Going Mobile - Apps for Life

Apps for use with young children and students with disabilities

My Smart Hands Baby Sign Language Dictionary

This app, geared to very young users, contains over 300 signs that you access in an alphabetical list.  It is available in a “lite” (i.e., free) version as well as a more complete version for purchase.     An adult demonstrates the sign while verbally describing what one does to form the sign.  The short video below demonstrates the features of this app.

Smart Hands is an approach that is used in classes that teach parents to communicate with their pre-verbal young children via sign.  Two videos below demonstrate this use of the product.

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.1.3 or later

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iASL Translator

The  iASL app from BKS Technologies will translate English words and phrases to American Sign Language.  This application features a video dictionary of more than 5,800 signs, however the developer points out that because the application has the ability to combine words to make sentences, the communication possibilities are practically endless

 

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.1.2 or later

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