Compiled by Carolann Cormier, MS, CCC-SLP, ATP
Cromwell, CT
This list of apps for education is compiled as a handout resource. The document lets you know the name of the app, what it does and, better yet, it’s categorized (Art, Books, Reading, Writing, etc.). This handout is meant to be a resource. It is not meant to be exhaustive and is not a suggestion on what apps to buy or download. It is always helpful to review the ratingson apps before purchasing. For review of apps, click on the review button when you are on the app download page in iTunes. If a lite version is available, generally they are free or cheaper, so they can be a way for you to try an app. For childrens apps click on the Apps for Kids category in iTunes sidebar. For books, click on the Books category. Use the search parameters built into iTunes for apps by clicking on the apps button when your search results come up.
To take screen shots of your various displays press the “home” and “sleep” keys at the same time. The shot will be saved in your photos and can be emailed or used in presentations.
Art
| Color & Draw | Includes various types of paper and background images. You can import pictures for your background |
| Curious George | With virtual stickers and 45 colors, paint 56 unique pages of Curious George and friends. |
| Doodle Buddy | Finger paint with colors and tap the screen to include stamps on pictures or provided backgrounds. |
| Doodle Kids | Using a finger, draw random shapes in random colors and sizes, then shake to clear the screen |
| Drawing Den | A series of pages to color in. |
| Drawing Pad | Includes different brushes, stamps, crayons, colored pencils and different color paper for the backgrouns. |
| iColoring Book | With many pen colors paint included images, or use downloaded images from the Internet. |
| Itsy Bitsy Spider | A musical color image with 70 elements to paint. You can save your image to your photos. |
| Learn to Draw | Follow directions with basic shapes to make drawings |
| SculptMaster 3D | Using your fingers, create digital sculptures by painting clay like material. |
| Spawn (a lite version available) | Touch and drag on different areas of the screen to get animated feedback of where your finger is moving. |
Assistive Technology & Accessibility
There are accessibility features on the 16 and 32 GB model iTouches only and on the 3rd Gen. iPod Touchs, iPhone 3GS and iPads. These features include voice over, voice control, high contrast mode, mono audio and up to 5x zoom. For more information go to: www.apple.com/accessibility/ and click on the specific tool you would like information on for the accessibility features.
| AirMouse | Install on iPhone/iTouch and computer and allows you to use the app to control the computer |
| Blabberize | Create talking pictures |
| vozMe | Type in text and it creates an mp3 file of your text |
Books – Children
| ABC Dinos | A dinosaur name is read and shown on each alphabetical page |
| Brave Monkey | Cute story that is automatically read to you. Does not highlight |
| Binky | A story about an elephant |
| Buddy #1 | Story about Buddy the Bus and where he take people. You can add your voice. It reads in English, French, Japanese, Chinese, German and Spanish. |
| Bugs | Real photographs of bugs with the text that is read by touching Mother Goose. |
| Cat in the Hat | An interactive book that can be read to you or you can read where each word is highlighted and the text label of items on the page is displayed and read when touched. |
| Children’s Classics | Auto scrolling books from various authors, arranged alphabetically. Text only with some illustrations. |
| Curious George’s Puppies | The book allows you to record your own voice and is read to you page by page. It allows a large text feature |
| Curious George B-day | An interactive book where you discover George’s birthday surprise as you listen to the book or record your voice |
| Dr. Seuss’s ABC’s | An interactive book that can be read to you or you can read where each word is highlighted and the text label of items on the page is displayed and read when touched. |
| Emperor’s New Clothes | Can auto scroll, the text is not read aloud. |
| Fairy Tales | Books from Hans Christian Anderson that auto scroll at the rate you desire. Text only. |
| Goldilocks | Each word is highlighted as it is read to you |
| Grinch Who Stole Christmas | An interactive book that can be read to you or you can read where each word is highlighted and the text label of items on the page is displayed and read when touched. |
| HanselGretel | Each page is read to you when you touch the page |
| ICDL Books for Children | Thousands of children’s books (e.g. Three Little Pigs) from 60 countries in various language with illustrations. |
| iLook | High Contrast, white on black picture book with 5 categories (e.g. animals, food) for young children. |
| iMotherGoose – Bugs | Talking picture book with full color pictures that speak the insect name when touched |
| iMotherGoose – Emperor’s New Clothes | The classic has been altered and contains narrations and original artwork. |
| iMotherGoose – Hansel and Gretel | The classic has been altered and contains narrations and original artwork. |
| iStoryTime Kids Books | The books are illustrated, include text, and are narrated with pages that turn automatically or manually. |
| Jules Verne | Contains the text of books written by Jules Verne |
| Little Lala | Can read or have it read to you page by page |
| Little Red Riding Hood | Talking, interactive book with story narration paired with text and animated objects. |
| Miss Spider | iPad, animated story that reads to you |
| My Friend Isabelle | Two friends with differences in a narrated story paired with highlighted text. |
| Peter Rabbit | The test is read to you, each page has a hidden shape and the pages color in as they are turned |
| The Reading Bug – from iStory Times a library of narrated children’s books | Designed for children 2 and up. Can pick different voices and other preferences. This sotry is about a chameleon out to catch the reading bug. |
| Sesame Street Playground | Allows you to change some settings and record your own voice for this story about a lost puppy. |
| Spring | The simple story is read to you with sound effects. |
| StoryBook (a lite version is available) | A collection of stories that allows you to customize the books by genre, names, gender, ages and species. Each reading can be slightly different, introducing you to new words. |
| StoryKit | Easy program to create your own stories by adding in photos, text and speech. Could use for social stories and schedules. |
| Three Little Pigs | Interactive book with story narration paired with text. The characters can be touched to make sounds. |
| Toy Story | Animated book that highlights the words as they are read. |
| Treat Street | Simple Halloween animations containing a costume shop, Treat Street where you can interact with items on the street to get audio feedback and treats and a goodie bag. No speech or text. |
| Trucks | Simple story book that names and shows the text of the trucks as they are touched. |
Books – Adults and Young Adults
| Audiobooks | Download hundreds of classic books arranged alphabetically by author. |
| Barnes & Nobel eReader | Allows you to download books from Barnes & Noble |
| BookList | Allows you to create a book list by title, author, genre and recent and do searches. |
| BookShelf | |
| Classics | Contains the complete text with some illustrations of 22 classic books. You can bookmark where you are in your reading. |
| EngLit | Summaries and reading assistance for many books in English Literature (like Cliff Notes). Each one is a separate app. |
| eTextbooks | When connected to the Internet access your eTextbooks to read them and to view your notes. |
| Free Books (iPad) | Thousands of books in different genres, all to download for free |
| Great Books | The text of over 200 books, that are arranged alphabetically by authors. It uses autoscrolling. |
| iBooks (iPad) | Download and read books that show the pictures in the actual books, turn the pages back and forth by touching the edges of the pages. |
| Jules Verne | The works of Jules Verne |
| Kindle for iPhone | Download and read Kindle books, highlight and take notes, select alternate text and background colors |
| Schmooz | Auditory or visual summaries and notes on hundreds of books. Each one is a separate app. (Like Cliff Notes) |
| Sherlock (iPad) | Vook (Videos and links included in the book to make it a video book). |
| Stanza | Download from over 50,000 free books and read them with tabbed navigation, copy support and note sharing. |
| Wattpad 100,000+ books |
Communication
| ABA FlashCards – Actions | 52 images to learn actions via text, photo and real audio |
| Aphasia | You scroll through basic comments for conversations, telephone, emergency, meals, restaurants, health and pain scale. |
| ArtikPix | Allows you use 14 cards in 40 decks of randomized flash cards for practicing specific sounds with data collection. Has audio and recording features. |
| DAF Assistant | Delayed auditory feedback and frequency shifting to help decrease stuttering |
| Expressionist | Contains over 100 commonly used expressions divided into 7 categories (a Youtube video at http://www.youtube.com/user/holpang#p/a/u/0/3TA8feG0xRA |
| Going Places – Social Stories | Contains 6 video and audio social stories about going to different places |
| Halo Talk | by AdstraSoft this forced choice/prompting app is designed as pairs of opposites to use to offer choices from a field of two photos or to prompt by using a field of two photos. This uses the cartoon drawing of a person as well as photos. |
| iCommunicate | Pre-loaded pictures and storyboards/routines to facilitate language comprehension. You can record yur own speech and customize the setups. |
| iConverse | AAC tool to express 6 different icons representing basic needs: food drink, sick, bathroom, help and break |
| iPrompts | Visual prompting tool containing original artwork for schedules, a timer, a 2 choice prompts and a library of pictures |
| iSpeak Spanish | Uses high quality text to speech to translate English to Spanish and Spanish to English |
| iSeech | List of sounds for developmental ages 3 to 7+ with explanations for forming and teaching the sounds |
| iTranslate Plus | Translate words and whole sentences in 52 languages and use text to speech with 43 voices in 16 languages |
| Jolly Holiday | Learn prepositions while decorating the tree, then learn the signs to Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. |
| Kindergarten.com – 24 titles | Most of the apps present 1 picture with the text paired with speech, but some also work on receptive language by identifying by name, what goes together, rhymes and function. |
| Learn to Talk | Over 160 interactive flashcards to learn nouns, verbs, early syntax and word combinations. |
| Locabulary Lite | Audio output for expressing phrases (hello), moods (I am happy), assistance (Call the doctor) & restaurants. Comments on iTunes said there are problems with it crashing and causing problems with Prologuo2Go. |
| Look2Learn – AAC | AAC system with photos and preloaded voices to express wants and needs. |
| Mobile Articulation Probes | Over 600 words organized by sound, to practice articulation in flashcards with user and data features |
| Model Me Going Places | With 6 locations (e.g. playground), each has photos with narration of children modeling the behavior |
| MyTalk | AAC software with photos and voice recording feature that can be used with a web authoring service |
| Picture Scheduler | This app shows a visual reminder (photo or video) at a specified time as well as playing a voice note to cue the user. |
| Proloquo2Go | Full AAC dynamic display solution with over 7000 symbols, natural sounding voices, automatic tensing and more. |
| Small Talk | Geared towards individuals with aphasia, has icons for simple communication board |
| Speak It | Text to speech |
| Step Stones | By AdastraSoft, visual schedules for 9 sequential activities that can be checked for completion and more activities can be added. |
| StoryKit | Allows you to easily create your own books, schedules, sequences or social stories by importing pictures and adding speech |
| Visules | Uses drawings and photos to communicate schedules and actions |
| Voice4U | With over 130 icons and recorded audio to express feelings, thoughts, actions and needs. |
| TapSpeak Button | Allows you to record messages that the person plays back by touching red buttons on the display (like a Big Mack). They will be expanding their line to included sequential playback of messages. |
| TapSpeak Picture | Take pictures of common objects for visual indicator, message categories, sync from iPhone to iPod Touch to use Touch as primary playback device |
| TapSpeak Picture Choices | Adds to TapSpeak Picture the ability to configure and choose among two or more messages on a single screen. |
| TapSpeak Sequential | Sequential recording and playback of songs, stories, nursery rhymes, and other messages. Includes starter set of songs with others sets available through iTunes |
| Tap to Talk | Communication program that allows you to program 6 choices in the display, with a category picture above it. The speech is better here then on the DS. Subscription needed to edit and add. |
| Tap to Talk for the DS | http://www.taptotalk.com/ |
Early Academics
| ABC & Me | Works on learning ABC’s and basic words through various games. |
| Dad’s Gift | Colors, shapes, numbers and early math |
| In the Zoo | Alphabet learning using sing a long, Karaoke and flashcards. |
| PreK Safari | Letters, numbers, colors and shapes with flash cards or touching the items when asked |
| Preschool Adventure | Includes 8 simple activities parents can do with their young toddlers and preschoolers |
Games
| Action Bowling | Basic bowling game |
| Bug Squash | Squash the bugs as they go across the screen (good to practice activating items on the touch) |
| Flood-It | See how many moves you have to make to flood the screen of tiles all one color. |
| Labyrinth | Move the marble to go around barriers and into the holes |
| Mahjong (various Mahjong games are available) | The traditional Mahjong game in 3D |
| Matches | Timed concentration game |
| Skee Ball | Roll and release the ball to get points like in the arcade games |
| Solitaire (various available) | Various games for different types of Solitaire |
| Sudoku | The traditional Sudoku game (various available) |
MATH
| 123 Animals Counting | Touch 40 different animals with sounds to see and hear numbers counted. |
| Algebra Solver | Solves math formulas and equations and allows you to email them to others. |
| Cloud Math | Practice adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing with a timer, levels of difficulty and solution choices. |
| Cute Math | 7 cute activities for counting, adding and subtracting with manipulative, solution choices and verbal praise |
| DiaMath | Algebra learning tool – solve the two empty spaces in the diamond by following the rules. |
| Flash Math | Math flash cards from kindergarten to elementary ages, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. |
| Freddy Fraction | Use Freddy, an alien, to determine the equivalence among fractions, decimals and percents. |
| Free Graphic Calculator – lite | iPhone and iPad version, scientific calculator and function plotter, can plot cartesiand and polar functions |
| Graphing Calculator | Scientific calculator and high resolution function plotter to trace multiple equations on the same graph |
| iLiveMath-Winter Sports | Asks word problems, several different themes available |
| KidCalc Math Fun | Activities for number recognition, counting, and math operations using flash cards, puzzles and games. |
| Math Cards Pro | Quick quizzes in math, different speed modes, includes Roman Numerals |
| Math Drills | Drills for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing with number lines, hints and facts. |
| Math Magic | Includes addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, takes data and has graphics for younger children |
| MyCalculator Pro | Graphic calculator in 2D and 3D with one touch graphing with memory to store and recall answers |
| Multiplication | Includes quiz component that takes data |
| Pop Math | In adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing, pop pairs of bubbles that match the equation with the solution. |
| Sudoku HD for iPad | Sudoku games at various levels |
| TimesTables | Works on times tables in different formats including a 12 x 12 grid |
Math – Money Skills
| Money – Learn to Count | Customize the values of money, then select the correct value that corresponds to bills and coins pictured. |
| Pocket Change | Times adding activity using graphics of actual coins |
Miscellaneous
| Behavior Tracker Pro | Allows you to record the components of ABC data collection and then analyze the data. |
| Flashcards (free) | Allows you to create your own flashcards for any subject |
| Matches | Timed concentration game |
| Revision Aid | Design your own test, they can be multiple choice or a signle answer. |
Music, Musical Instruments and Songs for Young Children
| Accordeon – iPad | Play the accordeon by touching the keys and buttons. |
| Air Harp – iPad | Can play the strings or follow the notes on the strings to play songs |
| Bloom | Touch on the screen to create bubbles that play southing music. |
| Five Little Monkeys | Musical counting game based on the popular rhyme with toys that react to touch. Can sing in rock, country or pop modes |
| Itsy Bitsy Spider | Interactive song where the spider navigates from screen to screen |
| JamPad | Great app, includes Guitar, Drum, different keyboards, tempo changers and other features that respod to yur touch. |
| Kid Songs Kwiz Game | As a popular kid song plays, touch the corresponding picture from a field of 4 |
| Kidzsongs | 6 songs in a sing to me or sing by myself mode, with simple animation. |
| Magic Piano – iPad | Great sound on a circular piano, blank screen or following the noted for a variety of songs. |
| Music | 4 interactive activities where music is provided by tapping on different areas of the screen |
| Old MacDonald | Musical book with 12 interactive pages that play the song in varied languages or instruments or record your own voice |
| Puff the Magic Dragon | An animated video plays as the classic song is sung. |
| Toddler Jukebox | Listen to 5 classic songs and one original song by a children’s artist. |
| Wheels on the Bus | Musical book with 8 interactive pages that plays the song in varied languages or instruments or records your voice |
| World of Lullabies | Audio and lyrics provided for 10 lullabies |
| Xmas Count | Counts the days towards Christmas while playing a Christmas song with simple animations |
Organization
| Dropbox | Store up to 2 GB of files can access from the web |
| Evernote | Note keeping took, allows sync between devices and is searchable |
| Percentally | Track & record data, both single and dual item, gives percent correct, transfers to Google docs |
| IEP Checklist | Provdes a checklist of everything that should be done at an EIP, includes specific language from IDEA and places to keep notes |
| iReward | A motivational chart |
| Scheduler | Allows you to create schedules with pictures, text and audio. Alerts are sent to the user at the scheduled times for each activity and will display the programmed prompt. |
| Time Timer | Red bar disappears as time goes down, includes auditory reminders when time is finished |
Photography
| Art Camera | With 33 filters, your photos can mimic art styles and be shared to email, Facebook or Twitter |
| Camera Zoom 2 | Zoom in/out with iPhone camera, take pictures by pressing volume and use the timer |
| ColorSplash | For dramatic effect, convert your photos to black and white while maintaining the details in color |
| Cooliris | Photo and video content displayed on an endless wall and search across multiple websites |
| Flickr | Search and capture photos and videos, tag, do batch uploads and share to the Flickr community. |
| Gorillacam | Take photos by pressing anywhere on the screen or use features such as a self-tomer, time lapse and rapid fire. |
| Photo Booth Classic | Take 4 photos to recreate black and white photo strips, then share to your camera roll, Facebook or Twitter. |
| Photo Sketch | Use one of your photos to create a high quality, hand drawn rendering of that image. |
| Photobucket | Upload photos to your Photobucket albums, search and download photos and share image URL and html code. |
| Photoshop Mobile | Edit photos for cropping, colors, filters like soft focus and effects like warm vintage, then share the final products. |
| Pic Pop | Use the Pic Pop box to cycle through your photo library and double tap a photo to spin to the next one |
| PicMix | Mis two or more photos in a montage, then edit the detail and add backgrounds. |
Reading
| 300+ Sight Words | Sight words for Level 1 to 5 and Nouns 1 & 2 with text only that can be read to you. |
| ABC Animals | Interactive animal flashcards with audio that provide the letter name, associated animal name and the phonetics |
| abc Pocket Phonics | Combines 3 apps with letter sounds, letter writing practice and 170 first words |
| Alphabet Animals | All 26 letters in interactive flashcards that make sounds and animations when touched |
| Blio | Will allow any books to be read to you, free app soon to be available |
| Build a Word (a lite version is available) | Place letters in the outline provided one at a time to build a word and the word morphs into word friends. |
| i Can Read | Flash cards where 1 side contains the picture and the other the text only. |
| iFlash | Flash cards by word ending families. Pick a word ending and each time you touch the screen the initial letter changes. No audio. |
| iSentence | Use a roller bar to line up words to create the sentence that makes sense (could use as a sentence writing activity also). |
| iWord (lite version available) | Flash cards (no audio) for words that can be letter by letter length |
| Kindergarten.com – 24 titles | Most of the titles present one photograph at a time with the text above it being read when you touch the page. |
| Learn to Talk | Contains text and audio on flash cards for high impact words, objects and labels and other categories. Settings for: say cards; shuffle; spelling and first letters. |
| See Read Say | Includes all 220 DolchWords spoken at the push of a button with individual tracked progress. |
| StoryKit | Comes preloaded with a few stories. Easy to import pictures and create your own stories, schedules, social stories or sequences for activities. Can add voice recordings and text. |
| Voice Cards | Pictures and text for various category cards in English and Spanish. |
| Web Reader | Reads text on the web |
| weesay ABC | Preloaded or create your own album of alphabetical sounds and images using the camera and microphone. |
Sign Language Apps
| ASL Signs | Can arrange alphabetically or by categories. An avitar shows and says the sign. |
| American Sign Language | Over 11,000 vocabulary items in an interactive sign dictionary |
| Idioms 1 by Everyday ASL | Contains a variety of idioms arranged alphabetically that are displayed several times in a short video and also shown in a sentence. It also has a quiz component. No audio. |
| iSign (3D and lite version available) | Many vocabulary items arranged alphabetically with simple animation to display the sign |
| iSpeech Toddler Sign | 2 animated children show 30 signs each with accompanying explanations |
| Jolly Holiday | Learn prepositions while decorating the tree, then learn the signs to Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. |
| Sign 4 Me | With more than 11,500 words in the library, you can learn signed English from a 3D avatar. |
| Sign Smith ASL | More than 1200 signs you can learn American Sign Language from a 3D avatar. |
| Signing Time (Lite version also) | Contains videos with audio of various signs, arranged alphabethically. Also contains flash cards and challenges. |
| Toddler Sign | Volume 1 contains at least 100 signs arranged alphabetically that contain a description and animation on how to make the sign. |
Science & Social Studies
| All Countries | Basic information and a picture of the flag is presented for each country with links to Google, Flikr and Google maps. |
| Google Earth | Type in a destination and see the photo narrow in and show you what it looks like from above |
| Science Quiz | Quizes your knowledge in physics, chemistry, biology, oology, earth science and inventions. |
Writing
| 100 Words to Make you Sound Smart | |
| ABC Animals | |
| ABC Dinosaurs (Ipad) | Trace various letters, numbers, concept words and dinosaur names. |
| ABC Tracer | Alphabet flashcards (a lite version available) |
| ACT & SAT Vocabulary Builder | |
| AlphaPuzzle | Tracing letters, word flashcards and easy puzzles |
| Big Quotes | |
| Build a Word (lite version available) | Make the letters into a word by putting them in the outline and having the word morph into the word friend. |
| Chicktionary | Using the timed or untimed mode, use letters to create words and get the word definitions |
| Dasher | A word prediction program based on letter possibilities controlled by moving a line connecting the letters |
| Diary | Write in a diary that you can add voice notes or photos, cahge the font and size and email to others. |
| Dictionary | Using predictive text search for a word and its definition or synonym in context from dictionary. Com or thesaurus.com |
| Dictionary? | A quick, easy to use and comprehensive dictionary that lets you look up words and find their definitions or synonyms and navigate between words |
| Dictionary! | Easy to use, no fluff dictionary |
| Dragon Dictation | Voice recognition that you can then see and edit your text to share on clipboard, SMS and email |
| Dragon Search | Voice recognition to use to search on Google, YouTube, Wikipedia, iTunes & Twitter |
| FirstWords: At Home | With pictures of over 30 items around the house, touch a letter to hear it and drag it to the correct word position |
| Letter Tracer | Tracing lower or upper case letters and numbers. Allows for some customization. You can shake the screen to clear your tracing. |
| iThoughts | Can import from and export to MindManager as well as other desktop graphic organizers |
| iWriteWords (a lite version available) | In easy or regular mode, trace numbers, lower and upper case letters using numbered prompts |
| Magnetic Poetry: Build a Poem | Has a wide variety of words and word fragments that allow you to create an endless number of poems |
| MindJet | Works with iThoughts or MindManager for Mac and Windows |
| MindMeister | Create, view, and edit mind maps, then share them to a website to view and edit further |
| Momento | Provides a quick and easy way to write in a private journal, can connect with popular social web services. |
| My Writing Nook | Write in portrait or landscape, autosave, word count, dictionary/thesaurus lookup, email documents |
| Pocket Whiteboard | Works as a whiteboard on the phone or iPad. Can take pictures of your creations, thoughts using the “home” and “sleep” buttons (can do this for all apps for a screen shots) |
| Pocket Phonics | Tracing letters paired with the letter sounds |
| Scramble | Connect 3 or more letters to create words in various player modes, after the time is up a list of possible words is displayed |
| Sentence Builder | Use spin wheels to make sentences, interactive with picture support |
| ShapeWriter | Rather than hunting and pecking, a single stroke through the letters in a word can write the word. Also includes word prediction on top of the keyboard. |
| Speaktionary | Talking dictionary |
| Spel It Rite Pro | From two choices, select the correctly spelled word as quickly as possible |
| Textfree | Use a Textfree email account, send and receive unlimited texts free for a whole ear |
| Trace | Do various activities tracing your finger on the screen |
| Typing Class | Practice and timed format for using the onscreen keyboard |
| Word Magic | With a picture shown and a letter missing in a word, select the correct choice for reinforcers and rewards |
| Word Scramble 2 | Among scrambled letters, tap three or more to create words in a single player, multi-player or live game online |
| Write Now – a lite version available | Allows you to write notes using your handwriting, each page is automatically saved when you go to a new page. |
| WriteRoom | Full screen editing, sync to simple text, text expander support, search your documents |
| ZenTap | Word prediction with choices displayed on top of the alphabet screen |
Apps & Iphone/iTouch website and/or article resources
iPad/iPhone/iTouch related Products
Compiled from information obtained from research, iTunes information, references on the QIAT listserve and from the information in “iPhone and iPod toch Apps for (Special) Education” written by Eric Sailers.
