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A start- up list of fun/useful iPad apps for OT in the schools
Provided by: Meagen Barton and Brooke Lenci, OTR/L
Skill
Executive
Functioning/
Cognition
App pic
App Name
Memoryblock
Cost
free
Description/ Notes
Like the old game “Simon”
AniMatch
$0.99
Tests memory through
matching
Giraffe’s Matching Zoo/Delux
Free/
$0.99
Matching game with
animals, especially for
younger kids 4-5
Super Duper Age Calculator
free
Miss Spell’s Class
free
iSimon
free
Tetris
$0.99 to
$7.99
Super Search 60
$0.99
Brain trainer
by Lumosity.com
free
Rush Hour
$2.99 or
free
Allows you to choose birth
date and test date to
chronological ages
Challenges middle and high
school students on
commonly misspelled words
Just like the original
handheld version- requires
one to memorize and repeat
patterns
Turn and manipulate varying
size pieces as they fall to
“fit” them together
Locate as many items as you
can on a changing screen in
60 seconds. Like “where’s
waldo?”
“Brain training” activities
(ie: attention/ shifting
attention/ problem solving.)
Good for all ages
“traffic jam” puzzles
Cover Orange
$0.99
Problem solve how to use
the pieces you’re given to
protect Mr. Orange
2
iMazing
Free
Mazes: levels ranging from
easy to very difficult
Cut the Rope
$0.99
Problem solve how to get
the candy to the Frog while
avoiding traps and catching
stars
Quick paced game for
fingers, mind, and memory!
$0.99
Color Crazy
Visual
Perceptual/
Visual Motor
Where’s my water?
$0.99
Problem solve to help the
alligator get enough water
through the drains
Shape Builder
Free/
$0.99
Cookie Doodle
$0.99
Preschool Connect the Dots
$0.99
Preschool learning puzzle
game with pictures and
sound upon completion of
puzzle
Basic cookie making
following in which rolling,
frosting, candies with light
touch are all added
Connect the dots, that are
“letter” dots
Puzzle Maker
free
Create your own puzzles
using your own photos
Dark Nebula
$0.99
Parking Lot!
$0.99
Labyrinth game that you tilt
the screen to move through
traps, doors, bouncing and
sliding
Visual perceptual activity to
“move the cars”
Itsy Bitsy Spider
$1.99
Old MacDonald
$1.99
Wheels on the Bus
$0.99
An interactive app in which
everything does something
when touched on the screen
18+ month olds enjoy, with
interactive animal pages,
movements, sounds, etc
Like above
3
Baa Baa Black Sheep
$1.99
Like above
Toddler Teaser Shapes
free
Scribble Press
free
ABC Maze
Free/
$1.99
Tiny Tower
free
Child is asked what shape
appears- they touch screen
to pick the item
50 templates to create a
story that you can draw and
import pics of your own- can
be emailed or published in
iBook library
Educational word game
meant to improve children’s
spelling, requiring child tilt
screen to roll ball
Building a tower with blocks
on the screen
Trace
free
Gomi
$2.99
Balloonimals
$1.99
Monkey Preschool Lunchbox
$0.99
Vision Training 1
$9.99
Temple Run
Free
Word Search +
$2.99
Draw paths, etc, to help the
“player” navigate on the
screen from obstacle to
obstacle
Pick up the iPad to turn, roll,
move the “Gomi” (animal
type figure)
Shake your phone to “blow
up” balloon animals to make
them come to life
6 educational games
teaching kids 2-5 about
colors, letters, counting,
shapes, differences and
matching
Eye movement, hand-eye
coordination, binocular
function, tracking, scanning,
laterality
Swipe screen and tilt iPad to
help the runner run through
the temple and collect coins
Word search
4
Communication
ABA Problem Solving GameWhat Rhymes
$0.99
ABA Problem Solving GamesWhich Does Not Belong
$0.99
ABA Problem Solving GameWhich Go Together?
$0.99
Elephant Song
$1.99
Dragon Dictation
free
Story Patch
$2.99
Create your own stories/
books
$18.99
Create social stories and
task strips with your own
photos and voice recordings
Dexteria
$4.99
Starfall ABC
$2.99
Pinching, finger placement/
coordinated tapping of
fingers (like keyboarding),
tracing of upper/lowercase/
numbers)
Letters taught in visual,
audible, and within words
and sentences means
Alphabet Tracing
free
Trace the alphabet letters
Pocket Phonics Lite
free
See below
Pocket Phonics
$2.99
For kids between 3-6, great
for learning sounds, and
forming the letters correctly
by tracing on screen
Pictello
Fine Motor/
Writing
118 colorful images, in
which child is shown 4
objects and asked which two
rhyme
120 concrete, colorful
images in which child is
shown 4 objects at time and
asked which one does not
belong
120 photos in which 4
objects at a time that the
child is asked what does not
belong
Interactive song with animal
sounds that you control,
with a puzzle for “little
fingers” to complete
You speak it, it scribes it
5
iWrite Words
$2.99
See below
iWrite Words Lite
free
Draw letters and “cute
drawings appear”
ABC Tracer
$1.99
See above
draw 4 free
free
Alphabet flashcards tracing
phonics and drawing
ColorPlay HD- Kids Animated
$0.99
Draw on the screen, change
the colors, etc
123 Colro HD: Talking Coloring
Book (English, Spanish, French
and German)
iColoringBook
$0.99
Shape up
$2.99
Sound, interaction and
animation after you color in
the pictures!
teaches numbers, letters
(upper and lower case), and
colors, with engaging
artwork, voice-overs, music,
sound effects, and
animation
Focus on shapes with 3-4
straight lines
Hello Crayons
free
Create, draw, etc.
Letter School
Free or
@2.99
R+Tap Drums
Free
A letter formation app that
provides choices for styles of
letters (ie: HWT, Zaner
Bloser, etc)
Play on drumsets!
$1.99
Play tunes on the xylophone
Dot to dot numbers and
letters lite
Free
Dot to dot to create
animated pictures (count by
1s, 2s, 3s)
Pluto piano
$1.99 +
Practice finger precision as
$2.99
aXylophone
6
$0.99
DiscRider
you guide Pluto through the
notes of his song in the
ocean. OR, tap highlighted
piano keys to play song
Practice finger speed and
using multiple fingers/hands
at once
Dry erase board in color that
you can save!
Absolute Board
$2.99
Gross Motor
My First Yoga
$0.99
Sensory
Pocket Pond
Free
Fluidity
free
Relax melodies: a white noise
ambiance for sleep,
meditation & yoga
Voice Meter
free
Time Timer
$1.99
Kiddie Countdown Timer
$0.99
Suited for younger students,
with options of using stop
sign like visuals in its timer
Waitstrip
$0.99
Linear representation of
time, using a series of dots
as a visual guide
Talking Tom & Ben News
free
Talk to the characters and
they will repeat what you
say with a twist
Talking Pierre the Parrot
free
Talk to the characters and
they will repeat what you
say with a twist
The Shredder
$0.99
Shred and eliminate
$0.99
24 different easy to follow
along with flashcard for yoga
poses
Create relaxing sounds,
ripples, as you engage with
the fish
Like a lava lamp on the
screen
41 different sounds to
choose from that you can
mix, create, etc
Shows if voices are too low,
just right or too high on
scale
A disappearing timer to use
with visual feedback to child
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Games
Air Hockey
$0.99
Train Conductor
$0.99
Fruit Ninja
$0.99
Paper Toss
free
unwanted thoughts
Play with 1 or 2 players
Music, graphics and a
challenge to guide train to
destination while avoiding
collisions
“slice” the fruit on the
screen
Game requiring you gauge
speed/ pressure to hit a
target