Apps for Education
Compiled by Carolann Cormier, MS, CCC-SLP, ATP
CREC-IPM
This handout is meant to be a resource. It is not meant to be exhaustive and is not a suggestion on what apps to buy or download. It is always helpful to review the ratings on apps before purchasing. For review of apps, click on the review button when you are on the app download page in iTunes. If a lite version is available, generally they are free or cheaper, so they can be a way for you to try an app.
For childrens apps click on the Apps for Kids category in iTunes sidebar. For books, click on the Books category. Use the search parameters built into iTunes for apps by clicking on the apps button when your search results come up.
iTunes now has a Special Education Section as one of the searchable categories in the iTunes sidebar. Included in this category is: communication; hearing; language development; literacy & learning and organization.
To take screen shots of your various displays on your devices, press the “home” and “sleep” keys at the same time. The screen shot will be saved in your photos and can be emailed or used in presentations.
To restrict access to WIFI on the iPad, go to Settings>General>Restrictions and then Enable Restrictions. You then set a passcode. You now have the option of not allowing access to Safari, YouTube, iTunes, and Installing Apps. If you choose to restrict these apps, they will not even appear on the device. You can also set Content ratings for Music, Movies, TV Shows, Apps, etc.
To restrict deleting apps on the iPad (with OS 4.2 onward), go to settings to restrictions and turn this restriction on. You will need to set a password to enable restrictions. This will only allow apps to be deleted if the password is entered. This is where you can also deny access to YouTube, Safari and iTunes.
To create folders drag one application on top of another and name the folder. On the iPad you can have up to 12 apps in a folder, allowing many more apps to be loaded onto the device. You can also use folders on the iPhone and iTouch. It can also be done on the computer while you are syncing your device, by going to the list of your apps and dragging apps on top of each other. You will see thumbnails of each app in the folders. A great way to organize your apps.
FREE APPS:
It was reported that approximately 30% of the apps on iTunes are free. In iTunes you can do a Power Search to search only for free apps. If you put “Power Search” in the Search Store section in the upper right hand corner of iTunes the Power Search menu pops up. Click on Search only for free applications. You can set this for the category type, as well as apps just for the iPad.
The website Free App Alert (http://freeappalert.com/) provides information on free apps. This website is updated on an on-going basis, as apps may only be free for a period of time.
Apple has Education Account Executives that can assist educational systems or educators in purchases or understanding the Education Volume Purchase Program. The representative for Connecticut is Ann Couser Kittredge, , K12 Education Account Executive, Apple Inc. , Chester, CT 06412, ☎ 860-501-2976, Fax: 866-758-7704. She reported that there is a discount on volume iPad purchases.
How Many Devices can an App Legally be loaded on:
(Information provided by David Niemeijer, on the QIAT listserve on 11/2/10)
The App Store license (see http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html#APPS)
applies equally to the Volume Purchase Program (VPP) and to the regular iTunes
purchases. See David’s post on iTunes, iPod, iPhones and IPad FAQ’s at https://support.assistiveware.com/index.php?pg=kb.book&id=6
It specifically states:
APP STORE PRODUCT USAGE RULES
(i) You may download and sync a Product for personal, noncommercial use on any device You own or control.
(ii) If You are a commercial enterprise or educational institution, You may download and sync a Product for use by either (a) a single individual on one or more devices You own or control or (b) multiple individuals, on a single shared device You own or control. For example, a single employee may use the Product on both the employee’s iPhone and iPad, or multiple students may serially use the Product on a single iPad located at a resource center or library. In other words, if personal use applies you can use an app on any number of devices you own or control. If the device and software is owned by and educational institution it is either one license per device used by multiple students, or one license per student using multiple devices. This applies to both licenses purchased through VPP (Volume Purchase Program) and normal iTunes purchases.
Benefits of VPP:
– Apple honors tax status of your organization
– Apple accepts purchase orders for VPP vouchers
– There is a 50% discount if 20 or more licenses are purchased at once for a particular app that is in the VPP (my guess is most educational apps are). Licenses purchased with VPP can be deployed by syncing a single iTunes account to many devices or through one account per device. In the first case (one account for many devices) you still need to purchase as many licenses as you have devices or users, but you only redeem one license and store the remaining ones in a cool dry place so that you are in compliance with the terms (you bought as many licenses as you have devices or users).
Redeeming Volume Vouchers to purchase apps:
Create a new Apple ID for the App Store Volume Purchase Program. These are separate accounts from personal iTunes accounts and won’t be able to access the App Store to download applications, music or any other content. Search for and purchase apps in variable quantities, up to the dollar limit of the voucher amount. The institution’s tax status will be recognized and billed accordingly. The Program Facilitator will receive an email with a link to a dashboard, now populated with app-specific codes. These codes can be distributed to users for redemption at the App Store.
Art
| 123 Sticker HD | ($3.99) iPad, Animated sticker book in English, French, Spanish and German, build and create sticker books with sound effects, background music, 25 songs and voice over for colors’ names. |
| ArtStudio | ($3.99) ArtStudio is a professional drawing/ painting application that also provides photo editing. |
| ClickySticky | ($1.99) iPad only, animated sticker book that allows a variety of stickers to be placed and modified on various themed backgrounds. |
| Color & Draw | Includes various types of paper and background images. You can import pictures for your background |
| Curious George | With virtual stickers and 45 colors, paint 56 unique pages of Curious George and friends. |
| Doodle Buddy | Finger paint with colors and tap the screen to include stamps on pictures or provided backgrounds. |
| Doodle Kids | Using a finger, draw random shapes in random colors and sizes, then shake to clear the screen |
| Draw for iPad | (Free) Cooperative Drawing Game |
| Drawing Den | A series of pages to color in. |
| Drawing Pad | Includes different brushes, stamps, crayons, colored pencils and different color paper for the backgrouns. |
| iCreate | An art program that allows you to add stamp images or your creations onto included backgrounds. Some verbal feedback provided. |
| iColoring Book | With many pen colors paint included images, or use downloaded images from the Internet. |
| iDoodle2Lite | (Free) A powerful and fun drawing app that allows you to draw in an array of colors with full alpha support, sketch basic geometric shapes along with the pen and “blob” tool, replay your drawings, undo/redo with a quick half-flip, save images to your library, and much more. |
| Itsy Bitsy Spider | A musical color image with 70 elements to paint. You can save your image to your photos. |
| Learn to Draw | Follow directions with basic shapes to make drawings |
| Splatter HD | (Free) allows you to pick colors and make spatter pictures that you can save in your picture album. |
| SculptMaster 3D | Using your fingers, create digital sculptures by painting clay like material. |
| Spawn (a lite version available) | Touch and drag on different areas of the screen to get animated feedback of where your finger is moving. |
Assessment Tools
| Decibel | ($0.99) Allows you to know how loud a sound or environment is. Could use for biofeedback for someone to self-monitor or work on increasing or decreasing volume levels. |
| Eye Chart Premium | ($3.99) iPad only. Allows you to randomize the Snellen and 2 other eye charts to use as a screening tool to test vision. |
| Test Your Hearing | ($0.99) This fun application tests how good your hearing is and then it determines your approximate hearing age. If it’s a lot more than your actual age, you may have hearing loss. |
| TiltMeter | (1.99) A professional grade angel measurement tool. It is commonly used for picture alignment, measuring angles of elevation, slope, or incline, showing the inclination of an aircraft or ship relative to horizontal, measuring the “look angle” of a satellite antenna towards a satellite, measuring the slope angle of a tape or chain during distance measurement, indicating roll of vehicles, sail boats, and aircraft, and much more. Can be used during assessments to determine what angles work best with various pieces of equipment. |
| uHear | (Free) A hearing loss screening test which allows you to test your hearing to determine if it is within normal range, or if you have potential hearing loss. |
Assistive Technology & Accessibility
There are accessibility features on the 16 and 32 GB model iTouches only and on the 3rd and 4th Gen. iPod Touchs, iPhone 3GS and iPads. These features include voice over, voice control, high contrast mode, mono audio and up to 5x zoom. For more information go to: www.apple.com/accessibility/ and click on the specific tool you would like information on for the accessibility features.
Voice Controls – After holding down the home button, speak voice controls to your iPhone 3GS onward, to make calls and play music.
For people with visual impairments, you can purchase the clear table clothe plastic material and cut out shapes or dots to place on specific areas of the screen (the material will cling to the screen) so the person to feel where to touch to get feedback. Great with the different musical instruments apps.
| A Special Phone | 3 Steps (shake, verify, dial) to make a call without looking and use 6 friends images for speed dialing. |
| AirMouse | Install on iPhone/iTouch and computer and allows you to use the app to control the computer |
| Amplif’d | ($0.99) A powerful volume control to amplify everything better at home, work, class, sporting events, theaters, concerts, and watching television all through your 3 & 4G ear buds with the built in microphone. |
| Apple Accessibility for the iPad | www.apple.com/ipad/features/accessibility.html |
| Apple Accessibility for the iPhone 4 | www.apple.com/iphone/features/accessibility.html |
| Apple Accessibility for the iTouch | www.apple.com/ipodtouch/features/accessibility.html |
| Big Names | Large, high contrast text makes it easier to select and call a person from your contact list. |
| Blabberize | Create talking pictures |
| Eye Glasses | ($2.99) An iPhone only application for individuals with visual impairments. You use the iPhone camera to clearly display text or an image. The application offers 2x, 4x, 6x, and 8x magnification. |
| iHear Dialer | Move your finger across the keypad to hear phone number digits, then select the digit by releasing. |
| soundAMP R | ($4.99) Amplifies soft and medium sounds and softens loud sounds. |
| Touch LCD Designer Speaking Clock | ($1.99) When clock is touched it speaks the time. |
| vozMe | Type in text and it creates an mp3 file of your text |
| Web Reader | ($1.99 to 4.99) Web Reader is a text to speech page reader. You can configure web pages to be read as soon as they are loaded, read pages manually after they are loaded, point to where you want to start reading, or use Cut, Copy, and Paste to read only sections of text. You must be at least 17 years old to download this application. |
Books – Children
| ABC Dinos | A dinosaur name is read and shown on each alphabetical page |
| Brave Monkey | Cute story that is automatically read to you. Does not highlight |
| Binky | A story about an elephant |
| Buddy #1 | Story about Buddy the Bus and where he takes people. You can add your voice. It reads in English, French, Japanese, Chinese, German and Spanish. |
| Bugs | Real photographs of bugs with the text that is read by touching Mother Goose. |
| Cat in the Hat | An interactive book that can be read to you or you can read where each word is highlighted and the text label of items on the page is displayed and read when touched. |
| Children’s Classics | Auto scrolling books from various authors, arranged alphabetically. Text only with some illustrations. |
| Curious George’s Puppies | The book allows you to record your own voice and is read to you page by page. It allows a large text feature |
| Curious George B-day | An interactive book where you discover George’s birthday surprise as you listen to the book or record your voice |
| Dr. Seuss’s ABC’s | An interactive book that can be read to you or you can read where each word is highlighted and the text label of items on the page is displayed and read when touched. |
| Emperor’s New Clothes | Can auto scroll, the text is not read aloud. |
| Fairy Tales | Books from Hans Christian Anderson that auto scroll at the rate you desire. Text only. |
| Goldilocks | Each word is highlighted as it is read to you |
| Grinch Who Stole Christmas | An interactive book that can be read to you or you can read where each word is highlighted and the text label of items on the page is displayed and read when touched. |
| HanselGretel | Each page is read to you when you touch the page |
| How to Train Your Dragon | From ForgDog Media, each word changes color as it is read aloud. |
| ICDL Books for Children | Thousands of children’s books (e.g. Three Little Pigs) from 60 countries in various languages with illustrations. |
| iLook | High Contrast, white on black picture book with 5 categories (e.g. animals, food) for young children. |
| iMotherGoose – Bugs | Talking picture book with full color pictures that speak the insect name when touched |
| iMotherGoose – Emperor’s New Clothes | The classic has been altered and contains narrations and original artwork. |
| iMotherGoose – Hansel and Gretel | The classic has been altered and contains narrations and original artwork. |
| iStoryTime Kids Books | The books are illustrated, include text, and are narrated with pages that turn automatically or manually. |
| Jack and the Beanstalk | ($3.99) An interactive book and game. The goal of the game is to see how much Jack can climb up the endless beanstalk. The game changes every time you play it. |
| Little Lala | Can read or have it read to you page by page |
| Little Red Riding Hood | Talking, interactive book with story narration paired with text and animated objects. |
| Miss Spider’s Tea Party (also in French and Spanish) | ($9.99) iPad, animated and interactive story with the books actual graphics, that reads to you |
| The Lorax | An interactive Dr. Seuss book that can be read to you or you can read where each word is highlighted and the text label of items on the page is displayed and read when touched. Background sound effects |
| My Friend Isabelle | Two friends with differences in a narrated story paired with highlighted text. |
| The Penguins of Madagascar | Includes a maze, spot the difference, daleidoscope, create a scene, coloring board, jokes and 2 stories, that contain some videos (words are highlighted as read to you). |
| Peter Rabbit | The test is read to you, each page has a hidden shape and the pages color in as they are turned |
| The Reading Bug – from iStory Times a library of narrated children’s books | Designed for children 2 and up. Can pick different voices and other preferences. This story is about a chameleon out to catch the reading bug. |
| Sesame Street Playground | Allows you to change some settings and record your own voice for this story about a lost puppy. |
| Shrek 4 | (free) Highlights as the text is read, some animation and sound effects. |
| Spring | The simple story is read to you with sound effects. |
| StoryBook (a lite version is available) | A collection of stories that allows you to customize the books by genre, names, gender, ages and species. Each reading can be slightly different, introducing you to new words. |
| StoryKit | Easy program to create your own stories by adding in photos, text and speech. Could use for social stories and schedules. |
| Three Little Pigs | Interactive book with story narration paired with text. The characters can be touched to make sounds. |
| Toy Story | (free) Animated book that highlights the words as they are read. |
| Toy Story 2 Read Along | ($8.99) Animated book that highlights the words as they are read, contains a variety of games, videos, sing-along tunes and coloring pages. You can record your own narration. |
| Treat Street | Simple Halloween animations containing a costume shop, Treat Street where you can interact with items on the street to get audio feedback and treats and a goodie bag. No speech or text. |
| Trucks | Simple story book that names and shows the text of the trucks as they are touched. |
| Zoo You Later Monkey Business | ($4.99) iPad only, interactive book that highlights words and allows you to add your own voice. You can hear each word read or spelled. Includes a coloring book. |
Books – Adults and Young Adults
| 3D Bookshelf | Includes a variety of classics |
| Audiobooks | Download hundreds of classic books arranged alphabetically by author. |
| Barnes & Nobel eReader | Allows you to download books from Barnes & Noble |
| BookList | Allows you to create a book list by title, author, genre and recent and do searches. |
| BookShelf | ($4.99) App allows you to download ebooks from various resources and formats. Can import books from your computer. |
| Borders eBooks | Allows you to download books from Borders |
| Classics | Contains the complete text with some illustrations of 22 classic books. You can bookmark where you are in your reading. |
| Cliff Notes | Available for a variety of the classic books and offers information on the plot, characters and summaries. |
| EngLit | Summaries and reading assistance for many books in English Literature (like Cliff Notes). Each one is a separate app. |
| eReader | (Free) Download and read New York Times best selling electronic books, with over 100,000 ebooks available. It allows you to upload your own personal content or eBooks from many other web sites. |
| eTextbooks | (Free) When connected to the Internet access your eTextbooks to read them and to view, add or edit your notes. |
| Free Books | ($1.99, free on iPad) Thousands of books in different genres, all to download for free |
| Good Reader | ($0.99) A PDF viewer, there is an iPad version that support USB file transfer that lets you transfer files from your computer over a USB cord. The reflow features automatically fits all your text to a screen so you don’t have to scroll left or right. |
| Great Books | The text of over 200 books, that are arranged alphabetically by authors. It uses autoscrolling. |
| iBooks | (free) Download and read books that show the pictures in the actual books, turn the pages back and forth by touching the edges of the pages. Get free books by searching for free books in the store. |
| Jules Verne | The works of Jules Verne |
| Kaeroboy Book 1 | ($.99) iPad, the tale of a kid with dyslexia who discovers he can read the secret language of superheroes, turning him into one. |
| Kindle for iPhone | (Free) Download and read Kindle books, highlight and take notes, select alternate text and background colors. Not all books work with voice over). |
| Mystery | Includes a collection of classic mysteries. |
| PDF Reader Pro
PDF Reader Pro for iPad |
($0.99 to 3.99) PDF Reader allows you to upload PDF files through WiFi. It also includes a document scanner feature. The iPad version allows you to transfer files to your iPad from your computer or directly from a website. Some of the features PDF Reader Pro Edition for iPad includes are USB file sharing, downloading email attachments, landscape mode with auto rotation, search capabilities, bookmark, password protection, emailing PDF files, WiFi web sharing, document manager, scan option and full web browser. |
| Schmooz | Auditory or visual summaries and notes on hundreds of books. Each one is a separate app. (Like Cliff Notes) |
| Science Books | ($3.99) A large collection of complete books in the science domain. |
| Shakespeare in Bits
(Lite versions contain only 2 acts) |
(Free to $14.99) An animated study edition of Romeo and Juliet featuring Kate Beckinsale and Michael Sheen. It features the complete original text combines with dynamic text features to increase comprehension. Modern translations for difficult words and phrases can be obtained by touching the words. Study notes, plot summaries and analysis are included. |
| Sherlock (iPad) | Vook (Videos and links included in the book to make it a video book). |
| Stanza | Download from over 50,000 free books and read them with tabbed navigation, copy support and note sharing. |
| VOD – Voice of Daisy | ($25.99) Daisy format reader |
| Vook Books | (Prices vary from $1.99 to 6.99)) Various books that have embedded videos and links to wikipedia for the text that is in blue and underlined. |
| Wattpad 100,000+ books | (free) an ebook community where everything is free to download. |
Communication
| ABA FlashCards – Actions | 52 images to learn actions via text, photo and real audio |
| Aphasia | You scroll through basic comments for conversations, telephone, emergency, meals, restaurants, health and pain scale. |
| ArtikPix | ($49.99, though recently on sale for $30.00) A free lite version is available. Allows you use 14 cards in 40 decks of randomized flash cards for practicing specific sounds with data collection. Has audio and recording features. |
| AutoVerbal Talking Soundboard Pro | ($9.99) Includes some basic pictures and words that speak as you touch them. Can also type in text and have it spoken. |
| DAF Assistant | Delayed auditory feedback and frequency shifting to help decrease stuttering |
| Expressionist | Contains over 100 commonly used expressions divided into 7 categories (a Youtube video at http://www.youtube.com/user/holpang#p/a/u/0/3TA8feG0xRA |
| Expressive | On sale at $34.99) Transient screen app that allows you your own pictures from Smarty Ears. |
| Grace – Picture Exchange for Nonverbal People | It can be customized by adding your own photos. The users selects up to 8 cards in a sentence and rotates the device to present them to the listerner who reads the cards. |
| Going Places – Social Stories | Contains 6 video and audio social stories about going to different places |
| Halo Talk | by AdstraSoft this forced choice/prompting app is designed as pairs of opposites, to use, to offer choices from a field of two photos or to prompt by using a field of two photos. This uses the cartoon drawing of a person as well as photos. |
| iCommunicate | ($49.99) Pre-loaded pictures and storyboards/routines to facilitate language comprehension. You can record your own speech and customize the setups. |
| iConverse | AAC tool to express 6 different icons representing basic needs: food drink, sick, bathroom, help and break |
| iInteract | ($8.99) A portable basic communication board that provides visual pictures paired with audio feedback in a girls or boys voice. Touch the icon once and it talks, touch it again and it brings you back to the main screen. Good for those with limited dexterity. |
| iMean | ($4.99) This application turns the device into a letterboard with large easy- to- read keys and word suggestions with word completion word prediction. |
| iPrompts | Visual prompting tool containing original artwork for schedules, a timer, a 2 choice prompts and a library of pictures |
| iSpeak Spanish | Uses high quality text to speech to translate English to Spanish and Spanish to English |
| iSpeech | List of sounds for developmental ages 3 to 7+ with explanations for forming and teaching the sounds |
| iTranslate Plus | Translate words and whole sentences in 52 languages and use text to speech with 43 voices in 16 languages |
| Jolly Holiday | Learn prepositions while decorating the tree, then learn the signs to Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. |
| Kindergarten.com – 24 titles | ($.99 each) Most of the apps present 1 picture with the text paired with speech, but some also work on receptive language by identifying by name, what goes together, rhymes and function. |
| Larry the Talking Parrot | Larry repeats your words back. |
| Learn to Talk | Over 160 interactive flashcards to learn nouns, verbs, early syntax and word combinations. |
| Locabulary Lite | Audio output for expressing phrases (hello), moods (I am happy), assistance (Call the doctor) & restaurants. Comments on iTunes said there are problems with it crashing and causing problems with Prologuo2Go. |
| Look2Learn – AAC | ($24.99) AAC system with photos and preloaded voices to express wants and needs. |
| Mobile Articulation Probes | Over 600 words organized by sound, to practice articulation in flashcards with user and data features |
| My Choices Board | ($9.99) |
| MyTalk | AAC software with photos and voice recording feature that can be used with a web authoring service, includes text to speech and ‘in cell’ video |
| Proloquo2Go | ($189) Full AAC dynamic display solution with over 7000 symbols, natural sounding voices, automatic tensing and more. |
| Question Builder | ($3.99) Designed to help elementary age children learn to answer abstract questions and create responses based on inference. Include audio clips to improve auditory processing for special needs children (prompts can be turned off). |
| Small Talk Aphasia | By Lingraphica, geared towards individuals with aphasia, has icons and text for simple communication messages (free) |
| Small Talk Dysphagia | By Lingraphica, present icons and text for basic communication, including adaptive equipment needed for eating. |
| Small Talk Oral Motor Exercies | By Lingraphica, presents videos and pictures for oral motor exercies |
| SmartyEars | (Prices vary) Over 19 apps available, all created by speech/language pathologist, includes fluency, wh questions, articulation, turn taking and others skills. Expressive ($34.99) is an AAC app. |
| Sounding Board | ($49.99) by AbleNett, vocal output that includes most frequently used 100 to 120 words used in communication devices and grids to make overlays with various amounts of pictures. You can add your own photos. |
| Speak It | Text to speech |
| Step Stones | By AdastraSoft, visual schedules for 9 sequential activities that can be checked for completion and more activities can be added. |
| StoryKit | Allows you to easily create your own books, schedules, sequences or social stories by importing pictures and adding speech |
| Talking Carl | An animated figure repeats whatever it hears using a modified voice and some other sound effect. |
| Talking Harry the Hedgehog | (free) Harry repeats whatever you say. |
| Talking Tom Cat | (free) Similar to Talking Carl, an animated cat repeats what you say. The voice is not as modified as Talking Tom. |
| TapSpeak Button ($9.99 for iPad) | Allows you to record messages that the person plays back by touching red buttons on the display (like a Big Mack). They will be expanding their line to included sequential playback of messages. |
| TapSpeak Picture | Take pictures of common objects for visual indicator, message categories, sync from iPhone to iPod Touch to use Touch as primary playback device |
| TapSpeak Picture Choices | Adds to TapSpeak Picture the ability to configure and choose among two or more messages on a single screen. |
| TapSpeak Sequential (for iPad $29.99) | Sequential recording and playback of songs, stories, nursery rhymes, and other messages. Includes starter set of songs with others sets available through iTunes |
| Tap to Talk | (Free) Communication program that allows you to program 6 choices in the display, with a category picture above it. The speech is better here then on the DS. Subscription needed to edit and add. |
| Tap to Talk for the DS | http://www.taptotalk.com/ |
| TouchChat | ($149) Transient screen software that comes with 5 vocabulary files (each file contains multiple linked pages) for various communication levels, contains pages based on core vocabulary. It is programmable and you can add your own pictures. |
| Visules | Uses drawings and photos to communicate schedules and actions |
| Voice4u
Voice4u JP (Japanese) |
($29.95) AAC app that contains 130 icons. You can customize with your own icons. |
Early Academics
| ABC & Me | Works on learning ABC’s and basic words through various games. |
| Baa Baa Black Sheep | ($1.99) by Duck Duck Moose. An educational puzzle app with 2 popular nursery rhymes. You explore the island of Baa Baa where you can row your boat and explore 3 underwater worlds while looking for matching puzzle pieces. |
| Dad’s Gift | Colors, shapes, numbers and early math |
| Dog Party | Created by PBS Kids, based on the series Martha Speaks with several games and a pop quiz. |
| First Words Animals | ($1.99) Includes 39 animals with sounds that children can practice spelling and identifying the letters with different difficulty levels. |
| Fish School | (Made by Duck, Duck, Moose), Cute and interactive program for letters, numbers, matching and other areas. |
| In the Zoo | Alphabet learning using sing a long, Karaoke and flashcards. |
| PreK Safari | Letters, numbers, colors and shapes with flash cards or touching the items when asked |
| Preschool Adventure | Includes 8 simple activities parents can do with their young toddlers and preschoolers |
Fidget Apps (Some are also Cause/Effect)
| Alli’s Jigsaw Puzzle | ($0.99) Solve classic jigsaw puzzles |
| Ambiance | ($2.99) An environment enhancer to help create an ambient atmospheres to focus, relax or reminisce. You choose from over 1,000 free sounds to download and list to, create customized sound mixes, cycle through playlists, wake up to relaxing sounds and more. |
| Bubble Wrap | (Free) Pop the bubbles on the bubble wrap, when you pop them all you get a big bang |
| Cookie Doodle | ($.99) You can make virtual cookies with 17 different cookie dough choices, 25 different flavored icings, many different cookie cutters and multiple toppings to create your own cookies that you can take pictures of to email to others. |
| Garf | ($0.99) This game exercises your memory by having to press the buttons in the same sequence as you are shown. |
| Koi Pond | ($0.99) Mimics a real koi pond. You can change the settings of things like the weather, lily pads, amount of fish, and more. You can touch and drag their finger in the water, move the lily pads, feed the fish by shaking the device, and watch the fish eat the food. The sound effects are very real, which makes the user feel like they really are at a koi pond. |
| Neon Doodle | ($0.99) With 8 different neon colors, you can create a masterpiece, make a shopping list, play games like hangman or tic-tac toe , or even make a picture to send to a friend. |
| SoundTouch | (Lite version available) 12 animals or vehicles, when you touch one it goes to an actual picture and makes the sounds. 4 additional categories are in the full version. |
| UZU | Create different designs based on your touch actions, i.e. hold two fingers near each other and the particles will go between each finger, three fingers and all the particles come together and follow you finger movements, all on a black background. |
| Wood Puzzle | ($.99) Different themed puzzles with 21 different puzzles |
Functional Life Skills, Social Stories, Feelings
| The Angry Octopus book | A book about how to handle anger and shows children how to calm down. Beautiful illustrations and adorable characters. |
| Autism Xpress | (free) It is designed to encourage people with autism to recognize and express their emotions by touch expressive cartoon faces.. |
| Community Sidekick | ($9.99) From AbleNet, it provides automated location email updates as the person with special needs travels in the community. |
| Hidden Curriculum for Adolescents and Adults | Real life examples and suggestions by Judy Endow (an adult on the spectrum). Topics covered include social relationships, community, money, workplace and others. |
| Hidden Curriculum for Kids
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Real life based entries to start conversations about the “unwritten social rules” |
| iDress for Weather | ($1.99) |
| Living Safely | ($34.99) |
| Look in My Eye (garage, car mechanic, restaurant and toys) | By looking in the eyes of people in the photographs you see surprised. If you can match the number surprise you earn money to buy car parts to build a car in the garage. |
| Model Me Going Places | With 6 locations (e.g. playground), each has photos with narration of children modeling the behavior |
| Model Me | (free) Social stories for children |
| Off We Go HD | ($4.99) Titles include Going on a Plane, Going to the Dentist |
| Picture Scheduler | This app shows a visual reminder (photo or video) at a specified time as well as playing a voice note to cue the user. |
| Social Skills | ($6.99) |
| Social Stories | Uses real life pictures and stories that show facial expressions that are easy to understand and follow. There are 6 stories that teach classroom rules, turn taking, reciprocal play and more. |
| Stories 2 Learn | ($13.99) Use to develop your own stories, adding in pictures, sound and text. |
| Story Builder | ($3.99) |
| StoryKit | A free app that allows you to easily add in your own pictures, text and messages for creating books, social stories, steps in activities, etc. |
Games
| Action Bowling | Basic bowling game |
| Air Hockey | ($.99) with 1 or 2 pucks for 1 or 2 players |
| Battleship | ($0.99) The tradition game of logic and strategy allows you to improve your rank and earn super weapons. |
| Bug Squash | Squash the bugs as they go across the screen (good to practice activating items on the touch) |
| The Deep | A realistic pinball game where touching either side of the screen activates the left and right flippers. |
| Flood-It | See how many moves you have to make to flood the screen of tiles all one color. |
| Labyrinth | Move the marble to go around barriers and into the holes |
| Mahjong (various Mahjong games are available) | The traditional Mahjong game in 3D |
| Matches | Timed concentration game |
| Skee Ball | Roll and release the ball to get points like in the arcade games |
| Solitaire (various available) | Various games for different types of Solitaire |
| Sudoku | The traditional Sudoku game (various available) |
Math
| 123 Animals Counting | Touch 40 different animals with sounds to see and hear numbers counted. |
| Abacus HD | ($0.99) iPhone & iPad – Will help children learn to count faster and enjoy it. |
| A Factor Tree | |
| Algebra: High School and College Math Practice Problems | ($9.99) Multiple choice questions, recalibrates based on performance, review questions you missed most, flag specific questions for later review. |
| AlgebraPrep | ($3.99 each) From Pearson 10 different apps, including: Equations, Inequalities and Problem Solving; real numbers; factoring; quadratic equations; graphing; exponents; roots and radicals. |
| AlgrebraPrep: Practice Final Exam | ($7.99) From Pearson, review, practice and prepare for your algebra tests. Take practice tests, get answer feedbac and watch instructional videos. |
| Algebra Pro (iPad only) | ($7.99) Interactive workbook with over 100 practice questions and instant “show me” lessons. |
| Algebra Solver | Solves math formulas and equations and allows you to email them to others. |
| Basic Math | (Free) Based on drill and practice instructional strategies for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. There is a deluxe version available for $3.99. |
| Basic Math with Mathaliens HD (iPad only) | ($1.99) Addition, subtraction, multiplecation, division with 2 basic game types of Mathaliens Bingo and Hunting Mathaliens. |
| Cloud Math | Practice adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing with a timer, levels of difficulty and solution choices. |
| Cute Math | 7 cute activities for counting, adding and subtracting with manipulative, solution choices and verbal praise |
| DiaMath | Algebra learning tool – solve the two empty spaces in the diamond by following the rules. |
| Dinosaurs Kids Math HD (iPad only) | ($1.99) Teaches how to count, add and subtract visually using dinosaur animations with a prize reward system for completing each level. |
| Easel Algebra Lite | (free) interactive hands-on algebra workbooks with instant “show me” lessons. |
| eSolver HD (iPad) | (free) and iPhone version is available. In this first version only quadratic equations are supported. |
| Flashcard Champion Basic Math | ($0.99) For ages 4 to 11 to practice and improve the fundamental math drills. |
| Flash Math | Math flash cards from kindergarten to elementary ages, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. |
| FractionTime | ($1.99) A simple app for practicing adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions. |
| Freddy Fraction | Use Freddy, an alien, to determine the equivalence among fractions, decimals and percents. |
| Free Equation Genius | ($1.99) Math equation solver for first to third degree equations and with 2 and 3 variables. |
| Free Graphic Calculator – lite | iPhone and iPad version, scientific calculator and function plotter, can plot cartesian and polar functions |
| Graphbook | (free) a collection of interactive graphing examples. |
| iLiveMath (series) | ($4.99) Series includes sports, oceans, trains, cars, animals of Africa. Asks word problems at 3 different levels using real situations. |
| KidCalc Math Fun | Activities for number recognition, counting, and math operations using flash cards, puzzles and games. |
| Math Bingo | ($.99) Play Bingo by solving addition, subtraction, division or multiplication problems at 3 different difficulty levels. |
| MathBoard | ($2.99) Appropriate for ages from kindergarten to elementary school. It includes addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems. The user can control the range of numbers they want to work with, the amount of questions they want to answer, and even assign a time limit per quiz. Makes learning math fun. |
| Math Cards Pro | ($1.99) Quick quizzes in math, different speed modes, includes Roman Numerals |
| Math Drills | ($1.99) Drills for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing with number lines, hints and facts. |
| Math Magic | Includes addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, takes data and has graphics for younger children |
| Multiplication | Includes quiz component that takes data |
| Park Math | ($1.99) By Duck Duck Moose. Includes interactive activities to count, sort, add, subtract and more for ages 1 to 6. |
| Pop Math | In adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing, pop pairs of bubbles that match the equation with the solution. |
| Silly Numbers | ($4.99) iPad, an interactive and fun way for children to learn how to count with silly characters that come to life. |
| Sudoku HD for iPad | Sudoku games at various levels |
| Tangram XL | (free) Simple version of popular tangrams, move the shapes around and tap to flip them. |
| TimesTables | Works on times tables in different formats including a 12 x 12 grid |
Math- Calculators
| Big Beautiful Calculator | Has changeable skins |
| Calcbot | Has a four function mode and appears to show equations |
| Calc It | Can show equation, in “123” mode it looks like a four function calculator |
| Easy Calculator | (free) shows the math vertically |
| Free Graphing Symbolic Calculator | (free) allows for quickly inputting formulas. |
| Graphing Calculator | Scientific calculator and high resolution function plotter to trace multiple equations on the same graph |
| Jumbo Calculator | (Free) Provides ease of use of a large buttoned calculator that allows you to add, subtract, multiply, divide, squaring, and square-rooting. |
| MyCalculator Pro | Graphic calculator in 2D and 3D with one touch graphing with memory to store and recall answers |
| Super Calc | (free) changeable backgrounds |
Math – Money Skills
| Coin Counting Calculator | Realistic pictures of coins, does not include dollars, has a younger look |
| Coin Math | ($1.99) works on identifying coins, counting coins and learning to make change. It can also be used to learn or reinforce counting by 5’s, 10’s and 25’s. |
| Money – Learn to Count | Customize the values of money, then select the correct value that corresponds to bills and coins pictured. |
| Money Counting Calculator | Realistic pictures of coins and dollars, has a look like a standard calculator, you touch the coins/bill and the total amount shows on the top display |
| Pocket Change | Times adding activity using graphics of actual coins |
Miscellaneous
| Autism News Reader | ($.99) Grabs the top stories from the best autism health news and information sites and delivers them to your iPhone. |
| Behavior Tracker Pro | ($29.99) Allows you to record the components of ABC data collection and then analyze the data. |
| Conover Company | They have over 40 apps of various titles including category sight words, money equivalents, social skills, grooming and many others. They have 4 free samplers available. |
| Dragon Search | (free) Allows you to search the internet based on dictated text. |
| Flashcards (free) | Allows you to create your own flashcards for any subject |
| Howcast | Videos in a variety of categories including arts, media, business, careers, education, crafts, hobbies, kids, sports, technology and many more. |
| Matches | Timed concentration game |
| Revision Aid | Design your own tests, they can be multiple choice or a single answer. |
| Wikipanion | Access to wikipedia |
Music, Musical Instruments and Songs for Young Children
| Accordeon – iPad | Play the accordeon by touching the keys and buttons. |
| Air Harp – iPad | ($1.99) Can play the strings or follow the notes on the strings to play songs |
| Autoharp | Just like the actual autoharps, you create music by moving over the strings. |
| Bassist | ($2.99) plays the bass buitar |
| Bloom | Touch on the screen to create bubbles that play southing music. |
| Drum Kit | ($1.99) The closet you can get without a real drum kit. It is a fun app for drummers and non-drummers. The user can create their own music or play along to songs. |
| Five Little Monkeys | Musical counting game based on the popular rhyme with toys that react to touch. Can sing in rock, country or pop modes |
| Glee Karaoke | ($.99) Sing all the songs to the popular show with the app making you sound amazing |
| Guitarist | ($3.99) Allows you to hold chords & strum at the same time, comes with many different guitars. |
| iBand Tribal Percussion | ($.99) includes several instruments like maracas, sticks & Tambourine that you can play by shaking or tapping. |
| Instruments | Allows you to play one at a time of the 6 instruments |
| iRecorder | ($.99) Blow into the iPhone as you would a recorder. It also has an auto blow feature for those who can’t sustain their breath. |
| Itsy Bitsy Spider | Interactive song where the spider navigates from screen to screen |
| JamPad | Great app, includes Guitar, Drum, different keyboards, tempo changers and other features that respond to your touch. |
| Kid Songs Kwiz Game | As a popular kid song plays, touch the corresponding picture from a field of 4 |
| Kidzsongs | 6 songs in a sing to me or sing by myself mode, with simple animation. |
| Magic Piano – iPad | ($0.99) Great sound on a circular piano, blank screen or following the noted for a variety of songs. |
| Melody Bells | ($.99) Play one hand bell by shaking or multiple ones by touch. |
| Melody Cat | Each cat makes a different sound when touched and the cats on the top of the roof make an instrument sound. |
| Music | 4 interactive activities where music is provided by tapping on different areas of the screen |
| Old MacDonald | Musical book with 12 interactive pages that play the song in varied languages or instruments or record your own voice |
| Piano Pals | A lite version available, $2.99 for all 5 scenes. The piano on the bottom can play animal sounds or musical notes for each scene or reinforce numbers or colors. |
| Pocket Guitar | ($0.99) turns your device into a pocket guitar that you can press and strum the strings just like a real guitar. It includes several different guitar sounds. |
| Pocket Piano | ($0.99) Exactly like a real piano. The notes range from c3 to c5 including sharps and flats giving the user two full octaves to play your favorite tunes. Hold the keys for longer notes or tap for shorter ones. It has a built in recording feature. |
| Pocket Shaker | (Free) Turns your device into any percussion instrument you can imagine. Just shake the device to hear the sound. |
| Puff the Magic Dragon | An animated video plays as the classic song is sung. |
| Singing Pumpkins | Each plays a different sound or word. |
| Sounddrop | (free) A simple game where you draw lines to trap balls that make music as they hit the lines. |
| Thumb Pad | Plays over 30 instruments, you can create your own instrument, download samples, loop what you create and record it. Requires very little physical movements to use. |
| Toddler Jukebox | Listen to 5 classic songs and one original song by a children’s artist. |
| Virtuoso Piano Free 2HD | (Free) virtual piano |
| Wheels on the Bus | Musical book with 8 interactive pages that plays the song in varied languages or instruments or records your voice |
| World of Lullabies | Audio and lyrics provided for 10 lullabies |
| Xmas Count | Counts the days towards Christmas while playing a Christmas song with simple animations |
Organization, Prompting and Memory
| Audiotorium Notes – with Dropbox | ($4.99) Dropbox & TextExpander integration. A way to record, organize, review and share your audio and text notes. You can define your own abbreviations and use audio bookmarks to mark and find important sections of audio later. |
| Awesome Note Lite (+ todo) | (Free) An innovative note taking application and to-do manager that allows you to combine notes with to-do flexibilities. You can customize its look with themes with different folder icons, colors, fonts, and paper backgrounds. It provides easy- to -use regular notes to notes with multiple photo attachments, To-Do Notes to organize your day, Post-It style quick notes, and the ability to send notes with photo attachments as emails. |
| Bento | ($4.99) Helps you organize all the details of your busy life in one application. Manage contacts and club members, coordinate projects and parties. You can track vet bills and vehicle maintenance in this easy to use application. It is the portable version of the popular personal database from FileMaker. Bento for iPad comes with 25 ready to use database templates that can be easily customized to organize virtually any type of information you have. |
| Bread and Milk | ($0.99) A grocery list app that’s fast, simple, elegant, and fun. |
| Bug Me | Allows you to jot notes with your figures, set alarms, and save Stickies to your home screen. |
| Child timer | ($1.99) A stress-free way to teach children about time limits for common activities including: going to bed, cleaning up, turning off the TV, time to eat, time to go, bath time, time for school, and time out. |
| Dropbox | Store up to 2 GB of files can access from the web |
| Evernote | Note keeping took, allows sync between devices and is searchable |
| First Then Visual Schedule | ($9.99)Customizable Visual Schedule application that includes verbal feedback. You can add as many images as needed to create steps in tasks using different format. |
| Flipside HD | ($1.99) A note card application that makes studying fun. You can create full-screen study cards quickly and easily. Flipside HD shuffles the cards to exercise your memory and allows you to mark the cards you don’t know so you can study them more. |
| iHomework (requires OS 10.5 on Mac) | ($1.99) Keep up to date with shool work, grades, to-do’s, teacher’s information and other information in this school organizer. Can set alarms for assignments/tests. |
| iStudiez Pro | ($2.99) Sophisticated student’s planner that organizes your schedule and assignments |
| iEarnedThat | Can divide a photograph into any number of animated puzzle pieces. As the puzzle is completed, players earn rewards. |
| IEP Checklist | (free) Provides a checklist of everything that should be done at an EIP, includes specific language from IDEA and places to keep notes |
| iReward | A motivational chart |
| J’s Job Jar | ($0.99) Enter jobs that need to get done. When you shake the job, the job jar will select the job most likely to lead to job satisfaction |
| iStudiez Pro (a lite version is available) | Built in planner that allows you to manage all types of schedule, section to keep track of homework & assignments with different ways of organizing them, with Push Notifications, summary or current classes & tasks automatically reflected in Today view. |
| Mental Note | ($2.99) iPad, a note taking app that allows you to use multiple colors and widths, import pictures, add audio, organize your notes, include drawings and export into Mental Note as a PDS or picture with audio attached as an email. |
| Mind Jet | ($7.99) Mind Maps |
| Mind Notes | ($5.99) Way of collecting, organizing and outline your thoughts and ideas as mind maps. |
| NotifyMe 2 | ($2.99) To-do reminder application that lets users quickly create personal reminders and to-dos with alerts for quick daily and on the go use. |
| Percentally | Track & record data, both single and dual item, gives percent correct, transfers to Google docs |
| Picture Scheduler | This app shows a visual reminder (photo or video) at a specified time as well as playing a voice note to cue the user. |
| Remember the Milk | (Free) Allows you to take your to-do list anywhere. |
| ReQall | (Free) Remember what is important here and now. It gathers and manages all the tasks you need to do by date, time, locations and keywords, and alerts you at just the right time and place. Save your ideas, to-do lists and things to remember by voice or text. |
| Say It & Mail It Pro Recorder for the iPad | ($3.99) The fastest way to email a voice memo from your iPad to yourself or to someone else. You have the option to include a photo, movie and Google map location. It has been designed with simplicity and speed and remembers your name and email address. |
| Scheduler | Allows you to create schedules with pictures, text and audio. Alerts are sent to the user at the scheduled times for each activity and will display the programmed prompt. |
| Stacks Pro | ($4.99) Make your own study note cards, import flashcards from other websites and applications and copy and paste flashcards from Excel, Word and Text Files |
| StickIt | (Free to $0.99) A sticky note reminder application. |
| TextMinder | ($1.99) Allows you to schedule SMS text reminders to be sent to you at the times you specify, repeating as often as you choose. |
| Things and Things for iPad | ($9.99 and $19.99)A task manager application that offers a balance of use and powerful features. It manages to-do notes, due dates and projects. |
| Time Timer | ($4.99) Red bar disappears as time goes down, includes auditory reminders when time is finished |
| To Do | ($4.99) Allows you to create your own to do lists, that can be tagged, with push notifications. |
| Visual Scheduler | (Free) Manage your schedule with simple interface and operation. You can easily manage your schedules with selecting tables and buttons on a screen |
| VoCal | ($3.99) A Voice Calendar Reminder app that offers repeats, choice of alert tones and voice reminders. Instead of having to type into your device when you need a quick reminder, record a voice message to yourself and have it alert you at the right time. |
Photography
| Art Camera | With 33 filters, your photos can mimic art styles and be shared to email, Facebook or Twitter |
| Camera Zoom 2 | Zoom in/out with iPhone camera, take pictures by pressing volume and use the timer |
| ColorSplash | For dramatic effect, convert your photos to black and white while maintaining the details in color |
| Cooliris | Photo and video content displayed on an endless wall and search across multiple websites |
| Flickr | Search and capture photos and videos, tag, do batch uploads and share to the Flickr community. |
| Gorillacam | Take photos by pressing anywhere on the screen or use features such as a self-timer, time lapse and rapid fire. |
| Photo Booth Classic | Take 4 photos to recreate black and white photo strips, then share to your camera roll, Facebook or Twitter. |
| Photo Sketch | Use one of your photos to create a high quality, hand drawn rendering of that image. |
| Photobucket | Upload photos to your Photobucket albums, search and download photos and share image URL and html code. |
| Photoshop Mobile | Edit photos for cropping, colors, filters like soft focus and effects like warm vintage, then share the final products. |
| Pic Pop | Use the Pic Pop box to cycle through your photo library and double tap a photo to spin to the next one |
| PicMix | Mix two or more photos in a montage, then edit the detail and add backgrounds. |
| ViewFinder | ($4.99) Photo search and download from Flickr |
Productivity Tools
| iAnnodate | Allows you to work with PDF’s, has a highlighting feature and you can do annotations (www.ajidev.com/iannotate) |
| Print Central | An application that allows you to print from your iPad |
Reading
| 300+ Sight Words | Sight words for Level 1 to 5 and Nouns 1 & 2 with text only that can be read to you. |
| ABC Animals | Interactive animal flashcards with audio that provide the letter name, associated animal name and the phonetics |
| ABC Learning Pad (iPad) | ($1.99) Includes 4 games to teach alphabet, animals, numbers and colors in 2 learning modes: training at your own pace and Quiz interactive challenge. Audio Baby Talking Learning Pad is the iPhone/iTouch version for $1.99). |
| abc Pocket Phonics | Combines 3 apps with letter sounds, letter writing practice and 170 first words |
| Alphabet Animals | All 26 letters in interactive flashcards that make sounds and animations when touched |
| Audiobooks | Includes audio books that are free and others that are not. |
| Audio Study Notes by RocketBook | ($1.99) Audio study notes for a variety of the classics. There are iPad and iPhone version. Some have accompanying video components. |
| Blio | Will allow any books to be read to you, free app soon to be available |
| Build a Word (a lite version is available) | Place letters in the outline provided one at a time to build a word and the word morphs into word friends. |
| iBaldi | ($.99) Watch and listen to Baldi, a 3D animated character who can read you imported text with accurate mouth and face movements and convincing emotions. |
| i Can Read | Flash cards where 1 side contains the picture and the other the text only. |
| iFlash | Flash cards by word ending families. Pick a word ending and each time you touch the screen the initial letter changes. No audio. |
| iSentence | Use a roller bar to line up words to create the sentence that makes sense (could use as a sentence writing activity also). |
| iWord (lite version available) | Flash cards (no audio) for words that can be letter by letter length |
| K-3 Sight Words | ($0.99) Sight or dolch words on flash cards. |
| Kindergarten.com – 24 titles | Most of the titles present one photograph at a time with the text above it being read when you touch the page. |
| Learn to Talk | Contains text and audio on flash cards for high impact words, objects and labels and other categories. Settings for: say cards; shuffle; spelling and first letters. |
| Martha Speaks Dog Party | Presented by PBS and based on the television series, it is about a dog that eats a bowl of alphabet soup and gain the power of human speech, contains 4 different games. A study based on use of this app showed a 31% gain in vocabulary after using it for 5 hours over 2 weeks. |
| See Read Say | Includes all 220 Dolch Words spoken at the push of a button with individual tracked progress. |
| Stories2Learn | A shell to build your own social stories or other types of stories, can include pictures and audio. Comes with 1 story. |
| StoryKit | Comes preloaded with a few stories. Easy to import pictures and create your own stories, schedules, social stories or sequences for activities. Can add voice recordings and text. |
| Super Why! | From PBS Kids – contains 4 interactive literacy games |
| Voice Cards | Pictures and text for various category cards in English and Spanish. |
| Web Reader | Reads text on the web |
| weesay ABC | Preloaded or create your own album of alphabetical sounds and images using the camera and microphone. |
Science & Social Studies
| 3D Brain | (Free) Rotate and zoom in on 29 interactive structures. Each
structure comes with information on functions, disorders, brain damage, case studies and links to research |
| All Countries | Basic information and a picture of the flag is presented for each
country with links to Google, Flikr and Google maps. |
| Brain Tutor 3D | (Free) 3D images created by MRI. Allows you to interact with
the rotatable 3D images |
| EleMints (Mild EleMints 2 is
Free) |
A periodic Table, a Plot Graph, Element listing, Electron
Diagram and information on each element. |
| Exoplanet | (Free) A daily updated database of all discovered extrasolar
planets with interactive 3D plot of all exoplanets in the Milky Way and background information. |
| Google Earth | (Free) Type in a destination and see the photo narrow in and
show you what it looks like from above |
| GoSkyWatch Planetarium | (free) iPad, easily and quickly identify and locate stars, planets
and constellations with a touch or by pointing to the sky. |
| HD History of the United States | ($.99) Covers a variety of topics including Native Americans,
Colonial history, the American Revolution, Bill of Rights, foreign policy, cultural & economic history |
| History: Maps of World | (free) A collection of high resolution historical maps |
| Life Cycle | ($.99) Includes interactive and narrated information on 10 life
cycles |
| Mapquest | Can get directions or maps, includes information on various
points of interests. |
| Maps | (free) Application that comes pre-installed. It can now be done
in the classic, satellite, hybrid (satellite and maps together) and terrain view. |
| NASA (iPad) | (Free) thousands of images with on demand NASA videos and
live streaming, current mission information |
| Periodic Table of the Elements | (Free) the standard periodic table of the elements where you can
select a chemical attribule and have the entire chart color coded to show how the different elements vary with regart to the selected trait. |
| Planets | (Free) Can touch the planets to learn more about them, spin
them and zoom in. Also a popular fidgit tool. |
| Science Friday | (Free) iPad, A weekly science talk show broadcast on NPR. |
| Science Quiz | Quizzes your knowledge in physics, chemistry, biology,
zoology, earth science and inventions. |
| Science Glossary | (Free) A glossary of scientific terms and short biographies that
support the science education website www.visionlearning.com. |
| SkyORB | (Free) A collection of 6 tools including a 3D star map, 3D
planetarium, ephemeris, search engine, sun clock and more. |
| Solar Walk 3D | ($2.99) A 3D solar system model that lets you navigate through
space and time, learning trajectories, structures etc. |
| United States Map Game | (Free) Learn the names and locations of the 50 states with this
interactive map quiz. |
| VideoScience | (Free) videos that are 2 to 3 minutes in length and demonstrate
the steps of simple science experiments, with little setup time and using only low cost materials. Features science teacher Dan Menelly (winner of the Einstein Fellowship). |
| Westward Expansion | (Free) US History Unit: westward Expansion of the United
States in the 1800’s. |
Sign Language Apps
| ABC Sign | ($0.99) Designed to learn the American Sign Language alphabet. Each signs is illustrated in a colored photograph. A letter is spoken aloud and the user is presented with three choices for the correct sign. You can choose until the correct sign is found. |
| ASL Idioms & Phrases | ($1.99 to $3.99) It includes ASL phrases with high resolution videos. It contains quizzes. |
| ASL Signs | Can arrange alphabetically or by categories. An avitar shows and says the sign. |
| American Sign Language | Over 11,000 vocabulary items in an interactive sign dictionary |
| iASL | ($1.99 to $7.99) The only American Sign Language (ASL) dictionary, tutorial, reference, and English to ASL translator tool. |
| Idioms 1 by Everyday ASL | Contains a variety of idioms arranged alphabetically that are displayed several times in a short video and also shown in a sentence. It also has a quiz component. No audio. |
| iSign (3D and lite version available) | ($4.99) Many vocabulary items arranged alphabetically with simple animation to display the sign |
| iSpeech Toddler Sign | 2 animated children show 30 signs each with accompanying explanations |
| Jolly Holiday | Learn prepositions while decorating the tree, then learn the signs to Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. |
| Sign 4 Me | ($12.99) With more than 11,500 words in the library, you can learn signed English from a 3D avatar. |
| Sign Smith ASL | More than 1200 signs you can learn American Sign Language from a 3D avatar. Can customize on how often the sign is shown. A free lite version is available. |
| Signing Time (Lite version also) | Contains videos with audio of various signs, arranged alphabetically. Also contains flash cards and challenges. |
| Toddler Sign | Volume 1 contains at least 100 signs arranged alphabetically that contain a description and animation on how to make the sign. |
Writing
| 100 Words to Make you Sound Smart | ($2.99) The entire text of the book is included. The words were chosen by the editors of the American Heritage Dictionary. |
| ABC Animals | ($1.99) Letters, phonics and handwriting for preschoolers |
| ABC Dinosaurs (Ipad) | Trace various letters, numbers, concept words and dinosaur names. |
| ABC Tracer | Alphabet flashcards (a lite version available) |
| ACT & SAT Vocabulary Builder | ($2.99) Presents a variety of words for you to learn and customizes your experience automatically. |
| ACT Spell | ($2.99) Allows you to add in your own spelling words, auditory feedback provided. Can adjust number of buttons, button size and background colors. |
| AlphaPuzzle | Tracing letters, word flashcards and easy puzzles |
| Big Quotes | ($1.99) Over 1200 quotes from over 600 authors with searchable features. |
| Build a Word (lite version available) | Make the letters into a word by putting them in the outline and having the word morph into the word friend. |
| Chicktionary | Using the timed or untimed mode, use letters to create words and get the word definitions |
| Dasher | A word prediction program based on letter possibilities controlled by moving a line connecting the letters |
| Diary | Write in a diary that you can add voice notes or photos, change the font and size and email to others. |
| Dictionary | Using predictive text search for a word and its definition or synonym in context from dictionary. Com or thesaurus.com |
| Dictionary? | A quick, easy to use and comprehensive dictionary that lets you look up words and find their definitions or synonyms and navigate between words |
| Dictionary! | Easy to use, no fluff dictionary |
| Dragon Dictation | Voice recognition that you can then see and edit your text to share on clipboard, SMS and email |
| Dragon Search | Voice recognition to use to search on Google, YouTube, Wikipedia, iTunes & Twitter |
| First Words: Deluxe | ($4.99) The game includes over 147 words including animals, vehicles, colors, shapes and items from around the home. The user touches a letter to hear it and drag it to the correct position. |
| FirstWords: At Home | With pictures of over 30 items around the house, touch a letter to hear it and drag it to the correct word position |
| Letter Tracer | Tracing lower or upper case letters and numbers. Allows for some customization. You can shake the screen to clear your tracing. |
| iLive Grammer Botany | ($4.99) Interactive multimedia with 4 lessons in nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, articles, nouns, conjunctions and review. Sentence are associated with pictures where a specific word or words are highlighted. The sentence and answers are tracked for record keeping. |
| iThoughts | Can import from and export to MindManager as well as other desktop graphic organizers |
| iWriteWords (a lite version available) | In easy or regular mode, trace numbers, lower and upper case letters using numbered prompts |
| Magnetic Poetry: Build a Poem | Has a wide variety of words and word fragments that allow you to create an endless number of poems |
| MindJet | Works with iThoughts or MindManager for Mac and Windows |
| MindMeister | Create, view, and edit mind maps, then share them to a website to view and edit further |
| Momento | Provides a quick and easy way to write in a private journal, can connect with popular social web services. |
| My Writing Nook | Write in portrait or landscape, autosave, word count, dictionary/thesaurus lookup, email documents |
| Pocket Whiteboard | Works as a whiteboard on the phone or iPad. Can take pictures of your creations, thoughts using the “home” and “sleep” buttons (can do this for all apps for a screen shots) |
| Pocket Phonics | Tracing letters paired with the letter sounds |
| Puppet Pals | Allows you to use set scenes and characters recording your own messages to create stories or shows that can be saved. Additional sets and characters can be purchased. |
| Scramble | Connect 3 or more letters to create words in various player modes, after the time is up a list of possible words is displayed |
| Sentence Builder | ($3.99) Use spin wheels to make grammatically correct sentences with attention paid to the connector words, interactive with picture support |
| ShapeWriter | Rather than hunting and pecking, a single stroke through the letters in a word can write the word. Also includes word prediction on top of the keyboard. |
| Sound Paper (iPad only) | Tracks what you draw and write while recording audio. During playback tap a word and it will playback what was recorded at that time. Share your text, drawings or audio notes via email or import directly to your Mac or PC. |
| Speaktionary | Talking dictionary |
| Spel It Rite Pro | From two choices, select the correctly spelled word as quickly as possible |
| SpellBoard | ($4.99) Allows you to create spelling quizzes in any language. Enter word, the grade level and the spoken word and you can add the written word and/or spoken phrase. You can share quiz with other SpellBoard users, tracks performance |
| Story Patch | ($4.99) Comes with over 800 illustrations (that can be customized) or you can add your own photos, to your writings or use one of the built in themes. |
| Textfree | Use a Textfree email account, send and receive unlimited texts free for a whole ear |
| TipTap Speech | ($4.99) A unique text input method providing an alternative to the QWERTY keyboard, called chording or chorded text input. It allows you to type using five binary chords rather than keys. It’s great for people with limited mobility, but a new system of typing must be learned. It lets you type without having to look at the screen, which is an excellent feature for low vision. It also comes with a text-to-speech function. |
| Trace | Do various activities tracing your finger on the screen |
| Typing Class | Practice and timed format for using the onscreen keyboard |
| Typo | As you type possible words show up in a list. To hear the words you touch them, and to select, you touch them again. |
| Word Magic | With a picture shown and a letter missing in a word, select the correct choice for reinforcers and rewards |
| Word Scramble 2 | Among scrambled letters, tap three or more to create words in a single player, multi-player or live game online |
| Write Now – a lite version available | Allows you to write notes using your handwriting, each page is automatically saved when you go to a new page. |
| WriteRoom | Full screen editing, sync to simple text, text expander support, search your documents |
| ZenTap | Word prediction with choices displayed on top of the alphabet screen |
Apps & Iphone/iTouch website and/or article resources
iPad/iPhone/iTouch related Products
PodCasts
| AT Tips | AT Tools in public schools, exploring and investigating different implementation of AT in schools (not app related specifically). |
| iPad Live | Weekly podcast on various aspects of the iPad |
| iPad Screencasts | Video Demonstrations for the iPad |
| iPhone Podcast | Includes information on the iPhone and iPad. |
Compiled from information obtained from research, iTunes information, references on the QIAT listserve, from the information in “iPhone and iPod toch Apps for (Special) Education” written by Eric Sailers and the ATIA Webinar “There is an App for That” presented by Dr. Therese Willkomm, Ph.D., OT.
