Smart Apps For Kids

Jenni’s Top 10 (or 14) Apps for Social Skills! Newly updated!

As a speech/language therapist in a school district, I work with a huge variety of students. Each student has a different disability, and no two kids are the same. This is something I’m sure many of you can relate with! As many of you know, money is also a concern, not only in the schools, but everywhere we turn. As such, I always try to find apps that are flexible, so I can use them for more than one goal, and cost effective. If I feel an app is expensive, then I try my best to make sure it is worth the money. In other words, I try to think outside of the box in figuring out how I can use this app in more than one way. While many apps exist for social skills, so often they address only one or a just few specific areas. This is my list of apps that I feel can be used in so many different ways! Here are just a few apps to get you started in no particular order:

FREE APP ALERT! S.E.E (Social Emotional Exchange) From $29.99 to FREE!

(Also check out Deanne's Top 10 Free Apps for ASD Kids!)

An app that helps children recognize emotions by looking at facial expressions has gone FREE in the lead-up to Autism Awareness Day, which is celebrated worldwide on April 2. 

We are not sure how long this app will be FREE, so hurry up and download it now while you can!

LIMITED TIME ONLY!

 

Good Free App of the Day: Shadow Puppets: Easily create social stories, presentations & more!

Looking for a simple and free way to make social stories or other kid-friendly video presentations? Shadow Puppet allows you to do just that and more!

Choose photos from your own camera roll and narrate the slideshow. You can tap to highlight an area within a picture and zoom in/out.  Features a "how to" video and two sample shadow puppets. The help section under settings contains FAQs and the developer, Shadow Puppet Inc., responds quickly to inquiries and questions.

FREE APP ALERT! Discovering Emotions with Zeely ($19.99 to FREE for the first time ever!)

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($50 worth of apps have gone FREE on our FREE APP FRIDAY post too!)

What a great way to get ready for Autism Awareness Month in April! It is well known that people with autism spectrum disorders often struggle with recognizing and controlling emotions. Well, there's an app to help with that!

Normally $19.99, Discovering Emotions with Zeely has gone FREE for a limited time only, so please share this post amongst your friends in your social network — you never know who might need this. 

FREE App Alert! Attainment's Access Language Arts from $40 to FREE for a limited time!

**Sorry but this app has returned to full price.  Sign up to our FREE APP ALERT so you never miss great freebies like this one again**

 

Attainment's Access Language Arts, which is normally a $39.99 app, has gone FREE for a limited time only. This app contains four stories adapted to specifically benefit students with special needs. The stories included are Neighbors, Sadako and a Thousand Paper Cranes, The Diary of Anne Frank, and We Beat the Streets.  The app follows along with research based curriculum and is designed to line up with Common Core Standards.