a topic. User management and security options. | ||||
![]() | i Get... Christmas Social Skills Stories $2.99 / €2.69 | I Get It, LLC | Sequences of images and instructions about a lot of topics. You can customize each page with your own text and pictures, change page order or even create an entire new books. User management and security options. | ||||
| i Get... Christmas Vocabulary Photo Album Books $2.99 / €2.69 | |||||||
| i Get... Cooking Vocabulary and Create Recipe Photo Sequence Books $4.99 / €4.49 | |||||||
| i Get... Easter Social Skills Stories $2.99 / €2.69 | |||||||
| i Get... Going to a Restaurant Social Skills Stories $2.99 / €2.69 | |||||||
| i Get... Going to Fireworks Social Skills Stories $2.99 / €2.69 | |||||||
| i Get... Going to the Beach Social Skills Stories $2.99 / €2.69 | |||||||
| i Get ... Going to the Grocery Store Social Skills Stories $2.99 / €2.69 | |||||||
| i Get... Going to the Playground Social Skills Stories $2.99 / €2.69 | |||||||
| i Get... My Classmates Photo Books $2.99 / €2.69 | |||||||
| i Get... My Daily Schedule, Recall My Day and Learn Calendar Concepts $4.99 / €4.49 | |||||||
| i Get... My Family Photo Books $2.99 / €2.69 | |||||||
| i Get ... My Schedules at Home Social Skills $4.99 / €4.49 | |||||||
| i Get... My Schedules at School Social Skills Stories $4.99 / €4.49 | |||||||
| i Get... People at School Photo Books $2.99 / €2.69 | |||||||
| i Get... People In My Community and Community Helpers Photo Books $2.99 / €2.69 | |||||||
| i Get... St. Patrick's Day Social Skills Stories $2.99 / €2.69 | |||||||
| i Get... Valentine's Day Social Skills Stories $2.99 / €2.69 | |||||||
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![]() | iCan Toilet Training Program $0.99 / €0.89 | The Sandbox Learning Company | Comprehensive toilet training app that encourages children to initiate going to the bathroom and reminds them when to go. The app includes audio, visual, and vibrating cues, games as rewards, ... | ||||
![]() | iDress for Weather $1.99 / €1.79 | Pedro Productions | Shows clothes matching the weather conditions | ||||
![]() | ✘ | iModeling $13.99 / €12.99 | Mighty Kingdom | To record video, add notes and an image to them, assign them to a specific child account and see them. | |||
![]() | iModeling Boundaries $3.99 / €3.59 | ✘ | 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? $4.99 / €4.49 | ![]() | 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. | |||
![]() | iSEQUENCES $2.99 / €2.69 | ✘ | Fundación Planeta Imaginario | 100 sequencing exercises of self-help skills, leisure activities, typical situations of everyday life and emotions. | |||
| iSEQUENCES Lite Free | ✘ | Same app but limited to 10 sequences. | |||||
![]() | iTouchiLearn Life Skills: Morning Routines for Toddler and Preschool Kids $1.99 / €1.79 | ![]() | Staytooned | Animations, games and activity secuences to tech morning routine life skills | |||
| iTouchiLearn Life Skills: Morning Routines for Toddler and Preschool Kids Free Free | ![]() |
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![]() | 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 $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. | |||
| Knock Knock Numbers - Joke Telling and Conversations Tool for Autism, Aspergers, Down Syndrome & Special Education $2.99 / €2.69 | ![]() |
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![]() | ✘ | Life Skills Winner $1.99 / €1.79 | ![]() | Wise Mind Studios | Show skills made of tasks and give 'prizes' for doing them | ||
![]() | Living Safely $29.99 / €26.99 | Living Safely - Pocket Edition $19.99 / €17.99 | ![]() ![]() | AbleLink Technologies, Inc. | Multimedia learning sessions for 27 safety skills | ||
![]() | Making Sequences $4.99 / €4.49 | ✘ | ![]() | Zorten Software | Exercises based on sorting sequences of images of daily skills and other topics. You can create new sequences. | ||
![]() | Manos Quietas / Quiet Hands Free | ✘ | Maiz Apps | Video player with the particularity that only plays a video while the student rests both hands on the tablet screen. | |||
| Manos Quietas Lite / Quiet Hands Lite Free | ✘ | ||||||
![]() | Model Me Going Places 2 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 $2.99 / €2.69 | ![]() | 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 $4.99 / €4.49 | Fraser | 12 slideshows for typical dentist situations and oral health | |||
![]() | Niki Time $3.99 / €3.59 | ✘ | Alessandro La Rocca | Clock/calendar learning tool for teaching hours, dates, days, months, seasons and weather. Within the clock face is possible to add some pictograms (already included) or photos to schedule common activities. | |||
![]() | Off We Go - Going on a Plane HD $3.99 / €3.59 | Off We Go - Going on a Plane $3.99 / €3.59 | KIWA International Ltd | Slideshows with sounds and games related to airplanes and dentists | |||
| Off We Go - Going to the Dentist HD $3.99 / €3.59 | Off We Go - Going to the Dentist $3.99 / €3.59 | ||||||
![]() | Potty Training Social Story - Autism, Down Syndrome & Special Needs $3.99 / €3.59 | ![]() | 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 $4.99 / €4.49 | ![]() | Fraser | Textual social scripts for communication, life skills, socializing and mental health | |||
![]() | ✘ | School Skills $4.99 / €4.49 | ![]() | Lorie Dietz | Common situations at school for people with high functioning autism | ||
![]() | Sequences by EdNinja $3.99 / €3.59 | EdNinja | 12 fun and engaging stories based on common everyday kids activities. Allows you to create kid profiles, track data and create your own sequences. | ||||
✘ | Sequences by EdNinja for iPhone $1.99 / €1.79 | ||||||
![]() | Sequences for Autism $4.99 / €4.49 | ✘ | EdNinja | Similar to the previous one. Free only for a limited time. | |||
![]() | Show Me How $1.99 / €1.79 | Goatella | App that teaches the user how to use buttons and zippers using video modeling. | ||||
| Show Me How: Shoe Tying $1.99 / €1.79 | Similar app focused on shoe tying. | ||||||
![]() | Social Adventures $19.99 / €17.99 | all4mychild | Over 80 activities of interactions, advocating and negotiating, experiencing humor, negotiating personal space, … Includes Kid-friendly and memorable visuals designed to be used for role play or cue cards, social catch phrases, a game and a tutorial and a sample 8-week program to get started. | ||||
![]() | ✘ | Social Navigator $49.99 / €44.99 | 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 Quest $21.99 / €19.99 | ✘ | Smarty Ears, LLC | Real life situations and contextual images to present ‘’jumping off’ points for discussing the “why” and “how” of social language usage. The app utilizes a problem-solving quest theme in which students navigate various locations and earn “rewards” linked to social competencies. More than 800 questions across Receptive and Expressive Activities. Virtual reinforcement of progress. Data and report card kept on each student. | |||
![]() | Social Skill Builder Full $12.99 / €11.99 | ![]() | Social Skill Builder, Inc. | Interactive videos to teach key social thinking, language and behavior that are critical to everyday living. | |||
| Social Skill Builder Lite $2.99 / €2.69 In-App Purchases | ![]() |
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![]() | ✘ | Social Skills $3.99 / €3.59 | ![]() | MDR Inc. | 12 slideshows of social skills | ||
![]() | Social Stories $3.99 / €3.59 | Pufferfish Apps | To create and share stories. Each story is a sequence of photos and lines of texts. Some sample stories included. | ||||
![]() | Social Talks Free | WebTeam Corporation | Answer ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ questions after watching an animation showing social situations. | ||||
![]() | Speech with Milo: Sequencing $2.99 / €2.69 | 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 $2.99 / €2.69 | ![]() | Touch Autism | 2 community safety social stories (safer strangers and buildings, and what to do if you are lost). | |||
![]() | Stories About Me $5.99 / €5.49 | ✘ | ![]() | Limited Cue, LLC | To create social stories by blending photos, text, and voice recordings into a talking picture book. Stories can be shared and saved in Dropbox. | ||
![]() | storysmart1: Trudy Goes to the Beach - Social Language Skills Free | ✘ | Ruby Cube, Inc. | Animated story where the user has to make choices to help a character in a beach trip with her family. Focus is on social language skills. There are hundreds of choices and multiple paths to resolve each social situation. Users can record their voice and play it back. | |||
| storysmart2: Casey's Big Day - Social Language Skills $1.99 / €1.79 | ✘ | Similar app but based on a boy in his first day at 5th grade. | |||||
![]() | Taking Care of My Device Social Story $1.99 / €1.79 | ![]() | Touch Autism | Nine page social story about proper care and handling of a device. | |||
![]() | Talking Train $4.99 / €4.49 | all4mychild | It provides support for simple story telling, social stories, sequencing, and question asking by creating sequences of 3 parts where you can include drawings, text, pictures, puffs of smoke for texts and some visual effects. | ||||
![]() | The Social Express $89.99 / €79.99 | ✘ | 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. |
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![]() | TherAd for Autism $14.99 / €13.99 | ![]() | Data Makes the Difference, LLC | Show leisure videos between video modelling clips, in both cases to be added by the user | |||
![]() | Using Money and Saving Money - A Social Story to Introduce Basic Money Concepts for Aspergers, Autism, Down Syndrome and other Special Needs $2.99 / €2.69 | ![]() | Touch Autism | A story and simple visual tool aimed towards children to introduce basic money concepts. | |||
![]() | Using My Words to Ask For What I Want Social Story $2.99 / €2.69 | ![]() | 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. | |||
![]() | Walk With Me...Bus Travel $4.99 / €4.49 | Cordou Limited | A series of real images along with audio to help the user to take the bus step by step. | ||||
12. GAMES
Apps that, although can have some educational value, are more focused on gaming and have been specifically designed for people with special needs.
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![]() | Bag Game $1.99 / €1.79 | all4mychild | A spin-off of 20 questions with more than 100 images and many levels of difficulty. | ||||
![]() | ✘ | Dance Party Dino $2.99 / €2.69 | ![]() | FizzBrain | Dancing app for motor and balance skills practicing | ||
| Dance Party Cars $2.99 / €2.69 | ![]() |
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![]() | ✘ | Eye Contact Toybox $2.99 / €2.39 | FizzBrain | Game to exercise eye contact | |||
| Eye Contact Zoo $2.99 / €2.39 | |||||||
![]() | Happy Geese Free (In-App Purchase $1.99 / €1.79) | ✘ | Appically | Snakes&Ladders and The Game of the Goose designed for children and adults with special needs. | |||
![]() | Injini: Childhood Development Game Suite $29.99 / €26.99 | ✘ | ![]() | NCsoft Corp. | 9 feature games, 100 puzzles, 50+ hand-painted tracing game illustrations and 8 farm-themed mini-games suited for practicing fine motor and language skills, understanding of cause and effect, spatial awareness, memory and visual processing | ||
| Injini: Childhood Development Game Suite Lite Free | ✘ | ![]() |
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![]() | ✘ | Look in My Eyes Dinosaur $2.99 / €2.39 | FizzBrain | Game to exercise eye contact | |||
| Look in My Eyes 1 Restaurant $2.99 / €2.39 | |||||||
| Look in My Eyes 2 Car Mechanic $2.99 / €2.39 | |||||||
| Look in My Eyes 3 Undersea $2.99 / €2.39 | |||||||
| Look in My Eyes House $2.99 / €2.39 | |||||||
| Look in My Eyes Steam Math Facts $2.99 / €2.39 | |||||||
| Look in My Eyes Steam Train $2.99 / €2.39 | |||||||
| Look in My Eyes Steam Train 2 $2.99 / €2.39 | |||||||
| Look in My Eyes: Train Engineer for iPad $2.99 / €2.69 | ✘ | ||||||
![]() | Shelby's Quest $4.99 / €4.49 | ✘ | ![]() | Doodle Therapy Apps | Game that gives the child a fun way to practice fine motor and visual perceptual skills while allowing the ability to store and track their progress. | ||
![]() | ✘ | Smile at Me $2.99 / €2.69 | ![]() | FizzBrain | Practice the social skill of smiling | ||
![]() | Tic-Toc-Tiles $0.99 / €0.89 | ✘ | ![]() | 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. | ||
13. 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.
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![]() | ABA Flash Cards - Alphabet / Animals / Food / Sight Words Alphabet, Animals & Food: $0.99 / €0.89 Other apps: Free | ABA Flash Cards - Actions / Alphabet / Animals Emotions / Earth Science / Famous Places / Food / Sight Words / Sports / Vehicles Alphabet, Animals & Food: : $0.99 / €0.89 Other apps: Free | ![]() | Kindergarten | 15 apps with collection of flashcards with sounds | ||
![]() | ✘ | ABA Therapy Images Mobile $0.99 / €0.79 | ![]() | SlingSpace, LLC | Photos in 3 categories and flashcards to learn first words. | ||
![]() | Abilipad $19.99 / €15.99 | ✘ | ![]() | Cheryl Bregman | Combines the functionality of a notepad with word prediction, text-to-speech and a customizable keyboard | ||
![]() | ACT Spell $2.99 / €2.39 | ✘ | ![]() | Cool Tool Apps | Customizable vocabulary and spelling exercises | ||
![]() | Aeir Talk $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 $9.99 / €7.99 | ✘ | ![]() | AdastraSoft | To transition from alphabet board to computer keyboard | ||
![]() | Animal Zoo - Flash Cards & Games Free | ![]() | Alligator Apps | 200+ flashcards plus games and many features | |||
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![]() | Autism and PDD Basic Questions $14.99 / €11.99 | ✘ | ![]() | Linguisystems Inc | 18 apps (9 are free Lite versions) with exercises of different types based on stories and devoted to develop language. | ||
| Autism and PDD Basic Questions Lite Free | ✘ | ![]() |
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| Autism and PDD Associations $14.99 / €11.99 | ✘ | ![]() |
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| Autism and PDD Categories $14.99 / €11.99 | ✘ | ![]() |
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| Autism and PDD Concepts $14.99 / €11.99 | ✘ | ![]() |
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![]() | Big or Small $4.99 / €3.99 | ![]() | 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. | |||
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![]() | Conversation Builder $19.99 / €17.99 | Conversation Builder for iPhone $7.99 / €6.99 | Mobile Education Store | Practice conversation patterns with visual aids | |||
| Conversation Builder Deluxe $19.99 / €17.99 | ✘ | ||||||
| Conversation Builder Teen $29.99 / €26.99 | ✘ | ||||||
![]() | First Phrases HD $9.99 / €7.99 | First Phrases $9.99 / €7.99 | Hamaguchi Apps | To learn how to put two or three words together and basic English phrases. 72 different verb + noun combinations. | |||
| First Phrases HD Lite $0.99 / €0.89 | First Phrases Lite $0.99 / €0.89 | ||||||
![]() | Flash Cards $1.99 / €1.59 | ![]() | Jason Wentworth | Framework to create and store online flashcards | |||
![]() | ✘ | Flash Cards Game for Kids $0.99 / €0.79 | ![]() | Sascha Modersitkzi | Preload flashcard app with typical categories for kids | ||
![]() | Fun With Directions HD $9.99 / €7.99 | Fun With Directions $9.99 / €7.99 | Hamaguchi Apps | Exercises to practice listening, following directions, colors, spatial concepts, auditory memory and auditory processing. | |||
| Fun With Directions HD Lite $0.99 / €0.89 | Fun With Directions Lite $0.99 / €0.89 | ||||||
| More Fun With Directions HD $9.99 / €7.99 | More Fun With Directions $9.99 / €7.99 | ||||||
| More Fun With Directions HD Lite $0.99 / €0.89 | More Fun With Directions Lite $0.99 / €0.89 | ||||||
![]() | ✘ | HaloTalk $9.99 / €7.99 | ![]() | AdastraSoft | 50 pre-defined response/ adjective commonly used daily | ||
![]() | House of Learning $6.99 / €5.49 | ✘ | ![]() | Smarty Ears, LLC | Flexible tool for learning and playing. Can be used to teach prepositions, story telling, etc. | ||
![]() | iPractice Verbs $9.99 / €7.99 | ![]() | Smarty Ears, LLC | Flashcards and exercises to practice 120 verbs | |||
![]() | iTouchiLearn Numbers for Preschool Kids Numbers / Numbers Lite $1.99 / €1.59 | ![]() | Staytoooned | Activities and games to teach numbers and basic words, with colorful animation, interaction and virtual rewards to motivate and focus attention. | |||
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![]() | Kiddie Questions $2.99 / €2.39 | ![]() | Talking Tails | Who/what/ where/why/ when questions game | |||
![]() | LanguageBuilder for iPad $9.99 / €8.99 | Language Builder for iPhone $5.99 / €4.99 | ![]() ![]() | Mobile Education Store | Sentence ideation and formation; receptive and expressive language | ||
| LanguageBuilderDeluxe $9.99 / €8.99 | ✘ | ![]() |
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![]() | Language Forest $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: Adjectives $2.99 / €2.69 | Doonan Speech Therapy | App designed for individuals who are beginning to use adjectives in simple sentences to describe things. Stage four of the Language Development by PRC. | ||||
| Language Lab: ing Verbs + Prepositions $2.99 / €2.69 | Similar app, but foxused on stage three. | ||||||
![]() | Language Lab: Core Words 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 | |||
| Language Lab: Directing Activities $1.99 / €1.79 | ✘ | Second stage. | |||||
| Language Lab: Plurals $1.99 / €1.79 | ✘ | Third stage. | |||||
| Language Lab: Simple Sentences $1.99 / €1.79 | ✘ | Third stage also. | |||||
![]() | Learn To Talk First Words – Preschool,Kindergarten Flashcards $1.99 / €1.79 | Wikiela LLC | 160 flashcards with basic vocabulary | ||||
| Learn To Talk More Words – Preschool,Kindergarten Flashcards $1.99 / €1.79 | 110 additional flashcards. | ||||||
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![]() | PCS™ Bingo 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. | |||
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![]() | PicBoard $7.99 / €6.99 | ![]() | Mark Ashley | Boards of picture prompts | |||
![]() | Picture the Sentence HD $9.99 / €8.99 | Picture the Sentence $9.99 / €8.99 | Hamaguchi Apps | Exercises to construct phrases using images and text to practice language and auditory processing tasks at the basic sentence level. | |||
| Picture the Sentence HD Lite $0.99 / €0.89 | Picture the Sentence Lite $0.99 / €0.89 | ||||||
![]() | PrepositionBuilder $7.99 / €6.99 | ✘ | ![]() | Mobile Education Store | 9 preposition modules including the 28 most common prepositions | ||
![]() | Preposition Remix $5.99 / €5.49 | ![]() | Smarty Ears, LLC | Games to practice the 20 most common prepositions | |||
![]() | Question Builder for iPad $5.99 / €5.49 | Question Builder $5.99 / €5.49 | ![]() ![]() | Mobile Education Store | Question and answer exercises | ||
![]() | Rainbow Sentences $7.99 / €6.99 | ✘ | Mobile Education Store | To help students improve their ability to construct grammatically correct sentences by using color coded visual cues. | |||
![]() | Sentence Builder for iPad $5.99 / €5.49 | Sentence Builder $5.99 / €5.49 | ![]() ![]() | Mobile Education Store | Exercises for building grammatically correct sentences | ||
| SentenceBuilderTeen $5.99 / €5.49 | ✘ | ![]() |
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![]() | ✘ | Speaking Images $0.99 / €0.89 | ![]() | Gp Imp. | Preloaded flashcards app | ||
![]() | Speech Cards Professional $9.99 / €8.99 | RWH Technology | Flashcards app. You can also record the student's voice, track their progress and get reports, share cards, … 40 cards included. | ||||
| Speech Cards Lite Free | |||||||
![]() | Speech With Milo - Adjectives $2.99 / €2.69 | Doonan Speech Therapy | Flashcards-animations to learn 55 adjectives | ||||
![]() | Speech with Milo: Nouns $2.99 / €2.69 | p>✘ | Doonan Speech Therapy | To practice words and at the same time save yourself looking at the iPad, sharing the videos later. | |||
![]() | Speech with Milo: Prepositions $2.99 / €2.69 | Doonan Speech Therapy | Flashcards-animations to learn 100 verbs | ||||
| (Spanish) Speech with Milo: Prepositions $2.99 / €2.69 | |||||||
![]() | Speech with Milo: Verbs $2.99 / €2.69 | Doonan Speech Therapy | Flashcards-animations to learn 100 actions | ||||
| (Spanish) Speech with Milo: Verbs $2.99 / €2.69 | |||||||
![]() | StoryBuilder for iPad $7.99 / €6.99 | StoryBuilder $5.99 / €5.49 | ![]() ![]() | Mobile Education Store | Exercises of narrative creation | ||
![]() | Study Fly $2.99 / €2.69 | ![]() | TheraTech Solutions, LLC | Flash cards with text to speech and access to Quizlet.com to download cards | |||
| Study Fly Multilingual $7.99 / €6.99 | ![]() | ||||||
| Study Fly German $3.99 / €3.59 | ![]() | ||||||
| Study Fly Russian $3.99 / €3.59 | ![]() | ||||||
| Study Fly Spanish $3.99 / €3.59 | ![]() | ||||||
![]() | Talk About It: Objects Home HD $5.99 / €5.49 | ✘ | Hamaguchi Apps | To help identify which information is important about an object and then provides a way to apply this knowledge in an expressive, narrative language task. First, the user is asked to read/listen to sets of four sentences and find the one that tells the most specific and important information about that object. Second, the can read all the right sentences and has to record a description of the object. | |||
| Talk About It: Objects Pro HD $9.99 / €8.99 | ✘ | Pro version allos up to 30 users. | |||||
![]() | Talk To Me 100 $5.99 / €5.49 | ✘ | ![]() | Sydspeak, Inc. | Teaching app to see words, hear words, understand their meaning and experience communication | ||
| Talk To Me 100 Free Free | ✘ | ![]() |
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![]() | TalkBoard $16.99 / €14.99 | ![]() | Mark Ashley | "Picboard" app (see above) plus communication aids | |||
![]() | Talking Flashcards $3.99 / €3.59 | ![]() | TheraTech Solutions, LLC | Flash cards with text to speech and access to Quizlet.com to download cards | |||
| Talking Flashcards Multilingual $7.99 / €6.99 | ![]() |
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![]() | Tense Builder $9.99 / €8.99 | ✘ | Mobile Education Store | To help students learn how to identify and use correct tense forms by playing 48 animated videos to demonstrate past, present and future tense. | |||
![]() | Touch Talking $0.99 / €0.89 | Pufferfish Apps | 9 categories of pictures with their associated audio clip | ||||
![]() | Tuneville Free (In-App purchases) | Tuneville LT 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 $4.99 / €4.49 | SpeakinMotion, LLC | Video modeling, written words and auditory cues to help individuals acquire words and phrases | ||||
| VAST Autism 1 - Core (Spanish) $4.99 / €4.49 | |||||||
![]() | WhQuestions $7.99 / €6.99 | ![]() | Smarty Ears, LLC | 300 who-what-where-how-why questions | |||
14. 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 | Lang. | Web | Test | Short description |
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![]() | Apraxia Picture Sound Cards APSC $179.99 / €159.99 | ✘ | ![]() | 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 | ||
| Apraxia Picture Sound Cards APSC Pro $199.99 / €179.99 | ✘ | ![]() |
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![]() | Articulate it! $24.99 / €21.99 | ![]() | Smarty Ears, LLC | Articulation app with 1,000 images covering all English sounds | |||
![]() | Articulation Station Free (In-App Purchases) | ✘ | ![]() | 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. | ||
| Articulation Station Pro $39.99 / €35.99 | ✘ | ![]() |
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![]() | ArtikPix Free | ![]() | RinnApps | Articulation app with flashcard and matching activities; decks to be purchased separately | |||
| ArtikPix - Full $29.99 / €26.99 | ![]() |
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![]() | Auditory Figure Ground AFG $19.99 / €17.99 | ✘ | ![]() | 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: English/Spanish $39.99 / €35.99 | ✘ | ![]() | Smarty Ears, LLC | To assess the articulatory and phonological abilities of Spanish-speaking and bilingual (English-Spanish) children. | ||
![]() | Category TherAppy $14.99 / €13.99 | Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd. | To teach categorization skills. 4 activities (find, classify, add one, exclude) and 3 levels (Concrete Categories, Subcategories, & Abstract Categories). Approximately 700 images in 70 categories. | ||||
| Category TherAppy Lite Free | |||||||
![]() | Comprehension TherAppy $19.99 / €17.99 | Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd. | Auditory and reading comprehension of single words (700 included). | ||||
![]() | Disfluency Index Counter $4.99 / €4.49 | ![]() | Smarty Ears, LLC | To perform a live count of the number of fluent or disfluent syllables. | |||
| Fluency Tracker $3.99 / €3.59 | ![]() | 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 $29.99 / €23.99 | ✘ | ![]() | Foundations Developmental House, LLC | Therapy tool that supports the Speech-EZ® Apraxia Program | ||
![]() | ✘ | iSpy Phonics $1.99 / €1.79 | ![]() | Bappz Ltd. | Matching sounds and letters | ||
![]() | Language TherAppy $59.99 / €54.99 | Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd. | Comprehension, Naming, Writing, & Reading TherAppy apps together. | ||||
| Language TherAppy Lite Free | |||||||
![]() | Match2Say $14.99 / €13.99 | ![]() | Smarty Ears, LLC | Matching game based on basic sounds | |||
![]() | Minimal Pair Pack $29.99 / €26.99 | ![]() | 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 $19.99 / €17.99 | Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd. | Word-finding app to help people with aphasia and children with special needs practice important naming and description skills. Over 700 words included. | ||||
![]() | PCS Articulation Flash Cards 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 $9.99 / €8.99 | ![]() | Synapse Apps, Inc. | Receptive and expressive practice of 12 phonological processes | |||
![]() | PhonoPix - Full $24.99 / €21.99 | ![]() | RinnApps | Minimal pairs app with 10 decks for many phonological processes | |||
![]() | Pocket Artic $4.99 / €4.49 | ![]() | Synapse Apps, Inc. | 2,100 flashcards to practice pronunciation | |||
![]() | Pruebas de articulación en español / Spanish Artik $9.99 / €8.99 | ![]() | Smarty Ears, LLC | Articulation practice app for Spanish | |||
![]() | R intensive SLP $14.99 / €13.99 | ![]() | Smarty Ears, LLC | Articulation app focused on the 'r' phoneme | |||
![]() | Reading TherAppy $9.99 / €8.99 | 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 . | ||||
![]() | SLP Words HD $2.99 / €2.69 | Word Buttons Light Free | ![]() ![]() | iEducationApps.com | AAC/SLP tool that allow to define buttons and record voices | ||
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![]() | Simplex Spelling HD - Dolch Sight Words With Reverse Phonics $4.99 / €4.49 | 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). | ||||
| Simplex Spelling Free Lite - With Reverse Phonics Free | |||||||
![]() | Simplex Spelling Phonics 1 - English $4.99 / €4.49 | 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 2 - Spell To Read $4.99 / €4.49 | |||||||
| Simplex Spelling Phonics - Advanced Phonograms $4.99 / €4.49 | |||||||
![]() | SLP Field Kit HD - Consonants $49.99 / €44.99 | SLP Field Kit - Consonants $29.99 / €26.99 | ![]() ![]() | Michael Engelbrite | 8 interactive activities for consonant phonetic practice | ||
![]() | SLP Goal Bank $14.99 / €13.99 | ✘ | ![]() | 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 Free | ![]() | Lingraphicare, Inc. | Set of applications for aphasia, disphagia, oral motor exercises, practice some specific words and phonemes, etc. | ||
![]() | Sound Matching SM $19.99 / €17.99 | ✘ | ![]() | Foundations Developmental House, LLC | Apps to develop phonological awareness, sound order sequencing skills, and auditory attention skills. | ||
| Syllable Counting SC $19.99 / €17.99 | ![]() |
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| Target Sound ID $19.99 / €17.99 | ![]() |
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![]() | Speech FlipBook $4.99 / €4.49 | Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd. | You can pick which sounds you want to appear in initial, medial, & final positions; flip between sounds or words; and hear them or record yourself & play it back instantly.Includes over 2,300 recordings of words in natural speech & 125 phonemes & clusters. Includes all vowels & consonants of Standard American English as well as over 250 sets of homophones. | ||||
![]() | Speech with Milo Articulation Board Game $6.99 / €5.99 | ✘ | Doonan Speech Therapy/a> | Sound cards for more than 500 words to practice initial, medial an final options for each sound. Included sounds are: /F/, /V/, /K/, /G/, /S/, /Z/, /CH/, /SH/. You can purchase more as separate sound packs or buy the PRO version, which includes all of them and 1,400 cards. Data tracking. You can email your data. Up to 20 students. You may purchase additional 3 for $0.99 / €0.89. | |||
| Speech with Milo Articulation Board Game PRO $23.99 / €21.49 | ✘ | ||||||
![]() | Speech Journal $1.99 / €1.79 | ✘ | ![]() | Mobile Education Store | Voice recorder that lets you pair recorded messages with your own imported images and image sequences | ||
![]() | Speech Pairs $6.99 / €5.99 | ![]() | Synapse Apps, Inc. | A variation of "Minimal Pairs" | |||
![]() | Speech Sounds on Cue for iPad (US English) $48.99 / €43.99 | ✘ | 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 American SLP (US version) or Australian speech pathologist (AUS version) | |||
| Speech Sounds on Cue for iPad Lite (US English) Free | ✘ | ||||||
| Speech Sounds on Cue for iPad (Australian English) $46.99 / €41.99 | ✘ | ||||||
| Speech Sounds on Cue for iPad Lite (Australian English) Free | ✘ | ||||||
![]() | Speech Trainer 3D $7.99 / €6.99 | ![]() | Smarty Ears, LLC | 3D demonstration of all sounds in the English language | |||
![]() | Speech Tutor $9.99 / €8.99 | ![]() | Synapse Apps, Inc. | 132 animations showing sound articulations | |||
![]() | Speech4Good $19.99 / €17.99 | ![]() | Balbus Speech, Inc. | Set of tools for monitoring, recording and sharing a speech therapy session | |||
| Speech4Good Lite $4.99 / €4.49 | ![]() |
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![]() | SpeechStickers $14.99 / €13.99 | ✘ | ![]() | Serious Tree LLC | Practice the basic building blocks of speech | ||
![]() | Sunny Articulation Phonology Test $59.99 / €54.99 | ||||||




























































































































































































































































































































































