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Welcome to Yummiloo, a food-filled paradise! The Yum Yums are headed to their annual carnival, but the Rainbow Machine which powers the carnival is empty. Help Rooty and the other Yum Yums harvest as many different colored fruits and vegetables as possible to power up the Rainbow Machine and begin the carnival. In this educational app “playing with your food” will take on a whole new meaning as kids learn the basics of food identification and nutritional curriculum through a fun and engaging game. After being introduced to the Yum Yums, users are instructed to gather fruits and vegetables by dragging them into the corresponding colored bucket to help fuel the Rainbow Machine. Little ones are also provided with a compost bin for spoiled foods, making room for more fresh foods to grow once the rotten ones are removed. Once all five colored carts are filled with food the Rainbow Machine is able to run on full power, unleashing the carnival rides and a Yum Yum party. The celebratory end of the game reinforces the importance of ‘eating a rainbow,’ educating kids about how eating a mix of bright, vibrant colored foods help their bodies grow. Delete the scoop?
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Abilipad is a customizable keyboard and adaptive notepad, with word prediction and text-to-speech. Features: Keyboard Editor enables one to quickly and easily create customized keyboard layouts: The adaptive notepad provides scaffolding and support: Delete the scoop?
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This app has been written in conjunction with pediatric occupational therapists who work in schools and clinics with children who often struggle with reading. One of their main difficulties is seen during reading or when they have to answer questions based on a passage they have read. It has been found that because they struggle with tracking they are unable to answer the questions or complete the task without fatigue to their eyes. Tracking skills, or the ability to control the fine eye movements required to follow a line of print, are really important in reading. Children with tracking problems will often lose their place, skip or transpose words, and have difficulty understanding because of struggling to move their eyes accurately. Many are forced to use their fingers to follow the line because their eyes can’t.
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“Multiplication Table is a groundbreaking new way to visualize and interact with the multiplication table. It is quite clearly created by a lover of math who appreciates the patterns and order to be found within the discipline. The multiple exploratory ways to interact with the multiplication table will help you teach your child to think about multiplication as a visual, orderly, and most importantly – understandable concept.” Delete the scoop?
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Avaz for Autism is a full-featured, research-based Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) app for autism. Avaz uses picture symbols and high-quality voice synthesis to help users create messages and develop language skills. Avaz also incorporates a powerful keyboard to help users transitioning to text. Recommended by speech and language therapists working with children with autism worldwide. Delete the scoop?
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Reading Raven is an extremely fun and engaging learn-to-read educational game that provides step-by-step reading lessons designed to help young children build a solid foundation for reading. FEATURES: With the Reading Raven companion guiding them along, children will go on delightful fun-filled adventures where they will encounter fly eating frogs, caterpillars that turn into butterflies, circus acrobats, ball balancing seals, underwater sea creatures, snow monsters, flying penguins, space robots, rhyming rockets, and much more!
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Autism and Bullying in Time Yields Harsh CommentsAge of AutismTime Magazine ran an article on why autistic students are targets for bullies. Delete the scoop?
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* Learn and Play on three animated screens: Fishes, Ink Blots and Spaceships LITE version available This colorful and highly interactive game will help teach your little ones the names of 12 basic colors. It will also be fun for older kids and even adults to learn colors in other languages. Unique customization features will allow you to create a very personal learning experience for your children. Dear parents! You can create your own unique and personal version of Baby Learns using the Recorder. Learning is much more effective when your child hears the familiar voice of mom or dad! You can also share your recordings with our community and download community created voiceovers directly from Baby Learns app. Instructions to Voiceover features: Baby Learns Colors has two built-in languages (English and Russian) and more than 20 languages in downloadable Voiceovers shared by our users. To select a voiceover in another language: go to settings screen (in the top left corner on the main screen). Scroll to your right and tap the last icon (Download). It will bring you to the Voiceovers screen where you can choose the language and download a new voiceover (Internet connection required). To record your own voiceover: go to the settings. The first icon with a microphone (New) takes you to New Voiceover screen where you can record you own voiceover (you can watch the video with detailed instructions here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsE9XFru2Vg&feature=related). Baby Learns Colors was added to Autism Apps List and recommended for children with special needs by Touch Autism Team. Delete the scoop?
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Naming TherAppy is the best-selling word-finding app to help people with aphasia and children with special needs practice important naming and description skills, and now you can add your own images! Stroke and brain-injured patients can now practice word-finding on their own or with a therapist with this easy-to-use app designed by a SLP. Full-color photos with real recorded voice for over 700 words are included in the app. Self-scoring in test and practice modes allow for easy documentation with a report-ready score report sent via email. ☆Try it for FREE as part of Language TherAppy Lite☆ Goal Areas: Useful for Helping: Features: Evidence-Based Cueing Hierarchy:
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Recently, a friend’s son informed me that at his school kids refer to the special needs students as “handicappers” and “aliens.” As a parent of a child with special needs, this both infuriated and saddened me. Though my son Andrew doesn’t attend that particular school, I can guarantee you that the sentiments towards the kids in the special education program on his campus are similar. Parents and self-advocates within the special needs community spend a great deal of time and energy trying to bring about awareness and acceptance among the rest of the world. Though we’ve come a long way, the conversation with my friend’s son the other day shows me just how far we still have to go. And it begins with your kids. Delete the scoop?
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Your child’s imagination will soar with this magical storytelling app! Rich interactive experiences they’ll return to time and time again! Jamie Lee Curtis’ beloved book has been re-imagined and transformed into a breathtaking interactive experience that lets you follow a balloon on its imaginary journey after it’s accidentally released from a little boy’s grasp. This app has been specifically designed to provide hour after hour of entertainment and creative play. Highlights include the chance to: Delete the scoop?
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Series – where learning and fun are combined. This new, highly educational game teaches your child about the world of relations. In this game your child learns to arrange objects in a series based on various principles such as shape, color, size and quantity. The game develops primary math concepts such as size and quantity, visual perception skills, such as visual differentiation, fine motor skills and with parental assistance can develop language skills. Series 1 is designed for children aged 3.5+ Series 2 is designed for children aged 4+ Series 3 is designed for children aged 4.5+ Delete the scoop?
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Give them the building blocks of reading with the interactive app that teaches your little reader more than 200 different words. New from the makers of AlphaTots, Gappy’s First Words is the perfect adventure for pint-sized learners just beginning to read. From dusty deserts to distant planets, Gappy has wandered far from home, and it’s their job to help him make it back, spelling words to span the gaps along the way. There are four different worlds for young players to explore, and with each one they conquer, they’ll earn the parts they need to redesign Gappy’s house. From a cozy cabin, to a mushroom house, to a castle with a gingerbread roof, there are over 700 creative combinations they can make in the game designed to give your little reader a big head start on the books they’ll love for life. 
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April 11, 9:32 PM
Great to see Apps for Children with special needs in the market. Delete the scoop?
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Writing is one of the basic activities which children learn after entering school. In their exercise books and under the teacher’s supervision, they train lines, arcs, loops and many other graphomotor elements. Although the iPad cannot teach your child the correct pencil grip or body posture, it can be a very good tool for training the shapes used in learning to write. By “finger writing”, the brain activates the same centers the child uses when writing with a pencil.
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The So Much 2 Say app is a versatile Augmentative Communication App. Delete the scoop?
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With more than 18,000 exercises, iTooch Elementary is a new and fun way of practicing and learning Math, Language Arts and Science for 3rd, 4th or 5th Graders. With more than 18,000 exercises, iTooch Elementary is a new and fun way of practicing and learning Math, Language Arts and Science for 3rd, 4th or 5th Graders. It is, by far, the largest collection of educational activities based on the US National Common Core Standards on the App Store. Delete the scoop?
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Little Digits is a fun educational app that teaches children about numbers by putting a new spin on finger counting. Using the iPad multi-touch screen, Little Digits displays number characters by detecting how many fingers you put down. Children can learn to associate the number on the screen with the number of fingers they place down, whilst enjoying the unique characters and animations of the Little Digits world. There are also games that introduce small addition and subtraction calculations, where you can work out the answer using the same multi-touch finger detection. This is an app that will grow with your child’s numerical understanding. Not only can they discover numbers through initial independent play, you can also play collaboratively with your child, each putting fingers down to count and work out calculations together. Then when your child is ready, they can work out the answers for themselves, using their own little digits! 
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March 4, 1:17 PM
Good app to teach children how to count! Helps to teach while still allowing kids to have fun
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This is a short video of my son who was non verbal past 3 and has Epilepsy and is on the Autism Spectrum, using an App called Reading Raven to learn how to r... Delete the scoop?
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Questions2Learn helps students understand and learn how to answer functional who, what, where, and when questions. The Speech Pups, Moca and Dakota, will reinforce your students while they answer questions! Choose a category that you want to answer questions from: school, home, food & drinks, health, community, and leisure/recreational. Questions2Learn was created by Leanne Pool, a certified speech language pathologist. Many of Leanne’s students have difficulty using their verbal abilities and/or have significant cognitive weaknesses. These students benefited from using Questions2Learn during therapy sessions. Delete the scoop?
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The most inexpensive of the storymaking apps, Social Stories is an ABA app designed to help special needs children and young adults understand social situations and give them tools to respond correctly to their environment, in their environment. Social Stories is designed to be easy to use and easy to understand. • Social Stories is an app for teaching children or young adults with learning challenges or special needs. Social Stories is great for typically developing children, and children with developmental disabilities. These include • A photo is paired with a line of text to show the child, to help visualize what they need to do or understand on each page. To create one of these stories, tap the add button in the upper right hand corner and create a new story. Stories can be an unlimited amount of pages. Import your own personal photos into the app, instead of pre-canned photos. Add titles to every page in addition to text along the bottom, and a separate title for the whole story. • Sharing: Photo integration allows for nonverbal sharing, and for sharing across languages. You can share your stories with your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, or on your monitor. You can also share stories on your TV with an Apple TV Box. Features: Teaches: Delete the scoop?
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Articulation Station Pro is the FULL version of Articulation Station with the same features and functionality created for parents, SLPs and teachers as part of the Volume Purchase Program. Teach children and adults how to pronounce all the sounds in the English language with 6 fantastic and engaging articulation activities! Created by a certified Speech-Language Pathologist, Articulation Station Pro is a full featured articulation application to help children as well as adults learn to speak and pronounce their sounds more clearly. Beautiful high quality images represent target words to be practiced in fun-filled activities with the assistance of a Speech-Language Pathologist, teacher or parent. Articulation Station Pro is the first and only articulation application offering practice at the WORD, SENTENCE and STORY levels! These activities are so fun your kids will love practicing their sounds and forget they are actually “working” on their articulation. Each of the 22 sound programs target sounds in the initial, medial and final positions of words, sentences and stories. The majority of sounds (p,b,m,d,n,t,k,g,f,v,ch,j,z,sh,th) have 60 target words each. Some sound programs (l,r,s) are targeted in blends as well and have even more target words! All together Articulation Station Pro has over 1,000 target words! ARTICULATION STATION PRO HAS:
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Shelby’s Quest: Therapeutic Tools for Fine Motor and Visual Perceptual Development
Shelby’s Quest is the “choose your own adventure” game of fine motor and visual perceptual skills. Shelby’s Quest, designed by an occupational therapist, aims to instill inspiration and enjoyment in education among children. This app is a therapy tool specially made for occupational therapists, teachers and parents, gives the child a fun way to practice fine motor and visual perceptual skills while allowing the ability to store and track their progress. Shelby’s Quest guides the child along a journey assisting Shelby the Dog as she helps her forest animal friends overcome their challenges. Set in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, students will guide Skip the Salmon upstream to help him find his family, assist Samantha the Squirrel as she collects acorns and help Maurice the Moose find his way home. KEY FEATURES Delete the scoop?
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Goodnight ABC is a fully interactive App that makes learning ABC and Phonics feel like playing an exciting game. Filled with colorful original art, sound effects, animals, whimsical objects, and tons of interactive features and animation on every page, the app teaches letters and letter sounds, while also providing your child with hundreds of new vocabulary words, knowledge of numbers, colors, the basics of nature, animal world, technology, and a lot more. Delete the scoop?
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Series – where learning and fun are combined. This new, highly educational game teaches your child about the world of relations. In this game your child learns to arrange objects in a series based on various principles such as shape, color, size and quantity. The game develops primary math concepts such as size and quantity, visual perception skills, such as visual differentiation, fine motor skills and with parental assistance can develop language skills. Series 1 is designed for children aged 3.5+ Series 2 is designed for children aged 4+ Series 3 is designed for children aged 4.5+ Delete the scoop?
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In this video you will learn how to use the following settings.
Airplane Mode
Creating App Folders
Deleting an App
Close Apps running in the background (save battery)
Taking a Screenshot
Adjusting the Brightness
Changing the Wallpaper
Setting up Restrictions
Using Zoom
Large Text
Inverting Colors
Using “Speak Selection”
Multitasking Gestures
Guided Access
Do not Disturb
App Settings.