Smart Apps For Kids

iDo App Collection--Basic life skills for special needs! New Top Pick!

 

 

Bottom Line: iDo is a top-notch collection of apps geared specifically towards children with special needs that uses video modeling to teach life skill tasks. Read below to discover each of the content areas the series addresses. 

Sale Alert: Five social development apps drop their prices for a limited time only

Don't miss out on this wonderful opportunity to get five different social development apps for low prices. The developer, all4mychild, is running a limited time sale. These apps will bring activity ideas, checklists, questions and a virtual whiteboard straight to your fingertips, along with so much more. Regularly, you would pay anywhere between $0.99 and $19.99 for these apps, but for this weekend only, you will not pay more than $9.99 for even the most expensive app. What a great deal! Grab them before the weekend sale is over.

Completely FREE app to teach life skills and social skills from Smart Apps for Special Needs!

Everyone faces challenges in life. The main character in Bouncy the People Trainer's You Can Learn is Bouncy, a three-legged mixed breed dog who overcame adversity. Bouncy's message is that every child was born for greatness and with hard work and a positive attitude anything is possible. It's a free app, with no in-app purchases!

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:

Street Smarts: helping kids be safely lost (wait, what?)

 

 

Bottom Line: A video modeling-based app to help children know the steps to take when they get lost. Quality videos with easy instructions make this app appealing to parents, especially those who have children with special needs. Some minor adjustments and increase in content are needed for the app to reach its full potential.