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- Build scenes and vocabulary on the go. Take photos with your iPad or import photos from your photo library.- Record your own voice messages for scenes to make basic requests or share stories- Take or import short video files to allocate to scenes- Choose and use over 10000 Widgit symbols to use to support communication - Create hotspots (tagging a scene) on the scene and allocate actions, so that the picture is interactive- Link scenes to create a sequence of events, support narrative or to reinforce cause and effect concepts- Try out some of the pre-built scenes in the scene library, and then easily create your own scenes - Use a flip book or grid view to find your scenes- Flexible, easy and fun- Use one or 2 switches using a TherapyBox Switch Box or RJ Cooper switch interface- Use the whole screen as a switch in "touch anywhere" mode. Uses scanning to highlight the active areas and the person using the app can tap anywhere to make their choice

$49.99

You can use it as an AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) tool for communicating basic needs or more complex ideas, or as aninteractive and flexible learning tool, the choice is yours!Some ideas clinicians and parents have had so far:- single message communication aid- communication passports- step-by-step videos and instructions for completing daily tasks- use in the community,e.g. ordering coffee- creating therapy tools- teaching basic concepts such as cause/effect- video diaries- home / school liaison- social stories- narrative support- interactive education games- interactive email messages to family/talking video postcards

Unlike other AAC apps, Augie is a multi-function app with built-in schedules, a one-touch critical communication feature. The user defined voice output communication categories are available to support functional communication needs as well as voice output prompting/task cues, behavioral support systems, social scripts, self regulation strategies along with user defined conversation starters.

AUGIE FEATURES FOR THE USERDefault communication categories to organize vocabulary for quick and purposeful communicative functions.Color-coded, environment-specific categories for intuitive access to content.One-touch message buttons that allow for instant access to critical content without the need to navigate multiple screens.Separate Home and School/Work schedules to support independence and self-regulation.A personalized main screen that displays the user’s special needs, name, home address, and emergency contact information.AUGIE FEATURES FOR THE ADMINISTRATORCustomizable and layered schedules for home and school / work that allow users to create personalized step by step task cues which encourage independent task completion.An integrated note pad that facilitates home/school communication and individualized progress monitoring through text. Notes can be stored locally and forwarded electronically directly from the device using any internet connection (Note pad does not support voice out-put).An integrated audio recorder and image library which allow administrators to create new individualized content without the need to connect to a computer.

-Ability to rename environments and assign icons to the environment buttons. -Added unlimited schedule layers allowing specific schedules for each day of the week.-New popover windows are color coded to match related category button.-Added additional default images.

Speak for Yourself is an application designed by two speech language pathologists specializing in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) with an evidence-based foundation. This application is consistent with motor learning principles, uses a word-based vocabulary of the most frequently used words in communication, and contains features important in developing automaticity and language. Individuals learn to use their communication device with the same principles they use to play an instrument or type on a keyboard. Speak for Yourself has the capability to begin with one word, but contains almost 11,000 Smarty Symbols® and allows the user the potential to access over 13,000 words, with no more than two touches to say a word. Complex page navigation and scanning are eliminated to allow fast, consistent access to language! Powered by CereProc's speech system to give our voices character, emotion, and personality. Regardless of their current language level, this application can meet people where they are and provide language for a lifetime, because it’s a basic human right to Speak for Yourself.

Speak for Yourself is an application designed by two speech language pathologists specializing in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) with an evidence-based foundation. This application is consistent with motor learning principles, uses a word-based vocabulary of the most frequently used words in communication, and contains features important in developing automaticity and language. Individuals learn to use their communication device with the same principles they use to play an instrument or type on a keyboard. Speak for Yourself has the capability to begin with one word, but contains Pixon® symbols and almost 11,000 Smarty Symbols® and allows the user the potential to access over 13,000 words, with no more than two touches to say a word. Complex page navigation and scanning are eliminated to allow fast, consistent access to language! Powered by CereProc's speech system to give our voices character, emotion, and personality.

$319.99

SPEAKall! was developed by the Purdue University EPICS Department as an application designed to help children with special needs learn the process of constructing sentences. This app specifically targets children with severe communication disorders who need intervention in the area of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). It can be used within an exchanged-based communication approach. The app is fully customizable to each child’s specific needs by allowing the instructor to use recorded audio and custom images from any library. When working with the application use graphic symbol sets and systems designed for AAC users to obtain the best results.

Tobii Sono Flex is a universal application available for iPhone, iPod and iPad. Users need only to buy the application once to run it on either device.Tobii Sono Flex is also available in a slightly limited, but fully functioning evaluation version called Tobii Sono Flex Lite.Educational institutions are eligible for a 50% Educational Discounts through Apple’s Volume Licensing Program

$109.99

- Combines core and topic-based vocabulary in a unique and dynamic way- Provides an easy, and highly motivating, start with over 50 pre-made context vocabularies - Comes with more than 11,000 SymbolStix® symbols- Use the camera and photo albums of the iPhone or iPad to create your own symbols- Comes with 5 US English, high quality Acapela voices; one boy, one girl, two women and one male voice.- Offers a solid structure to build up a large common vocabulary and enables versatile communication- Great flexibility in tailoring the vocabulary to individual and situational needs- Develop within Tobii Sono Flex, into other Sono Suite products or even switch hardware platforms- Tobii Sono Flex is available for iPhone, iPod, iPad and on regular PCs and dedicated speech devices running Tobii Communicator.Read more on www.tobiisonoflex.com or www.tobii.com

$189.99

This application is consistent with motor learning principles, uses a word-based vocabulary of the most frequently used words in communication, and contains features important in developing automaticity and language. Individuals learn to use their communication device with the same principles they use to play an instrument or type on a keyboard. Speak for Yourself has the capability to begin with one word, but contains almost 11,000 Smarty Symbols® and allows the user the potential to access over 13,000 words, with no more than two touches to say a word. Complex page navigation and scanning are eliminated to allow fast, consistent access to language!

This is a list of Social Skills and Non Verbal Communication by Body Language Apps compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad

$4.99

QuickCues is a social script app that helps teens and young adults on the autism spectrum to handle new situations and learn new skills. Social scripts have been used successfully for years, but QuickCues makes these tools mobile and easy to use in everyday situations

Five QuickCues modules are available:

Phrase Board allows people to communicate when they are unable to speak. Designed by a Registered Nurse experienced with clients who were unable to speak or for whom speaking was too taxing.- Large “Yes” and “No” buttons allow for simple usage. - Scrollable lists of having/feeling statements and want statements provide quick and easy communication. - Custom messages input and saved by the user.- Message bar reiterates statements chosen.Pain page facilitates quick and easy expression of pain.- Slider displays one to ten pain scale.- Type- Location- Frequency / Duration- Body illustration provides clarity.

The drawing board allows one to draw a simple picture for further expressions.You can email the picture as well if you like.Create your own personalized messages for use on rolling bar to store frequently used phrases.

Talk'n Photos is a simple to navigate talking photo album. Completely customizable, this app allows you to add text and voice recording to album covers as well as each entry (picture) within an album. Photos or symbols may be uploaded from your camera, taken with your iPad/iTouch/iPhone or downloaded from a large number of free clip art/photo art web sites. Each photo appears in a 2x2 inch representation with unlimited albums and pages. Editing allows you to move, rotate, scale and re-sequence photos. Users create grids of three pictures horizontally and unlimited choices vertically.For example, an album cover may consist of an empty plate and verbal cue such as “I’m hungry”. Once activated, album contents could include photos of favorite food items. Customized recordings allow the user to record single words or entire phrases to communicate the desired message. Simple navigation once inside the album consists of an arrow leading back to the initial album covers. This feature allows for easy navigation and prevents the user from becoming lost or confused by multiple interconnecting pages. Editing may be locked in order to prevent unwanted changes to programming. Your password, should you set one, will be emailed to the address of your choice.

TalkInTurn uses your iOS device as a token to help people take turns talking and to take turns listening. If you have the device, you have the floor.You take on one of two roles. You are either the Speaker or the Listener. Speakers lead the conversation when they have the floor. When Listeners have the floor, they paraphrase what the speaker said. After a while the Speaker and Listener swap roles so that each gets to be heard. TalkInTurn tracks the time to ensure each party gets their fair time in each role. You can even flip a coin to see which of you speaks first.TalkInTurn also provides helpful tips to aid in the communication and help avoid destructive manners of speech.

Predictable is an exciting text-to-speech application for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Offering customisable AAC functions with the latest social media integration, Predictable sets a new benchmark. Using a word prediction engine and switch access, Predictable meets the needs of a wide range of people using AAC. A wide range of people are using Predictable, including those with MND / ALS, Cerebral Palsy and people with communication difficulties after a stroke or head injury. Features:• UK and US prediction engine featuring integrated intelligent self-learning of new words and contexts• Accessible via Bluetooth switch box + switch/es (compatible with Therapy Box Switch Box and RJ Cooper Switch Interface)• Configurable scanning settings for auto scan or user scan.• Use the whole screen as a switch with scanning mode (Touch Anywhere access method)• Choice of 9 voices (4 US,3 British and 2 Australian voices)• Easy to use category folders to store quick phrases or prepared messages• History view with access to last used phrases• Ability to compose and send emails• Ability to update Facebook status or send a Tweet*• Ability to send an SMS**• Note pad option – hand write on the screen• Emoticons – to add laughter, crying or whistling to your message• Publish option for 1:1 discrete conversations• Backup your phrases to your computer

$169.99

The Conversation Coach is designed to help players learn the back and forth flow of normal conversation. Typically, most low and high-tech communication tools only enable one-way conversations. For example, a student might point to a picture of an apple, and then he receives an apple. There is no normal back and forth exchange. Using the Conversation Coach, you can keep the volley going.When playing the Conversation Coach, two players sit facing each other with the iPad between them. The first player chooses something to say, then passes the ball to the other side. Choices for player 2 will appear oriented such that player 2 can read them.For students who are not ready for back and forth conversations, or for individuals who need to use the Conversation Coach to make statements, there is a one way mode available. Two way conversations can also be practiced in a "play against the computer" mode.

$1.99

My son who has autism loves this program. We use the full version to write custom conversations about his daily activities. He actually enjoys helping us to write the conversations, take photos and record his voice. After practicing with the Conversation Coach, he is able to remember the conversations and use them without the iPad. The Lite version has a few samples to give you an idea of the back and forth flow, but you really need the full version so that you can customize conversations for each individual.

The Autism Help App assists individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and other disabilities to communicate in emergency situations. Utilizing the 5 Point Scale, individuals can easily communicate their level of anxiety and needs in a high stress situation without the need to be verbal. Autism Help levels are color-coded with different facial expressions. Each level of the emergency increases as the numbers get higher. For example, choosing a “1” may mean that “I have a scratch on my leg and need a band-aid.” Choosing a “3” may mean “I have a headache and need to use my relaxation exercises.” Choosing a “5” may mean “I’m lost and can’t find my parents! I need a policeman.” Autism Help can be customized to fit an individual’s needs. Levels of “emergencies”, photos and responses can be individualized for each family

TalkTablet (iPad) uses a breakthrough interface design that simplifies button and page customizing, yet provides a wealth of features and flexibility not seen in current symbol based speech apps. Every button and every page (folder) in TalkTablet has its own settings, allowing different colors, fonts, page layouts and more on any button or page (folder).

TalkTablet includes nearly 12,000 SymbolStix communication symbols, or use the iPad’s camera to take a picture or choose one from your iPad’s photo album.

$79.99

Furthermore, if you prefer, you can record your words and phrases with the built recording function.

Features Include:• 1-25 locations per page• Use images from your iPad camera, photo library, or the built-in internet search - as many images per location as you want - and then crop, scale, and rotate using your fingers!• Customizable backgrounds, boarders, and text can be changed to any color imaginable• Record your own speech, use text to speech (voices for $.99 each in over 20 languages), or play videos• Auditory cues throughout give a brief verbal reinforcement before the selection of the desired button• Customizable navigation tools can make the interface as simple or complex as the user can handle• Place up to four of your most important messages into the core vocabulary feature and never be more then a tap away• Unlimited menu and communication pages• The GoTalk Now is the only AAC app to integrate accessibility scanning - either using another iPad or iPod touch as an accessibility switch (using Attainment Switch App) or your own physical switch with the RJ Cooper Switch Interface

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. Our aim is that these videos, along with relevant information and advice from an independent source you can trust, provides valuable insight into whether a product is suitable for its intended purpose or not, enabling sensible buying decisions to be made. We hope this site and its content provides a valuable resource to the community that serves our precious children with special needs.

1. Visual Cue: prompt using pictures Show the picture of destination rather than repeatedly saying “We are going to go to the school.” Their concern might be coming from uncertainty of where they are going. Usually general noun is hard to remind them the real destination. Temple Grandin said one day, when she heard a word “church” it reminds her a lot of various real pictures of churches. Just show them the exact image for the next thing, no worries about verbal learning. “Visual Cue” supports playing a recorded sound of the destination as well. 2. First ~ Then: simple cause and result Let them know what’s going to happen after they accomplish one thing using a sequential picture though “First ~ Then.” You can show the first image as a condition to have the second one. For example, show picture of wash hands at first then show their favorite snack. It makes them understand clearly what they need to do for the compensation as a contingency. 3. Which One? Dude, we are living in the lots of choice! Give them a choice via pictures. You can show them as many as 4 pictures to choose from. If they are non-verbal then it is hard to know what they want or where they want to go, etc. You can show them a few pictures of places, food, objects, even photos of friends. Suddenly they are happy to get the freedom of choice and it makes your life easier by seamless communication. 4. Count Up: another token system with rewarding animation and sound Do you want to encourage a good behavior by visual cue framework? You can add a star by tapping and give an interesting reward when predefined number of stars has reached. 5. Count Down: a time keeper for transition Hard time at transition? This count down tool will remind them how much time they have left until they need to stop playing or to go home. You can count it down by tapping manually until 0. 6. Visual Scheduler: a guide map for visual thinkers Not enough with a couple of pictures? You can make a story line of what to do or what’s going on in the next couple of hours or even for days. Create a series of activities for your kids to make it clear what to expect next in a structured way. This tool provides an easier way to add, remove, change the sequence in order to maximize flexibility. 7. Visual Timer: Progressive image with timer You can choose your favorite image as a timer background, it also supports alarm. *** We don’t provide stock images but give you many choice to build your own library such as take a photo, add a image from photo album, or download from internet.

The application is in English (as well as in Spanish) although sample activities provided are in Spanish. You can customize or create new ones with the pictures and sounds you want, including synthesized sounds (Text-To-Speech) in English.Picaa aims to bring flexibility and adaptability in the education of children with special needs (autism, PDD, Down Syndrome, etc). The app allows defining five kinds of activities fully customizable to be performed by the users:- Exploration: this activity can be used like an augmentative and alternative communicator (AAC) system. Exploration activities also can be used like navigation-based histories that let students learn concepts through the navigation of a hypermedia system with components.- Association: the student must indicate relationships between elements that belong to several sets.- Puzzle: a decomposed image must be rebuilt from multiple pieces. Number, size and shape of pieces can be configured.- Sorting/selection: a list of elements that must be ordered in a sequence or where the user must find a particular item.- Memory (Memory-Match). Create activities for working memory, can use images and text.More innovating factors of the platform are:- It is designed like a mobile platform, following an approach where activities run on entertainment mobile devices that turn out to be more attractive to users.- It provides support for group work, fostering integration and interaction with other users.- It has the capability of user adaptation and content customization.- It provides functions to synthesize sounds (requires WiFi/3G connection).- Activities can be shared via email or can be imported/exported via iTunes sharing files feature.