i pad apps summary collated for TALK Speech Pathology 2011.
App
ALPHABET KNOWLEDGE
$/Age
My First Book ABC: My First Book of Alphabets is colorful and interactive
approach for learning letters and sounds. Each letter has multiple words
to represent the initial sound.
2-5yrs
ABC Pocket Phonics: Letter sounds, writing and first words. 2 game
options – letter writing practice or word game. Great graphics and good
phonic based opportunities for children to sound out 2, 3 and 4 sound
words.
$3.99
Hairy Letters: Learn the names and sounds of each letter with the
‘Haries’. Animations and tracing letter games and build letters into
simple words.
Free
4-7yrs
$2.99
ABC Alphabet Phonics – Preschool: Presents letters in groups of 3 and
asks “Which one is the letter “N”? etc. Can insert own photos and
recording for different letters/sounds.
18mnths6yrs
Early Reader: Has activities divided into phonics, sight words, sounding
out and sentences. No graphics so a little boring.
4-8yrs
Starfall ABC’s: Teaches letter name and sound with a sequence of
graphics and words relating to each sound illustrated. Simple but nice in
that it requires regular tapping of screen for the sequence to continue.
This keeps the kids interested!
4yrs +
Interactive Alphabet: Touch a letter of the alphabet and it tells you the
letter name and corresponding sound. Animation for that sound and
background music keeps the kids engaged.
3yrs+
ABC Magic Phonics: Goes through the letters of the alphabet in terms of
their sounds with a corresponding picture that starts with that sound.
4+
ABC Magic 2: Takes the sounds and illustrates multiple pictures that start
with that letter sound. Photos are simple but clear. Good for extending
vocab also.
4yrs+
ABC Magic 7 Memory Match: Great game to consolidate letter sound
correspondence. Play memory with the letters in groups of 12, 16 or 20
cards at a time.
4yrs+
Letters Lite: Match the lower case letters and watch pictures starting
with those sounds appear. “ABC” song is included using sounds only. Can
use settings to convert to upper case.
3yrs+
Free (full
version
$1.99
Ipad summary compiled by Marney Yeates for TALK Speech Pathology, updated October 2012
App
WRITING LETTERS
$/Age
I write words: Teaches handwriting with colourful and child like graphics.
Trace over lower case and upper case letters and numbers and see
letters combine to make simple words.
4yrs +
rED Writing – Learn to Write: Australian Education approved font,
includes upper and lower case letters, numbers and handwriting shapes.
Stickers to collect and trophies to win.
$1.99
ABC Sight Words Writing: Has dolce list of sight words to read and
practice writing in lower case.
App
3-7yrs
4-5yrs+
Sound Blending, Segmenting
$/Age
Montessori Crosswords: 300 word-image audio phonic combinations for
ages 4 to 8yrs to help kids develop reading, writing and spelling skills.
Great sensory reinforcements at the end of each word.
4-8yrs
Phonic Phil: Turn the dials on Phonic Phil to form new words. To hear
individual sounds and sound blends touch Phil’s ears. Has initial
sounds/blends/diagraphs on one side and rimes on the other. Spin the
wheel to create new words.
$0.99
Phonics with Letter Lilies: Goes through 3 levels teaching students all of
the phonemes used in English. Includes long vowel combinations. Neat
little app.
5-8yrs
Free
5yrs+
Magic Reading – reading skill: Targets 3 letter words in blending,
segmenting, or reading activities. Has word lists for a/e/i/o/u words plus
double consonants. Love this app!
4-7yrs
Free
Magic Reading 2: Words containing consonant blends can be blended or
segmented. Words are divided into categories of “work, animals,
outdoors, actions, people, home” and include double and triple blends.
5-8yrs
Magic Reading 3: Blends As for Magic reading 2 but with long phonetic
words
5-6yrs+
Froobles Phonics: Three letter words, short vowels, word families and
reward chart all included. Match the word families (colour coded) to
earn a tick. Great for rhyme and final sound identification.
4-8yrs
Phonics Awareness: Takes you through demonstrations of how to blend,
segment, break into syllables and identify words in sentences with short
activities at each task. Also has blurb on vowels.
4-7yrs
$0.99
Free
Ipad summary compiled by Marney Yeates for TALK Speech Pathology, updated October 2012
App
App
Rhyme
$/Age
Fun Rhyming: (Abitalk) – Choose from a list of rimes then out of 4 words
select the pairs that rhyme to earn points. Words are all written in lower
case.
$2.99
Bunny Bus: Spoken in a child’s voice, prompt is “Which two pictures
rhyme?” Illustrations are simple, auditory only. No text included.
$0.99
Rhyming Bee: Choose which flower family each word presented belongs
to based on the end sounds. Once petals of flowers are completed new
rime sets are chosen.
$2.99
ABA Flash Cards – What Rhymes? 3 Photos presented and child chooses
the 2 that rhyme.
$1.19
Rhyming Words – Grasshopper Apps: Match the photos that rhyme. Can
add own photos and make up new sets of rhyming words.
Free
4yrs+
Spelling
$/Age
Tic Tac Toe Phonics: Based on the game of noughts and crosses, the
game mostly targets long vowels, diagraphs and auditory discrimination
skills. For those who have mastered basic sounding out and need
spelling/vowel rule practice.
4yr +
6-8yrs
free
Skill Builder Spelling: Great app for kids who need practice at spelling.
Words need to be entered in lists and students are prompted to have a
go at spelling them with progress recorded.
6-10yrs
Free
Little Speller – 3 Letter words: Lower case letters need to be moved to
correctly spell three letter words. Clear photos used and short vowels
targeted. Blends sounds verbally on completion to provide the
phonetically regular word created.
Free
Little Speller – sight words: Spell 4+ letter words by ordering jumbled
lower case letters. Simple, clean, minimal visual distractions. Not
phonetically regular words.
Free
Spelling Jn: Series of missing letter word activities where the child has 45 sounds to choose from to complete a written word. Tapping the ipad
gives audio where the word may be unknown.
5-8yrs
$2.49
4-7yrs
5-8ys
Ipad summary compiled by Marney Yeates for TALK Speech Pathology, updated October 2012
Spelling: Follows on from Spelling Jn with more challenging words.
(Double letter rules, long vowels, silent e etc).
6-9yrs
$2.49
Word Wizard: Provides sensory stimulating background to either use as
spelling board (letters written on base) or use spell lists and have
students spell words and move them around the screen.
5-6yrs+
Bob Books level 1: Fantastic kids pictures and simple cvc words to sound
out and spell. Moves into simple sentences with fun child like graphics.
Akin to Fitzroy readers.
$3.99
Bob Books level 2: Longer sentences than level 1 with opportunities to
spell illustrated 3 letter words as the sentences are read. Pictures turn to
colour and animate as they are correctly spelt.
Spell blocks with sight words: a word is spoken and letter tiles are
jumbled on the page for the child to sequence correctly. Lots of levels to
progress through and can turn reinforcement sounds on or off.
Word Magic: Simple pictures with parts of words spelt and missing
letters to be predicted. Mixture of regular and non regular words.
App
4-6yrs
$1.99
4-7yrs
4-5yrs+
$0.99
5-8yrs
Reading/Sight Words
$/Age
Word Bingo: Neat little bingo game with 5 levels of sight words and one
noun game. Need to listen to the word spoken before selecting that word
on the board. All words written in lower case.
$0.99
Photo Touch Sight Words: Minimum 3 words written on one page and
listener must select the word that matches the word that is spoken. No
graphics – ok for quick sight word practice, speed of reading.
Sentence Reading Magic 1: 3 letter words jumbled to create 2 and 3
word sentences. Consonants are red and vowels are blue – still uses
phonetically regular words.
Little Reader – 3 letter words: Match photos with 3 letter words
presented. Clear, easy to use. High rate of success as only 2 choices to
select from.
Memory Game Spelling Words: Find 2 cards with the same word written
on it. 3 levels of game, each level has 200 words. Short vowels, long
vowels and high frequency word groups. Nice app!
4-7yrs
Free
5-8yrs
5-6yrs+
$0.99
4-7yrs
5yrs+
$2.49
Ipad summary compiled by Marney Yeates for TALK Speech Pathology, updated October 2012
i Touch Learn Words: Divided into words/games/music, this app
combines photo scenes with illustrations and offers a novel way to teach
early words. E.g. Movie for “ball” offers a demonstration of “ball-catch,
bounce, throw” with animation.
18mn+
$1.19
Phonics Genius: Learn how to speak, read and recognise words through
phonemic awareness. Specifically designed to learn words in groups – eg
according to blend, vowel rule etc.
5yrs+
Sight Words List: goes through 6 lists of sight words – no animation so
fairly mundane. Quick and easy check though if needing a speedy sight
word list.
5yrs+
DET out and about –level 1 (QLD based) 10 lists of sight words written in
QLD script. Simply read the word and swipe to the next one. Words
written in cloud with coloured background so a little more appealing
visually than flash cards.
Free
My Word Wall: Great app in terms of sensory stimulation and variety of
activities. Includes “hide a word”, “bubble words” (spelling game),
“jigsaw words” (sound blending). Variety of games makes this one a
winner!
5-8yrs
Silly Sentences: Choose between matching, flashcards, phonics sounds
and signs and phonics silly sentences using a particular set of vowel
combinations. Great app in that it has short and diverse games to
address same letter combinations.
free
Silly Sentences 2: Follow on from Silly Sentences 1. Increases number of
vowel combinations to learn and play with.
free
My First Words: Drag and drop high frequency word tiles to the
sentences on each page. Pictures to complement text – encourages
children to start constructing simple sentences of their own.
Australian/UK complete kindergarten sight words: 16 sets to work
through. Once words are known you can delete them from the set. Can
have word spoken if needed.
Long Vowels Short Stories: Stories based on long vowel combinations are
provided as graphics that can be read to student or student can read
him/herself.
Play Sight Words Free: Games using sight words including: “word tour,
Find and Shoot, Put it Right, Memory”. Fun but uses letter names to
sound out.
$3.99 57yrs
$0.99
5-7yrs
6-7yrs+
$0.99
5-8yrs
Ipad summary compiled by Marney Yeates for TALK Speech Pathology, updated October 2012
APP
GENERAL VOCAB
$/Age
ABA – Actions As per all ABA vocab flashcards – photos are provided
with or without text. Child simply swipes through.
Free
2yrs+
ABA Flash Cards - Fruits and Nuts
Free
2yr +
ABA Flash Cards - Shapes
Free
2yr +
ABA Flash Cards - Vegetables
Free
2yr +
ABA Flash Cards - Sports
Free
2yrs +
My First Words – Smart Baby Apps: Category groups include: animals,
baby things, food, shapes, toys etc. Tap on the written word and then the
item (photo) appears.
3-6yrs
Memory Match – itots: Mixture of vocab in 12 cards such as elephant,
bee, watermelon, kangaroo. Played just as per “memory”
3-5yrs
My First Words: Simple vocab app where objects illustrated are labelled
in groups. Pictures are bright and narration is enthusiastic. Categories
include: Animals, baby things, feelings, clothes etc.
18m-3y
$1.19
Baby Sign and learn: Can watch signs being demonstrated and go
through flashcards of early vocab. Cards are category sorted (e.g.
animals, routines, feelings, food). Engaging app.
Mini Adventures: Need to be connected to the internet for this one.
Great photos starting with each alphabet letter then a u-tube video to
watch on each picture. Great for language extension.
Picture Card Maker: Insert your own photos and create albums to share,
print, email. Great for setting up client specific vocab.
Free
2yrs+
4-8yrs
Free
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App
Classification/Categorisation
$/Age
ABA Flash Cards – Which Does Not Belong? 3 photos presented and
child chooses the photo that does not belong in the same category as the
others.
$1.19 4yr
+
ABA Flash Cards – Which Go Together? 3 photos presented and child
chooses 2 of those photos that can be associated in some way.
$1.19 4yr
+
ABA Receptive Identification – By Class 3 photos presented, child is
asked “which one is e.g. round?”
$1.19 4yr
+
ABA Receptive Identification – By Function 3 photos presented, child is
asked “which one do we e.g. write with?”
$1.19 4yr
+
Brain Go – Which does not belong? 5 photos presented in categories and
child must select ‘odd one out’ (Similar to ABA app)
3-4yr+
$2.49
Kids Learning – Photo Touch Concepts: targets above, below, around,
corners, direction, left, right, middle, on, shortest, tallest, smallest,
biggest, top, middle, bottom. 4 choices for child to tap.
2-3yr+
$1.19
Touch and Learn: Pronoun concepts targets woman, lady, child, man,
boy, kids, girl plus verbs.
Families 1: Pictures are provided around a central category theme.
Students need to tap on the picture that fits in the category illustrated.
2-5yrs
Families 2: Same as families 1 only different categories introduced. Good
for vocab labelling/extending too.
2-5yrs
Category Clean Up: 3 categories are provided (clothes, toys and food)
and student must decide which category a range of items fit into by
dragging image to the correct category image.
2-4yrs
Preschool Game – connect the opposites Simple game where photos
need to be matched up according to opposites. Some discussion and
explanation is likely to be needed.
3-7yrs
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Quibble Kids: 4 cubes presented that need to be turned so as all four
pictures seen are from the same category – e.g. 4 baby items, 4 different
types of shoes etc. Neat little association game and good for level 2/3
questions.
3-7yrs
Opposites – My First App: 10 pictures presented on the screen and the
student needs to choose 2 that are the opposite. 12 pages to work
through so has a finite finish.
Little Solver – Preschool Logic: Select which of the illustrated items ‘go
together’ based on association. 3 pictures are provided and the student
needs to select the 4th picture to complete the set.
Let’s Name Things Fun Deck – Super Duper: Picture stimulus provided
and a written prompt which can be heard that asks “Let’s name things
that....e.g. we find in a kitchen, need water to live” etc. Can have a few
students entered separately with opportunities to record whether
answers were correct or not.
Name that Category Fun Deck: Also Super Duper app, as above - single
pictures are presented with a text/audible prompt – e.g. “An apple,
banana and grapes are ________”
Find and Learn – animals: About 15 animals illustrated on one page (so
quite small) and the voice over says “Find the ....elephant, touch it, Find
the...giraffe etc” Voice is a little mechanic and repetitive.
Kids Learning - Photo Touch Farm Animals: 3 clear photos presented
and the child is asked to “Touch the....donkey” etc. Simple and you can
record your own voice over the instructions and verbal reinforcements.
ABA Receptive Language - Find the.....Nouns E.g. “Touch the vanilla icecream” when there are 4 different flavoured ice creams to choose from.
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App
EMOTIONS
ABA Flash Cards – Emotions With all ABA flashcards, a photo is presented
that fits in the category with the spoken word to match. Student swipes
ipad to hear more from that category.
$/Age
Free
2yr +
Autism Express Pro: Uses simple animated faces (not realistic but may
appeal to some) to have a good range of emotions taught.
$1.99
Moody Monsters: “Meet the monsters – scared sam, worried wanda,
confused carl, Hungry Hank” or make your own monster using different
eyes, noses, mouths, body patterns to choose from. Not all activities are
based on emotion – fairly superficial in terms of emotion teaching but
good for conversation starters.
Free
That’s How I Feel: That's how I feel is an app designed to help non-verbal
children and adults express their feelings using Smarty Symbols. The
feelings are organized into three groups: Positive feelings; Neutral feelings;
Negative feelings; The feelings are associated with a color to aid students
into understand the duality of positive/happy feelings versus negative/sad
feelings.
$2.49
4yrs +
Vola Friends: Photos of people pulling rather extreme but very obvious
facial expressions are used to teach emotions. Tap on a face and the app
labels the emotion and the photo becomes animated.
4yrs +
My Feelings Book: The Feelings App is based upon the Feelings Book
(Rubin & Laurent, 2000). It is designed to provide an easy to use format for
fostering the "Three "E's", being Emotional Identification, Emotional
Understanding and Emotional Regulation. Really nice app in terms of
illustrations and talking about when? Why? And what we can do? When
we feel...
$8.99
My Calm Counter: Provides visual timer of a face going from really mad to
really calm over a count back from 10 to 1. If you have the ipad handy
when such an app would be useful – then all good.
$2.99
Moody Me: Track your mood with the Moody Me mood tracker app. Take
pictures of what makes you happy and play them back or see what makes
you sad so you can better manage your mood.
Free
Autism 5 Point Scale: Using the book: The Incredible 5-Point Scale TM by
authors Kari Dunn Buron and Mitzi Curtis, AAPC Publishing, this app helps
individuals act, react and interact quickly in emergency situations. With a
touch of a screen information is provided and can help facilitate
interactions for a “safe” outcome for both the individual and 1st
responder.
4yrs+
3yrs+
8yrs+
Free
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App
The Grouchies: What can you do when the grouchies take hold? How can
you keep a bad mood at bay? With funny rhymes and a silly chant, The
Grouchies shows kids simple and fun ways to turn around grouchy moods.
But most of all, kids will understand how their mood and negativity can
affect their family and friends.
Free
Touch Autism – Conversation Social Stories: Conversation social stories is
made up of four social stories about different conversational skills and
simple communication tools to go with them.
$4.49
Practicing Pragmatics: Single picture is presented with level 3 and 4
question types written in text and read aloud for the student to answer
verbally. For example: “Someone calls to sell you something. What do you
say?”
$1.99
Reading Comprehension
$/Age
Reading Comprehension – K1: Simple text supported with photos has a
series of questions to follow to check the child’s reading comprehension.
Option to scroll back to text and check answers before responding.
Reading Comprehension -2/3 – same style as above, answers are still
defined in text.
Kids Reading Comprehension 1: Featuring: The ability to keep track of
multiple readers (up to four), engaging and educational passages pertinent
to everyday life, follow-up questions that challenge your child to
remember what he or she just read, a fun and entertaining congratulatory
experience when all questions have been answered correctly, progress
reports for each child accessible from within the app.
Wh Questions: Whquestions" is an application designed to help children
with language delays and disorders practice answering questions in the
following formats: Why (e.g. why do dogs wag their tails?), How, Where,
Who, Where, Who, When, When, What? Answers can be recorded and
scored for several students. Illustrations support the question.
6yrs+
$1.99
5-7yrs
$1.99
6-9yrs
$0.99
6-9yrs
$9.99
5-10yrs
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App
App
App
Following Spoken Instructions
$/Age
Splingo: Follow verbal instructions from simple one part to lengthy more
complex 4-5 part instructions – e.g.give the big red apple to the boy. There
are 4 levels of complexity and as rewards the students assemble a rocket
and fly into outer space!
$2.99
Fun With Directions: designed to provide a fun and engaging way to
practice listening, following directions, colors, spatial concepts, auditory
memory and auditory processing. From the simplest of directions (“Touch
the cat”) to the more complex (“With your orange crayon, color the large
one that is a furry pet and likes to chase mice”). Included are ten concepts:
Give, touch, open, close, top, middle, bottom, push, color, erase.
$10.49
More Fun with Directions: as above but focuses on 12 concepts: turn
on/turn off; up/down, front/behind, on/under, put in/take out,
above/below.
$10.49
Joint Attention
3yrs+
3yrs+
3yrs+
$/Age
Bubble Popper: Bubbles float around the screen for children to try and
pop.
Free
Fluidity: A beautiful interactive real-time fluid dynamics simulation, control
fluid flow and stunning colours at the tips of your fingers.
Free
Koi Pond: You run your fingers across the cool surface of the pond. Water
ripples on your touch, the koi fish dart away when you touch them.
Free
Piano free: Literally provides a keyboard and sounds just like a real piano.
Have fun making music, use as a reward or have students follow a
sequence of notes.
Free
CONCEPTS
$/Age
Clicky Sticky: Another ‘uniset’ style app. Select a scene from 6 (dressing
room, sky, space, dinosaurs, ocean etc) and add objects to it. You can
print, email and save the finished product.
4-7yrs
$1.19
Lunchbox: Simple preschool games requiring matching, shape & colour
knowledge and visual discrimination skills (puzzle). Kids are rewarded with
stickers and the animated monkey that cheers them on!
3-6yrs
$1.19
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My Scene: Much preferred app to the “i-create” scene option above.
Great backdrops provided and lots of interesting objects to add to the
scene for discussion.
Build it up: Very simple sequencing game where by you need to build the
item pictured from the beginning to the end – i.e. the tower has to be
made with the bottom ring first and so on.
3-8yrs
Free
18mnths+
Treasure Hunt: A problem solving game where students need to unlock
clues and complete tasks before helping the pirate find his treasure.
Activities include making words, puzzles, following instructions etc. Simple
but a nice quick reward activity.
5-8yrs
Free
Toddler Seek and Find: Nice app in that 3 scenes provide child like
illustrations and student can tap on various images to see what happens.
Great for oral language and for following instructions – e.g. tap on the
giraffes etc.
3-7yrs
Injini Lite: puzzles, patterns, matching, tracing, colours all targeted in
simple game formats. Great smiley face reinforcements!
18mnths4yrs
Clicky Sticky Super Hero: as per clicky sticky app but with superhero
graphics and related objects to create ‘superhero’ scenes.
$1.19
3-7yrs
Shape Puzzle: Choose an animal silhouette and drag the puzzle pieces to
complete the animal image. See if you can do all the animals and
complete the jungle scene. Good reinforcement activity.
4-8yrs
Free
Outdoor Fun: Includes three colorful and animated scenes with kids having
fun at the beach, park and mountains. Each scene can be operated in two
ways - one version of the scene is called “clickable” when the child or adult
clicks on objects or kids in the scene and animation is played. Another
version of the scene is called “arrange” when the child can add and
arrange object or kids in the scene. Each scene is accompanied by
background sound ,e.g. sound of the ocean.
$2.99
My Playhome: My PlayHome is the original and best dolls house app.
Massively interactive, your kids can explore and use everything in the
house. The characters eat, sleep, shower, brush their teeth and more.
Want the room to be darker? Close the curtains! Fancy a change in music?
Pop a different CD into the stereo!
$4.49
Art Maker (Playschool): The Play School Art Maker app is a fun way for
kids to create pictures, animated movies and story slideshows using their
favourite Play School toys and craft items. They can add their own audio
narration, upload photos as backgrounds, and save photos of their art.
4yrs+
2yrs +
Free
3yrs+
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App
App
Free
Dress Up: Very simple but great for addressing pronoun issues or simply
following instructions (e.g. Put a purple shirt on the girl. Give the boy blue
spotted shorts) etc.
3-6yrs
Colours
$/Age
Colour Slaps: Children are asked to find a colour(s) and rewarded with
funny sounds and visuals. Users are able to choose which colors to work on
within three different levels of difficulty. Teaches 12 colours.
Free
2-4yrs
Speak Colours: This one is a favourite. You can have colours illustrated in
phrases, sentences or in isolation where visuals are provided to prompt for
the colour phrase. E.g. blue ice-cream, orange chair, or “the car is orange”
with all the smaller grammar words included in written text.
Free (for
lite
version)
AUDITORY AWARENESS
$/Age
I Hear Ewe Animals: Has a range of animals and transport items illustrated
and when you tap on a picture, the sound that item makes is provided.
Simple - could use as a guessing game (e.g. hide ipad and have the child
guess what animal makes that sound?)
18mnths+
Sound Touch: Delightful app for toddlers to explore sounds made by
animals, musical instruments, birds, transport etc. More than one photo
of each item with accompanying sounds.
18m-4yrs
$4.99
Zoo Sounds: Great photos of animals are provided. You hear a sound and
have to tap on the animal image that makes that sound.
18mnths5yrs
Toddler Jukebox: Has common nursery rhymes on tap to hear and sing
along to. Great for the little ones.
18mnths4yrs
$1.99
Simon Says: A listening and sequencing game based around listening to a
series of musical sounds, and being able to copy the order of the sounds.
Gets quite tricky! Auditory memory focus.
4-8yrs
What’s that Sound? (Different roads to Learning): Includes more than
500+ sounds and photos of things, machines, cars, animals, and from
nature. The app plays a random sound and displays either two or four
photos, where only one photo matches the sound. Your child then has to
recognize the sound and tab on the correct photo.
$1.99
Sound? Lite version, similar to above.
2-3yrs +
Free
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App
BOOKS/STORIES
$/Age
Birthday Buzz: Storyboard where “birthday buzz” takes you through
predicting what the story is about, then reading the story then
sequencing pictures to do a retell. Nicely done!
3-7yrs
Sir Charlie Stinky Socks and the Really Big Adventure: This is a book
where the text needs to be tapped so words can be read. Great story
and wonderful opportunities to interact with the characters. The boys
will like this one.
5-10yrs
$5.99
Free
First...water (from Grasshopper Apps): Options are read to me, read by
myself or auto play. Words light up in red as they are spoken and photos
are bright and relevant to the text.
18m+
Mee Genius: This is a library which comes with 8 free stories including:
The little red hen, The boy who cried wolf, The lion and the mouse etc.
Each is narrated with words highlighted as read.
2-6yrs
ibooks: This is an equivalent of an empty library in which you can then
buy books from i-tunes to file.
Free All
age
Toy Story – All the toy story characters are illustrated and the words
highlighted as they are read by the narrator. A favourite for toy story
fans!
2-7yrs
Free
A Story Before Bed: You can record your own voice with camera shot
reading a story you have downloaded onto your ipad. The child sees and
hears your voice reading the words on the pages.
18mnths+
I Like Books: Includes 37 stories on the topic of “I like...” so lots of
opportunity for revision and going over high frequency words. Can have
books read to students or use as a reader for students to read to an
adult.
5-7yrs
ABC Read to Me: Comes with The Very Hungry Caterpillar story. Story is
read aloud and there are gorgeous activities to do on completion of the
story that checks comprehension and colour/number/shape knowledge.
4-7yrs
Meet Millie: Fantastic graphics and enjoyable story with little activities to
do as the story is read. Listener needs to be ready when asked to find
the ‘hidden sticker’ or tap on an icon on each page. Promotes language
interaction as story progresses.
5-8yrs
Ipad summary compiled by Marney Yeates for TALK Speech Pathology, updated October 2012
App
Fairy Secrets (Touchy Books for Kids): Delightful story (probably more
appreciated by the girls) with interactive elements – e.g. comb fairy’s
hair, make her wings flap etc)
$2.99 per
book
Mr Wolf and the Ginger Cupcakes: Sweet drawings and great use of
adjectives throughout. Humorous. Touch some of the illustrations and
text appears (e.g. touch the wolf’s tummy and it reads “empty belly!”)
Australian narration.
5-8yrs
VBooks (reads books aloud): 30000 free books that will allow vBooks to
read narrative aloud. Bookmarks where you left off – could be great for
those really challenged by the mechanics of reading.
$4.99
Narrative
7yrs +
$/Age
Story Wheel: Select a theme and spin the story wheel. Let your
imagination run wild as you make up a story to go with the topics and
headings selected on the story wheel.
6-12yrs
Story Robe: Use your own photos to create a story or a recount of an
excursion/experience. Simple to use and room for text inclusion. You can
record your own voice.
5-12yrs
Picture Book: Create your own stories with a picture base provided and
room to enter your own text. Can also impart your own photos/pictures
to make story more meaningful.
5-12yrs
My Story: Provides a blank backdrop and lots of characters and
illustrations to drag onto the page to help stimulate a spoken story.
5-9yrs
Free
Still (single) page only so no ‘episodes’ in terms of turning pages.
Essentially a story starter that is child created.
Strip Design: Very complex app if older students are interested in design
but for simple use I have used for sequencing, inserting photos of
students doing activities with speech bubbles or text to provide the
script.
Needs
adult
assistance
.
Pictello: Love this app. Insert your own photos and text to provide a
running commentary of what’s happening, or to give a recount of events.
Students love that it can be all about them!
$18.99
Story Ideas: Provides story character, plot and setting ideas and then has
lots of different question prompts to elicit parts of the story. Wouldn’t
use unless student was up to at least “reactive sequence” level in stages
of narrative development. Some great ideas!
7-12yrs
Ipad summary compiled by Marney Yeates for TALK Speech Pathology, updated October 2012
Story Patch: Write your story and add pictures to it from the library
included. You can then share the stories with family/friends. Headings to
select from include: story characters, animals and objects, scenery and
photos. You can use an already written text and simply add pictures.
App
$2.99
7-10yrs
Spark HD: Spark Story Starters were given rave reviews by Parents
Canada and Today's Parent magazines. These 52 scenarios kick-start
imagination and encourage problem-solving. E.g. If your toothbrush was
a multi-tool what else would it be able to do?
$1.99
Toontastic: Making cartoons with Toontastic is as easy as putting on a
puppet show - simply press the record button, move your characters
onscreen, and tell your story. Toontastic records your animation and
voice as a cartoon video to share with friends and family on ToonTube,
the app's global storytelling network for kids.
Free
Comic Strip: Create your very own comic book page using photos from
your camera roll or take new ones in-app. With our fun and unique
collection of layouts and caption bubbles, you can create the story you've
always wanted to tell.
$0.99
Stories2Learn: “Stories” comes preloaded with 12 finely crafted social
narratives that can be used to teach social skills in the areas of reciprocal
play, non-verbal communication, playground and school rules, turn
taking, and more.
$13.99
iCommunicate: lets you design visual schedules, storyboards,
communication boards, routines, flash cards, choice boards, speech
cards, and more.
$49.99
7yrs+
Sequences
$/Age
Making Sequences: Photo sequences from 3-8 pictures in length are
jumbled. The student needs to order them to tell the correct sequence of
events. Can then use to provide recount.
5-9yrs
Sequences: 3 picture sequences need to be ordered and words “first,
next and Last” are incorporated. Regular sequences in included (e.g.
brushing teeth, wrapping present). Simple and effective for language
stimulation to follow.
$0.99
iSequences: Nice cartoons used to order from first to last (3 + pictures).
Once ordered, text appears to describe the sequence and the student is
prompted with a further question. Great little app!
4-7yrs
$2.99
4-8yrs
Ipad summary compiled by Marney Yeates for TALK Speech Pathology, updated October 2012
App
SENTENCE LEVEL ACTIVITIES
$/Age
Language Builder: A photo acts as a prompt for the student to record a
sentence which can then be replayed and checked. Student profiles can
be set up and hints on or off to help with sentence formulation.
5-8yrs
$4.99
Story Builder: Simple questions are asked in relation to pictures and the
child records his answer. At the end of several questions the answers are
combined to create a grammatically sound story. Sound quality of
recording is great!
5-8yrs
$4.99
Sentence Builder: Child is shown a picture and offered a scrambled
sentence to correct by manipulating the word order on the ipad.
Fantastic app for focusing on syntax and encourages editing! 3 levels
included.
5-10yrs
$4.99
Sentence Builder Teen: Follow on from Sentence Builder. Sentences are
more complex and the animated reinforcements are gone.
6-12yrs
Question Builder: A question is asked about the corresponding
illustration and there are 3 answers to choose from. Responding
correctly requires question comprehension skills and sound reading
ability.
5-10yrs
$4.99
Preposition Builder: Drag the correct preposition to the sentence. Close
activities with cartoon illustration to support the text.
Rainbow Sentences: Presents scrambled sentences for the child to
reorder with picture to support the text. Can have words all black
(harder) or colour code parts of speech to make sentence construction
easier.
Sentence Maker: Again provides scrambled sentences for child to order
but with no picture prompt to support the text. Does provide full stops to
help with final word identification. Can have from 2 to 5 word sentences.
Sentence Builder (Abitalk Mobile Learning System): Works through
scrambled sentences with: Subject + Verb + Adverb, Subject + Verb +
Noun, Subject + Verb + Adjective type structures etc. Sentences are from
3-7words in length.
Conversation Builder: The auditory pattern of conversation is presented
in a visual format to help students recognize and master the flow of
conversation. Students will learn when it is appropriate to introduce
themselves, ask questions, make observations and change the subject of
the conversation.
$7.99
6-8yrs
$7.99
6-9yrs
$0.99
5-8yrs
$2.99
5-8yrs
$19.99
7yrs+
Ipad summary compiled by Marney Yeates for TALK Speech Pathology, updated October 2012
First Phrases Lite: Only has a finite number of scrambled sentences you
can use before you need to buy the full version.
App
Grammar/Parts of Speech
Grammar 1: A single sentence is written and the student is asked to
identify certain grammar markers within the sentence. E.g. “Tap on the
subject noun”.
7yrs+
iPractice Verbs: Contains verbs at the word, phrase and sentence levels.
Used with children to gain/increase of "grammar when speaking such as
using subject-verb agreement, complete sentences, and correct tense”.
$10.49
Phrasal Verbs: A phrasal verb is a combination of a verb and a
$2.99
preposition, a verb and an adverb, or a verb with both an
7yrs+
7yrs+
adverb and a preposition. Multiple choice activities check
understanding of over 750 phrasal verbs.
Grammar Jammers: Catchy animated songs and rhymes make English
language arts exciting! Grammar Jammers animations will have you
tapping your toes to the beat while learning grammar usage and
mechanics. Each animation unlocks a quiz. Answer all the quiz questions
for all the Grammar Jammers topics and unlock an interactive reward.
Grammar Jammers is also available in Elementary and Middle Editions.
$2.99
Sparkle Fish: Sparkle Fish is a hilarious audio story completion game. You
can record your own voice for playback and create crazy stories! Need to
record a mix of adjectives, nouns adverbs etc. Teaches students parts of
speech.
Free
7yrs+
7yrs+
Word Sort: Drag words as they appear into the correct “part of speech”
character. Simple but effective interactive way of teaching prepositions,
nouns, verbs, pronouns etc.
$1.99
Same Meaning: wizards and fairies help make a “brew” by choosing from
4 words - which one means the same (synonym) as the word presented
at the top of the page.
$0.99
Opposite Ocean: same characters and format as above but need to
choose the correct antonym. Earn gold coins for each correct answer.
$0.99
Irregular Plurals: Sentence closure tasks where students needs to select
the correct irregular plural from a choice of 2 and complete the sentence
provided. Photos support the text.
7yrs+
7yrs+
7yrs+
Lite
version
free
6yrs+
Ipad summary compiled by Marney Yeates for TALK Speech Pathology, updated October 2012
App
Free
Mad Libs: Similar to sparkle fish in that you are prompted to provide e.g.
“a type of liqud, an article of clothing, part of the body..” etc and the app
combines your responses into a silly story. Good for word finding.
6yrs+
SPEECH / ARTICULATION / AAC
$/Age
Minimal Pairs cards: Need to purchase each set individually but offers
pair cards for the processes: cluster reduction, stopping, voicing, fronting,
gliding and more. Can program to provide auditory training/contrast
drills or target drills.
All ages
Voice Generator: Make your ipad say whatever you type. Just type
whatever you want to hear from your device. Just hit the play button and
then hear what you typed.
Free
Full
version
$36.99
7-8yrs+
Artic Pix: Purchase decks of sounds in beg/mid/end position for children
to practice saying as flashcards or as a matching game. Can save student
folders to check on progress.
2-10yrs
$36.99
Choice Maker: designed for users to import images for children to select
during activities. Organise your board options with pictures before
effective use but great potential for visual scheduling.
3-10yrs
Pocket SLP Articulation: This app is a speech pathologist’s dream kit! All
sounds and blends available as picture cards in word initial/med/final
position for clients to practice and record.
$36.99
Articulation Station: Each of the 22 sound programs target sounds in the
initial, medial and final positions of words, sentences and stories. The
majority of sounds (p,b,m,d,n,t,k,g,f,v,ch,j,z,sh,th) have 60 target words
each. Some sound programs (l,r,s) are targeted in blends as well and have
even more target words.
Free.
Need to
pay per
sound.
Most
$2.99
Pocket Artic: Loads of practice stimulus, you can remove cards that are
not wanted and word, phrase and sentence level activities provided.
$24.99
Minimal Pair Pack: Great for contrasting 2 phonemes – has both auditory
discrimination games and phrase completion tasks.
$29.99
Tap to Talk: This is designed to offer “albums” for communication
covering simple messages for “I want to play..”, “I want to eat..”, “I want
to go..”, “I want to drink..” etc. Can be customised.
Any age
Free
Ipad summary compiled by Marney Yeates for TALK Speech Pathology, updated October 2012
Match2Say: Features: Each deck of cards represents a specific sound;
Sounds organized by initial/medial/final; Audio recording for all images
with different voice characters; Several difficulty levels; Over 1500
images in the whole app.
App
Schedules and Calendars
$20.99
$/Age
Visual Schedule Planner: designed to give an individual an audio/visual
representation of the “events in their day". In addition, events that
require more support can be linked to an “activity schedule” or “video
clip” to help model the task even further.
$15.99
Autism Scheduler:
$51.99
Picture Scheduler: Features: Creating visual tasks with attached audio,
video or picture; Each new created task is backed up into archive for later
reuse; Tasks can have alarms. There are five system sounds to choose
from; Alarms can be repeated daily, weekly, monthly or you can select
specific weekdays; Tasks can be organized into categories. Each category
can have picture attached
$2.99
Chore Pad: Provides visual detail for setting up students jobs/chores.
Coudl be used at school for scheduling, at home for before and after
school jobs etc.
$5.99
MommyCal HD: As the title suggests – designed for the busy mum to
keep track of her daily commitments/tasks.
$2.99
iModeling: Can set up video footage and put text/narration to it. Great
for creating social stories or teaching by modelling.
$14.99
Going Places: Has a series of social stories already constructed for: going
to the hairdresser, doctor visit, playground, eating out etc. Clear photos
with text written and spoken aloud. Lots of Americanisms though!
Free
Choiceworks – Visual Support System: Key Features: Three boards:
Schedule, Waiting, and Feelings; Three Companion Books supporting
each board; Image Library preloaded with over 165 images and audio;
Add your own images and record your own audio for limitless
customisability.
$10.49
Ipad summary compiled by Marney Yeates for TALK Speech Pathology, updated October 2012
App
LITERACY PRIMARY +
$/Age
Word Warp Extreme: child must make words from 6-7 letter words
within a time frame. Can play solo or in pairs to beat each others
number of words generated and time.
6-7yr+
Free
Wordlands: Similar to the game “Boggle” only you need to make words
up with letters that are next to each other in a grid. See if you can beat
the high score!
6-12yrs
Free
Shake a Phrase: Has silly sentences and story starters you can use to
discuss the language. Tapping on words highlights their meaning and you
‘shake’ the ipad to move onto the next phrase.
8yrs+
Word Flipper: Use the letters spun to create words and score points.
Quite tricky especially if you spin a group of letters that are hard to use in
words! Again similar to Boggle in concept.
8yrs+
Idioms Lite: Includes top 100 idioms to discuss and presents them in
multiple choice answer format. Many are old or not used so much in
Australia but good for discussion.
7-8yrs +
Link that Word Lite: The goal of the game is to complete chains of 7
words. You only know the first and last word. Words are related to each
other by association but not always that obvious!
10yrs +
Dyslexia Quest: Great little series of auditory processing and memory
activities that kids 7+ will love as you need to play your way through a
series of activities to get to the top of the mountain! Gives scores for
each skill at the end.
7yrs+
Analogies for Kids: A little like brain train in that you have a series fo
patterns you have to finish – e.g. up/down, right/_____? Some are much
easier than others. Good for reading and language extension.
5yrs+
Compound Word: Great for extending reading to consider words that go
together. Set up like a puzzle so you can trial and error placing words
with other words. Neat app.
7yrs+
Guess Words (hangman): 8 chances at choosing the letters that might be
in the word hidden behind the flowers/gems/crystals. Good for
discussing consonant versus vowels and phonological sound sequencing
rules.
Lite
version
free
Split Words Lite: 8 words are listed with a topic and the student is timed
to find the matching word parts. Some topics are fairly adult though (e.g.
names of alcohols!)
8yrs+
7yrs+
Ipad summary compiled by Marney Yeates for TALK Speech Pathology, updated October 2012
App
Self Monitoring
$/Age
Voice Meter: Visual representation of whether your speaking voice is
“too soft, just right or too loud”. Simple and easy to use.
$0.99
Voice Recorder: Literally just records what you say for play back.
Could be useful for creating spoken narratives before then
transferring to written text.
$0.99
Librarian: She says “shhh” when the speaker gets too loud!
Free
Counter+: May be useful for some students to have timer on for the
tasks they need to complete.
Free
Ipad summary compiled by Marney Yeates for TALK Speech Pathology, updated October 2012