Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Detailed Lisitng of iPad Apps Created by Therapists and Child Development Specialists

This is a very detailed list initiate and compiled by Jennifer Hembree with the help of many different specialized therapists.

Hopefully it a helpful resource to parents, grandparents, therapists, teachers, and anyone else working with kids.


Therapist Recommended ipad Apps:

- Two apps to check daily and they provide all of the apps that go on sale free for the day. One is called “Freebies” and the other Appshopper
- There are lots of book applications, I have toy story, a little critters story by Mercer Mayer entitle “the new baby” MeeGenius,

Cognitive
- PreschoolMM: nice older memory matching game for children
- ABC Magnets: is a picture of a fridge with tons of fridge magnets all over it kids scan the fridge for the letters find the requested letter, find the letters in their name, upper and lower case matching
- Baby Shapes: good for teaching shapes
- Kids simon says: it is for older children the children watch and listen to the animal sounds pattern and then press the animals in the correct order back.
-Photo Touch Concepts-Child identifies photos according to size and location.  Helps with following directions and making comparisons.
- Touch and Learn Emotions: Child first identifies boys versus girls and adults versus children by touching the appropriate photographs.  Then child identifies people according to emotions
-StoryPatch: Child makes a story with or without help by using the many available illustrations.  It takes child through each step so the child can choose a story theme, setting, and characters.  The child can upload photos, edit the text that is provided, or write his/her own text using the keyboard.  The child cannot draw his/her own pictures.  Story can be viewed on the computer and printed.
- StoryBuddy: Child makes a story by writing (using a keyboard), drawing, and or uploading photos.  This app is more open ended then Story Patch and does not provide story themes, settings, or characters.
-Toontastic: Child makes a talking cartoon by creating 5 scenes (the set up, the conflict, the challenge, the climax, and the resolution).  The child can pick from illustrated setting and characters or draw his/her own.  The child “animates” the cartoon by recording the story, moving the characters, and adding music.  It can take a little while to create the cartoon but the end result is really cool
-Pennultimate: Child makes notebooks.  Child can upload photos to the pages and draw or write (with a finger or stylus) on the pages.
- Storylines: 2 or more children create a silly story by passing the iPad back and forth.  Each child adds a drawing or text to the last part of the story.  It’s like the game of “telephone” with pictures.
-Monkeys pre school lunchbox: visual perception, counting, shapes, and colors.
-ABCpuzzles: helps your child develop critical thinking and mental reasoning skills thus expanding a very important part of their mind.
-Paint Sparkles Draw: Paint Sparkles Draw introduces children to the names of all basic colors while developing their sense of vision and creativity.
- Puzzles HD: Let your child explore a bright, colorful and altogether magical world of both classical and special video puzzles where the puzzles comes to life on completion.
­- Shape-O: an activity for preschool age kids that encourages "learning by doing" by integrating puzzles, shapes, words, colors and sounds
-Zoo Train: A fun & educational bundle of games for toddlers and preschoolers featuring two kid favorites: animals and trains! Kids enjoy learning as they play the 5 different games plus a bonus sticker activity.
- Peek-a-boo Barn: Work with your child to learn the names of animals and hear the sounds they make.
- Peek-a-boo Wild: Work with your child to learn the names of animals and hear the sounds they make.

- Color SlapPs: Color SLapPs was created to help teach children identify the names of twelve different colors.

- ABA Flash Cards-Actions: At Kindergarten.com our flash cards are specifically created to stimulate learning and provide tools and strategies for creative, effective language building. Flash cards can be a great tool for fostering the mastery of new words, building vocabulary and conveying new concepts.

- Toddler Flashcards: Toddler Flashcards (by iTot Apps) is a great tool to help children (and even babies) learn basic words.

- Tap Tap Baby: is a wonderful app that has a number of screens (animal sounds, tapping for picture effects, etc.) This simple yet clever game will hold the attention of children ages 0 to 3.

- Kids Learning- Photo Touch Concepts: Photo Touch Concepts is an exciting educational game that helps your child rapidly learn to understand important concepts by sight, sound, and touch

- Peek-a-boo Guess Who?: Amazing animal sounds - Great educational experience for children to learn about different animals, and the real sounds they make

- Where’s Mommy?: "Where's Mommy" is a kid’s seek-and-match game that can be customized with your own photos and audio recordings.



Auditory

- BabyPianoHD: nice musical keyboard
- Snow Rattle: is my most favorite for children with special abilities, it is sun that dances around the screen and bumps into the sides and it goes to the tune of jingle bells. If you hit the sun the sun speeds up and moves faster.  If you touch another spot on the screen something else will pop up so you can get a shift of attention.
-Sound Touch- Child touches a cartoon image of an animal, household item, musical instrument, or vehicle from a field of 12 choices.  When child makes a choice, child sees and hears a real-life photograph.  This helps with vocabulary.   Adults can expand upon the game by talking about the items.
- SoundTchLite: Similar to I hear EWE, you can play what animal makes this sound while you cover the screen and let them listen.
- Kids simon says: it is for older children the children watch and listen to the animal sounds pattern and then press the animals in the correct order back.
- Sounds: it is a game where you are given a choice of three things and you have to touch the one that made the sound given.
- Ilovefireworks lite (free): tap the screen and create a neat fireworks display, the longer you touch/press the screen  the bigger the bang it simulates.
- Sound Shaker: It lets children create and play with chime, whistle, drum, barnyard animal and mystery sounds by simply tapping and tilting. Repeated taps generate new sounds, while longer taps grow sounds and trigger surprise animations. Tilting makes sounds spin and collide in whimsical combinations.


Visual
- Butterflieslite: I use this app to test for tracking, color preference, shifting attention
- First Look: is a nice black and white picture application, plus story books
- eFlashEnglish: I use this app when I’m trying to figure out what types of pictures a child can see, or recognize, I may find similar pictures and present them on smaller regular cards so I would say the child could see these exact pictures on my I pad because it was illuminated but could/ could not see the details on a laminated sheet.  Also just good for single presentation pictures.
- Snow Rattle: is my most favorite for children with special abilities, it is sun that dances around the screen and bumps into the sides and it goes to the tune of jingle bells. If you hit the sun the sun speeds up and moves faster.  If you touch another spot on the screen something else will pop up so you can get a shift of attention.
- I hear Ewe: is great for determining PEC symbol sizes for children, scanning, and image detail
- ABC Magnets: is a picture of a fridge with tons of fridge magnets all over it kids scan the fridge for the letters find the requested letter, find the letters in their name, upper and lower case matching
- aXylophone: is a really colourful and easy to use tap touch musical application for children with limited movement.
- Day-Night...Black white: good app for looking at opposites, supplement with concrete examples as well.
- Ilovefireworks lite (free): tap the screen and create a neat fireworks display, the longer you touch/press the screen  the bigger the bang it simulates.

Language
- Language Builder by Mobile Education Tools: Child uses a sentence to describe a picture.  Children can record and play back their sentences.
- Conversation Builder by Mobile Education Tools: Child practices conversation skills by recording a conversation with a pretend peer.  Child can play back conversation.
- Story Builder by Mobile Education Tools: Child makes stories by answering questions about a picture.  Child records and plays back story.
- Question Builder by Mobile Education Tools: Child answers what, where, how, and/or why questions about a picture by selecting the correct answer from 3 choices.
- ArtikPix: This app is for speech language pathologists (SLPs).  The SLP uses this program with children who have articulation difficulties (difficulty producing a speech sound).  The student can record words and sentences and hear his/her own voice.  It includes flashcards with all the speech sounds.
- Word SlapPs: Word SlapPs is used to teach vocabulary words specific to your child’s world with images that you choose. Upload and save your images into customizable categories and pair them with your own recorded questions.
- Tap2Talk: turns ipad into an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device
- ABA Flash Cards-Actions: At Kindergarten.com our flash cards are specifically created to stimulate learning and provide tools and strategies for creative, effective language building. Flash cards can be a great tool for fostering the mastery of new words, building vocabulary and conveying new concepts.

- Toddler Flashcards: Toddler Flashcards (by iTot Apps) is a great tool to help children (and even babies) learn basic words.

-Choice Board Creator: It is an excellent tool to train and prepare users for more sophisticated communication devices via an easy, simple-to-use choice-making platform.

- Baby Word (by blue onion): Baby Word help your babies and toddlers learn how to make words from letters.

-Talking Tom Cat: Tom is your pet cat, that responds to your touch and repeats everything you say with a funny voice





Fine Motor-

- Wheels on the Bus HD: elicit reach, finger isolation, controlled movement etc. Wheels on the Bus is a fun, interactive musical book, based on the popular children's song.

- Itsy Bitsy Spider HD: elicit reach, finger isolation, controlled movement etc. Itsy Bitsy Spider is based on a popular song, but this new app is even more interactive and has more educational activities to engage children.

- Old MacDonald HD: elicit reach, finger isolation, controlled movement etc. Old MacDonald is a musical book with 12 colorful pages of fully interactive, original illustrations.

- Fish School HD: elicit reach, finger isolation, controlled movement etc. Children will love to learn while playing with colorful schools of fish which magically transform themselves into different letters, numbers, shapes, colors and more.

-Paint Sparkles Draw: Paint Sparkles Draw introduces children to the names of all basic colors while developing their sense of vision and creativity.

- Doodle Buddy: Finger paint with your favorite colors and drop in playful stamps. Connect with a friend to draw together over the Internet.

-My Coloring Book: My Coloring Book is a fun coloring activity for all ages. It has a variety of bright colors to use and show off your creativity.

Social/Emotional-

- Model Me Going Places: Child reads, sees, and hears stories about children going various places like the doctor, the store, and the restaurant and behaving appropriately.
- Toca Boca Birthday Party: 1-3 people can have a virtual birthday party.  The party includes selecting a cake, eating the cake, opening a present, pouring juice, drinking juice, and cleaning up.
- Toca Boca Tea Party: 1-3 people can have a virtual tea party.   This is similar to the birthday party but you get to pour, spill, and clean up hot beverages.
- Toca Boca Doctor: Child plays doctor by fixing a variety of ailments from dirty teeth to misplaced organs.
- The feelings app from Communication crossroads: Go to Communication Crossroads website to view the tutorial.  This app has 3 levels.  Child identifies emotion and then picks appropriate coping strategies (e.g., When I feel bored, I can fidget) .  Coping strategies can be pictures with text or just text. 
- iReward Chart: Child earns stars toward a chosen reward by using appropriate behaviors.
- Touch and Learn Emotions: Child first identifies boys versus girls and adults versus children by touching the appropriate photographs.  Then child identifies people according to emotions

 References:

http://itunes.apple.com

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