iPads for Learners with Severe/Multiple Disabilities

Updated 11/4/2012


Cause and Effect Apps

Tap/Touch Anywhere

• BuzzBack Cause and Effect $0.99 - Cause and Effect for low vision, blind and deaf-blind individuals ***NEW***
• Hippi 1 $2.99 - Six different cause and effect activities ***NEW***
• Who's There? $0.99 - Cause and effect story app ***NEW***
• Baby Finger HD Free - Touch any where for random image and sounds or letters or numbers ***NEW***
• iBaby Buttons - Create buttons which show images and play sounds ***NEW***
• Hidden Grid $2.99 - Lite Brite style app
• Let Loose Free -Throw things at a picture
• Baby Dazzler $0.99 - touch the screen to add stars and sound effects to the image
• Draw with Stars Free - touch to draw stars, touch again to make the shoot
• Fluidity HD Free - touch the screen to make the glowing fluid flow and move
• Koi Pond Free - interact with your pond and its creatures
• Kid Fireworks Free and Fireworks $1.99 - touch the screen to make fireworks explode
• Little Gems Visual Scene Free - you finger is gravity sending the glowing gems spinning
• Reactickles Magic Free - beautiful sensory based cause and effect
• Somantics Free - Touch, tilt and camera create a unique interactive sensory experience
• Color Ripple for Toddlers Free - create rainbow scene with bright colors all with a touch
• Tap and See Series $2.99  - apps designed for learners with CVI (Cortical Vision Impairment) to encourage looking, tracking and other visual skills
• Colorful Balloons Free- touch the screen an balloons are released
• Cause and Effect Sensory Light Box $1.99 - the name pretty much covers it

Early Targeted Touch/Tap, Drag or Scroll

• Interactive Alphabet ABC $1.99 - Touch the letters on the screen to hear the letter, word and sound effect ***NEW***
• Press Here $0.99 - A story book where things happen when you touch the dot ***NEW***
• Peeping Musician $2.99 - touch a musician to make her play
• Rad Sounds $4.99 - touch to play music (switch accessible)
• Bubbles $0.99 - touch to pop bubbles or balloons
• Catch the Cow $2.99 - touch the cow to make something happen (switch accessible)
• Sounding Board Free - create communication boards using your pictures or included clip art (switch accessible)
• Hatch Free - touch the egg repeatedly and see what hatches
• Fish Fingers 3D Interactive Aquarium $0.99 - touch the water and fish come to your finger, tilt the screen and water splashes, interactive fish move when you do
• Baby Drums $2.99 - allows multi touch with scrolling and targeting - or not!  Play lots of instruments.

Refined Target Touch/Tap

• Aunty Maggie's Recipe $2.99 - Choose ingredients to make a secret potion (switch accessible)
• Picture Chase $2.99 - with your pictures and music as back ground chases of cats and butterflies, for example, ensue
• Picture Pusher $0.99 - learn how to target, drag and drop by putting images into a box, use your own pictures if you want
• Touch Trainer $4.99 - instructional activity to teach targeting

Switch Accessible (using an iOS switch interface such as the APPlicator)

• Games

• Catch the Cow $2.99 - click the cow to make something happen
• AAC
• Sounding Board Free - create communication boards that scan using your pictures or included clip art
• Photo VOCA $37.99 - create communication boards that scan using photos
• PicBoard $7.99 and TalkBoard $17.99 - create communication boards using pictures in your albums
• Speak for Your Self LAT Kids Free - customizable AAC

Companies Selling Multiple Switch Apps

• Apps from tBox
• Predictable $159.99 - for literate users an advanced text to speech system with scanning or direct select that includes social media integration
• Scene and Heard $49.99 - visual scene based display AAC created using "hot spots"
• Apps from Conley Company/TapSpeak
• TapSpeak Button $9.99 - record a message for play back, store each as long as you like
• TapSpeak Button Plus - $34.99 - same as above but includes symbol set
• Tap Speak Button Plus for iPad $34.99 - same as above but for iPad
• TapSpeak Sequence $19.99 - record and store sequential messages for playback
• TapSpeak Sequence Plus $34.99 - same as above but includes symbol set
• Tap Speak Choice for iPad $99.99 - create communication boards with 1-56 messages per page, text-to-speech and a full symbol library
• Apps From Alexicom
• Alexicom Elements Storymaker $9.99 - create switch accessible books
• Alexicom AAC Free - make communication boards
• Alexicom Elements (Child or Teen, Male or Female) $19.99 each - customizable communication page sets 
• Alexicom Elements Core (Preschool, Child, Teen or Adults, Male or Female) core vocabulary based AAC
• Apps from Attainment

• Read to Learn $39.99 - 85 stories with graded comprehension checks.  Incudes Life Skills Readers, Safety Skills Readers and Focus on Feelings Books
• Go Talk Now $79.99 - complete AAC app with scanning, symbols included
• Apps from RJ Cooper
• Rad Sounds $4.99 - click to play music
• Scan-A-Word $4.99 - spelling app with scanning switch support
• Scan-to-Pictures $4.99 - AAC training program 
• Apps from MarbelSoft (prices vary)



• MarbleSoft Click To Read Book Series ($9.99 each) each book has a story tied to the common core and related questions, works with touch or a switch(es) titles include: "My Country", "A Leader Is", "I Can Help",  and "Recycle It" (these work fantastic with the Unique Learning Program).  Books use the SymbolStix Symbols.
• Koppy Kattz $19.99 - cause and effect through more advanced memory games for one or more players using switches or touch
• Scan and Match $19.99 - find the match using your switch(es)
• Switch Kids $9.99 (limited free version as well) - three kind of games include cause and effect, multiple choice cause and effect and sequential cause and effect
• Apps from Creative Communicating ($9.99 each)


• E-I-E-I-O Adapted Play Book
  
• Peanut Butter Adapted Play Book
• Inclusive series of apps (about $2.99 each - see page for ever expanding list)