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.
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.
ABC Data Pro is a multi-mode data collection app. ABC Data Pro is designed to assist professionals and students in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), special education, school psychology, and clinical psychology, as well as researchers conducting observational studies. ABC Data Pro is an unobstrusive data collection tool for: behavior and/or event counting; partial interval recording; full interval recording; and ABC (FBA) recording. Sessions are stored on the iPhone/iPod touch and may be viewed in full detail. Automatic summary analysis is presented for count and interval modes. The user may also email the data. Data output is in a time-based index of each event.
ABC Data Pro offers: a primary interface of nine recording buttons; ABC (FBA) recording utilizes 3 screens, Antecedent, Behavior, and Consequence, each with 9 buttons; and the ability to email session data in CSV to multiple individuals including oneself.
Skill Tracker Pro automates ABA therapy (Applied Behavioral Analysis) instruction for children with Autism. Skill Tracker Pro allows unlimited clients and observers, video capture and charting/export of all data. The Skill Data Collection Methods include: Skill Acquisition; Mand Acquisition; Rate of Manding; and Prompt Fading.
This app has a built in library with hundreds of skills and targets that can be assigned to the clients’ curriculum. During data collection, skills and targets are automatically randomized, or the user can choose which target to test, one at a time. Skill Tracker Pro is very flexible and each student can be configured differently. Use skills and targets from the built-in skill library or add your own. STP provides a methodical approach to skill testing, prevents testing targets unnecessarily thus avoiding frustration. Prompt level tracking also helps avoid prompt dependency.
To view a general overview of Skill Tracker Pro, watch the video below:
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
Social Skills (S2L) offers parents and educators the ability to interact with six social narratives (broken into 2 levels which give a total possible of 12 social narratives) designed to help individuals improve their social ability. With S2L, the stories contain targeted instruction in the following core areas: Joint Attention; Non-Verbal Communication; Greetings; Structured Game Play; Turn Taking; Classroom Rules; and Imitation. In addition to using the specific content, users can modify the stories by adding different photos, text, as well as audio.
AutismTrack™ (by HandHold Adaptive®, makers of iPrompts®) is a journaling tool that empowers caregivers of those with autism to easily track interventions, behaviors and symptoms.
Checkboxes allow daily recording of any therapy, medicine or diet. Simple “sliders” allow rating of any behavior or symptom (e.g., eye contact, aggression and echolalic speech).
AutismTrack™ can help parents of children with ASD answer the ongoing and ever-puzzling question: “What seems to be working, and what’s not?” Daily log screens provide a snapshot of any particular day’s interventions and behaviors. Users may also graph symptoms and monitor compliance over periods of time. These daily logs and trend reports may be emailed (in PDF format), so that parents and other caregivers can review useful information on their search to discover the unique patterns and trends experienced by individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). AutismTrack™ gives parents more control.
Some features of AutismTrack are: it takes only a few minutes to enter the day’s information, information is entered in a simple, easily understood format; caregivers can customize their journaling by adding their own interventions and behaviors to the standard data sets available within the app, and can add notes to supplement compliance checklists and sliding-scale behavior ratings; multiple caregivers can track a single child, AutismTrack™ runs on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad (an Internet connection is required); tracked data is available in an emailable and printable form; and caregivers who register to use AutismTrack™ can rest assured that if their device gets lost or breaks, data is recoverable through HandHold Adaptive’s secure server.
iPrompts®, the original picture-based prompting app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, is used by parents, special educators and therapists of those with disabilities, iPrompts® also works great with kids who just need more structure.
iPrompts® can be used to make PICTURE SCHEDULES. This feature allows caregivers to create and present sequences of pictures, guiding individuals through activities of any sort. Schedules can have many pictures, captions can be edited for each image, allowing users to create simple SOCIAL STORIES. Users can choose from hundreds of stock photos and illustrations provided by iPrompts®, add their own digital pictures (e.g., “on the fly” using built-in cameras), or add a picture from a Web-enabled search.
iPrompts has a VISUAL COUNTDOWN TIMER. This feature displays an image of the user’s choice along with a graphical countdown timer (set to any duration), and is useful for demonstrating how much time is left until a current activity ends, or before the next pictured activity begins.
iPrompts can be used to design CHOICE PROMPTS. This feature allows caregivers to offer choices between images, empowering those who cannot vocalize their preferences. When rotated horizontally, the Choice Prompt and Picture Schedule features enlarge and orient images for display to individuals needing visual support.
iPrompts has an IMAGE LIBRARY. The “starter” library includes hundreds of useful illustrations and digital pictures across many categories. Additional categories and pictures may be supplied by users. The Library search feature can be used to bring up both “local” results and images from the Web, which may then be saved permanently. Users may also duplicate or delete images, and edit their captions.
This version of iPrompts® is designed for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It will run on the iPad in “compatibility mode” (stretchable graphics). For native iPad resolution, download iPrompts® XL!
This app , a product from Good Karma Applications, is a tool to support interventions that use visual supports to communicate abstract concepts such as time and sequencing of events (e.g., this comes first, this comes next). The app is completely customizable. Users can record their own voice, add their own images from their computer or other device, or use images from the app’s photo library to create a schedule. This app. was designed for the iTouch/iPhone but WILL work on the iPad providing you have the iOS 4.2 update. Three screen formats arre available:
Full Screen- In this format a larger image appears on the screen. User accesses next image on schedule by simply swiping screen to the left.
First-Then Screen- This format shows two images side by side with an arrow between images to guide the sequence of the activity. This is often a visual that is given to portray conditional statements. For example, ”First bathroom, then computer”. This helps let the user know what is coming up next. Split screen can be read left to right with captions underneath each image, or top to bottom of screen with schedule scrolling down to see next image in the schedule.
List Screen – This screen allows images to be listed in a list format where four images are placed on schedule. This is great for a schedule for a child that is very familiar with a system of picture exchange or is not as easily distracted by upcoming activities.
The app also incorporates a checklist feature, which can be turned on or off. When on, a checkmark can be added to a picture to indicate that a task has been completed.
A product developed by Marz Consulting, Behavior Tracker Pro allows the user to collect, track, and graph data. It can also be exported to a computer for further use. According to the developers, the app supports an unlimited number of children and observers. Further, if your device has a video camera, the app incorporates an option to record video for later review. Finally, you can upload data to the developer’s secure website for advanced online charting and other uses.
The specific forms of data collection supported are: ABC, frequency, duration, high frequency, and interval recording. You can produce graphs that display frequency, duration, or rate. While the app was designed with the needs of individuals with autism in mind, it is useful for a range of other students and uses.
A video of the features of Behavior Pro update 3.0 can be viewed below:
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
This video is an Autism Hangout interview with Lisa and Jeffrey Johnson, founders of Grembe Apps. This company focuses on developing apps that address the needs of individuals with autism. Some of their products are demonstrated in this video, emphasizing their value for individuals who benefit from visual support strategies.