I decided to develop this list to guide other educators and caregivers towards the apps that I have found to be most beneficial, not only at home with my typically developing 7 year old, but also at work with the elementary students on my speech-language caseload. The ranking is in no particular order of preference and some of these were released this year, while others are a couple years old. Please use the comment section below to add any fabulous apps that I missed in my favorite list!

"This blog is a spinoff of sorts, a collaboration between four #slpeeps on Twitter, springing from the goal of developing a centralized location for information on mobile devices and their uses in therapy."

"Apps for Children with Special Needs (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."

"Welcome to the Tar Heel Reader, a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. The books may be downloaded as slide shows in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format. Each book can be speech enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces, including touch screens, the IntelliKeys with custom overlays, and 1 to 3 switches."

Tar Heel Reader has thousands of simple story books for students of all ages to read at whatever level. If you are looking for simple text books with topics that are age appropriate, Tarheel Reader is for you.

Judy Lynn Software programs are developed specifically for student with special needs under the guidance of assistive technology professionals, teachers, and therapists.

This site has a lot of options to encourage kids to use their switch in various computer type "games."

"No one likes to lose a point or go down to defeat because their thumb misses the control area. The Logitech Joystick gives you a thumb-stick style game controller for iPad that you can use with just about any game with an on-screen joystick or d-pad."

This isn's directly about Speech Therapy, but this joystick may give another access method to iPad devices.