IPAD/I touch or I Phone Apps

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Hi Group

A great deal of you on here asks from time to time about what apps are good for

our kids. Well if you're a parent or a professional working with high and or low

functioning. Here are some APPS which I recently use to benefit my son but the

kids that I treat as well.

For the month of April some free apps are Kindergarten.com flashcards. They have

all types and if you search ABA Flashcards they will all pop up. They have

emotions to items of clothing. All FREE!!!!

Then they also have a group of APPS which test receptive questions which are

identifying What? Who? Where? Why? questions. You can find these on the bottom

as suggestions or on the left side as additional products. FREE AS WELL

Then for those who have speech kids the App called Speech Tutor and Pocket SLP

is an amazing tool. These are not free but wow these products give our Autistic

kids great modeling with a frontal/side view of the mouth to produce those

sounds and flashcards to practice all those blends you work on in therapy. A

great tool to any speech therapist who also work with articulation.

Then I found videos which are a great tool for those kids that work well with

social stories. One called Everyday HD has a basic video list of such things as

asking for directions or waiting in line. These HD products are 1.99 each and

have a numerous amount of different types of videos which make our kids get a

better grasp on understanding communication in to social environment to safety

signs. Just search Everyday HD and you will find the others on the left hand

side as additional products they sell.

Then for those OTs on here or parents who want to teach letter formation. I have

used two different products before I found my favorite. Alphabet tracing was

pretty good for giving them a visual cue to start from top to bottom and a

chance to trace capital and lower case letters. Also this APP called Kid Genius

has a tracing game and flashcards for math and sight words etc. Both were 0.99

when I bought them. Don't know now. Though the problem I had with these two for

my very sensory over loaded kids or low functioning was the lack of the child

understanding what I wanted them as an OT to do INDEPENDENTLY. God I hate hand

over hand. Ugh! So for the kid not to get prompt dependent I got iWriteWords

which once I introduced letter recognition, letter formation for both capital

and lower case. This product was different because the child had to slow down

and connect number dots to trace the letters. However if they went to fast the

app would make them restart again and again till they really had traced the

letter correctly. Its a perfect behavior modification tool. In the begining

some of my kids did get frustrated so introducing 3 letters at a time and

building from there worked well for me. You know your child best. So what ever

you think its their limit and yours.

Then for early elementary learning I have a few which I like. This App called

Teach Me is in a toddler, kindergarten and 1st grade level. There you will find

from identification of letters, and counting for toddlers version. For

kindergarten addition and subtraction concepts with sight words. Then the 1st

grade level with less prompting and then having them to write the item because

they no longer give you options for the answers. Great tool. My neurotypical

daughter loves to play this game for fun because for every correct answer you

get a check mark. Then for every 3 check marks you get a coin which then gives

you an opportunity to buy a sticker. For our kids it teaches waiting and self

modulation with the repetiveness. GREAT reviews honestly even my legally blind

autistic kid likes this one. He can sit there for an hour or more with out

protest working with me on this one.

Then for my high functioning kids and typing I introduce typing with Typing

Class its more a game type but it starts giving the child repetive memory with

identifying where the letters are on the key board. Also another one is called

Tapout The Word. This one again is a game but I am looking for them to increase

the visual scanning for that typing. Then there is TypoMeter which is really now

timing the typing session. Which is good to develop that speed in typing for our

kids. Also not just for Autistic Kids.

Then for MATH I got a couple of good ones MakeChange which introduces value of

coins and challenges them to figure out adding to come out with a value the game

ask them to get. Then there is a site called

ar-entertainment.net/learning/ipad.html has many good games for math, letter

indetification for word recognition, learning about time, learning tables in

addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. They have many more APPS

which I have not purchased yet but they all look very good. Again not for just

autistic kids.

Ok I have more APP suggestions but I think Im already writing to much. Though

contact me off the list for a specific concept or learning tool which you are

trying to teach your child and I probably have already used an APP for that. lol

Milian COTA/L aka Enzo's Mom

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Thank you so much! This is very helpfull

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