The app “iTouchiLearn Words” from Staytooned teaches children about words through interactive word association games. Staytooned’s motto is “Edutaining Apps for Kids,” and this app is truly an entertaining and educational experience.
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: Counting with the Very Hungry Caterpillar
Let’s face it — most of us learned about counting from a very cute and very hungry green insect. Night & Day Studios brings our lovable friend to life in the app Counting with the Very Hungry Caterpillar. The app builds a basic...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: iBioMed
Developed by the parents of a child with autism and seizures who were looking for a way to make their lives easier, the iBioMed app helps caregivers keep track of their children’s health information–particularly those with complex...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: Motion Math Hungry Fish
Motion Math: Hungry Fish makes learning math a fun game for children and even adults! It is a highly visual app in which a hungry goldfish must be fed with numbers. There are up to 18 levels of increasing difficulty, from matching numbers, to...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: Faces iMake
Ready for hours of iPad fun? Now you have it with Faces iMake. Right-brain thinking, originality, having fun, exploring, playing, opening your mind, learning, creating, discovering, trying new things, and engaging in an open-ended activity...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: Injini
Injini: Child Development Game Suite Lite’s collection of learning games for young children is one of the best apps on the market for toddlers and preschoolers with language, cognitive and fine motor delays. Included are nine games that...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: Sprout’s Good Night Star HD
Sprout’s Good Night Star app teaches your little one about bedtime routines. The goal is to help the adorable Star character get ready for bed by brushing his teeth, washing his face, reading a story, tucking him in and rocking him to sleep...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: Grace
Winner of the 2010 Irish Web Awards and United Nations World Summit Award Mobile, the Grace App features a picture database for nonverbal people to use to create sentences. Both adults and children with autism will find this app useful for...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: Story Land
The Story Land app allows children with special needs to build stories by selecting a background and adding in various characters and objects. It is extremely interactive: users can choose from over 320 fully animated characters and create over...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: Phonics Genius
Alligator Apps is an educational app designer dedicated to helping your child succeed. Their apps teach children to learn how to read, write, and speak, and they introduce math and problem solving techniques. Their Phonics Genius app...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: My Tale
“The Cloud Boy” is the first in a series of stories in the My Tale collection for iPad. It is about a boy who always has his head in the clouds and often gets distracted or lost. He must learn to pay attention in order to keep his...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: All About You, All About Me
All About You, All About Me is a social skills app with 56 illustrated picture cards that ask questions related to getting to know someone. Questions range from basic ones like, “What is your home address?” to open-ended prompts such as, “Tell me...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: iLiveMath
Don’t just learn math — live it. The iLiveMath app series from iHomeEducator blends math with themes from around the world. The series includes the themes:
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: Sound Shaker
Labeled a “21st century rattle” by Children’s Technology Review, the Sound Shaker app lets children experiment with sounds by tapping. After the child chooses a sound like a chime, whistle, barnyard animal, or drum from the main menu, each tap of...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: iWriteWords
iWriteWords teaches your child to write using whimsical sounds and graphics. The way to play is to help Mr. Crab collect all the numbers in sequence on the screen by tracing them with your fingers. As the numbers are traced, a letter appears...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: Gube
Gube is an app that curates child-friendly videos from YouTube onto parents’ phones. All videos are pre-screened and safe to watch for even young children. This app is a lifesaver for those whose kids want to be able to choose videos for...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: Jellybean Tunes
Learn how to read and compose music with Jellybean Tunes! With a catchy name and colorful design, Jellybean Tunes is bound to excite and stimulate your child.
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: ThumbJam
Humans by nature are musical beings — most people you meet will admit they love music. As a music therapist, I encourage all parents I know to get their kids a drum and a keyboard, no matter their age or level of ability. And...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: Story Builder
Designed by Mobile Education Tools, Story Builder is one of the highest-ranked reading apps for iPad. The app is designed to achieve the following goals:
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: Tappie Puzzles
Tappie Puzzles is a wonderful app for children ages 4 and up. It comes with 10 interactive puzzles that help children learn to navigate their way around the world. Most of the puzzles have animals that nod along when the child puts a piece in the...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: Comprehension TherAppy
Comprehension TherAppy is designed to help people with aphasia and alexia (acquired reading disorder). It comes with three modes: Listen, Read, or Listen and Read. The 500 + photographs of nouns in the Listen section were selected by...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: Marble Mixer
This app offers three games, all modern twists on the classic way to play marbles. Marble Mixer is a fun and effective way to introduce children to game playing and strategy. In the Monster Picnic game, players must flick marbles into the...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: Autism DX/Treatment
With the increase of cases of autism and autism awareness comes a wealth of information, and parents are often bombarded with both good information and misinformation. Licensed psychologist Dr. Gary Brown put together an applet called...
MoreSpecial Needs App of the Day: iComm
iComm, short for “I Communicate,” is a picture and voice communication aid for children — it works well for pre-speech toddlers and children with disabilities who have trouble communicating. Using pictures and words, the program...
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