GoTalk NOW - Free

Is a fully functional augmentative communication (AAC) app that introduces you to the flexibility , ease of use, and power of Attainments popular GoTalk NOW . Create up to three personalized communication pages by editing the pre-made examples of Standard, Express, and Scene pages.

Bitsboard - Free
Provides word games, memory games, spelling games, and reading practice activities, and dozens of other activities in one place. On the Bitsboard app students can learn new vocabulary words, how to tell time, and how to count money.

Dragon Dictation - Free

An easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon NaturallySpeaking that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages.

Beatwave - Free
Touch the screen to fill in dots anyway you like- the app plays them in a wave and so makes beats that loop and loop. Easy to use composer, age appropriate, nice graphics too.

Club caveman - 69p

Ask him to do things like 'wave', 'jump' and he'll do just that. You can also poke him, touch parts of the screen to make flies, bees and crocodiles attack him, and shake the iPad and he'll bounce around . The speech recognition part doesn't work perfectly- but that'll motivate some pupils to speak clearer and louder.

Picture card maker - Free

A simple-to-use program that allows you to create Picture Cards or Visuals to be used for communication, reading and many other educational purposes. These picture cards may either be used directly over your device as a communication tool or they may be printed off and used in communication folders and as visuals in the home or classroom.

Monkey Preschool Lunchbox - 69p

This app provides the opportunity for students to match and count objects, select pictures that begin with a specified letter, put a puzzle together, identify objects that are different from the rest, and receptively identify shapes and colors. On an intermittent basis, students are rewarded for completing these tasks by selecting a sticker. This is a great app to utilize with a small group of students to practice turn taking, waiting, and following directions.

Tune Trace - Free

When you photograph a real drawing, the image becomes a computer program that generates live music. Watch as Tunetrace gradually translates your photograph into a skeleton of line endings and crossings. Then the real magic begins. Twinkling lights obey a few very simple rules to navigate your drawing, making music as they go.

GridPlayer - Free
Grid Player is an AAC app and keyboard with predictive text aimed at children with communication needs. It comes with three symbol-based grids for talking and an onscreen keyboard Text Talker for writing. Sentences created in the grids are spoken aloud. If you have The Grid 2 PC software you can edit your own grids. The Text Talker grid is an excellent tool for students who need support with writing.

Cause and Effect Sensory Sound Box - 69p

Twelve simple interactions exploring scales, tones, pitch and sound effects through taps and gestures with high contrast visuals.

Autism Apps - Free

Autism Apps is simply a comprehensive list of apps that are being used with and by people diagnosed with autism, Down Syndrome and other Additional Needs. It also includes links to any available information that can be found for each app. The Apps are also separated into over 30 categories, and the descriptions are all searchable, so any type of app is easy to find and download

LetterReflex - 1.49
LetterReflex provides a fun way to help overcome common letter reversals. The first activity, Tilt It, uses kinesthetic learning to teach left from right. The second activity, Flip It, allows them to practice what they learned while honing their letter discrimination skills

Toontastic - Free
Teaches key storytelling principles that help to promote Creativity at a young age. Toontastics drawing tools bring kids wildest ideas to life alongside virtual playsets chock full of pirates, princesses, far away galaxies, and many other characters and settings to spark the imagination.

I tell a story - 69p

The story telling experience is further enhanced with a number of features included in audio editing option. The narrator can add funny sounds and music to multiply the entertaining factor of the story. The stories can be saved along with a title, writers name and a picture.

All My High Frequency Words - 1.49

To Help Children Learn To Read & Write Their High Frequency Words. This Application was designed to improve childrens recognition of all of the 300 High Frequency Words covered in Letters & Sounds.

Talking Tom Cat 2 - Free

Tom repeats what you say, gets into pillow fights, and reacts to your touch.

See.Touch.Learn - Free
A Picture Card Learning System replaces physical flash cards. Designed by professionals specifically for those with autism and other special needs. Used by SLP's, BCBA's, Teachers, and Parents to provide custom picture card instruction

Collins Big Cat: Playing Story Creator - Free

Develop childrens reading and writing skills with Playing interactive book and Story Creator, from the primary literacy specialists at Collins Education. Also available: In the Garden and My Bike Ride.

Book Creator - 2.49

Create books with images from photo library) Add text, record audio, add music add video Simple export directly into iBooks

Little Digits - 1.49

Little Digits- Great emerging Numeracy/ Cause and Effect app from Chris O'Shea- put one finger on the screen and number one comes up and it says 'one', put 6 fingers on and number 6 come up and it says '6' So simple it works. You can move onto answering 1-10 addition and subtraction questions with your digits for an extension- so it's a great motivating app for early number work

Tap to Talk - Free

Tap to Talk Free Give your non-verbal child a voice! TapToTalk turns an iPhoneinto an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device. . Just tap a picture and TapToTalk speaks. Each picture can lead to another screen of pictures.

Tiny Tap - Free

Harnesses the power of the iPad! TinyTap is a free app with endless possibilities for classroom use. With this app users can create their own tap the right answer game, using photos, text, their own drawings etc. These can then be played on the iPad or emailed to someone else with the app to play.

Autism iHelp - Free

A vocabulary teaching aid developed by parents of a child with Autism and a speech-language pathologist. Autism iHelp comes in a number of free applications opposites, shapes, sorting WH questions for example

Articulation Station - Partly Free

Not only has flashcards that target specific sounds, it is a full featured articulation program that also targets specific sounds in words, sentences and stories. Only a little of the program is really useful as the accents are American but you can still use the flash card part which you need to buy by the letter (P is free )

Clicker Docs - 16.49

Clicker Docs transforms the iPad into a portable primary word processor! Watch your pupils skills and confidence grow as they use the range of writing support tools on offer to create accurate, flowing documents Professionally made, ever expanding bank of learning resources is just a tap away with Clicker Docs. Select LearningGrids to access a wide range of topic-specific Word Banks created by our curriculum team new resources are added every two weeks!

Ithought - 5.45
Starting a new map in iThoughts is easy. The app provides a blank canvas with the title of the map in the central bubble. Adding topics and sub-topics is as easy as hitting a button and typing. The display is optimized for either portrait or landscape orientation, depending on how you are holding the iPad at the time. The display slides to the side automatically as you make a long text entry to keep it on the screen.

Comic Life - 2.49

The app is designed to create comic pages using digital photos. Users can drag and drop photos from their libraries, finders, directly from web pages or other programs. Comic Life has an integrated camera feature that allows the user to snap a picture and add it directly to a comic. These images as well as those from iPhoto and anywhere on the hard drive can be 'filtered' to look comic like.