Apps for Children with Special Needs
Conversation Builder™
[1]Conversation Builder™ is an interactive conversation simulator designed to help elementary aged children learn how to introduce themselves, ask questions, make observations and change the subject of the conversation in a variety of social settings.
Price at time of review: $19.99
Read Full BridgingApps Review [3]
See. Touch. Learn.™
[4]See. Touch. Learn.™ is a free picture learning system designed by professionals specifically for those with autism and other special needs. It improves upon traditional picture cards by offering a richer interface with sounds and animation, more flexibility, increased portability, and a significant cost savings.
Price at time of review: FREE
Read Full BridgingApps Review [6]
Dr. Brown’s Autism/DTT Apps
[7]Dr. Brown’s Autism/DTT Apps use Discrete Trial Training (DTT ) to help children learn to recognize letters, numbers, colors, shapes and words. DTT is the highly effective teaching method used by Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA).
Price at time of review: $6.99
Amazon.com [8]
Dexteria
[9]Dexteria is a set of therapeutic hand exercises (not games) that improves fine motor skills and handwriting readiness in children and adults. Dexteria’s unique hand and finger exercises take full advantage of the iPad’s multi-touch interface to help build strength, control, and dexterity.ABOUT: Gary James and a4cwsn is committed to helping the families and carers of children with special needs and the wider community of educators and therapists who support them, by producing videos that demonstrate how products designed to educate children and build their life skills really work from a user perspective.
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This post originally appeared on our July/August 2011 Magazine [21]