"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter the way you meet them." Phyllis Bottome

Tuesday, 18 October 2011

Great Apps

 How Would You Feel If $5.99: The application is made up of a deck of 56 illustrated cards with audio that teach social skills by giving situations for students to think about and discuss. It also has a feature where teachers can track students success.

Speech Tutor 1.0 Speech Tutor $9.99: This app would work wonderfully in conjunction with the LIPS program. "Speech Tutor take the areas of the face that impede the view of tongue placement and positioning and make them transparent. Now one can literally see inside the mouth as the sounds are being made!... Also provided is detailed text specific to each sound that further describes how each sound is technically made, tips provided by licensed speech and language pathologists, and milestones for when each sound should be acquired and mastered."


  Hidden Curriculum for Kids $1.99: This app provides a tool for teaching the unwritten curriculum that exists within schools. Often these unwritten rules are things that many people take for granted, so having a tool like this to make the teaching explicit could be invaluable. 


 Eye Contact - Toy Box $2.99: This app teaches the social skill of making eye contact in a way in which the child can control and gives them fast and fun reinforcements. 


 Grace Picture Exchange for Non-Verbal Students $37.99:This is an application designed for non-verbal students as a tool to help them communicate. It is designed to "encourage independent social interaction" for non-verbal students. Students build sentences using a series of pictures which they can share.


Faces iMake: This is a wonderful, playful application that promotes students creativity by making collages using everyday materials.


 ABA Flashcard Games, $free: This application teaches students how to recognize emotions by using photographs of actual pictures. It has over 20 different emotions and you can make up your own cards and add your own voice.




 First Then Visual Schedule: Visual Schedule for students needing structure. It features three different screen options, full screen, split screen showing two images with an arrow between or a list. It also has features such as adding voices to images, checklist, adding your own photos.







 Mermaid Waters Adventures of Hana and Cory $Free - Great bright graphics, games with sound effects for teaching number recognition, counting, sizes and basic addition.


 Kid Genius $0.99 - This application has 13 fun games for students to learn basic reading, writing and math skills.


Read Me Stories $free: Students get a new book every day that teaches literacy and social skills. Books are filled with bright pictures and words are highlighted as story is read.