Speech Aids
Tell Me - Text to speech
Tell Me is a Text To Speech app which reads any text you type! it currently features:
- Volume, pitch and Speed Sliders
- Simple and clean interface (Meterial design)
- Customizable colors
- Different voices, English, United Kingdom, Jarvis and many more!
- Different styles of voices
- Save to file (synthesize to file)
- Slide-out menu with preset text
- Set your created files as your notification sound, ringtone and even your alarm!
- Tablet support
LetMeTalk - Free AAC Talker
Google Play Store-dasdsadaAndroid
A free AAC talker app which supports communication in all areas of life and therefore providing a voice to everyone. LetMeTalk enables you to line up images in a meaningful way to read this row of images as a sentence.
Avaz AAC
Avaz AAC is an augmentative and alternative communication app that empowers children & adults having speech-related disabilities with a voice of their own. A fully-featured speech app that also includes a training module for new AAC users & caregivers.
Dragon Anywhere: Dictate Now
Easy-to-use voice recognition application that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages. In fact, it’s up to five (5) times faster than typing on the keyboard.
Visual Aids
App4Autism
Within App4Autism you can access three tools: Timer, Visual Planning (Agenda) and Token Economy. Timer makes the passage of time visible by exploiting a strength that characterizes people with autism, namely visuo-spatial ability. Visual Planning is a concrete and visual agenda of the sequence of activities which will take place over time to increase the predictability and reduce the uncertainty. Token Economy is a flexible and effective behavioural program to motivate children to perform a skill independently and to increase the frequency of appropriate behaviour. The tool allows you to clearly define the final award through a photo taken by camera or from your device.
First Then Visual Schedule
With its simple, multisensory interface, this app has great potential for use with kids with developmental or learning disabilities, anxiety or attention issues and language, hearing or processing difficulties.
Turn Taker - Social Story & Sharing Tool
Turn Taker uses visual and audio cues to facilitate turn taking and sharing for any child. The app also includes an illustrated social story about game play and sharing. This app has been used successfully with a variety of young children who find it difficult to share.
Mood Meter
People on the autism spectrum may not only have difficulty understanding how other people emote. They may have difficulty understanding their own emotions, too. Mood Meter is specifically designed to help people get in touch with their emotions. You use it to gauge your feelings each day or at regular intervals throughout the day. Look back and identify any patterns and grow your emotional vocabulary.
Model Me Going Places
Model Me Going Places™ is a great visual teaching tool for helping your child learn to navigate challenging locations in the community. Each location contains a photo slideshow of children modeling appropriate behavior.
Look In My Eyes
Look in My Eyes: Train Engineer for iPad" is a fun way to practice eye contact skills. It's not a game - instead, it is an interactive toy in which young engineers can explore 5 different train sections as they work on dozens of train parts and travel to landmarks throughout the world. And they earn these train rides by practicing eye contact!
Too Noisy Pro
Voice meter including sound sensitivity adjustments. Displays graphically the background noise level in a room in a fun and engaging way. Allows the tolerable noise level to be adjusted to cater for those "louder activities" as well compensating for banging doors and other sudden noises with the "sensitivity" and "dampening" sliders.
Breathe2Relax
Breathe2Relax is a portable stress management tool which provides detailed information on the effects of stress on the body and instructions and practice exercises to help users learn the stress management skill called diaphragmatic breathing.Breathing exercises have been documented to decrease the body’s ‘fight-or-flight’ (stress) response, and help with mood stabilization, anger control, and anxiety management.
Games
JADE Autism
JADE Autism is an app for autistic that stimulates and develops the cognitive functions of children. Through association games with figures that are part of every child’s daily life, JADE Autism enhances playing cognition.
Puzzle Spelling Words
This app is built especially for early learners and anyone working towards letter recognition, spelling and reading with an easy to navigate interface to encourage independent learning. The app has the option to allow users to match letters in any order, or ensures that the user is matching letters in left to right correct spelling order. This lets you adjust the game for different ability levels.
Crazy Games
Online games that can be played alone or with family and friends. Includes Rock Paper Scissors, Uno, and Minecraft
Parent Resources
Birdhouse for Autism
Birdhouse for Autism is an excellent app that offers caregivers the ability to track behaviors, health and daily living tasks of children diagnosed with ASD. Parents raising children with ASD designed this easy to use web and iPhone/Android application. As data is entered, it becomes easy for the caregiver to isolate and compare as well as find patterns of behaviors. Identification of patterns then assists the caregivers to determine what is working in the child’s daily schedule as well as what needs to be changed.
Autism Parenting Magazine
Autism Parenting Magazine is a print magazine designed for parents raising children on the autism spectrum. This app is made for subscribers. The app itself is free, but subscriptions cost $2.99 monthly. With a subscription purchase, readers are delivered the insightful, engaging issues monthly. They feature expert advice, tips, news, research, and personal stories from other families living with autism.
Autism Tracker Lite
Autism Tracker can be life changing for families with a child on the spectrum. Explore Autism. Track what matters to your child and your family. Use the visual calendar and multi-item graphs to view and discuss patterns.
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