
Inclusive Education
apps that assist in learning life skills for special needs
Social Skills
Model Me Kids is an app that shows videos of social skills to promote proper behaviour in specific social scenarios. The videos were made specifically for learners and kids with special needs from autism to developmental delays.
Pictello is an app that makes a social story or visual schedule for a child with a disability or a slide show of holiday pictures for your friends. You can use the included natural-sounding Text to Speech voices, or record your own voice, Pictello is the perfect tool for visual storytelling.
Sosh is an app for kids, teenagers and young adults to help improve social skills. It is especially designed to be used by individuals with Asperger’s Syndrome.
Touch and Learn- Emotions is an app that helps kids read body language and understand emotions by looking at gorgeous pictures and figuring out which person is expressing a given emotion.
Everyday Social Skills HD is an app covering basic social skills needed for everyday activities in your community like walking down the street, using a restroom, waiting in line, asking for directions, asking for information and joining in a group.
Communication
Conversation Builder is an app to help elementary aged children learn how to have multi-exchange conversations with their peers in a variety of social settings. There are auditory pattern of conversation can be presented in a visual format to help students recognize and master the flow of conversation. Students will learn when it is appropriate to introduce themselves, ask questions, make observations and change the subject of the conversation.
Word Wizard is an app that allows kids hear the sounds of letters and words using a talking movable alphabet. There are advanced text to speech capabilities, it can pronounce and spell-check words and sentences.
ArtikPix is an app with flashcard and matching activities for children with speech sound delays. It is available for collecting scores in flashcards on up to 4 children at a time and a group of students can collect data as they practice sounds in words and sentences.
Sentence Builder is designed to learn about words, sentences, pronunciation, grammar, and punctuation. It allows you to incorporate your own pictures, words and sentences.
Speak It: Text to Speech app allows you to copy emails, documents, web pages, PDF files, and more; paste them into Speak it, and have the text spoken back to you anywhere.
Behaviour
Choiceworks is an app that helps children with daily routines. This can include in the morning, day and night. They will learn how to understand and control their feelings and improve waiting skills. Choiceworks helps with children learning how to take turns and not interrupt.
Smile At Me is an app that works really well in helping the child understand how and when to smile.
Video Scheduler is an app that makes it easy to construction a picture and video schedule. This will allow a young child, or a person with a disability to understand the schedule of their day easily. This app will engage the viewer.
Behaviour Tracker is an app that was BTP designed to support the behavioral treatment plans for children with disabilities. However, it can be used to track and graph behavior in any field, or any ages.
Chore Pad is an app motivating your kids to complete chores. Once each child completes their assigned chores they earn stars, which are redeemable for rewards that you create. Bonus stars can be given for a job well done, or penalty stars to let your child know they should strive to do better