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CALL Scotland - Provides specialist expertise in technology for children who have speech, communication and/or writing difficulties, in schools across Scotland. 
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Using iPads to support students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Kathleen McClaskey's insight:
"Students with Autistic Spectrum Disorder have a wide variety of strengths and abilities that make their communication and learning skills complex, diverse and sometimes challenging. Many of their difficulties can be broken into the areas of Communication, Social Skills and Behaviour. We know that students with Autism are strong visual learners, which makes the iPad a perfect instructional tool to support communication, social skills development and positive behaviour."
The Spectronics team has done an outstanding job in compiling resources, apps and information on ways to support autistic learners in the areas of Communication, Social Skills and Behaviour.
Many thanks to Spectronics and the amazing work that they do to support all learners!
Carol Leynse Harpold's curator insight,
November 7, 2013 6:22 PM
Spectronics is a great resource for all things AT. Check out their recent resource for communication for ASD. Carol
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TalkRocket Go app, especially for children and adults with speech disabilities gives a voice to the voiceless. "TalkRocket Go is the family-friendly communication aid that helps people with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, Parkinson’s (and many others) speak out loud."
The wheelchair-friendly app can be availed for only $99. Users can now link buttons and switches as well as those on wheelchairs to an iPad, iPhone (News - Alert), or iPod with TalkRocket Go, thereby ensuring the use of these controls for speaking aloud words and phrases.
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Grace App is a non-speaking, simple picture communication system developed for people with Autism to communicate their needs independently.
"Why use Grace App?
> Support Independence: Grace App was developed to be a communication system that the user controls independently, to discriminate their needs.
> Support Consistency in Communication: Grace App is portable, discreet, personal, always available and easy to use and maintain. Choose, take, add photographs and replicate across as many Apple devices that you like.
> Build Social Interaction: With Grace App the user must present the visual sentence and interact with a listener who models, prompts & rewards the user’s attempted pronunciation of each word."
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CALL Scotland - Provides specialist expertise in technology for children who have speech, communication and/or writing difficulties, in schools across Scotland.
Kathleen McClaskey's insight:
Another excellent resource from CALL Scotland. The book includes chapters on:
It aims to support readers who are not necessarily technical specialists and who want to use the iPad with children or adults with additional support needs, special educational needs or disability.
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Friendship Circle provides a complete listing of Special Needs Apps.
Kathleen McClaskey's insight:
"With over a thousand apps now available to help individuals with special needs it has become increasingly difficult to find and choose the right special needs app. The Friendship Circle App Review gives you the ability to find the perfect special needs app for your child."
275 Apple and Android Apps can be searched in the following categories: > Communication > Social Skills > Behavior > Educational > Scheduling > Speech & Language > Life Skills
Naomi W's curator insight,
March 5, 2014 11:03 PM
An amazing list with 1000s of specialised apps. With 7 categories: Communication; Social Skills; Life Skills; Behaviour; Educational; Scheduling; Speech & Language.
However, it does not have any reviews.
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Here is another great review by OT'S With Apps on Scene & Heard by Tbox Apps.
"What does multimedia scene communication tool mean? It means it provides you with the possibilities of your typical multi-cell communication app as well as the ability to create interactive scenes using your photos, images, videos and make interactive ”hot spots” or regions that speak, play video, link to pictures or videos or symbols. You can use it to tell a story, make a choice, provide instruction, video modeling or express wants, needs or answers or symbols. Not your average communication app, Scene & Heard mixes communication symbols with a variety of multimedia opportunities for receptive and expressive language, learning and exploration within the context of real or symbolic images of tasks, environments, people and things for individuals with limited or emerging communication skills."
She points out that there is a free Scene & Heard Lite version is available for trial.
's comment June 18, 2012 2:10 PM
I am a teacher at a Special Needs school in Southampton,England. I have tried lots of communication apps and got fed up with this app crashing. I am currently looking at Autismate, check it out...
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"Verbally is an amazing, comprehensive assisted speech solution for the iPad. Verbally is a top-selling Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) iPad app and it's totally free.
Unlike all other AAC solutions available, Verbally's unique, simple design allows users to communicate quickly and effectively in any setting.
Verbally enables creative communication, self-expression, and, most importantly, conversation."
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This 'wheel' of AAC Apps by Sally Millar and Gillian McNeill of CALL Scotland, provides a categorised guide to iPad Apps for people with complex communication support needs, who may need to use some form(s) of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC).