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100+ Best Autism Apps

This might seem like an overwhelming blog post- 100+ Best Apps for Learning Disabled and Special Needs Students. It’s not. I worked very hard to make it manageable for parents. After all, this was previously 6 or 7 separate blog posts. I heard from lots of readers who couldn’t remember where they had seen a particular app. Then we’d comb over the posts together until we found it. Now, all in one spot. I try to keep the links current, so please let me know if you find one that doesn’t work so I can fix it.

And, this time, they are categorized and numbered. You’re welcome!

Writing Apps

1. Chicktionary Coop – A Multiplayer Word Game – Blockdot, Inc.
2. First Words At Home – EZ Apps, Inc.
3. iWriteWords (Handwriting Game) – gdiplus
4. Word Magic – Anusen Inc
5. SpellBoard – PalaSoftware Inc.

Reading Apps

• 1. ABC Animals – Critical Matter, Inc.
  2. ABC PocketPhonics: letter sounds & writing + first words – Apps in My Pocket Ltd
  3. Alphabet Animals – Ventura Educational Systems
  4. Curious George’s Dictionary for iPad – ScrollMotion
  5. The Emperor’s New Clothes Storybook HD – Smash Atom Software LLC
  6. eTextbooks for the iPad – CourseSmart LLC
  7. iReading HD – Goldilocks and the Three Bears – Dam Chen
  8. ICDL – Free Books for Children – International Children’s Digital Library – ICDL Foundation
  9. iLook – White on Black Picture Book – ComputerNet Technologies
  10. IMotherGoose Presents The Night Before Christmas – iReadAndLearn.com
  11. iStoryTime Kids Books – Binky the Pink Elephant – zuuka incorporated
  12. Free Books – 23,469 classics to go. – Spreadsong, Inc.
  13. See Read Say – 2BPM Software
  14. Achieve It With Sesame Street – Sesame Street
  15. Line & Verse – Elsewise LLC
  16. Stories2Learn – MDR
  17. StoryKit – ICDL Foundation
  18. Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat Color & Create! – Random House Digital, Inc.
  19. The Three Little Pigs – LAZ Reader [Level F–first grade] – Language Technologies, Inc.
  20. weesay ABC – Digit

Song Apps

Great for those beginning to vocalize.

• 1. Five Little Monkeys With Nothing to Do – Oceanhouse Media
  2. Nursery Rhymes Tap – Little Ones Studio, LLC
  3. Kids Songs – Alkeo
  4. The Wheels on the Bus – All In One Educational Activity Center and Sing Along – Kids Games Club
  5. Best Kids Songs · Stories – Samsung Publishing Ltd.
  6. Old MacDonald Had A Farm – Perplext™
  7. Puff the Magic Dragon
  8. Toddler Jukebox: 6 free songs – Tipitap Inc.

Auditory Processing Disorder Apps

1. ABC PocketPhonics: letter sounds & writing + first words – Apps in My Pocket Ltd(phonological processing)
2. Tap Drums FREE – Victor Ren (pattern recognition/sequencing)
3. Simon- – Horizon Business, Inc. (temporal processing)
4. SONUS (ONE) – Matthew Applegate (temporal processing)
5. Kids Can Match – Animals, vocal memory game for children: full version HD! – Kids Place – Auditory Memory
6. Tap Tap Voices
7. White Noise – TMSOFT

Accessibility Apps

1. BigNames – Large-Text Contact List – xinsight
2. Braille Visual Translator for iPhone – Marco Savaresi
3. iHear Dialer – KayZee Solutions
4. AmpUp – Harman International Industries
5. iOS Voice Command Basics – Sugar Coded Apps
6. Web Reader – Text to Speech – Chris Chauvin

Autism Apps including Sensory or Social Skills Deficits

1. Look in My Eyes–clever way to help children with autism develop the habit of looking in the eyes of another person.
2. proloquo2Go- this must-have app provides you with alternative and augmentative communication features for children that have speech/language difficulties. The program contains text-to-speech voices, up-to-date symbols, a default vocabulary, and much more. Speech/Language therapists, teachers, and parents recommend the program for children and adults not only with autism but also for cerebral palsy, Down Syndrome, apraxia, ALS, developmental disabilities, and stroke or traumatic brain injury. Proloquo is considered by many to be the gold standard in communication apps and it’s a bit spendy. But, they have offered it at 50% off on World Autism Day, so check back.
3. Autism Express–facial expression and emotions are some of the most difficult things for people with Autism to interpret. This program helps Autistic individuals recognize and express their emotions through fun and easy interface games. The application is also available for free!
4. Model Me Going Places–great program that models social skills to kids in various settings like the playground, mall, restaurant, doctor, grocery store, and getting a haircut. It plays through each setting with pictures, text, and audio as you flip-touch through each page and “social story”. Perfect for kids with ASD to help with social skill building and understanding social situations.Plus it is free!
5. Stories 2 learn–create personalized social stories using photos, text, and audio messages for autistic kids that have difficulties with communication, transitioning, excursions, or routings. Easy to create sentences by just arranges pictures in a sentence. This program can be effective for children with ASD or others with special needs that do well with visual prompts.$13.99
6. icommunicate–amazing program that allows you to customize your in any language by creating pictures, flashcards, storyboards, vital schedules, routines, and custom audio. There are 100+ pictures to get you started and you can add pictures with the google search or your camera.
7. Grace–designed by Lisa Domican, a mother of two autistic children in Ireland-this application’s idea is to gracefully help autistic and other special needs children effectively communicate by building sentences from relevant images. You easily customize the app by using picture and photo vocabulary of your choice. The idea behind Grace is to ensure interaction of the user with the listener, and mutual understanding of the user’s real communication needs and build trust.
8. Tap to Talk Education– pretty, cool “game-like” device to teach communication. Tap the picture and the Tap to Talk speaks.With over 2,000 pictures and the ability to add your own photos and sounds, this program allows you to create a very individualized album for your autistic child. Plus it is amazingly….free!
9. My Talk Mobile Actions–useful app that enables people with communication difficulties to express their needs to those around them through pictures, images, symbols, and audio files including a human voice. Turns your iPad into an alternative communication device (AAC).
10. iConverse– this program is more like a picture exchange board (PEC) that provides the user tiles to choose from with both audio and visual. This is perfect for the ASD child that has communication difficulties.
11. Autism Tracker Lite-Autism Tracker can be life changing for families with an autistic child. Explore Autism. Track what matters to your child and your family. Use the visual calendar and multi-item graphs to view and discuss patterns. Share individual events or entire screens with your team using Dropbox, email or Twitter (Twitter lets you set up closed groups).
12. Touch and Learn Emotions-helps reinforce learning emotions of others by what their body language and expression is.
13. Turn Taker-Turn Taker uses visual and audio cues to facilitate turn taking and sharing for any child. The app also includes an illustrated social story about game play and sharing. This app has been used successfully with a variety of young children who find it difficult to share.
14. Manners Social Stories-This app includes a 10 page social story about why it is important to be polite, and how to have good manners. The app also includes a simple visual support for using the polite phrases from the story.
15. Autism iHelp, WH questions-Autism iHelp is a vocabulary teaching aid developed by parents of a child with Autism and a speech-language pathologist. Autism iHelp was inspired by the need for specific language intervention tools for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder focusing on their unique strengths and difficulty with expressive vocabulary.
16. Social Skill Builder-2 modules in the title Preschool Playtime (Preschool & Playground), 13 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)
17. Social Comprehension-Social Comprehension is an app dedicated to helping people of all ages, particularly teens with Autism and other special needs. This will help with their understanding of various social situations, teaching them how to interact and study with their peers.
18. Autism Emotion– Autism Emotion uses music and a photo slideshow to help teach about different emotions.
19. Autism iHelp, Language Concepts-Autism iHelp is a vocabulary teaching aid developed by parents of a child with Autism and a speech-language pathologist. Autism iHelp was inspired by the need for specific language intervention tools for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder focusing on their unique strengths and difficulty with expressive vocabulary.
20. Autism Apps– If my list isn’t good enough or big enough for you, then check out Autism Apps. Autism Apps is simply a comprehensive list of apps that are being used with and by people diagnosed with autism, Down syndrome and other special needs. It also includes links to any available information that can be found for each app. The Apps are also separated into over 30 categories, and the descriptions are all searchable, so any type of app is easy to find and download.

ABA apps

1. ABA Flash Cards – Alphabet – Kindergarten.com
2. ABA Flash Cards – Animals – Kindergarten.com
3. ABA Problem Solving Game – Which Go Together? – Kindergarten.com
4. ABA Receptive Identification – Kindergarten.com
5. ABA Problem Solving Game – What Rhymes? – Kindergarten.com
6. ABA Receptive Identification – By Class – Kindergarten.com
7. ABA Flash Cards – Food – Kindergarten.com
8. ABA Sight Words – Kindergarten.com
9. ABA Flash Cards & Games – Emotions – Innovative Mobile Apps
10. ABA – Problem Solving – What does not belong? – Innovative Mobile Apps

Best Speech Therapy apps-developed by a Speech Pathologist

Speech Therapy Apps-Articulation and Phonology

1. Articulation Carnival
2. Articulation Vacation
3. Articulation Games
4. Phonological processes

Speech Therapy Apps-Apraxia

• Apraxia Rainbowbee

Speech Therapy Apps-Auditory Processing

1. Auditory Workout
2. Auditory Processing Studio
3. School of Multi Step Directions
4. Auditory Reasoning
5. Auditory Memory Ride

Speech Therapy Apps-Social Skills/Autism

1. Social Norms
2. Social Skills with Billy

Speech Therapy Apps-Language and Vocabulary

1. Syntax Workout
2. Sentence Workout
3. Real Vocabulary
4. Seasonal Directions

Miscellaneous Autism and other Apps

1. DAF Assistant – Fluency-DAF Assistant implements Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF) and Frequency-shifting Auditory Feedback (FAF) techniques that are known to help people with stuttering to speak more fluently.
2. Expressionist – AdastraSoft
3. iCommunicate. – Grembe Inc.
4. iConverse – Assisted Communication – Xcellent Creations, Inc.(AAC)
5. In My Dreams – DevelopEase, llc
6. iPrompts-StoryMaker for Social Stories – Handhold Adaptive, LLC
7. Learn To Talk First Words – Preschool,Kindergarten Flashcards – Thunderloop
8. Locabulary Lite – Red Mountain Labs, Inc.
9. Look2Learn – AAC – MDR
10. ABA Flash Cards
11. ArtikPix – Expressive Solutions LLC
12. Speech Journal – Mobile Education Store LLC
13. Model Me Going Places 2 – Model Me Kids, LLC
14. MyTalkTools Mobile Lite – 2nd Half Enterprises LLC(AAC)
15. Pocket Artic – Synapse Apps, LLC
16. Proloquo2Go – AssistiveWare – AAC Full site
17. Sentence Builder App – Abitalk Incorporated
18. Sign 4 Me for iPad – A Signed English Translator – Vcom3D
19. Sign Smith ASL Essential – Vcom3D ASL
20. Smart Oral Motor – Smarty Ears
21. iSpeech Text To Speech Pro – iSpeech, Inc.
22. Visual Schedule – DataNull Software
23. TapSpeak Button Standard for iPad – Ted Conley
24. Voice4u – Spectrum Visions
25. Autism iHelp – WH Questions – John Talavera
26. Articulation Station Pro – Little Bee Speech 3-7 years old

How about some Autism Apps for Christmas?