Autism, there’s an app for that!

Apps for Social Goals, Apps for Communication, Apps for Behaviour, Relaxation, and Structure, Apps for Sensory Issues, Apps for Functional Issues, Apps for Productivity, Apps for Organization, and Apps for Academics.

Apps for Social Goals

Authentic Yoga with Deepak Chopra Helps user understand Yoga, learn to practice and the many poses.
Price: $1.99

Chess Chess game
Price: FREE

Guitar Jam Loop based and real time music system allowing anyone to create jams on the fly.
Price: FREE for lite version, $0.99 for full version

Hidden Curriculum for Adolescents and Adults Teaches how to deal with the “hidden curriculum” through real-life based entries that spur conversations about the numerous “unwritten social rules” we encounter everyday.
Price: $1.99

Hidden Curriculum for Kids Teaches children how to deal with the “hidden curriculum” through real-life based entries that spur conversations about the numerous “unwritten social rules” we encounter everyday.
Price: $1.99

iQuarium Create your own aquarium.
Price: FREE for lite version, $0.99 for full version

Lightsaber Unleashed Allows user to swing iTouch around like a lightsaber.
Price: FREE

Tic Tac Toe Full featured free tic tac toe game.
Price: FREE

Whiteboard Lite: Collaborative Drawing Collaborative drawing tool allowing two iTouch devices to create pictures together over WiFi or bluetooth.
Price: FREE for lite version, $3.99 for full version

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Apps for Communication

Bump Hold your iTouch and gently bump someone else’s iTouch to share photos and friends (contacts).
Price: FREE

Dragon Dictation Speak into the iTouch and your words are converted to text.
Price: FREE

iConverse Assisted Communication app.
Price: $9.99

iPrompts Scheduling app, allows you to use your own photos.
Price: $49.99

iSign Excellent interface, timing, vocabulary and animation.
Price: FREE for lite version or $4.99 for full version

Proloquo2Go Full featured augmentative and alternative communication app.
Price: $189.00

Sight Words Flashcard 1000 words for preschool through grade school.
Price: $0.99

Sign Language Learn the fundamentals of Sign Language through video with Avery Posner, ASL teacher.
Price: $0.99

Sign 4 Me Learn sign language through 3D video.
Price: $9.99

Speak It! User can write into app and have the text read aloud.
Price: $1.99

Talk Assist Alternative communication app allows user to type in a phrase etc and have it spoken. Phrases can be saved and retrieved as needed.
Price: FREE

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Apps for Behaviour, Relaxation, and Structure

2Do: Stunning To Do List Clear, easy to use to do list.
Price: $6.99

All Done! Powerful checklist application.
Price: $1.99

iRewardChart Lite: Parents Reward Tracker Behavior Chore chart Set up rewards chart for behaviour, chores etc. and students can choose from rewards suggested by the app or those the user sets as rewards.
Price: FREE for lite version, $4.99 for full version

Make a Martian Make a Martian with hundreds of slippery, creepy and crawly body parts in many colors.
Price: FREE

NFB Films Access to over 1000 documentaries, animations and trailers.
Price: FREE

Round To It List Manager/ To Do List with extra features.
Price: $2.99

Time Timer Visual Disc technology used to answer the question, “How much longer?”
Price: $4.99

Todo Makes task management easy and fun.
Price: $4.99

Visual Timer Easy to use visual timer with a graphical interface.
Price: $0.99

Visules Communicates check lists and individual cues using text, images and colors.
Price: $4.99

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Apps for Sensory Issues

A Mood Pad – Heat Sensitive Surface The screen fills with color as you move your fingers over it.
Price: FREE

Binaural Beats Use sounds of nature to induce sleep, help with studying or just block out the world.
Price: FREE

Blowfish Poppers Tap the blowfish in the middle of their bellies and they pop.
Price: FREE

Bright Puzzles: Sea Life Lite Puzzles featuring sea life.
Price: FREE for lite version, $0.99 for full version

BubbleWrap Break the bubbles in the bubble wrap!
Price: FREE

Facegoo This photo app allows you to stretch, pinch and twist your photos.
Price: FREE for lite version, $0.99 for full version

Fireworks Interactive visualization program designed to interact with your iTunes.
Price: FREE for lite version, $0.99 for full version

Fluid Interactive app.
Price: FREE

iLuvMozart (Boost Your IQ) Listen to Mozart.
Price: $1.99

iRelax Sleep and relaxation and yoga and sleep helper.
Price: FREE for lite version, $1.99 for full version

Kinetic Balls Experiment with physics as you try and get the balls moving.
Price: FREE

Lightstrings Lightstrings follow your finger as long as you glide over the touch screen.
Price: $1.99

Metronome Set the time for the metronome to keep the beat.
Price: FREE

Relax Relaxation app with easy interface.
Price: $2.99

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Apps for Functional Issues

Audiobooks 2800 classic audio books free.
Price: FREE for lite version, $0.99 for full version

Document 2 Spreadsheet, TextEdit, Preview, Email, WiFi
Price: FREE for lite version, $1.99 for full version

Groceries Grocery List Grocery list you can organize by store, section, sorted or manually sorted.
Price: $0.99

iPrompt Professional teleprompting for the iTouch.
Price: FREE

Lists Free Store any kind of list on your iTouch.
Price: FREE

myHomework Keep track of your projects, homework, classes and tests.
Price: FREE

Model Me Going Places Visual teaching tool for helping children navigate challenging places.
Price: FREE

Print Magic On the go WiFi printing.
Price: $6.99

Sideways Landscape orientated keyboard.
Price: $1.99

Simple Mind Xpress Free mind mapping tool.
Price: FREE for Lite version, $6.99 for full version

Simplify Checklist 9 checklists provided in the Lite version, 55 in the full version.
Price: FREE for Lite version, $1.99 for full version

Units Simple unit conversion utility.
Price: $0.99

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Apps for Productivity

Perfect Rhyme Delivers perfect rhymes with a snappy interface.
Price: $0.99

Quick Office Office Suite.
Price: $9.99

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Apps for Organization

Lists Free Store any kind of list on your iTouch.
Price: FREE

Simplify Checklist 9 checklists provided in the Lite version, 55 in the full version.
Price: FREE for Lite version, $1.99 for full version

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Apps for Academics

Authentic Yoga with Deepak Chopra Helps user understand Yoga, learn to practice and the many poses.
Price: $1.99

Basic Math Drill and practice of the the foundational skills of math.
Price: FREE for lite version, $3.99 for full version

Bingo Card Electronic game board for Bingo. Tap on the numbers as they are called.
Price: FREE

Canadian Taxes Calculates GST and PST in the various provinces.
Price: FREE

Classics Just one app of the many ebook apps.
Price: $2.99

Column Subtraction Teach and study the alternative column subtraction method.
Price: $3.99

Dr. Email Spell/grammar check for text entry app with landscape keyboard.
Price: $0.99

Dragon Dictation Speak into the iTouch and your words are converted to text.
Price: FREE

Everyday Column: Addition Teach and study the alternative column addition method.
Price: $3.99

Flood-It! Flood the whole board with one color in less than the suggested number of steps.
Price: FREE

Fraction Reduction Gizmo Tool for young student just starting to deal with fractions and reducing them.
Price: FREE

gFlashcards – Flashcards & Tests Flashcard app.
Price: FREE for lite version, $4.99 for full version

iCoin Canada Lite Canadian currency.
Price: FREE for lite version, $1.99 for full version

iJam Lite Simulates a 6 string guitar.
Price: $0.99

Kid’s Fraction Fun Fractions, percentages, decimals.
Price: $0.99

Long Division Learn and practice the long division method.
Price: $3.99

Long Multiplication Learn and practice the long multiplication method.
Price: $3.99

Math Magic Game for addition, subtraction, and multiplication.
Price: $0.99

Math Snacks Video Videos about ratio, rate and proportion.
Price: FREE

Math Tutor Lite Covers 6 grades, with practice on mathematical concepts.
Price: FREE for lite version, $0.99 for full version

Mendeleev’s Tables Lite Mendeleev’s periodic table.
Price: FREE for lite version, $3.99 for full version

Parking Directing traffic in a parking lot.
Price: $0.99

Perfect Rhyme Delivers perfect rhymes with a snappy interface.
Price: $0.99

Planets 3D Guide to the solar system.
Price: FREE

Rush Hour The original sliding block traffic jam puzzle.
Price: $2.99

Shakespeare All the works of Shakespeare.
Price: FREE

Stanza Clear and easy to use reading interface.
Price: FREE

Sunrise Sunset Lite Displays sunrise and sunset times based on GPS location.
Price: FREE for lite version, $0.99 for full version

Tell Time App to help students learn to tell time.
Price: $1.99

Torect Slide blocks to form a rectangle.
Price: FREE

Tumblebooks to Go: Mud Puddle Many different titles, each a different app - Mud Puddle is just one.
Price: $1.99

Typenology With predictive word feature, you can increase both speed and accuracy in typing.
Price: FREE

2010 World Fact Book The complete CIA World Fact Book at your finger tips.
Price: $0.99

ZenTap Word prediction from the first few letters of words.
Price: FREE

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Information from Apps for ASD iPod Touch Project
Teacher recommended apps for children with ASD
Prepared by Barbara Welsford, M.Ed., ATP SSRSB & Anita Kingdon
March 27, 2010

Based on the prices on Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
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