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Sarah Pickford

Families 1 for iPad on the iTunes App Store - 0 views

  • Families helps develop important cognitive skills such as: categorization, conceptualization, generalization and abstraction. It also helps develop visual perception skills and fine motor skills. With parental assistance it can also develop language skills, for example, by naming the families, objects and colors.
Sarah Pickford

App Store - Step by Story™ - Happy Family In the Kitchen - 0 views

  • Step-by-Story mobile apps help build reading readiness. They are carefully designed for pre-readers and early readers (kids from 2 - 6) to help them associate words, sounds and pictures in preparation for reading. Every element of this app is designed to keep your child focused on the right things. The screens feature large buttons that require press-and-hold, so they can't be pressed by accident. Stories are deliberately short and easy to create, so that the youngest of children can experience the fulfillment that comes from being able to complete a meaningful task without help from an adult.
  • When a child complete a story, their choices are turned in to a charmingly simple animated movie that can be shared with family and friends.
Sarah Pickford

App Store - EasyConcepts - 0 views

  • EasyConcepts presents a fun new way for children of all ages to improve their knowledge of basic concepts and develop skills in following verbal directions. Watch children learn as they become engaged in three interactive themed games which target concept knowledge, attention and listening, auditory recall and processing abilities.
  • $4.99
Sarah Pickford

Fun & Functional for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod... - 0 views

  • Fun & Functional is an application developed by author and Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) Rosie Simms to improve language comprehension and expression in individuals of all age groups. The ability to identify and describe the function or use of real-world objects is a key language and life skill. Fun & Functional provides SLPs, parents and others with a tool to develop categorization and descriptive skills by interacting with pictures and audio.
  • Fun & Functional can be used to:-Help children identify items that have a particular use or function.-Develop understanding and auditory comprehension of Wh-Questions and verb forms.-Target categories of items such as clothing, school items, and occupations.-Elicit and score students’ verbal descriptions of items.-Measure treatment effectiveness and skill growth over time through reported data.
Sarah Pickford

Special Stories for iPhone, iPod touch (2nd generation), iPod touch (3rd generation), i... - 0 views

  • Special Stories makes it easy to create your own stories, containing text, pictures and sound. You can read and listen to your stories, print them to any AirPrint-enabled printer, and share them with friends and family.
  • $13.99
  • You can create as many stories as you wish, and update them again later. Each story can have any number of pages, and each page can have a photo (or any other image), up to 30 seconds of sound you record, and several lines of text. A choice of large and small text sizes, in an easy to read font, allows for either single words and short phrases or longer sentences.
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  • This is a universal app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, and you can easily transfer stories between your devices, using Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or e-mail.
Sarah Pickford

Special Words for iPhone, iPod touch (2nd generation), iPod touch (3rd generation), iPo... - 0 views

  • Special Words teaches children to recognize written words, using pictures and sounds, on iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Play alongside your child, at a pace suited to their ability. Special Words has 4 games with increasing difficulty, matching pictures, words, and both. You can personalize by reordering, deleting and adding your own words, pictures and audio, with the ability to easily synchronize to your other Apple mobile devices.
  • $13.99
  • This is a universal app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, and you can easily transfer personalized text, pictures and sounds between your devices, using Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or e-mail.
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  • The words and pictures provided with Special Words are the same as those in the See and Learn Language and Reading resources from Down Syndrome Education International, and this app can be used to complement the use of their paper-based See and Learn activities.
Sarah Pickford

See Me Go Potty English for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation... - 0 views

  • $4.99
  • How it works1. Use a simple menu to create a cartoon avatar that physically resembles your child/children.2. Let your child repeatedly play the Go Potty narrative showing him/herself successfully complete the whole process of using the potty step by step.3. Show your child the Accident Scene narrative to teach what an “accident” is.
  • Fifteen actionable potty training tips included: The app includes concrete advice about preparation, behavioral reinforcement, behavioral shaping, when to continue vs. take a break, and more. Teaching with positive reinforcement and fun: The Go Potty scene ends with your child’s avatar happily celebrating a successful “I did it!” potty experience. In contrast, the Accident Scene ends with your child’s avatar being disappointed by the “uh-oh”.
Sarah Pickford

PaperPort Notes for iPad on the iTunes App Store - 0 views

  • Dragon voice recognition enabling you to capture your ideas and notes simply by speaking (English only speech to text for Dragon Dictate)
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    PaperPort Notes is a digital note taking tool for the iPad that is transforming the way people create and share information. Now you can combine documents, web content, audio, typed text as well as hand written notes into a single document that you can easily organize and share with anyone. Leverage Dragon voice recognition to capture your ideas and notes simply by speaking
Sarah Pickford

The Social Express Lite for iPad on the iTunes App Store - 0 views

  • The Social Express™ is an engaging, interactive software application designed for children with autism, Asperger’s,and ADHD. Our software teaches children how to think about and manage social situations through video modeling, thus enabling them to build social-emotional skills and develop meaningful relationships.The program includes hidden rules, Social Thinking® concepts, self-regulation, and problem solving to help the user and adult "put it all together." There is acomprehensive user’s guide along with individual lesson summaries complete with goals and follow up activities.
Sarah Pickford

App Store - Constant Shopper FREE - 0 views

  • Budgeting - Budget your list with calculated checked and unchecked and overall totals. 135 currency options available for international use.
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Connect Cards | AppsForAAC - 0 views

  • The app syncs with the users Picasa Web Albums account (also a free service) to present a highly customizable interface. Users upload and tag pictures to their Picasa account, then use the app to sync these images to the device.
Sarah Pickford

QuestionIt Lite for iPad on the iTunes App Store - 0 views

  • QuestionIt is an educational app for children with autism or other significant language disorders that provides systematic instruction over multiple opportunities to teach children what kind of word answers which type of Wh question. Activities include sorting words by type of question they answer and answering questions about sentences. The app uses faded color cues and errorless learning techniques. The data manager scores number correct out of opportunities for each type of question in each level of each task. Data reports can be emailed from the app. The student is intermittently reinforced with a fireworks display for providing consecutive correct answers.
Sarah Pickford

App Store - Tip Of My Tongue - 0 views

  • $2.99
  • Tip of my Tongue is an iPad/iPhone/iPod app that makes it very easy to find words. It contains a list of 125,000 words and you do not need Internet-access for searching through the word list. Internet-access is only required for looking up the meaning of words.
  • There are four types of criteria that you can use to find words:
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  • 1) Word Length:Specify the shortest and longest acceptable word lengths here. Use these to narrow down the results if you get too many matches.
  • 2) Letters:Specify which letters must be and cannot be in the word that you are looking for
  • 3) Partial Words:If you know the prefix or suffix (starts with 'ada' or ends with 'nt') then specify that here
  • 4) Solve Word Games:To solve a Hangman word-puzzle, type in the known letters and use the '.' (period) symbol for missing letters
Sarah Pickford

App Store - Little Finder - 0 views

  • This is the only hidden objects game designed for both parents and kids. Not only that, this also is the only hidden objects game with a 2 player mode so you can play with your friends and race to find your hidden objects before the other player does.
  • No more tiny objects hidden in obscure places. Instead you will find gorgeous photos that are begging to be discovered. This is a game that is designed for maximum playability for both young and old
  • In Little Finder, each hidden object is announced in writing and and via audio which is ideal for the little ones that have not yet mastered reading skills.
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  • ✔ Includes over 300+ gorgeous photographs of hidden objects✔ Uses real, crisp professional images that are carefully handpicked and crafted vs. cartoonish illustrations✔ Secret bonus times allow you to extend each game for up to 30 seconds to chase high scores ✔ To find the bonus time... you have to become aware of whats happening on the entire game board so its a great way to enhance your mental alertness. ✔ Multi-sensory learning tool - combining seeing, hearing, and tactile feedback✔ You can play choose to have each game last 60 seconds, 120 seconds or play in Zen mode and play as long as you like
  • ✔ Audio hints - ability to turn audio hints on or off. This is great if you want your kids to learn how to read ;)✔ Sound effects - ability to turn sound effects on or off. This is great if you want eliminate all distractions✔ Spawning of tiles - If you don't want more tiles to appear during the game, you can turn this setting on or off✔ Adjustable field size - while 20 hidden objects is the default, you can go down all the way to just 4 (great for toddlers) or all the way to 56 hidden objects for the ultimate challenge.✔ Image rotation - you can turn image rotation on or off. Its turned OFF when you first launch the app but if you like to make it more challenging, then turn it on and the hidden objects will show up in a random rotation such as upside down :-)✔ Turn categories On or Off - Want to play Little Finder with just animals? No problem! Want to focus on food, its all there in the settings page.✔ Turn individual items on or off - Don't like the picture of the bear? No problem! Just click on "Customize" to turn individual items On or OFF✔ Update existing items - you can update the spelling and audio of all existing items - now your little one can hear everything in mommy's or daddy's voice!
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    good for visual scanning, can be played with a companion
Sarah Pickford

StoryBuilder for iPad for iPad on the iTunes App Store - 0 views

  • $7.99
  • Story Builder is designed to help children accomplish the following educational goals: 1) Improve paragraph formation; 2) Improve integration of ideas; and 3) Improve higher level abstractions by inference. Extensive use of audio clips promotes improved auditory processing for special needs children with autism spectrum disorders or sensory processing disorders.
  • FEATURES-Record feature allows students to record narrative in their own voice-3 levels of play-Simple and intuitive interface to record narrative-Recorded answers are stitched together to create complete narrative-Stories can be archived for later play-Each student gets their own archive page-Stories can be emailed-50 distinct story lines to create narrative from-500 audio clips of questions to guide narrative-Optional question text and answer introduction reinforcement
Sarah Pickford

App Store - Mr. MoonLight : Kids Visual Alarm Clock and Nightlight for Sleep Training - 0 views

  • $2.99
  • Visual "sun" and "moon" cues teach young children, ages 2 to 5, to distinguish between the cycles of day and night and learn healthy sleep patterns. Mr. MoonLight displays a glowing moon in the evening (or for afternoon nap) and quietly changes to a sun, (at a time parents specify), to confirm that nighttime or nap time is over and it is okay to wake up. If your child wakes up too early, use this app to teach them to rest quietly until "the sun comes up" at the time that you set.
Sarah Pickford

Making Sequences for iPad on the iTunes App Store - 0 views

  • $4.99
  • Teach story sequencing or help children master steps for completing a task. Making Sequences includes 15 photo sequences for teaching story order. Use these or upload your own images, add voice recordings and share them with others using Dropbox. Teach personalized daily living skills or have fun teaching kids to sequence stories starring themselves. Also great for making short social stories.
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    custom images, practice placing in order
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