Avaz is a full-featured AAC app. Avaz has been developed for children who are non-verbal or who have difficulty speaking. Avaz has been designed with the aim to help autistic children to communicate and develop an intent to learn. Avaz has numerous personalization and customization options. It also has features like multiple sensory reinforcement, picture prediction, tracing of therapy sessions, integrated keyboard and text mode, all of which makes it extremely easy for the child to use. Avaz grows with the child.
Visual Routine is a simple, easy to program visual schedule that helps your autistic or special needs child keep a routine. Routines can be tailored to specific needs with audio feedback, and customizable pictures, audio, and text. Instead of carrying around pecs or a laminated schedule, this app will let you have routines preset and then run them to show the child in an easy way what they have to do. This app serves as a visualization tool for routines, providing portability, audio support, and easy to understand graphics.
For a demo of Visual Routine, watch the video below:
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
EASe Listening Therapy app was developed for children with autism and other sensory processing disorders (SPD), who often respond to noise with exaggerated reactions and behavioral or learning issues.
EASe uses music to deliver short, intense bursts of sound, creating a sensory palette of sonic experiences that can help a child learn to cope with typical environmental conditions. There are three versions of EASe: EASe Lite, EASe Personal, and EASe Pro.
For a quick demo of EASe Listening Therapy, watch the video below:
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
Story Patch is an application for the iPad that can be used to create picture books. With hundreds of included images, easy-to-use controls, and the ability to import photos, you will be able to create stories in no time. Story Patch comes with over 800 illustrations, characters that can be customized, easy to use controls, story themes, and the ability to import photos and share stories with friends and family.
For a demo of Story Patch, watch the video below:
Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.
Storyrobe is an innovative tool for creative self expression with the digital media that matters most – your own. You can share your story with other Storyrobe users. Add to existing stories to create longer stories of travels, events, or family history. You can use it for work, school, or just to share stories with friends and family.
For a demo of Storyrobe, watch the video below:
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
Ablah is an augmentative communication tool designed to help all people who have some type of language disorder. This app supports voice output in Spanish and English. Beyond a simple communication program, Ablah allows therapists and parents who live or work with people with language disorders such as autism, afasianentre Down syndrome or others to improve their quality of life and improve interaction with their environment. It is as simple as choosing an image and assigning a sound.
To see a demonstration of Ablah using the Spanish language, watch the video below:
Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
ConversationBuilder is a must-have application for every speech language pathologist. This app prompts students through each stage of an interactive conversation and records their spoken responses. At the end of each session, the entire conversation is played back at a natural pace so that students can hear themselves successfully exchanging comments with their virtual peers. Recorded conversations can be stored and even emailed to teachers and parents.
ConversationBuilder is designed to help children learn how to have multi-exchange 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.
For a tutorial on ConversationBuilder, watch the video below:
Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 and later.
Time Timer app provides a visual representation of the time remaining that is easily recognizable without the need to understand clocks or numbers. The Time Timer app displays time as a red disk that quietly gets smaller as time elapses. Individuals understand that when the red is gone, time is up! Features in Time Timer are: Quick Start; Play a Timer; Create and Save Timers; Total Flexibility, Awake Mode; and Make Every Moment Count.
For a demo of Time Timer, watch the video below:
Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
SymbolSupport is an assistive word processor automatically translating words into pictures and symbols, a task that is especially helpful for students with cognitive disabilities. Users can create new documents or copy and paste work from other apps into SymbolSupport, and the program will convert the text into symbols. SymbolSupport is an easy way to add symbols and speech to text. Documents can be read with a high quality text-to-speech voice while text is highlighted word by word. This app is intended to help learners with an intellectual disability or autism access important information like class assignments, step-by-step instructions, and social stories. Documents created in SymbolSupport can also be read with the free SymbolSupport Viewer app. You can email your symbolized documents as images or PDFs.
Sosh is a mobile app designed to help ‘tweens, teens, and young adults improve social skills. It is especially designed to be used by individuals with Asperger’s Syndrome. Sosh focuses on five essential abilities for social skills development: Relate, Relax, Reason, Regulate, and Recognize. These “5R’s” serve as a road map for individuals who want to be social, but may have faced obstacles in the past, and also serve as a guide for parents, teachers, and therapists hoping to encourage and assist individuals with their social goals.
Sosh contains over 60 screens presenting exercises, strategies, and practical information to work through social situations in a step-by-step manner. And, most importantly, the app encourages you to work on these skills during everyday interactions, when learning is most likely to occur.
Features include: Get Out and Explore Companion; Feelings Identifier and Perspective Meter; Transition Timer; Relaxation Strategies; Problem Solver; Behavior Tracking and Monitoring; Individualized Education Program (IEP) Recommendations; Feedback Form for Teachers, Parents, and Therapists, and much more……
For a series of feature demonstrations on the Sosh app, watch the videos below:
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.