Smart Apps For Kids

Featured App: How Do You Know? teaches children critical thinking and inferential skills with over 500 pictures and questions.

This handy app for iPad and iPhone helps children decide what they are looking at based on clues they see. By choosing the best answer for each picture, children are tapping into critical thinking skills and are learning how to describe why they have chosen their answers. This app is great for young users but also very valuable to special needs students who need an extra push answering "How?" and "Why?" questions and finishing sentences that begin with, "Because..". The $4.99 price tag also makes this app very accessible to users on a budget.

Guest Review by Jenni: Custom Boards Premium from Smarty Ears

 

 

 

 Bottom Line: Custom boards is a great time saving app meant for any age. This app allows you to create unique and individualized materials for just about anything, including articulation, expressive language, receptive language, fluency, and any other idea you can think of! Materials can also be easily saved and shared with others.

**UPDATED** Andy Helps You Read is not a "fly-by-night" learning tool.

 

 

Bottom Line:

This app can be a handy addition to any special needs classroom at home or in a traditional setting as long as there is adequate guidance and support given to the student. The app isn't flashy, but the creators have a combined 45 years worth of special needs education experience, which can come in handy if this is an area where your student needs help.

Review: ABA Preference simplifies assessments for parents, teachers and therapists.

 

 

Bottom Line: This app makes assessments very simple to conduct for figuring out personalized motivators for each client as well as keeping that information in one easy to navigate space. Although the app works well with no bugs, be aware of how the app is going to be used and how often as cost may become an issue.

Get aacorn AAC for HALF OFF and get a second copy FREE (first 50 customers). SQUEEEE!

As part of Autism Awareness & Acceptance Month we’re delighted to share with you the exciting news that ‘aacorn’ the innovative AAC app for non­verbal or speech­-delayed children is half price! And equally as exciting, as an exclusive for Smart Apps for Kids' readers the first 50 customers will receive a bonus second copy absolutely free (normally $119.99) that they can give to their child’s SLP, school or a friend.