There`s an App For That! - Williams Syndrome Association

There’s an App For That!
Tried & True apps for kids/teens/adults with WS
Apps are constantly changing…
 This guide is a starting point and not meant to be all
encompassing.
 Apps are constantly being created and deleted.
 We are recommending those we find to be reliable with a
quality track record for updates, etc.
 Some apps have a cost and some are free. We are
recommending them based on Quality & Purpose, not
cost.
App Information is listed according to information
available at App Store as of June 2014. Some
apps are available from Google Play; Please
check for availability.
List compiled by Robin Pegg, Educational Consultant, Williams Syndrome Association
with contributions from:
• Terry Monkaba, Mom to Ben (WS) 28
• Erin Cunningham, Mom to Kurt (WS) 21
• Dave Munk, Dad to Ella (WS) 13
• Darian Packard, Mom to Joelle (WS) 13
• Rachael Langley, MA, CCC-SLP
• Matinga Ragatz, MA, Google Certified Educator
Alternate Access/Alternate Output
Panther Math Paper
Google Drive
Do math independently
without a pencil. Special
settings for beginning math
and advanced math.
Comes with hundreds of
problems to get you going!
A amazing tool for school
and learning!
Do math independently
without a pencil. Special
settings for beginning math
and advanced math.
Comes with hundreds of
problems to get you going!
A amazing tool for school
and learning!
Built using principles of
Universal Design
Built using principles of
Universal Design
A great alternative for
anyone who uses an iPad
in school or work. Amazing
alternative access for
people with motoric
disabilities or struggling
learners.
A great alternative for
anyone who uses an iPad
in school or work. Amazing
alternative access for
people with motoric
disabilities or struggling
learners.
PRICE: 19.99
PRICE: FREE
Doceri
Combining screencasting,
desktop control, and an
interactive whiteboard in
one app, you’ll never have
to turn your back to the
class or audience again.
Create a lesson or
presentation, insert images,
save and edit your project
and record a screencast
video you can easily save
or share. Doceri does it all!
Control your lesson or
presentation live with
Airplay or through your
Mac or PC. Annotate a
Keynote or PowerPoint, or
present your original
Doceri project. Great for
student projects, too.
PRICE: FREE
ABC – Magnetic Alphabet
HD
Play with your kids and
teach them to write with
the Magnetic Alphabet!
It's the iPad edition of the
old fashioned magnetic
board suitable for kids of
all ages!
It comes with a rich set of
colored pieces that can
be placed freely on the
board: letters, numbers,
symbols, funny figures and
themed sets.
PRICE: 1.99
Google Docs
With Google Docs you
can:
- Create new documents
or edit any that you have
started on the web or
another device
- Share documents and
work together with others
in the same document at
the same time
- Get stuff done at any
time – even without an
Internet connection
- Add and respond to
comments
- Never worry about losing
your work – everything is
automatically saved as
you type
- Protect your documents
with a 4-digit passcode
PRICE: FREE
Dragon Dictation
Dragon Dictation is
an easy-to-use voice
recognition
application powered
by Dragon®
NaturallySpeaking®
that allows you to
easily speak and
instantly see your text
or email messages. In
fact, it’s up to five (5)
times faster than
typing on the
keyboard.
PRICE: FREE
Budgeting/Money Management
Virtual Wallet by PNC
My Weekly Budget
FEATURES
MAIN – At-a-glance view of
Money Bar, the upcoming week
and your last five transactions.
MOBILE DEPOSIT- Use your
camera equipped iOS device to
deposit checks.
CALENDAR - View your
scheduled payments and
transfers, transaction history,
paydays, reserve items, and
Danger Days.
PAY BILLS - Make one-time bill
payments to billers you have
already set up online using
Virtual Wallet.
SHAKE THE PIG - Shake or tap the
Pig to move money from your
Spend account to your Growth
account.
Save money with this real-time
budgeting app! It is SIMPLE - but
powerful, MyWB is the easiest
way to keep track of your
spending and take control of
your personal budget! MyWB
allows you focus on a budget
target for the current week and
helps you focus on your day to
day spending. Tracking your
spending on MyWB and using it
daily is all you need to stay within
your spending budget, allowing
you to save money over time! It is
easy to use, incredibly straight
forward!
PRICE: FREE
PRICE: .99
Spending Tracker
√ Simple and intuitive user
interface
- helps you track your spending
quickly and easily
√ Flexible Time Periods
- choose to track Weekly,
Monthly or Yearly
√ Budget Mode
- optionally set a fixed budget
amount to help you meet your
spending targets
- carry over any remaining
budget to the next period
√ Summary View
- overview of your current
spending progress
- time travel backwards and
forwards in time
- see your main areas of
spending
PRICE: FREE
Shoeboxed
Camera to PDF
- Transform receipt images into
accurate, human verified data
- Instantly archive receipts onthe-go
- Access a searchable, sortable
archive of your categorized, IRSaccepted receipts
- Enjoy one-click, hassle-free
mileage tracking
- Generate email expense
reports in seconds
- Export expenses to QuickBooks,
Wave Accounting, Excel,
Outright, Xero and dozens of
other tools
- Rejoice in free and friendly
email and phone support
Use this app to quickly and
conveniently use your camera as
a scanner to create PDFs and
email them or save them to
Dropbox. Scan receipts,
contracts, paperwork without
the hassle of finding and
operating a scanner.
PRICE: FREE
There are other apps like this one
but this is by far the easiest to use
and fastest.
PRICE: 4.99
Calculators
Big Calculator FREE
My Script Calculator
Large, easy to press buttons
- Paper tape so you can see your
previous calculations
- Change the font size of the
paper tape to whatever is right
for you
- Email or Copy the contents of
your paper tape
- Memory Recall button changes
to display your current memory
value
- Support for percentage, square
root, squared, cubed plus all the
basics
- Backspace button
- Store state when you exit - start
off right where you left off
- Number format based on your
locale settings
**The Free handwriting
calculator for your iPhone or
iPad**
Easy, simple and intuitive, just
write the mathematical
expression on the screen then let
MyScript technology perform its
magic converting symbols and
numbers to digital text and
delivering the result in real time.
The same experience as writing
on paper with the advantages of
a digital device (Scratch-outs,
results in real time, …).
Solve mathematical equations
by hand without actually having
to crunch the numbers yourself
your locale settings
PRICE: FREE
PRICE: FREE
Free Graphing Calculator
1) Scientific Calculator. Simple to
grasp and easy to use, but powerful
features are available when you
need them. Available functions
include the following:
• the usual arithmetic functions and
exponentiation.
• square root, cube root, nth root,
natural log, log base 10, log of
arbitrary base, absolute value,
factorial, permutations (nPr),
combinations (nCr), modulus, random
integer, bell curve, cumulative normal
distribution, decimal to fraction.
2) Graphing. Capabilities:
• Graph up to four equations at
once.
• Graphs are labeled.
• You can drag the graph or pinch to
zoom in or out.
• Calculator can find roots and
intersections.
• Graph in polar coordinates.
• Graph parametric equations
PRICE: FREE
Money Counter Calculator
FREE
Money Counter Calculator
FREE is a simple application
that counts the user's money.
To use Money Counter
Calculator FREE, the user
simply enters the amount of
coins and dollars they have.
Money Counter Calculator
FREE will then provide a total
of all coins and dollars
combined.
PRICE: FREE
Tip Calculator FREE
Features include:
- Elegant and intuitive user
interface
- Revolutionary way to enter
data. Reduce number of
taps to minimum:
- Simply swipe finger over
beautiful people/star icons
to change number of
people and tip percentage
- Tap check amount to bring
up large number keypad
- Shake iPhone to clear
check amount
- Automatically detect and
set your currency
PRICE: FREE
Fine Motor Development
Dexteria
Bugs & Buttons
Dexteria Jr.
Bugs & Bubbles
The app goes beyond
simply great graphics and
beautiful music by
engaging children
through intriguing game
play that progressively
adapts to their skill level.
Designed to be self
paced, each activity
offers simple visual
instructions. Offering two
play modes, children can
choose to be
automatically guided or
explore and play.
Dexteria Jr. is a set of
hand and finger exercises
to develop fine motor
skills and handwriting
readiness. The activities
are specially designed for
kids age 2-6. New
characters, sprite
animations, music, and
sound effects all add up
to a fun and engaging
experience for toddlers
and preschool-aged
children.
FingerFun HD
Dexteria is a set of
therapeutic hand
exercises (not games)
that improve fine motor
skills and handwriting
readiness in children and
adults. Dexteria’s unique
hand and finger activities
take full advantage of
the multi-touch interface
to help build strength,
control, and dexterity.
PRICE: 2.99
PRICE: 2.99
Bugs and Bubbles is the
latest app in a growing
collection based on the
award winning Bugs and
Buttons. The uniquely
detailed graphical styling,
beautiful music, and
advanced interactivity is
designed to engage,
entertain, and educate.
Packed with over 18
games and activities in
one title, Bugs and
Bubbles offers plenty of
choices for children to
explore and play.
Let your children
develop their finger
abilities with Fingerfun!
Four magical worlds
are hidden under
covers that can be
lifted by simultaneously
pressing on a pattern
of buttons. The game is
designed to help
toddlers develop their
fingers’ fine motor skills
in the most fun way
possible.
PRICE: 3.99
PRICE: 2.99
PRICE: 1.99
Geography
Google Earth
Globe
Our app features 25 graphic
organizers for students to use to
organize their thinking while
reading or preparing to write.
Covers all common
comprehension skills: cause
/effect, main idea/detail,
sequence events, pro/con, story
elements, characterization, word
meaning, plot, KWL and much
more. Save to your device
and/or email. Use again and
again. Project on board and
collaborate with team members.
Use to organize notes while
reading or use them as a prewrite to school papers. Great
tool for instructors as well.
Globe for iPad is a
Geography app which
shows the countries of the
world on a 3D globe - you
can manipulate the globe
with the normal iPad gestures
— drag your finger or use a
rotate gesture to rotate the
globe; pinch to zoom in and
out.
Search for a country and the
globe will rotate to show that
country.
Tap on a country to show
country information from
Wikipedia.
PRICE: .99
PRICE: FREE
Stack the States
You earn a random state for
every successfully completed
level. All of your states appear on
your own personalized map of
the United States. Try to collect
all 50! As you earn more states,
you begin to unlock the four free
bonus games: Map It, Pile Up,
Puzzler and Capital Drop. Four
games in one!
HAVE FUN LEARNING ALL ABOUT
THE 50 STATES:
▸ Capitals
▸ State shapes
▸ Abbreviations
▸ Bordering states
▸ Location on the map
▸ Nicknames
▸ Flags
...and more!
PRICE: .99
Stack the Countries
GeoBee Challenge HD
LEARN BEFORE YOU PLAY: Stack
the Countries provides 193
country flash cards and colorful
interactive maps of the
continents. Use them to brush up
on your world geography before
you play or as a handy
reference tool.
This is a challenging game,
so it's not for beginners...but
do keep in mind that the
National Geographic Bee is
meant for kids in grades 4-8.
Are you smarter than a 4th
grader? If you need help
studying, you should check
out the National Geographic
World Atlas HD app, also
available on iTunes.
Three types of game play
make sure you really know
your stuff and never get
bored.
HAVE FUN LEARNING ALL ABOUT
THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD:
▸ Capitals
▸ Landmarks
▸ Major Cities
▸ Continents
▸ Border Countries
▸ Languages
▸ Flags
▸ Country Shapes
PRICE: 1.99
PRICE: 1.99
Grocery Shopping/Recipes
Grocery IQ
Zip List
Grocery shopping made
quick and easy with the
features you expect from
the #1 grocery shopping
list app. Build lists from our
extensive product
database using text,
barcode, or voice search;
sync and share lists with
other devices and the
GroceryiQ.com website;
find related coupons and
much more!
Make grocery shopping
easier with ZipList! This free
grocery list app used by
millions beats the paper
shopping list hands down.
Simply add items anytime,
see them organized by aisle,
and get in and out of the
store faster. Download it FREE
and dig right in:
PRICE: FREE
Add recipe ingredients to
your grocery shopping list
with a click! You can also
search over 1 million recipes
from your favorite recipes
sites and save them to one
central Recipe Box.
PRICE: FREE
Jamie Oliver
If you haven’t subscribed yet,
make sure you check out my
taster pack – it’s updated with 10
new beautiful step-by-step
recipes every second
Wednesday of the month to give
you a real feel of what the app is
all about. When you subscribe,
you’ll get a huge selection of
more than 300 exclusive recipes,
all with step-by-step
photography to make them
super clear and easy to follow.
Plus, we’re adding more recipes
every month to keep you
inspired and to help you learn
new, amazing skills that’ll get you
cooking incredible food.
Photo Cookbook: Quick & Easy
Every recipe starts with a
photograph of all the ingredients
you’ll use in the process. This way
and in one glance, you can
control if you’ve got all the
ingredients you need for
preparing the dish.
Each short and straightforward
step is clearly explained and
easy to understand. Along with
the pictures, this assists novice
cooks as well as those with more
experience in remembering the
little touches that can easily be
overlooked. Each recipe ends
with a photograph of the
finished dish, complete with any
serving suggestions.
PRICE: FREE
PRICE: 3.99
Photo Cookbook: Simple &
Delicious
The Photo Cookbook –
Simple & Delicious is a great
choice for beginners, but
experts, too, will find a
variety of international
recipes that are all simple
and delicious. Included are
classics such as Caesar
Salad, Lasagna, Basic Beef
Stew, or Meatloaf, along with
more unusual preparations
such as Steamed Salmon,
Pork Chops with Apple
Sauce, or Shrimp Noodle
Bowl.
PRICE: 3.99
Graphic Organizers
Tools 4 Students
Tools 4 Students offers 25
graphic organizers
supporting common
comprehension skills like
main idea and detail,
sequencing, compare
and contrast etc. Each
organizer can be used
again and again and be
emailed, drop boxed, or
saved as a PDF.
PRICE: .99
Tools 4 Students 2
Kidspiration Maps
Mobile Learning Services
introduces Tools4Students 2
featuring 25 NEW Graphic
Organizers suitable for grade
4 -12 students. Available for
purchase through the
educator volume purchasing
program. Some of the new
organizers include: Chapter
Notes, Document Analysis,
Writing Organizers, Drawing
Conclusions and 7 different
blank templates where
students and teachers can
create their own labels, titles
and headings.
Kidspiration Maps helps young
readers and writers in grades K-5 learn
to organize and classify information,
gain sight word knowledge and
expand their ideas into written and
verbal expression. By creating story
maps, Venn diagrams, and webs,
students visualize what they are
learning, improving their
understanding and comprehension.
Tap to transform visual diagrams into
text - perfect for pre-writing. Use
Kidspiration Maps to:
- Support reading comprehension
- Organize thoughts and topics for
writing
- Develop vocabulary
- Sort and classify information
- Organize projects
- Engage students with built-in
activities in reading, writing, social
studies, science and math
PRICE: .99
PRICE: 9.99
Inspiration Maps
Popplet
Features:
- 1500+ searchable graphic
library
- Record & attach audio
- Diagrams transform to outlines
with back again
- Personalize with images, color,
shape, arrow style, and
backgrounds
- Refine layout with align, nudge,
spacing controls or auto-arrange
- Use images from the web or the
iPad camera
- Attach notes to any item
- Add hyperlinks
- Diagrams save instantly
- Built-in templates supporting
subjects across the curriculum
- Add written or audio
instructions to any document
People use Popplet to:
+ Explore Ideas:
Brainstorming,
Mindmapping
+ Plan Projects: Diagrams,
Process Charts
+ Record Thoughts:
Journals, Notes, Lists
+ Collect Inspiration:
Mood Boards, Scrapbook,
Travel Plans
+ Create Galleries: Photo
albums, Portfolios,
Presentations
+ Study: School Projects,
Class Notes
PRICE: 9.99
PRICE: 4.99
General Academics
Teach Me: Toddler
Teach Me: 1st grade
TeachMe: Toddler is an
educational
iPhone/iPad/iPod touch app
which teaches six different
preschool appropriate
subjects: letters, abc phonics
(letter sounds), numbers,
shapes, colors and counting.
Parents can choose which
topics they want their child
to learn and even choose
specific questions. Parents
can review performance
history for each subject to
check on how their child is
doing.
TeachMe: 1st Grade is the
third installment in the
popular TeachMe series of
educational apps for the
iPhone, iPad, and iPod
touch. TeachMe: 1st Grade
teaches four ageappropriate subjects to first
grade children: sight words,
addition, subtraction and
spelling. TeachMe: 1st
Grade's unique TeachTech
character recognition
engine interprets a child's
written answers, helping to
reinforce writing skills while
teaching math and spelling.
PRICE: .99
PRICE: .99
Teach Me: 2nd Grade
Teach Me: Kindergarten
TeachMe: 2nd Grade is the
fourth installment in the
popular TeachMe series of
educational apps for the
iPhone, iPod touch, and
iPad. TeachMe: 2nd Grade
teaches six age-appropriate
subjects to second grade
children: spelling, sight words,
long addition, long
subtraction, fast addition and
fast subtraction. TeachMe:
2nd Grade's unique
TeachTech character
recognition engine interprets
a child's written answers,
helping to reinforce writing
skills while teaching math
and spelling.
Teach Me: 3rd Grade
TeachMe: Kindergarten is an
educational
iPhone/iPad/iPod touch app
which teaches six different
age appropriate subjects to
Kindergarten aged children:
sight words, addition,
subtraction, spelling and now
writing letters and numbers.
Parents can select which
subjects they want, set
different difficulty levels, and
even choose specific
questions. Parents can review
performance history for each
subject to check how their
child is doing.
TeachMe: 3rd Grade is the
fifth installment in the popular
TeachMe series of
educational apps for the
iPhone, iPod touch, and
iPad. TeachMe: 3rd Grade
teaches six age-appropriate
subjects to third grade
children: spelling, sight words,
multiplication, division, fast
multiplication, and fast
division. TeachMe: 3rd
Grade's unique TeachTech
character recognition engine
interprets a child's written
answers, helping to reinforce
writing skills while teaching
math and spelling.
PRICE: 1.99
PRICE: 1.99
PRICE: 1.99
Handwriting
Ready to Print
Ready to Print progresses
through the pre-writing skills in a
specific order, so that children
can master the visual-motor,
visual-perceptual, and fine
motor skills necessary for correct
printing patterns. It is designed to
teach children the correct
patterns for printing, and to
avoid bad habits that are
difficult to change as the child
gets older.
Now in version 3, Ready to Print
features 194 separate levels in 13
activities. The latest addition is
the Touch and Drag activity,
which helps students work on
movement in one of four specific
directions.
PRICE: 9.99
LetterSchool
Kids practice essential
skills as they play four
exciting games per
letter/number:
INTRO - discover the
letter’s shape, name and
sound
TAP - learn where to start,
change direction and
finish by tapping the dots
TRACE - learn the letter
trajectory by tracing it
WRITE - test your
knowledge by writing
from memory
PRICE: 2.99
Wet-Dry-Try from Handwriting
Without Tears
Make handwriting practice
fun! With our Wet-Dry-Try
Suite App, children learn and
practice correct formation
habits for writing capitals,
numbers, and lowercase
letters. The app simulates our
Slate Chalkboard and
Blackboard with Double
Lines and helps children
learn handwriting skills in the
easiest, most efficient way.
The result truly is handwriting
without tears!
PRICE: 6.99
Crazy Cursive
Ollie’s Handwriting & Phonics
Kids learn with Ollie to recognize
letters and their corresponding
sounds. They practice handwriting
and reinforce phonics skills by tracing
capital and lowercase letters and
spelling and reading phonics and
sight words.
CAPITAL & LOWERCASE LETTERS: Ollie
shows the letter shape, name, sound,
and corresponding phonics picture
(“P is for Pirate!”).
PHONICS WORDS: Ollie shows how to
separate and put together sounds to
read and spell words with
accompanying graphics (“c...a....t....
cat!”).
SIGHT WORDS: Ollie shows how to
read and spell sight words (the, to,
and).
MY WORDS: Easily add your own
custom words to practice
handwriting, reading and spelling unlimited ability to delete and
change words to suit your interests
and needs.
PRICE: FREE
Crazy Cursive Letters allows you to
practice cursive (joined up), letter
and word forming and have fun! A
new crazy character/ scene is
unlocked with every 4 words written
correctly. You can choose your
preferred style of cursive writing in
settings.
You can also use Crazy Cursive to
help learn a new language! Select
from American English, UK English,
French, German, Italian or Spanish
words and phonics.
Your child can practice writing the
top 100 words in cursive style and can
also type in their own words to
practice. Letters are sounded out
phonetically to allow your child to
develop skills of breaking down words
which is particularly useful for children
with Dyslexia.
PRICE: 2.99
Health/Nutrition
My Plate
Daily Water FREE
MyFitness Pal
Paprika
MedCoach
The LIVESTRONG.COM
Calorie Tracker can help you
reach your diet, weight loss
and fitness goals by tracking
your daily calories and
exercise. Lose weight easily
by setting your weight goals
and track your calories and
progress with our
comprehensive online food
journal containing over 1
Million food and fitness items.
Tracking works. You will lose
weight like millions of other
members.
✓ Set goal amount of daily
drinking water and track it.
✓ Log amount of daily
drinking water.
✓ Touch to log each
drinking.
✓ Check glasses of water
drunk each day.
✓ Customize volume of each
glass of water.
✓ Customize how much of
water you drink each time,
1/4 glass, 1/2 glass or A glass.
✓ Plan drinking schedule and
it will remind you when it’s
time.
✓ 10 free alert sounds to
choose. PRICE: FREE
Lose weight with
MyFitnessPal, the fastest
and easiest-to-use calorie
counter for iPhone and
iPad. With the largest
food database of any iOS
calorie counter (over
3,000,000 foods), and
amazingly fast food and
exercise entry, we’ll help
you take those extra
pounds off! There is no
better diet app - period.
Delightfully simple recipe
management for
everyone: from aspiring
cooks to professional
chefs. With web
importing, grocery lists
and meal planning,
Paprika is the perfect
kitchen companion. If you
love to cook, Paprika will
be most useful app
you've ever downloaded!
MedCoach is an easy-touse medical app that
helps you remember to
take your medications
and pills at the right time
and day. Never forget to
take your meds!
MedCoach can also
connect to your
pharmacy to refill your
prescriptions. MedCoach
is medication
management and a
medication reminder
made easy!
PRICE: FREE
PRICE: .99
PRICE: FREE
PRICE: 4.99
Life/Community Skills
My Life Skills Box
LifeSkills Sampler
Social Skill Builder Full
Map My Walk
The application teaches your child
the necessary skills for three very
important environments.
Everyday life skills – are activities such
showering, getting dressed, brushing
teeth, and appropriate behavior in
public and school environments.
Social skills - your child will learn
techniques to cope with different
social situations and problem solving.
Playing with Functional Objects – the
child will learn how to use objects for
play.
The application separates each
activity making them easier to learn.
This technique simplifies task analysis
for the child.
The application stimulates the child's
imagination with the use of beautiful
illustrations of main characters. By
using familiar voices for the
characters, it allows the child to
connect and identify with the
characters.
Contains 80 videos
•Part of the Signs and Words
Series for teaching sign and
word meanings
•Take classroom learning out
into the community
•Make assignments for each
user based on individual
needs
•Lock the device to a
particular user for ease of use
•Narrated with humanquality audio, NOT text-tospeech
•Great companion product
to our online Functional Skills
System
Offers 19 modules, with
various sequences of videos
and questions for the user to
view and react to by
answering multiple choice
questions. These video
scenarios are of real
interactions in preschool,
elementary school, middle &
high school and community
settings. Within these settings
children and young adults
demonstrate common social
interactions with their peers
and other adults.
Track walking, cycling,
running and over 600 types
of other activities with:
⊕ Pace (Avg, Max, Current)
⊕ GPS Route Mapping
⊕ Distance
⊕ Calorie counting
⊕ Elevation profile
⊕ Route navigation
⊕ Nutrition, food, diet, and
weight tracking
⊕ Real-time Stats (avg, min,
max) during workout
⊕ Voice prompts that give
you updates on your
progress as you go!
PRICE: 19.99
PRICE: FREE
PRICE: FREE
PRICE: FREE
Math – Concept Reinforcement
Motion Math: Pizza!
Create the pizzeria of your
dreams in Motion Math: Pizza!
Learn economics and mental
math as you buy ingredients,
design pizzas, set prices, and
serve customers in this delightfully
delicious simulation game.
Motion Math: Pizza! addresses
basic money and economic
concepts as well as many
Common Core Math Standards
targeting fluent multiplication
and addition, proportions, multistep word problems, and
interpreting data:
PRICE: 3.99
Virtual Manipulatives
this app allows students to
compare fractions,
decimals, and percents in
a "concrete" way.
PRICE: FREE
Fizzy’s Lunch Lab Fresh Pick
Professor Fizzy, star of the PBS
KIDS web series, "Fizzy's Lunch
Lab," is holding a competition to
see who has what it take to be
the next Lunch Labber! Think it's
going to be easy cheesy? Well
think again! Take on 8 exciting
challenges that will put your
math and problem solving skills
to the test. If you can navigate
your way through the grocery
store, come up with right amount
of change in the check-out line,
and successfully serve food to a
room full of hungry customers,
you may just have what it takes
to become the next member of
the Lunch Lab!
PRICE: FREE
Next Dollar Up
MathTerms
Next Dollar Up is a widely utilized
special education teaching
strategy for those with special
needs to develop
independence in money
management using a whole
dollar amount concept. It
involves looking at an item price
and rounding up to the next
dollar to make the purchase.
MathTerms is an illustrated
glossary of mathematics
terms in English and Spanish.
The app includes almost
1,000 entries for middle- and
high-school mathematical
concepts. Millions of students
have had access to this
glossary, and its colorful,
annotated illustrations, for
over the past five years. It is
now available as an iPad
application with permission
of The Charles A. Dana
Center at the University of
Texas at Austin and Agile
Mind, Inc.
PRICE: FREE
Based on customer feedback,
Next Dollar Up has been taken to
the next level to include more
challenging settings for dollar
amounts up to $50 and an
option for utilizing an Alternate
Currency which includes a $1
gold coin.
PRICE: 7.99
Math – Skill Development
TouchMath
Touching/Counting Patterns Lite
teaches single digit number
values using the one-of-a-kind
multisensory TouchMath system -the ONLY math program that
uses the actual numeral as a
manipulative. Each numeral from
1 through 9 has TouchPoints
corresponding to the digit's
value.
As students count the
TouchPoints, they associate
numerals with real values. They
learn that a numeral (3, for
instance) is not just a squiggle on
a page. It represents a quantity
such as three baseballs, three
ladybugs, three starfish or three
TouchPoints. based on your
locale settings
PRICE: FREE
Motion Math: Hungry Fish
Feed your fish and play with
numbers! Practice mental
addition and subtraction
with Motion Math: Hungry
Fish, a delightful learning
game that's fun for children
and grownups.
Your fish is hungry for
numbers. You can make
delicious sums by pinching
two numbers together –
instant addition! Keep
feeding your fish to win a
level and unlock new colors
and fins.
PRICE: 1.99
Park Math HD
Award-winning Park Math
teaches early math
concepts based on
Common Core State
Standards. Learn numbers,
counting, addition,
subtraction, sorting, patterns
and more through 7 fun,
educational activities. 3
levels for Preschool,
Kindergarten and First
Grade: count up to 20, 50
and 100;
addition/subtraction with
numbers up to 5, 10 and 20.
PRICE: 1.99
MathBoard
IXL Math
MathBoard is a highly
configurable math app
appropriate for all school
aged children. Beginning
in kindergarten, with
simple addition and
subtraction problems,
through elementary
school where learning
multiplication and division
can be a real challenge.
MathBoard will allow you
to configure the app to
best match the abilities of
your individual
child/student.
Make math tangible with
IXL Math Practice! Over
2,500 standards-aligned
skills provide
comprehensive coverage
of K-12 math content,
while hundreds of colorful
awards celebrate
important milestones.
From skip-counting with
pictures to multi-step story
problems, IXL's interactive
practice formats bring the
joy of learning right to
students’ fingertips.
PRICE: 4.99
PRICE: FREE
Preschool Skills
Peekaboo Barn
Fish School HD
Work with your child to learn
the names of animals and
hear the sounds they make.
Younger children will love
opening the barn doors to
find a new animal animation,
as they learn about cause
and effect and become
familiar with animal names
and sounds. Older children
will enjoy guessing animals
by sound, then seeing the
animal names, which helps
develop early literacy skills.
A playful underwater
experience with 8
educational activities, this
award-winning app teaches
letters, numbers, shapes,
colors and more. Watch
colorful fish create letters;
Recognize numbers and
learn to count from 1 to 20;
Follow the fish as they form
shapes; Touch, tap and drag
to make fish and other
colorful sea life do funny
things; Listen to classical
variations of the ABC Song.
PRICE: 1.99
PRICE: 1.99
My Play Home
Imagine a doll house where
your child can use
everything, even the closets,
TV and shower. Where you
can fry an egg and feed the
family pizza. Where you can
pour drinks, blow bubbles
and turn out the lights.
Imagine a doll house where
the pieces are impossible to
lose and never break. A doll
house which grows over time
and where new accessories
and rooms are given to you
for free.
Imagine if it was designed so
that even a 2 year old could
use it, yet detailed enough to
entertain an 8 year old.
PRICE: 3.99
ChalkWalk
Jabble Play
Chalk Walk for the IPAD is an
interactive app for toddlers
and pre-schoolers that
develops their thumb-finger
pincer grip skill needed for
school. It also teaches other
skills like hand-eye
coordination, simple motor
skills, simple letters and words
introduction, and promotes
left to right progression. And
it does all of these while
maintaining fun with the
visuals, games, and rewards.
Aimed at pre-school
children, Jabble PLAY
encourages exploration and
learning through play. The
app consists of a suite of
mini-games which children
can tap, touch and turn,
helping them to improve coordination and motor skills.
There are lots of games to
choose from, each with their
own amusing outcome for
completing the task: mix
paint, find the Yeti, feed the
monkey and much more!
PRICE: .99
PRICE: .99
Presentations
Prezi
Create and present beautiful
presentations with Prezi for iPad. Get
started by choosing one of our
stunning templates then add your text
and images. Pinch to zoom on topics,
retouch your prezis and adjust your
presentations on the move.
Features:
- 15 beautiful templates with different
styles and structures.
- Change layouts to fit your content.
- Add new frames to extend your
presentation.
- Insert images from the web, your
own library, or take a photo.
- Save your prezi from the app, it will
be accessible online.
- Present from your iPad (tap on the
sides to navigate).
- Retouch your prezis on the move:
Prezi for iPad keeps your prezis
synced.
PRICE: FREE
SlideShark
Basic Features:
• Upload PowerPoint files
via SlideShark site; open
from email attachments
on your device; or import
from cloud storage
• Tap or swipe to
advance animations and
slides; swipe back to go
back
• Swipe up to go to
specific slides & access
more features
• Offline presenting
PRICE: FREE
Haiku Deck
Doceri
* Designed to encourage
presentation best practices, such as
simplified text, high-impact imagery,
and clean, consistent formatting.
* Powerful image search, with
automatic sizing and attribution, puts
millions of free, high-quality Creative
Commons licensed photos plus
premium stock photography from
Getty Images at your fingertips.
* Apply stylish, professionally designed
fonts and layouts with one tap for a
cohesive, polished look.
* Use iPad touch controls to create
flawlessly beautiful pie charts, bar
charts, and stat charts.
* Streamlined list and multiline text
templates offer additional detail
without clutter.
* Import and edit images from your
iPad, Flickr, Instagram, Facebook,
Dropbox, or other online sources for a
personalized touch.
Combining screencasting,
desktop control, and an
interactive whiteboard in one
app, you’ll never have to turn
your back to the class or
audience again. Create a lesson
or presentation, insert images,
save and edit your project and
record a screencast video you
can easily save or share. Doceri
does it all!
PRICE: FREE
Control your lesson or
presentation live with Airplay or
through your Mac or PC.
Annotate a Keynote or
PowerPoint, or present your
original Doceri project. Great for
student projects, too.
PRICE: FREE
Educreations
Educreations turns your
iPad into a recordable
whiteboard. Creating a
great video tutorial is as
simple as touching,
tapping and talking.
Explain a math formula...
Create an animated
lesson... Add commentary
to your photos... Diagram
a sports play...
With voice recording,
realistic digital ink, photos
and text, and simple
sharing through email,
Facebook or Twitter, now
you can broadcast your
ideas from anywhere.
PRICE: FREE
Reading - Comprehension
Aesop’s Quest
Help Aesop the Ant read through
the stories. Be sure to pay close
attention while reading because
there are clues in the stories that
will help him along his quest. I bet
you can do it! Good Luck!
Aesop's Quest, based on Aesop's
Fables, is a learning game where
the player must remember
elements of a story to complete
a level. The game uses reading
comprehension to develop
cognitive reading skills. The touch
mechanic of the game engages
children in a hands-on learning
process, implementing
kinesthetic learning.
PRICE: .99
Painless Reading
Comprehension Challenge
The Barron’s Painless book
series just took Reading
Comprehension to the
next level, fun!
Test your knowledge and
then test your skill…
It’s the ultimate Reading
Comprehension and
arcade game challenge!
PRICE: FREE
Kids Reading Comprehension
Level 1
Kids Reading Comprehension level 1
Passages For iPad is an interactive
and educational app, developed to
assist parents, teachers and
caregivers in teaching their children
to learn the essential skill of reading
comprehension.
Featuring:
✦ The ability to keep track of multiple
readers (up to four).
✦ Engaging and educational
passages pertinent to everyday life.
✦ Follow-up questions that challenge
your child to remember what he or
she just read.
✦ A fun and entertaining
congratulatory experience when all
questions have been answered
correctly.
✦ Progress reports for each child
accessible from within the app.
PRICE: 1.99
Reading Comprehension
Prep
• This sampler contains 12
original stories for grades 3, 4,
and 5
• Choose between fiction,
non-fiction, or a mix of both
fiction and non-fiction
selections
• Read and test your
comprehension with a
variety of questions about
the selected passages
PRICE: FREE
Reading Comprehension – Various Grades
Help children master reading
comprehension skills while
building confidence and inspiring
achievement!
This app presents short, concise
stories in an engaging format that
leads to success. Interesting
stories make it easy for children to
try, practice and improve
reading comprehension skills.
Knowledge and confidence will
grow with each new story.
Immediate feedback keeps
students on track and focused on
succeeding.
OTHER GRADE LEVELS AVAILABLE
PRICE: 1.99
Reading – Digital Books
BookShare/Read2Go
OverDrive
From within Read2Go, you
can browse, search,
download, and read books
directly from Bookshare using
your Bookshare membership,
as well as read DAISY books
from other sources. The app
gives you full control over
visual choices for font size
and color, background and
highlighting color, and textto-speech preferences.
Read2Go features word-byword highlighting for multimodal reading.
Read eBooks, listen to
audiobooks, and watch
streaming video from your
library using OverDrive Media
Console (OMC) on iPad,
iPhone, and iPod touch.
More than 28,000 libraries
worldwide offer titles via
OverDrive, so download the
app and add your library
today.
PRICE: 19.99
MUST HAVE BOKSHARE
MEMBERSHIP
PRICE: FREE
MUST HAVE A LIBRARY CARD
I Like Books
The "I Like" children's picture
books are a magical way to
enjoy stories with your child. Not
only are the stories and pictures
fun... they also help your child
learn about the world they live
in. It is a fantastic learning
experience for kids of all ages
from 0 to 6. The little ones will
enjoy listening to lovely stories
while looking at gorgeous
pictures that are carefully
chosen. Toddlers will love the
interactivity of the picture books
and click on items to discover
new words. Young kids will enjoy
these books to learn how to read
as they see each word
individually highlighted in red at
the exact moment the audio is
played back.
PRICE: 1.99
Kno
Kno delivers the same books,
only smarter. Packed with
interactive features:
· Enhanced Content: Watch
videos, interact with 3D models
and simulations, or access web
links to see your books come to
life.
· Advanced Search:.
· Journal:
· Flashcards:).
· Kno Me:
· PDF Reader:
· Social Sharing:
Find your books from our library
of over 200,000 interactive titles
for all grade levels from
kindergarten through college.
PRICE: FREE
Audible
Description
Immerse yourself in a great
story anytime, anywhere, by
downloading from a
breathtaking range of
150,000+ titles to your iPhone,
iPod Touch, or iPad—from
best sellers to classics, and
everything in-between.
Now you can turn on a good
book even when you can’t
pick one up—on your way to
work, at the gym, while
folding laundry, or any other
time your eyes and hands
are busy.
PRICE: FREE
Reading - Phonics
Hooked on Phonics:
Learn to Read
This app includes Unit 1 of
the full program absolutely
free. It features three lessons,
loaded with interactive fun
as it teaches how sounds
become words and words
become stories. It’s just right
for kids who know the sounds
of the alphabet and are
ready to take the first step
into reading. It’s also a
powerful tool to reinforce
reading skills for beginning
readers.
PRICE: FREE
Ollie’s Handwriting & Phonics
Kids learn with Ollie to recognize
letters and their corresponding
sounds. They practice handwriting
and reinforce phonics skills by tracing
capital and lowercase letters and
spelling and reading phonics and
sight words.
CAPITAL & LOWERCASE LETTERS: Ollie
shows the letter shape, name, sound,
and corresponding phonics picture
(“P is for Pirate!”).
PHONICS WORDS: Ollie shows how to
separate and put together sounds to
read and spell words with
accompanying graphics (“c...a....t....
cat!”).
SIGHT WORDS: Ollie shows how to
read and spell sight words (the, to,
and).
MY WORDS: Easily add your own
custom words to practice
handwriting, reading and spelling unlimited ability to delete and
change words to suit your interests
and needs.
PRICE: FREE
Word Wagon
helps kids learn about letters,
phonics, and spelling with Word
Wagon. Parents and kids can set
it to one of four progressively
harder levels: letters, phonics,
and spelling of short and long
words and also to display either
upper- or lowercase letters. In
the first two levels, kids can
match the letters to form the
words; in the latter two levels,
there is no visual cue, and kids
have to arrange the spelling of
the word on their own. There is
also a nice variety of word topics
such as animals and food to
choose from. The level of
customization makes Word
Wagon a good fit for kids at
different skill levels.
PRICE: 1.99
Bob Books – Reading Magic
Bob Books Reading Magic
will show your child how to:
ABC Pocket Phonics
The game includes twelve
scenes for a total of 32
words. Four game levels
provide increasing
challenges to children as
they play.
PocketPhonics teaches kids
letter sounds, first words and
handwriting. It is used in
hundreds of elementary
schools and pre-schools, and
tens of thousands of homes.
It is aligned with the
Common Core State
Standards, and independent
research (see
appsinmypocket.com/resear
ch) found children learnt
nine times faster using
PocketPhonics compared to
a classroom lesson.
PRICE: 3.99
PRICE: 6.99
-Make the connection
between letters and sounds.
-Sound out simple words.
-Spell the words they’ve
read.
Science
Science 360
The National Science
Foundation’s (NSF)
Science360 for iPad provides
easy access to engaging
science and engineering
images and video from
around the globe and a
news feed featuring
breaking news from NSFfunded institutions. Content is
either produced by NSF or
gathered from scientists,
colleges and universities, and
NSF science and engineering
centers.
PRICE: FREE
The Human Body
Explore a working model
of the body. Every part is
animated and
interactive: the heart
beats, guts gurgle, lungs
breathe, the skin feels,
and eyes see. Designed
for kids to discover what
we’re made of and how
we work.
K12 Periodic Table App
K12 Periodic Table of the
Elements lets you explore
the elements and their
key attributes in a simple,
easy-to-use way. It's a
perfect reference for
working through
homework problems for
Science courses.
PRICE: FREE
PRICE: FREE
Frog Dissection
Bill Nye the Science Guy
This iPad app is suitable for middleschool students who are learning
about organs and organ systems as
part of their life science curriculum.
Students can try dissecting a virtual
specimen with all the trappings that
come with the real procedure-minus
the mess of course! Besides a virtual
chloroformed specimen, the app
comes with all the dissection tools
and detailed instructions to complete
the procedure. Once dissection is
complete, the frog’s organs are
exposed for further study. Vivid 3D
images will help students visualize the
internal organs very effectively. For
enhanced learning experience, the
app also has information on the
different types of frogs, frogs’ life
cycle, anatomical comparison of
frogs with humans, an interactive quiz
and detailed descriptions of the
organs.
Science rules, especially
when you grab a seat at The
Science Guy's desk and help
yourself to heaping handfuls
of science. Just scan your
thumb to gain entrance to
Nye Labs, the most amazing,
scientifically fascinating
place on Earth (and possibly
beyond!). Twenty orbits
around the sun and 28
Emmys along the way—now
that's something to
celebrate!
PRICE: 3.99
PRICE: FREE
Social Studies
Docs Teach
Kids Discover
Think Fast About the Past
DocsTeach.org is an online tool
for teaching with documents
from the National Archives. On
the web site, you will discover
thousands of primary sources
and learning activities. When
registered for a free account,
teachers can borrow from and
modify an ever-expanding
collection of activities, plus
create unique ones using the
online tools. Log in and create
classrooms full of activities, then
share the classroom’s auto
generated code with your
students to access on their iPads.
The app also includes videos,
cartoons, and plenty of
historical imagery. Students
can tap the images to learn
more about the people and
places pictured. After
working through all of the
chapters of the app students
can test their knowledge
with review quizzes and
puzzles.
This free iPad app is the
companion to the Mission
U.S. website that offers
interactive journeys
through U.S. history. Think
Fast About the
Past contains two
“missions” for students to
complete.
PRICE: FREE
PRICE: FREE
PRICE: FREE
Speech Development – Pragmatics
Practicing Pragmatics
Conversation Coach
Conversation Builder
Select the cards you want
students to see, and have
them answer social skills
questions about
Politeness, Solving
Problems, Feelings, Giving
Information, Requesting,
Telephone Skills, and
Staying on Topic.
The Conversation Coach is
designed to help players
learn the back and forth flow
of normal conversation.
Typically, most low and hightech communication tools
only enable one-way
conversations. For example,
a student might point to a
picture of an apple, and
then he receives an apple.
There is no normal back and
forth exchange. Using the
Conversation Coach, you
can keep the volley going.
ConversationBuilder™ (Pat.
Pend.) is designed to help
elementary aged children
learn how to have multiexchange conversations with
their peers in a variety of
social settings.
The auditory pattern of
conversation is presented in
a visual format to help
students recognize and
master the flow of
conversation. Students will
learn when it is appropriate
to introduce themselves, ask
questions, make observations
and change the subject of
the conversation.
PRICE: 3.99
PRICE: 29.99
PRICE: 19.99
Speech Development - Articulation
Articulation Station
ArtikPix
Articulation Flip Books
Large, easy to press buttons
- Paper tape so you can see
your previous calculations
- Change the font size of the
paper tape to whatever is right
for you
- Email or Copy the contents of
your paper tape
- Memory Recall button
changes to display your current
memory value
- Support for percentage,
square root, squared, cubed
plus all the basics
- Backspace button
- Store state when you exit - start
off right where you left off
- Number format based on your
locale settings
Flashcards and matching
game for English
articulation sounds;
flashcards at the word
and sentence levels;
ability to record; data
collection; audio of each
word/sentence.
Use the app to practice:
Verb Tenses, Pronouns,
Prepositional Phrases,
Syntax, Sentence
Formulation and Word
Retrieval, Why/How
Prediction, WH-Questions
and Vocabulary
Development.
PRICE: FREE
PRICE: 29.99
PRICE: 9.99
Pocket SLP
Over 3000 stimulus cards
(1000 cards at each level)
29 of the most targeted
phonemes (9 of which are
devoted to r and it various
vocalic variations).
PRICE: 19.99
Tiga Talk Speech Therapy
Games
Children learn fundamental
phonetic sounds, that are
the building blocks of
language, as they play 23
fun voice controlled games
on an imaginative adventure
with Tiga and friends.
★★★★★ Gameplay rewards
are based entirely on
participation, not accuracy,
so the child is constantly
getting positive feedback as
long as they are trying to
make sounds! ★★★★★
PRICE: 4.99
Speech Development - Vocabulary
Vocabulary.com
Speech with Milo: Verbs
Speech with Milo: Adjectives
“Speech with Milo: Verbs” is
centered on an adorable
and energetic mouse
named Milo. Milo performs
over 100 actions, such as
“bounce,” “count,” and
“play”. This provides an
engaging way to build up an
action word vocabulary in
the child. Flash cards are
typically used for this type of
exercise, but the animation
that comes with Milo will
keep any child focused and
attentive. And most
important- it is fun!
“Speech with Milo: Adjectives” is
centered on an adorable and
energetic mouse named Milo.
This application is intended for
children, approximately ages 210, in order to teach basic
descriptive words. Adjectives are
words that describe nouns. There
are 55 of the early developing
adjectives in this app. It is great
for toddlers and preschoolers, as
well as older children with
language delays. The app
comes with instructions from a
licensed SLP. This app can be
used for infants and toddlers, as
well as children with language
delays.
With its uniquely effective
word learning system, the
Vocabulary.com app
helps you master words
through a fun and
addictive game. And it’s
powered by the world's
smartest, fastest
dictionary. From the
makers of the awardwinning Vocabulary.com
website, this app will
expand your vocabulary
with lightning speed!
PRICE: 2.99
PRICE: 2.99
PRICE: 2.99
Spelling & Vocabulary City
Vocabador
VocabularySpellingCity is a
fun way to learn spelling and
vocabulary words by playing
engaging learning games
using any word list. The most
popular activities are Spelling
TestMe, HangMouse, and our
vocabulary games, available
to Premium Members. The
most popular word lists are
Sound Alikes, Compound
Words, Hunger Games and
SAT Words. The free app
includes ten of our most
popular word lists and ten of
our most popular learning
activities.
The Vocabador iPhone
application is ideal for
students studying for the
SAT, the GRE or for anyone
looking to boost their
vocabulary. Combining
the theme of Lucha Libre
wrestling with over 400
powerful vocabulary
words, Vocabador offers
a fresh approach to
learning that will help you
build some serious
vocabulary muscle!
PRICE: FREE
PRICE: 1.99
Social Skills
My DPS
Social Skills Builder
Social Norms
Friend Maker
Model Me Going Places 2
My DPS is a customizable
application that enables
children to select a feeling and
a coping strategy to calm
themselves. My DPS features
eight feelings including:
•Bored
•Surprised
•Mad
•Annoyed
•Happy
•Scared
•Sad
•Frustrated
There are four coping strategies
which include:
•Use Positive Self-Talk
•Take Five Deep Breaths
•Take a Break to Calm Down
•Remind Myself to Keep
Negative Thoughts In My Head
2 modules in the title
Preschool Playtime
(Preschool & Playground)
10 modules in the title My
School Day (Laughing, Table
Talk, Classroom, Transition
Time, Lunch Time, Jungle
Gym, Team Games 1 & 2,
Cubby, Eating, Playground,
Hall & Line Up)
2 modules in the title My
Community (Friend's House &
Restaurant)
2 modules in the title School
Rules! (Hanging Out &
Classroom Assignments)
The Social Norms app
includes over 50 stories
with clear graphics in the
following categories:
The app breaks down the
process of making friends
into easy, concrete
steps—from choosing
friends and improving
conversational skills to
online etiquette and
handling teasing. The
role-play videos
demonstrate these social
skills in action.
Model Me Going Places™ is
a great visual teaching tool
for helping your child learn
to navigate challenging
locations in the community.
Each location contains a
photo slideshow of children
modeling appropriate
behavior.
PRICE: .99
PRICE: 19.99
- manners
- hygiene and health
- Safety
- home
- School
- community
- behavior
PRICE: 9.99
PRICE: .99
LOCATIONS:
- Hairdresser
- Mall
- Doctor
- Playground
- Grocery Store
- Restaurant
PRICE: FREE
Social Stories
Pictello
Social Stories
Pictello is a simple way to create
visual stories and talking books.
Each page in a Pictello Story can
contain a picture, a short video,
up to ten lines of text, and a
recorded sound or text-tospeech using natural sounding
voices. Stories can be shared
with other Pictello users with
iTunes File Sharing or via WiFi
through Dropbox or a free
account on the Pictello Sharing
Server. Stories can be shared
with non-Pictello users as PDF files
through email, Dropbox, or
iTunes File Sharing.
Social Stories is an app for
teaching children or young
adults with learning
challenges or special needs.
A photo is paired with a line
of text & audio to show the
child, to help visualize what
they need to do or
understand on each page.
To create one of these
stories, tap the add button in
the upper right hand corner
and create a new story.
Stories can be one or
multiple pages.
PRICE: 18.99
Social Stories Creator
Easily create stories with
pictures, recordings and
text.
• Share and receive created
stories with other users.
• Stories can be made in any
language.
• Download pre-made social
stories for a variety of skills.
• Create and play stories
offline (with no internet
connection).
• Easy to use, intuitive format.
• Can be used to make
visual schedules or other
types of visual prompts.
PRICE: 3.99
PRICE: FREE
Stories2Learn
S2L offers parents and educators
the ability to create
personalized stories using
photos, text, and audio
messages. These stories can be
used to promote an individual’s
literacy, leisure, as well as social
skills.
“Stories” comes preloaded with
12 finely crafted social narratives
that can be used to teach
social skills in the areas of
reciprocal play, non-verbal
communication, playground
and school rules, turn taking,
and more (please note that
there are six actual stories with
two different ways to view the
story depending on the
individuals’ developmental
level).
PRICE: 13.99
iPrompts – Visual Support
Used by thousands around the
world, iPrompts® has been
acclaimed on television, and is
featured in the Autism Speaks
Technology Guide. Caregivers
use the app to rapidly create
and present visual supports,
helping individuals transition from
one activity to the next,
understand upcoming events,
make choices, focus on the task
at hand, and learn social skills.
An image Library including
several hundred starter images
can be easily expanded “on the
fly” using the device’s camera or
through built-in Web searches.
PRICE: 49.99
Test Taking Accommodations
BubbleSheet
BubbleSheet allows students
to take assignments, tests,
quizzes, and common
formative assessments using
an iPod, iPad, or iPhone.
With the BubbleSheet app,
teachers save time in
grading student assignments
and assessments. Teachers
can easily create and
upload an
assessment/assignment in
any format (Word, PDF, etc.)
and deliver them
automatically to the device.
Quizlet
Features
* Full integration with your
Quizlet.com account
* Audio in 18 languages
* Search 35+ million
flashcard sets
* 3 distinct study modes Flash Cards, Learn, and
Scatter
* Works offline
* 100% FREE
* And much more...
PRICE: FREE
PRICE: FREE
Kidspiration Maps
Kidspiration Maps helps young
readers and writers in grades K-5 learn
to organize and classify information,
gain sight word knowledge and
expand their ideas into written and
verbal expression. By creating story
maps, Venn diagrams, and webs,
students visualize what they are
learning, improving their
understanding and comprehension.
Tap to transform visual diagrams into
text - perfect for pre-writing. Use
Kidspiration Maps to:
- Support reading comprehension
- Organize thoughts and topics for
writing
- Develop vocabulary
- Sort and classify information
- Organize projects
- Engage students with built-in
activities in reading, writing, social
studies, science and math
PRICE: 9.99
Inspiration Maps
Popplet
- 1500+ searchable graphic
library
- Record & attach audio
- Diagrams transform to outlines
with back again
- Personalize with images, color,
shape, arrow style, and
backgrounds
- Refine layout with align, nudge,
spacing controls or auto-arrange
- Use images from the web or the
iPad camera
- Attach notes to any item
- Add hyperlinks
- Diagrams save instantly
- Built-in templates supporting
subjects across the curriculum
- Add written or audio
instructions to any document
People use Popplet to:
+ Explore Ideas:
Brainstorming,
Mindmapping
+ Plan Projects: Diagrams,
Process Charts
+ Record Thoughts:
Journals, Notes, Lists
+ Collect Inspiration:
Mood Boards, Scrapbook,
Travel Plans
+ Create Galleries: Photo
albums, Portfolios,
Presentations
+ Study: School Projects,
Class Notes
PRICE: 9.99
PRICE: 4.99
Timers
Time Timer
Childrens Countdown
The Time Timer app displays time
as a red disk that quietly gets
smaller as time elapses. Children
as young as three understand
that when the red is gone, time is
up! And unlike many other visual
timers, the Time Timer app has a
professional look and packed
feature set to help adults make
every moment count. Highly
recommended by experts in
professional organizing,
healthcare, ADHD/ Autism and
parenting.
Watch as the timer runs from
green to amber to red, helping
the child understand that time is
running out.
PRICE: 2.99
A fun picture is slowly revealed
as the time runs down and when
the time is up the child is
rewarded with an exciting sound
and the picture spins.
Background image changes to
match the time of day, so that
your child is given subtle hints as
to what time of day the task they
are being asked relates to.
Choose your own image to
reveal from your iPhones photo
library to really surprise your child.
PRICE: FREE
Best Sand Timer
This digitized hourglass
can be used to time
anything for up to 60
minutes. It's like having a
nice looking visual
indicator of how much
time is left on your task.
- Kid Friendly
- Stay Notified
- Color your time
- Universal app
PRICE: FREE
30/30
You set up a list of tasks, and
a length of time for each of
them. When you start the
timer, it will tell you when to
move on to the next task.
The task list is controlled
entirely with gestures; a
simple and natural way to
use the app.
The display is minimal but
attractive and it still shows
you everything you need to
know:
- What am I supposed to be
doing right now?
- How much time do I have
left to do it?
PRICE: FREE
Video Modeling
Explain Everything
Explain Everything is an easy-to-use
design, screencasting, and
interactive whiteboard tool that lets
you annotate, animate, narrate,
import, and export almost anything to
and from almost anywhere.
Create slides, draw in any color, add
shapes, add text, and use a laser
pointer. Rotate, move, scale, copy,
paste, clone, and lock any object
added to the stage.
Add new or existing photos and
videos. Import PDF, PPT, DOC, XLS,
Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and RTF
files from Evernote, Dropbox, Box,
GDrive, WebDAV, Email, iTunes, and
any app that allows you to open
these files types using "Open In…".
Export MP4 movies, PDF documents,
PNG images, or XPL project files
directly from your iPad.
PRICE: 2.99
Video Scheduler
Welcome to Video
Scheduler! “Scheduler” is
optimized for all Apple
iOS devices and allows for
the easy construction of
picture and video
schedules. Users can also
organize video modeling
content (and turn off
schedule functions such
as "done" by turning this
mode "on"). After
creating, share your
schedules/modeling for
FREE with other users.
PRICE: 12.99
Pictello
Pictello is a simple way to create
visual stories and talking books.
Each page in a Pictello Story can
contain a picture, a short video,
up to ten lines of text, and a
recorded sound or text-tospeech using natural sounding
voices. Stories can be shared
with other Pictello users with
iTunes File Sharing or via WiFi
through Dropbox or a free
account on the Pictello Sharing
Server. Stories can be shared
with non-Pictello users as PDF files
through email, Dropbox, or
iTunes File Sharing.
PRICE: 18.99
iMovie
Visual Impact
iMovie puts everything you
need to tell your story at your
fingertips, with a beautifully
streamlined interface and
Multi-Touch gestures that let
you enjoy your videos like
never before. Browse your
video library, quickly share
favorite moments, and
create beautiful HD movies
and Hollywood-style trailers.
And with iCloud, you can
enjoy them in iMovie Theater
on all your devices.
Visual Impact provides easy
step-by-step multimedia
instructions for use by
anyone needing a simple
support to perform daily tasks
of all kinds. Make a grilled
cheese sandwich by yourself,
learn important personal skills
for applying for a job, or how
to take your own blood
pressure at home! The online
library of Visual Impact task
instructions will continue to
grow to provide an ever
increasing world of
possibilities for self-directed
learning.
PRICE: 4.99
PRICE: FREE
Video Supports
My Video Tutor
The solution is at your
fingertips, with a library of
instructional videos from
McGraw-Hill Education.
Videos are available in
packages by subject and
target grade. Packages are
available for $0.99 as an inapp purchase.
The My Video Tutor app
provides every student with
targeted support that
features classroom teachers
explaining how to solve
problems with clear, detailed
explanations.
PRICE: FREE
Khan Academy
We cover a massive
number of topics,
including K-12 math,
science topics such as
biology, chemistry, and
physics, and even the
humanities with playlists
on art history, civics, and
finance.
PRICE: FREE
Hippocampus
www.hippocampus.org
There is NO APP for this
website – but it is
recommended that you
save a link to this site on
your IPad desktop
Go to the website then
tap the Sending icon
(box&arrow) and select
send to home screen.
PRICE: FREE
WatchKnowLearn
www.watchknowlearn.or
g
There is NO APP for this
website – but it is
recommended that you
save a link to this site on
your IPad desktop
Go to the website then
tap the Sending icon
(box&arrow) and select
send to home screen.
PRICE: FREE
Gooru
Gooru provides a free
personalized learning solution
that enables teachers to find,
remix, and share collections of
web resources on any K-12 topic.
With millions of free multimedia
resources, quiz questions, and
data analytics, Gooru makes it
easy for teachers to address
individual students’ needs.
Find standards-aligned
multimedia learning materials
Remix web and original content
to create custom collections
Share collections with students to
meet their unique needs
Monitor students’ engagement,
comprehension, and progress
PRICE: FREE
Visual Schedules
First Then Visual Schedule
Use your own photos or add
photos from the built in
Internet image search
feature.
*Record your own voice to
the images.
*Create as many schedules
as you need.
*Change the order of a
schedule, anytime!
*Checklist feature.
*"Save and Share" schedules
via "File Sharing" on iTunes.
* Backup schedules via
iCloud.
* Email a PDF copy of a
schedule to print off at
home.
PRICE: 9.99
Visual Schedule Planner
IconCal
Choiceworks Calendar
WorkSystem
Visual Schedule Planner is
a completely
customizable visual
schedule iPad app that is
designed to give an
individual an audio/visual
representation of the
“events in their day". In
addition, events that
require more support can
be linked to an “activity
schedule” or “video clip”
to help model the task
even further.
The calendar for people
who hate using
calendars! -- IconCal is a
visual drag-and-drop
calendar that uses icons
to represent events and
appointments. Its simple
and intuitive interface
allows you to schedule an
appointment in seconds
with the flick of a finger.
The Choiceworks Calendar is a
powerful picture-based learning
tool that helps children learn
what is happening day-to-day
throughout each month. By
presenting the abstract concept
of time in a structured, visual
format, Choiceworks Calendar
helps children organize their lives
as well as understand sequence
and time. Built by the same
team that brought you the
award winning Choiceworks
App, the Choiceworks Calendar
is the first app of its kind to
provide a full-featured calendar
designed with both the child and
caregiver in mind.
A work system is a strategy that
addresses independence as an
essential outcome for students
with ASD. A work system, an
element of structured teaching,
is defined by Division TEACCH as
a systematic and organized
presentation of tasks and
materials that visually
communicates at least four
pieces of information to the
student (Schopler, Mesibov, &
Hearsey, 1995):
PRICE: 14.99
PRICE: 4.99
PRICE: 4.99
1. The tasks/steps the student is
supposed to do.
2. What is the nature of the task?
3. How many tasks/steps there
are to be completed.
4. How the student knows he/she
is finished.
PRICE: .99
Writing - Composition/Storytelling
Clicker Sentences
Develop emergent
writers' skills and build
struggling writers’
confidence with Clicker
Sentences - the definitive
early writing tool that
enables you to build
sentences with whole
words.
PRICE: 28.99
Clicker Connect
Clicker Connect enables
young learners and
struggling writers to take
their first steps to
independent writing by
using words and phrases
to build coherent text.
PRICE: 30.99
Clicker Books
Story Builder App
Pictello
Develop literacy skills and build
confidence with Clicker Books –
the book making app that
includes extensive support for
students of all abilities.
“This app gives children a
structure to work within but also
enough flexibility to produce
personalized books. Clicker’s
trump card is the inclusion of
their word and picture bank
tools to support learners further. I
would certainly recommend
Clicker Books for use across the
whole curriculum.”
Story Builder is designed to
help children accomplish the
following educational goals:
1) Improve paragraph
formation; 2) Improve
integration of ideas; and 3)
Improve higher level
abstractions by inference.
Extensive use of audio clips
promotes improved auditory
processing for special needs
children with autism
spectrum disorders or sensory
processing disorders.
PRICE: 30.99
PRICE: 7.99
Pictello is a simple way to
create visual stories and
talking books. Each page in
a Pictello Story can contain
a picture, a short video, up
to ten lines of text, and a
recorded sound or text-tospeech using natural
sounding voices. Stories can
be shared with other Pictello
users with iTunes File Sharing
or via WiFi through Dropbox
or a free account on the
Pictello Sharing Server. Stories
can be shared with nonPictello users as PDF files
through email, Dropbox, or
iTunes File Sharing.
PRICE: 18.99
Writing – Word Prediction
Clicker Docs
Co:Writer
Develop students’ writing
skills and build struggling
writers’ confidence with
Clicker Docs - the writing tool
that provides differentiated
support for students of all
abilities.
As letters are typed,
Co:Writer predicts the
intended word with a
selection of word suggestions
using powerful grammarsmart word prediction. These
suggestions can be read
aloud with a swipe. Selecting
the intended word places it
into the document. For
feedback while writing (and
after writing) built-in text to
speech can be used to read
letters, words, sentences,
and the entire document.
- Review writing with clear
speech
- Develop vocabulary and
spelling with word prediction
- build writing confidence
with word banks
- check words before they
are used
PRICE: 30.99
IWordQ
In Writing mode, a simple text
editor is used for writing with the
support of word prediction,
abbreviation-expansion and
speech feedback features. Spellcheck and dictionary access is
included. Use speech
recognition with an iPad 3, 4,
mini.
In Reading mode, text is shown in
a more visually pleasing manner
to improve readability. This is
used for proofreading, reading
to learn, silent reading, reading
aloud, and casual
reading/listening.
PRICE: 24.99
PRICE: 19.99
iReadWrite
Support features in
iReadWrite include:
Text-to-speech
Word Prediction
Phonetic Spell Checker
Homophone and
Confusables Checker
Dictionary
Picture Dictionary
Customizable
Background and Text
Colors
Choice of Voices and
Fonts
Importing and Sharing
documents
PRICE: 19.99
Abilipad
Abilipad is a customizable
keyboard and adaptive
notepad, with word
prediction and text-tospeech.
PRICE: 19.99
Writing – PDF Editing
Notability
ClaroPDF
iAnnotate PDF
Write, illustrate and annotate using
gorgeous ink. Notability's zoom
window helps you quickly and clearly
draw every detail, while the palm rest
protects your notes from unwanted
marks. Choose the right pen and
paper for any project.
Import forms, contracts, worksheets,
documents, presentations, and even
books; then use the same tools that
help you take beautiful notes in
Notability to mark up PDFs. Do you
have files in other formats such as
doc or ppt? Notability can import
these too thanks to Google Drive.
Type an essay, create an outline, fill
out an application, or make a list with
Notability's advanced word
processor. Choose a font, style, color,
and size that enhances your work.
Even place text exactly where you
want using text boxes.
ClaroPDF - an accessible,
reading and study PDF
tool for all. Annotate, mark
up and save PDF files
which are then still fully
compatible with Adobe
Reader and other popular
PDF apps. Have
accessible text PDF files
read back to you with a
human quality voice &
synchronized highlighting.
Top Notes
Use iAnnotate to read,
mark up, and share PDF,
DOC, PPT and image files!
TopNotes is the best note taking
app ever built for your iPad. It
has the most advanced
handwriting engine and a
robust notes management
system. With TopNotes, you can
take beautiful notes with your
iPad at anywhere, anytime, and
store them forever.
PRICE: 2.99
- IMPORT
PRICE: 4.99
- Annotate
- Customize
- Scroll
- Search
- Navigate
- Multitask
- READ
PRICE: 9.99
PDF Reader
EASY TO USE, EASY TO READ:
+ Simple and intuitive interface that
makes navigation a child’s play
+ Scroll through pages effortlessly
even when viewing larger files
+ Support all mainstream file formats
+ View PDFs in pure text mode
+ Extract text directly from PDFs
+ View B/O/T (Bookmark, Outline,
Thumbnail)
+ Text Reflow & Auto Flow
TopNotes has powerful features
for PDF documents, too! You
can read, annotate pdf files or
even fill out PDF forms! It also has
various export options to send
your documents via email or
upload them to Dropbox,
Google Drive and other clouds.
PDF ANNOTATION TOOLS:
+ Highlight, underline, squiggly and
strikeout text directly with your finger
+ Add sticky notes to jot down
comments, questions, or feedback
+ Stamp Tool - a simple way to
indicate the status of a file
+ Type on PDFs - Typewriter text
boxes supported
PRICE: FREE
PRICE: FREE
Utilities/Social Networking
Dropbox
Skype
Google Search
Dropbox lets you bring all
your photos, docs, and
videos anywhere and
share them easily. Access
any file you save to your
Dropbox from all your
computers, iPhone, iPad,
and the web. With
Dropbox you’ll always
have your important
memories and work with
you.
• Find all your friends and
family in an instant - With
over 300 million people using
Skype, you’re bound to
bump into someone you
know.
Google Now
automatically gives you
the information you need
throughout your day:
• Start the morning with
weather, news & traffic
• Get updates on sports,
movies & events
• Ask for a reminder to
“buy milk at the store”
PRICE: FREE
• Talk with your fingers - No
matter where you are, your
friends are always available
with free messaging.
• Call your world from Skype
- Free voice and video calls
let you talk to your heart’s
content with all your friends
and family on Skype.
PRICE: FREE
Talk to Google:
• Say “Ok Google” and
ask questions out loud*
• Google speaks the
answer back to you
PRICE: FREE
Facebook
Keeping up with friends is faster
than ever.
• See what friends are up to
• Share updates, photos and
videos
• Get notified when friends like
and comment on your posts
• Text, chat and have group
conversations
• Play games and use your
favorite apps
PRICE: FREE
Pandora
Great music discovery is
effortless and free with
Pandora. Just start with the
name of one of your favorite
artists, songs, genres or
composers and we will do
the rest. It’s easy to create
personalized stations that
play only music you’ll love.
Tap into an entire world of
music, including almost a
century of popular
recordings - new and old,
well known and obscure.
Create up to 100
personalized radio stations
with your free account.
PRICE: FREE
Built in Resources
 Camera: Use the camera to take pictures of outfits that go
together, what the room should look like when its clean, how
much soap to use for laundry, landmarks, bus stops, etc.
 Siri: can use those small buttons? Just talk!
 Maps: tell Siri your destination and she will guide you there one
step at a time
 Reminders: Use for everything, lists, meds, homework, etc.
 Notes: good for letters, short assignments, important
information – works with Siri.
 iBooks: Access to thousands of e-books, many for FREE