Going Mobile - Apps for Life

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

Sign Smith ASL Series

Sign Smith , by Vcom3dD, has developed a series of three different Sign Language apps geared to  adults learning basic ASL and for children who are learning sign and reading.  The LITE version is free, containing 20 signs that are helpful in learning greetings and basic words.  The ESSENTIAL version   contains 100 signs.  It will teach you the ASL Alphabet, how to count to 20, and basic feelings and personal descriptions.   The ULTIMATE version contains more than 1,200 signs.   The SigningAvatar®
characters show you how to sign the ASL Alphabet, count, communicate at work, at school and other settings.  View a short video demonstrating this app.

Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 2.0 or later

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