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Description: Learn SHAPES and more with fun games, quizzes, ashcards,
and puzzles. Approved by teachers, parents and toddlers alike Toddler
Teasers Shapes teaches while it entertains. With a focus on simplicity and
full voice overs, toddlers play and learn without the need for extra
help.The app displays colorful quizzes, ashcards, puzzles, and games
while offering positive reinforcement and fun rewards.The child-safe menu
allows parents to customize gameplay and difficulty.
Description: First Words Sampler gives your child a head start learning
letters and words by teaching them how letters relate to sounds, and even
how to spell words.The game includes beautiful illustrations, entertaining
sounds, and high-quality recordings of letters and words.
3D Brain
iOS rating: 3.5
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Android rating: n/a
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Categories: Educational
Description: Your baby or toddler will love signing along with the adorable
Baby Sign and Learn animated characters in the Baby Sign and Sing
nursery rhymes app. This app is free, containing one nursery rhyme
(Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star), to allow you an opportunity to try the app
with your child, with the option to purchase an add-on pack is available for
purchase containing another nine popular nursery rhymes.
Description: This fun and interactive app encourages children to care for
their teeth and stay healthy with seven creative activities. Developed
alongside certi ed pediatric dentists and experienced educators children
learn how brushing their teeth removes bacteria and helps them identify
healthy foods that keep their teeth strong.
Color, What?
iOS rating: 4
iOS Link
Android rating: 5
Android Link
Categories: Educational
Description: This app has three main features designed to help families
seek help in an emergency, help children on the spectrum enhance their
communication skills and bring awareness to services available for families
and individual children.
ZacZoo2 Lite/DTT/Autism
iOS rating: n/a
iOS Link: n/a
Android rating: 4.8
Android Link
Categories: Educational
TSARA Autisme
iOS rating: 4
iOS Link
Android rating: 4.5
Android Link
Categories: Educational
Description: This is the full version of Autism Read & Write. This application
is intended to help children learn the basic of reading and writing.
Description: This app, in the Buddy Bear family of programs, helps children
hone problem-solving skills by answering “what ” questions. Children will
also explore cause and e ect, predict common sequences of events, and
compare items used to complete tasks.
Description: This Buddy Bear app helps children with autism spectrum
disorders understand basic wh- question forms while developing early
communication skills in joint attention and reciprocity. The successful
learning format includes simple, predictable language, uncluttered
illustrations, reassuring audio narration, open-ended responses, engaging
animation and sound effects.
Articulation Station
iOS rating: 4
iOS Link
Android rating: n/a
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Categories: Speech, Educational
Description: Buddy Bear helps children compare and contrast items and
learn descriptive vocabulary and morphological word endings (“-er” and “-
est”). Five interactive stories develop joint attention, reciprocity, and early
language skills. The stories include these vocabulary concepts: What
Buddy Bear Sees, What Buddy Bear Finds, What Buddy Bear Likes, What
Buddy Bear Has, and What Buddy Bear Does.
Description: Use Buddy Bear to practice grammar skills and develop joint
attention, reciprocity, and early language. The app has ve stories. Each
story features one of these grammar forms: present progressive verbs,
regular past tense verbs, regular plural nouns, personal pronouns, and
negation.
See.Touch.Learn.
iOS rating: 4.5
iOS Link
Android rating: n/a
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Categories: Speech, Games, Entertainment, Educational
Description: This app focuses on visual instruction for students with autism.
Educators can replace their ashcards with the 4,400 pictures and 2,200
exercises developed by professionals and create custom lessons using
the starter library, or purchase any of 50 individual libraries.
Description: First Words Animals will help your child: develop ne motor
skills, learn to recognize and match letters, learn the names of letters,
learn the sounds English letters make (phonics), and learn how to spell
words. Of course, they won’t just be learning, they will also be laughing
and having fun with 45 of their favorite animal friends, beautifully
illustrated and matched with entertaining animal sounds.
News-2-You
iOS rating: 4.2
iOS Link
Android rating: n/a
Android Link: n/a
Categories: Speech, Educational, Entertainment, Games
Description: This app is an excellent teaching tool that allows you to create
visual supports for lessons. Features include: rst then boards, visual
schedules, task analyses, social stories, choice boards, and video models.
Aacorn AAC
iOS rating: 4
iOS Link
Android rating: n/a
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Categories: Social Skills, Speech
Description: ABC Kids is a free phonics and alphabet teaching app that
makes learning fun for children, from toddlers, preschoolers, and
kindergartners. It features a series of tracing games to help kids recognize
letter shapes, associate them with phonic sounds, and put their alphabet
knowledge to use in fun matching exercises.
AutisMe
iOS rating: n/a
iOS Link: n/a
Android rating: 4.7
Android Link
Categories: Educational, Speech
Description: Buddy Bear helps children compare and contrast items and
learn descriptive vocabulary and morphological word endings (“-er” and “-
est”). Five interactive stories develop joint attention, reciprocity, and early
language skills. The stories include these vocabulary concepts: What
Buddy Bear Sees, What Buddy Bear Finds, What Buddy Bear Likes, What
Buddy Bear Has, and What Buddy Bear Does.
Description: This app allows you to create projects that will be interpreted
with VocalTiles Interpreter.Each project is composed of multiple pages,
where each can represent an exercise session, or more generally, a grid of
images that are useful for the communication of the child. It allows,
through the adoption of images used in ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis)
and P. E. C. S. (Picture Exchange Communication System) you to create
sessions of exercise of discrimination, association, and memorization for
your child or cards to use to compose sentences.
Description: In Kids Learn to Read Rhymes kids will learn word families,
CVC, short and long vowel words through three wonderful games. The
app teaches preschool-aged children to blend sounds into words, read
and form simple words, identify spoken words and learn word families and
gives kids will have a strong sense of phonemic awareness and a solid
groundwork for written language.
Description: This app, designed to use just 15 minutes per day, teaches
beginning readers skills to build upon as they increase their reading level.
The app o ers a tailored reading experience and allows users to learn at
their own pace.
Social skills can be especially hard for a child on the spectrum to master.
The apps listed below cover a variety of situations and interactions a child
may have and offer solutions that children can practice through games.
Autism Emotion
iOS rating: 4
iOS Link
Android rating: n/a
Android Link: n/a
Categories: Functional Skill, Educational, Entertainment, Social Skill
Description: This app uses music and photographs to help users identify
and learn about emotions. Featured emotions include happy, sad, proud,
and calm.
Description: Bob Books Reading Magic helps build the users con dence in
their reading skills by focusing on the building blocks of reading: phonics.
This interactive app features the popular Bob Books characters in full
animation and uses a simple drag-drop interface easily accessible to
children as young as preschool.
FindMe (Autism)
iOS rating: 3
iOS Link
Android rating: n/a
Android Link: n/a
Categories: Social Skills, Educational
Description: The Baby Sign and Learn app features animated video
demonstrations that will captive your child and help them learn sign
language. Practice games and interactive quizzes and inspire your child to
sign with the aid of the colorful ashcards. This app uses keyword signs
and allows you to specify your preferred sign language dialect.
Description: This app allows users to simulate the steps and processes of
going on a vacation from going to airport security to exploring a beach
upon arrival. A collection of 34 available characters and a variety of
destinations give children the option to customize their holiday and for fun
or familiarization before an upcoming trip.
Description: This interactive app allows users to create and explore the
town and its surrounding areas. Animated characters join the child on their
adventures to cook in restaurants, go camping, play games, and more.
Autism & PDD Picture Stories & Language Activities Social Skills at
School LITE
iOS rating: 4.2
iOS Link
Android rating: n/a
Android Link: n/a
Categories: Speech, Social Skills, Educational
Description: This app features the loveable characters from that series,
Matt, and Molly, who provide functional education for children with special
needs. The fun and easy-to-use lessons teach children with autism
appropriate behaviors to use at school. The eight lessons are: Matt Waits
for the School, Bus Molly Goes to the Library, Matt’s Nose Is Dripping,
Molly Goes to Art, Matt Lines Up in the Hall, Molly Goes to the Cafeteria,
Matt and Molly Go to the Playground, and Matt Goes to the Bathroom.
Children’s social behavior and social language skills will develop and, in
turn, the children will have reduced anxiety in social situations. This
facilitates more compliant behavior and allows the children to feel better
about themselves for a job well done. This Lite version contains a sample
of the content that is available in the full, commercial version.
Description: The Toca Life: Hosptial app explores the beginning and end of
life and everything in between. Users can welcome a new baby and
familiarize themselves with how a new baby is cared for and learn how to
say goodbye to someone in the farewell room in a peaceful setting. The
app also addresses those “in between” moments of going for a check-up,
getting an x-ray or CAT scan. Users are familiarized with the layout of
hospitals as well as their many functions.
Description: Learn with Rufus: Feelings and Emotions aims to help children
learn the facial expressions that correspond to feelings and emotions
including happy, sad, angry, afraid, disgusted, and surprised. Children will
learn how to identify easier fully-formed emotions and more di cult,
subtle emotions. The game is highly customizable to meet the needs of
children with varying skills, ability levels, and learning styles.
Description: Learn with Rufus: Boys and Girls aims to help children learn
the facial features that correspond to boys and girls. Children will learn
how to identify gender from faces with typical and atypical features. The
game is highly customizable to meet the needs of children with varying
skills, ability levels, and learning styles.
e-Mintza
iOS rating: 4
iOS Link
Android rating: 3
Android Link
Categories: Social Skills, Speech
Stories2Learn
i Get… My Classmates
iOS rating: 4
iOS Link
Android rating: n/a
Android Link: n/a
Categories: Educational, Functional Skills, Health Tracker, Behavioral
Intervention, Social Skills
i Get… Going to the Beach Vocabulary Photo Books and Social Skills
Stories
iOS rating: 4
iOS Link
Android rating: n/a
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Categories: Educational, Functional Skills, Health Tracker, Behavioral
Intervention, Social Skills
i Get… Going to the Hospital and Accessing Child Life Services with
Medical Photo Vocabulary and Preparation Books
iOS rating: 4
iOS Link
Android rating: n/a
Android Link: n/a
Categories: Educational, Functional Skills, Health Tracker, Behavioral
Intervention, Social Skills
TouchChat HD – AAC
iOS rating: 4
iOS Link
Android rating: n/a
Android Link: n/a
Categories: Social Skills, Speech
iCommunicate
iOS rating: 4
iOS Link
Android rating: n/a
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Categories: Educational, Functional Skills, Health Tracker, Behavioral
Intervention, Social Skills, Speech
Description: This app provides children with a simple and fun way to
recognize 100 emotions. Users are taught how to understand and respond
to over emotions once they have been identified.
Kid in Story
Autism Social-Aid
iOS rating: n/a
iOS Link: n/a
Android rating: 5
Android Link
Categories: Educational, Social Skills
Autism NSW
Description: This App aims to help parents and families touched by autism
in NSW to access all related organizations and points of contact. All
relevant support organizations, and related content is available from within
the app.
Autism Help
iOS rating: n/a
iOS Link: n/a
Android rating: 4.3
Android Link
Categories: Educational, Social Skills
AutismXpress Pro
SmileMeBack
iOS rating: n/a
iOS Link: n/a
Android rating: 4.8
Android Link
Categories: Educational, Speech, Social Skills
Description: This app addresses life and safety skills and answers
questions about friendship. Users are taught how to respond to and
recognize bullying, what a good friendship looks like, and how to identify a
friend.
My PlayHome Lite
iOS rating: 3.5
iOS Link
Android rating: n/a
Android Link: n/a
Categories: Functional Skills, Games, Educational, Entertainment
Description: This app is a modern doll house for the iGeneration. Every part
of the house is usable including the closets, TV, and shower. This game is
designed for children as young as two but can engage a child up to eight
years old.
Description: This app, produced as part of the Sesame Street and Autism
initiative, provides parents and caregivers with preschool-aged children
family guides for challenges they may face. Features include articles with
tips and strategies, videos featuring Abby Cadabby, eight interactive
Family Routine Cards, and a digital storybook.
Description: This app allows users to nd hidden items in the grocery store
while shopping with the panda family. Children can purchase bread, cakes,
fruit, vegetables, snacks, dairy products, toys, clothes, drinks, and a pet.
While playing this game, children will learn new words, interact with
different animals and scenarios, and use a shopping list.
Autism & PDD Picture Stories & Language Activities Social Skills at
Home LITE
iOS rating: 4.1
iOS Link
Android rating: n/a
Android Link: n/a
Categories: Speech, Games, Functional Skills, Entertainment, Educational
Description: This app features the loveable characters from that series,
Matt and Molly, who provide functional education for children with special
needs. The fun and easy-to-use lessons teach children with autism
appropriate manners and behaviors to use at home. The eight lessons are:
Molly Has an Empty Cup Matt Has Dirty Hands Molly Hears a Knock at the
Door Molly Has Wet Hair Matt Goes to Bed Matt and Molly Watch TV Molly
Has a Dog Matt Hears the Phone Ring. Matt and Molly show children the
right and wrong ways to act in situations that occur at home, allowing the
children to divide the behaviors in their minds into “black” and “white.” This
minimizes the “gray” areas of social interaction that children with autism
spectrum disorders don’t understand or like.
My PlayHome
iOS rating: 4.5
iOS Link
Android rating: n/a
Android Link: n/a
Categories: Games, Functional Skills, Entertainment, Educational
Description: This app is a modern doll house for the iGeneration. Every part
of the house is usable including the closets, TV, and shower. This game is
designed for children as young as two but can engage a child up to eight
years old.
My PlayHome Hospital
Daily Tasks
iOS rating: 3.7
iOS Link
Android rating: 4.3
Android Link
Categories: Educational, Functional Skills
These apps are designed for children with autism in mind. Most of them
o er sensory experiences that children on the spectrum will not nd
overwhelming. Many incorporate characters and games children already
know and love.
Description: This app allows users to save YouTube playlists to watch later
and search video playlists from YouTube with keywords. Thousands of kid-
safe videos are available with passcode protection for parents. Videos are
grouped by topic and parents can lock search functions to prevent
children from adding playlists by themselves. The app also provides a
video timer to set a time limit for video viewing.
Description: This app o ers zoo games and puzzles teaches kids counting,
numbers, animal names, and more in 16 languages. Featured games
include animal games, jigsaw puzzles, card matching, number matching,
and multi-lingual counting games.
Description: In this app, users will learn math, reading and phonics, and
social/emotional skills through a variety of fun and engaging games. Skills
are aligned with the Common Core Standards and encourage children to
not only meet but exceed competencies.
Description: Spice up your home screen with a doo-dad, a widget for your
Android device. Doo-dads are designed to add a little bling to your screen
without changing your background. Do you have the perfect wallpaper,
but you think it’s missing a little something to set it o ? That’s where doo-
dads come in. Doo-dads come in various sizes and put very little drain on
your battery.
Miracle Modus
iOS rating: n/a
iOS Link: n/a
Android rating: 4.1
Android Link
Categories: Entertainment
Description: With Magic Fluids, users can touch the screen and create
beautiful motion of colorful smoke and water. The app comes with 20
configurations presets with the option for users to create their own. Smoke
and water animations are available and highly configurable.
Autism Awareness
iOS rating: 4.2
iOS Link
Android rating: 5
Android Link
Categories: Behavioral Intervention, Educational, Support Group, Autism-
Friendly Place Tracker
Description: Plan It, Do It, Check It O is a real photo “To Do” app that can
be fully customized by the user. Twenty-six pages with real picture images
are included to illustrate events that can be used for a visual “To Do” list.
All the photos pages of di erent activities can be personalized by
importing photos, changing titles, adding custom text and audio or make a
book from scratch with all your own photos.
Description: With this app, you can track what matters to your child and
your family. Use the visual calendar and multi-item graphs to view and
discuss patterns. Share individual events or entire screens with your team
using Dropbox, email or Twitter and track several persons on one device.
Description: There are many things parents can do to help children with
autism overcome their challenges. But it’s also important to make sure you
get the support you need. When you’re looking after a child with ASD,
taking care of yourself is not a luxury or an act of sel shness it’s a
necessity. Being emotionally strong allows you to be the best parent you
can be to your child in need. This app can help by making life with an
autistic child easier.
Autism Test
Autism Awareness LW
iOS rating: n/a
iOS Link: n/a
Android rating: 5
Android Link
Categories: Entertainment, Autism Awareness, Behavioral Intervention
Description: This live wallpaper app features the autism puzzle pieces. The
puzzle pieces re ect the mystery and complexity of the autism spectrum.
The di erent colors represent the diversity of the people and families
living with the condition. Puzzle pieces and sparkles fall from the sky. This
app was designed and programmed by two girls with Asperger’s to looks
great in portrait or landscape.
Autism Solutions
Description: This app is designed for families in Bangalore to help them find
the best doctors, schools, psychologists, rehabilitation centers, and
hospitals especially for children with autism. The app features an FAQ
section and a resources map.
Mente ™
iOS rating: 5
iOS Link
Android rating: 4.1
Android Link
Categories: Educational, Behavioral Intervention
Description: The Autism Daily News App provides daily articles on autism
and developmental disabilities. The articles are delivered daily from around
the web on autism, developmental disability, and intellectual disabilities. It
will help users stay up to date on the latest autism research and
information.
Description: This app is designed for children 2-7 years old to enjoy over
1,000 3D games. Topics covered include math, reading and writing,
science, music, art, and more. TopIQ academy is suited for use in early
education classrooms as well as at home.
Description: This math app lets a child with special needs learn number
sequencing and building a foundation for further math skills. The colorful
interface and engaging gameplay keep children interested in developing
their skills.
Description: This math app allows a child with autism to develop counting
skills in a colorful environment that is fun for the kid. The touch app can
help learn basic numbers from one to ve. The child will be presented with
varying numbers of beach balls identi ed with quantity. Upon a correct
response, there will be a reward. The same goes for when the activity is
completed.
22 Learn
Dino Does PreSchool Math: Numbers and some ABC Fun Learning
Games for Kids and Toddlers
iOS rating: 4
iOS Link
Android rating: n/a
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Categories: Games, Entertainment, Math Skill, Educational
Description: In this dinosaur themed game, children aged 2-5 learn math
through a series of 27 games. The professionally illustrated games are
accompanied by full narration and positive feedback.
Autism
Description: There are many things parents can do to help children with
autism spectrum disorder (ASD) overcome their challenges. But it’s also
important to make sure you get the support you need. When you’re
looking after a child with ASD, taking care of yourself is not a luxury or an
act of sel shness it’s a necessity. Being emotionally strong allows you to
be the best parent you can be to your child in need. These applications
can help by making life easier.
Description:
MyAutismTeam is a free, password-protected social network and support
group. Connect and share with others like you who understand.
These games are all about recreation and designed for children with
autism in mind. Most of them o er level-ups, score trackers, and require
the problem-solving skills found in traditional games.
Sensory
Description: Animals Puzzle for Kids is a fun animated puzzle game for
toddlers. This puzzle game helps your kids develop matching, tactile, and
ne motor skills while playing more than 90 di erent Animals Puzzles in 8
categories – safari, farm, forest, sea, birds, small friends, sea 2 and
dinosaurs. The game includes animations, pronunciations, sounds of
animals and interactivity for easy learning. It will teach your kids all animals,
and yet you will never be worried about them losing any piece of the
puzzles.
Blocks Dodger
Description: This game was created to raise awareness for autism and help
to support it. You can navigate in the donation section in the menu, and
there you can either watch an advertisement or donate through in-app
purchases. The game itself is simple; the player has to dodge any blocks
coming its way. The blocks will become faster and faster as time goes by.
Three power-ups get spawned randomly during game-play to help the
player survive longer:
Video Modeling
Starring You Videos by StoryBots – Personalized For Kids
iOS rating: 4.5
iOS Link
Android rating: n/a
Android Link: n/a
Categories: Entertainment, Video Modeling
Description: The StoryBots Starring You Videos app o ers a fun way to
spend time with your child or keep them entertained while you do a quick
chore. Simply upload a photo and your child (or mommy, daddy, grandpa,
friends or even the family dog) is singing, dancing and laughing alongside
the StoryBots in personalized music videos! Once you download a video
over a Wi-Fi or data connection, you’re ready to view at home, in the car,
on the playground, or anywhere o ine. Enjoy great, educational fun
wherever you are.
This collection of apps can help parents and caregivers track their child’s
health and behavior through data input. Families can track trends and gain
a big-picture view of a child’s health.
iPrompts®
iOS rating: 4
iOS Link
Android rating: n/a
Android Link: n/a
Categories: Behavioral Intervention, Health Manager
Description: iPrompts, the original app for visual support, is used by special
educators, therapists, and parents of those bene ting from visual
structure, including individuals with autism. Caregivers use the app to
rapidly create and present visual supports, helping individuals transition
from one activity to the next, understand upcoming events, make choices,
focus on the task at hand, and learn social skills.
Dreampad Sleep
iOS rating: 4
iOS Link
Android rating: 4
Android Link
Categories: Health Manager, Sleeping Aid
Description: This app helps children memorize the days of the week with
the help of small animated characters who generously reward every
correct response. Children’s scores are recorded with a built-in progress
tracker.
This collection of apps o ers those who love someone with autism
multiple ways to promote an understanding of autism and stay up-to-date
on the latest autism research and news.
Description: Stand Out For Autism by turning your pictures pink or purple
and sharing it with the world. Take a picture or a sel e, and choose to Go
Pink or Go Purple and #StandOutForAutism. You can save this picture back
to your device and then share it on Twitter, Facebook, or just with your
friends. You can also stay up to date with all The National Autistic News
stories with a special news feed built directly into the app.
Description: Help fund meaningful therapy for families living with autism
while enjoying uplifting and inspiring stories. Every time you view a story in
the Inspire app, a donation to fund therapy for children living with autism is
generated. These donations are made possible through advertising dollars
and royalties from The Autism Site.
Autism
iOS rating: n/a
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Android rating: 4
Android Link
Categories: Educational, Autism Awareness, Behavioral Intervention