Dexteria-Fine Motor Skill Development

Gary James — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:26:52 +0000

Dexteria is for parents and occupational therapists who want to improve fine motor skills or handwriting readiness in children and adults. Dexteria’s unique hand and finger exercises take full advantage of the iPad’s multi-touch interface to help build strength, control, and dexterity.

***NOTE: Apple’s Multitasking Gestures feature is not compatible with multi-touch apps [...]

Tappie Colorit

Gary James — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:32:09 +0000

Full review coming soon

Tappie Colorit is the new touch-screen application suitable for small kids aged 1 to 3 years old. Kids are encouraged to figure out simple cognitive puzzles based on shape or color.

Activities 4 kids 1

Gary James — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:56:33 +0000

Full Review coming soon

Educational & Fun, “Activities For Kids” is 4 apps in 1! It will teach important skills to preschool and elementary school kids while having fun!

Your children will love to connect the dots, find what’s different, discover what does not belong and set the time on the Cuckoo [...]

Touch and Write

Gary James — Wed, 16 May 2012 01:51:23 +0000

“Touch and Write has moved to the top of my list for learning to write. It’s extremely fun for my 4 year old with classic autism and the easiest app for me to customize!” – from parent review.✩✩✩✩✩ FizzBrain featured on CBS’s “60 Minutes”! Kids love learning to write – especially when [...]

Bugs and Buttons

Gary James — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:48:46 +0000

Make fun more educational! Bugs and Buttons is a uniquely styled collection of games and activities that are entertaining and educational.

The app goes beyond simply great graphics and beautiful music by engaging children through intriguing game play that progressively adapts to their skill level. Designed to be self paced, each [...]

One Voice (in 22 Languages)

Gary James — Wed, 09 May 2012 23:21:04 +0000

OneVoice gives a voice to children with autism in 22 languages

Written by Nathan Barry

OneVoice, an iPad app that helps those with disabilities communicate, released a new version with support for 22 languages. This makes OneVoice the only professional augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) app that supports a language [...]

Tapikeo HD

Gary James — Sat, 05 May 2012 13:57:02 +0000

Review by Jessica Lawson
Tapikeo HD- Create with your Kids their Picture Book, Storyboard, Soundboard and
Audio Flashcards by Jean-Eudes Lepelletier
Tapikeo HD is an open-ended app that allows you to create customized grids using
images, sound and text for social stories, visual schedules, flashcards and much more.
[...]

50 + Rafflecopters

Gary James — Fri, 04 May 2012 19:22:14 +0000

You may enter as many RaffleCopters as you like Remember these are open world wide unless stated U.S only

Anyone who does not do a task but clicks on it shall be removed from the Rafflecopter upon the day of announcing the winners, so please only click that you have done the tasks [...]

Developer Promotions

Gary James — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:18:33 +0000

Please help us to Share our Videos and information about Apps & Developers In return we will give one lucky person $500

We have set up this RaffleCopter to provide a way to share the videos that A4 produces of Apps that are educational and to promote developers. Please take [...]

Syllable Counting

Gary James — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:54:57 +0000

Welcome to the Syllable Counting app! Syllable counting promotes literacy development as well as syllable inclusion during speech production tasks. Memory also plays a small part in this task, as the child must internally hold onto the word in their mind while analyzing how many syllables they heard in the target word. [...]

Sound Matching

Gary James — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:49:39 +0000

Welcome to the Sound Matching app! The Sound Matching app develops phonological awareness, sound order sequencing skills, and auditory attention skills. This task builds phonological awareness with an emphasis on sound placement and order within a word. This app increases the ability to break words into smaller parts and recognize smaller parts in [...]

Auditory Rhyming

Gary James — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:45:40 +0000

Welcome to the Auditory Rhyming app! Recognition of rhyme is one of the first ways that a child demonstrates phonological awareness. Rhyming skills are important for reading and spelling, because it can help children recognize words that share common sounds often share common letter sequences. Once a child can spell cat, they [...]

The Social Express

Gary James — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:07:32 +0000

Social Learning Made Easy!
The Social Express™ is engaging, educational software for children and young adults with social learning challenges. The software is designed to teach users how to think about and manage social situations, helping them to develop meaningful social relationships and succeed in life.

Some of the core concepts [...]

My DPS : Digital Problem Solver

Gary James — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:19:40 +0000

My DPS by The Language Express, Inc.
Reviewed by Jessica Lawson.

My DPS(Digital Problem Solver) is an application that focuses on emotions and coping
strategies using animated videos. It is a customizable app as well, allowing you to add
your own pictures and coping techniques.
[...]

Visual Routine

Gary James — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:39:16 +0000

Visual Routine
Reviewed by A. Taylor SLPAs

Visual Routine is a simple and inexpensive easy-to-program visual schedule. The schedule is easy to program and use, while allowing flexibility in adding text, audio or images to routine steps. It also has a unique feature which allows embedding of up to [...]

Old MacDonald Had a Farm, by Bacciz

Gary James — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 21:35:44 +0000

“This Old MacDonald tale should be in every parents’ iPad and iPhone! Let them try it for free, and see if they like it as much as my kids love it.” said a mother of two kids who tested the app prior to release.

Old MacDonald Had a Farm by Bacciz Books [...]

More Fun with Directions HD

Gary James — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:50:33 +0000

More Fun With Directions HD by Hamaguchi Apps for Speech, Language and Auditory Development ($9.99 at time of review for HD/ iPad; $9.99 iPhone, .99 for Lite versions)
Reviewed by A. Taylor SLPAs

More Fun with Directions HD is one of five apps from Hamaguchi Apps for Speech, Language and Auditory Development ( Fun With Directions, More [...]

Fun with Directions HD

Gary James — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:36:48 +0000

Fun With Directions HD by Hamaguchi Apps for Speech, Language and Auditory Development ($9.99 at time of review for HD/ iPad; $9.99 iPhone, .99 for Lite versions)
Reviewed by A. Taylor SLPAs

Fun with Directions HD is one of five apps from Hamaguchi Apps for Speech, Language and [...]

First Words International HD

Gary James — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:10:59 +0000

First Words International by Hamaguchi Apps for Speech, Language and Auditory Development ($9.99 at time of review, iPad only)
First Words International is the newest addition in a suite of five apps from Hamaguchi Apps for Speech, Language and Auditory Development. (Picture the Sentence, First Phrases, Fun with Directions, More Fun with Directions,and now First Words International)

Picture the Sentence HD

Gary James — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:56:46 +0000

Picture the Sentence HD by Hamaguchi Apps for Speech, Language and Auditory Development ($9.99 at time of review for HD/ iPad; $5.99 iPhone, .99 for Lite version)
Reviewed by A. Taylor, SLPAs

Picture the Sentence is one of five available apps from Hamaguchi Apps for Speech, Language and Auditory Development. (Picture the Sentence, First [...]

First Phrases HD

Gary James — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:27:47 +0000

First Phrases HD by Hamaguchi Apps for Speech, Language and Auditory Development ($9.99 at time of review for HD/ iPad; $9.99 iPhone,.99 for Lite versions)
Review by A. Taylor, SLPAs

First Phrases HD is one of five apps from Hamaguchi Apps for Speech, Language and Auditory Development ( First Phrases, [...]

Mobile Education Store, The Balancing Act, television Interview

Gary James — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:50:49 +0000

Featured Developer Kyle Tomson, Mobile Education Store

Mobile Education Store, a developer of language based education apps for the iPad and iPhone platforms, is excited to announce that its president, Kyle Tomson, was just featured on the Lifetime network show, The Balancing Act. The Balancing Act focuses on issues that [...]

First Sight Words: Professional edition

Gary James — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:15:35 +0000

Sight Words Pro

Help your kid achieve reading fluency with Learning Touch’s newest app, First Sight Words Professional! With over 300 of the most common words in the English language, this app focuses on the core vocabulary your children will need throughout their lives.

Based on the Dolch Word List, First Sight Words [...]

iPad2 Giveaway

Gary James — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:54:46 +0000

iPad2 Giveaway from Dr Gary Brown and A4cwsn

Please fill in the form below if you would like to enter to get the iPad2 provided by Dr Gary Brown and A4cwsn.
Here is what you need to do.
Do these 2 things first and then come back to this form.

Look Again Jr

Gary James — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:52:16 +0000

Look Again Jr

Based on Smappsoft’s Look Again!, a #1 puzzle game in the iTunes App Store, this fun and challenging puzzle game teaches young children to see and understand the relationships between objects and classify them based on their common usage, colors, shapes, or quantity.

Educators of children ages 3 to 8 [...]

Apps For Children with Special Needs

Dexteria-Fine Motor Skill Development

Tappie Colorit

Activities 4 kids 1

Touch and Write

Bugs and Buttons

One Voice (in 22 Languages)

Tapikeo HD

50 + Rafflecopters

Developer Promotions

Syllable Counting

Sound Matching

Auditory Rhyming

The Social Express

My DPS : Digital Problem Solver

Visual Routine

Old MacDonald Had a Farm, by Bacciz

More Fun with Directions HD

Fun with Directions HD

First Words International HD

Picture the Sentence HD

First Phrases HD

Mobile Education Store, The Balancing Act, television Interview

First Sight Words: Professional edition

iPad2 Giveaway

Look Again Jr