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Top 10 iPad Apps for Children with Autism

Saturday, April 5, 2014 20:53

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Here are 10 iPad apps that would benefit a child with Autism both at home and in the classroom. Your feedback is always welcome. If there is a better app that you think is worth mentioning, add the details in the forum section.

10. Receptive by Function (a.k.a. Function):

This app was created using 66 superb, concrete, colorful images that could be used by educators and parents to boost their learner’s auditory and visual skills. The app also includes clearly pronounced real audio which is used to encourage vocal imitation in the listener. Classical music is randomly played along with visual reinforcement to maintain your child’s interests…while introducing them to some of the most successful composers such as Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky.

9. Garage Band

Students can actually learn to play an instrument through this awesome music app and recognize sounds as they appear. Equally as important, the learner can record themselves playing these instruments and hear the play back.

8. Toca Boca Hair Salon

While this app is not specifically for children with autism, someone suggested it to me as a way to help autistic children do something they normally wouldn’t do – get a haircut. Like most apps from Toca Boca, this is about open-ended play. Being able to be in control of an animated client in the salon chair can really put your haircut-fearing child at ease after several try-outs.

7. Go Go Games

Go Go Games™ is an award-winning suite of iPad games designed to help children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) learn to quickly notice multiple features of all sorts of objects. This perceptual skill is essential to learning and comes naturally to most children, but is known to be a common difficulty for those with ASD.

6. What’s the word

What’s the Word shows four pictures and lets its users select a word that describes them best. The app builds vocabulary, and is a simple, yet challenging way for children on the spectrum to engage.