Apps for Children with Special Needs

About this original series

Apps for Children with Special Needs is designed to showcase iPad Apps that can help families with special needs children decide if the APP is appropriate for them or indeed what they thought it was. We do this by demonstrating the APP on video to show how it works before you buy it.

Episodes of Apps for Children with Special Needs

    • Mystery Math Town

      FUN MATH PRACTICE: Your mission: Help a friendly and curious little ghost rescue the fireflies that are hidden in Mystery Math Town. Players use math skills to unlock rooms and passages on their enchanting journey. Along the way, you can also earn talking portraits of the townspeople for your Gallery. Every picture has a story to tell and the colorful cast of characters in this town have plenty to say. • Math practice integrated with a rich, immersive game experience • Multiple user accounts –...

      • Release date
        Apr 14, 2013
      • Runtime
        08:08
    • Farm Academy

      Farm Academy is a fun and colorful iPad and iPhone app that was created by a certified speech and language pathologist for younger children (18 months–3 years or up). It targets both receptive and expressive language skills and is based on language development research.

      • Release date
        Apr 14, 2013
      • Runtime
        07:14
    • Counting Money +

      Counting Money+ is an app designed to help people of all ages count money. Counting Money + contains nearly 5,000 problems to solve. There are three types of games. One game is for counting only coins, the second counts only dollars, and the third combines coins and dollars.

      • Release date
        Apr 14, 2013
      • Runtime
        06:16
    • Dr. Suess Short Story Collection

      Dr. Seuss Short Story Collection contains eight classic titles all in one omBook! Each story entertains in classic Seuss style and provides timeless moral lessons for readers young and old. Included in this fun interactive omBook are: (From Yertle the Turtle) - The Big Brag – A rabbit and a bear both boast that they are the “best of the beasts” only to be humbled by a mere worm who sees “the two biggest fools that have ever been seen!” - Gertrude McFuzz – A young bird named Gertrude obsessed t...

      • Release date
        Apr 14, 2013
      • Runtime
        11:46
    • Faces iMake - ABC

      From the makers of the award-winning App, Faces iMake Right-Brain-Creativity comes a charming and imaginative way to explore and play with the alphabet. Part game, part puzzle, it’s interactive, entertaining and offers the most fun with the alphabet since Sesame Street.

      • Release date
        Apr 14, 2013
      • Runtime
        05:28
    • Wince - Don't feed the Worry Bug

      From the award-winning storybook by author, Andi Green, comes Wince-Don’t Feed the WorryBug. Wince has a problem… he worries too much and when he worries his nemesis The WorryBug appears! If you have ever worried about anything, then maybe you can help.

      • Release date
        Apr 14, 2013
      • Runtime
        06:20
    • Categories from I Can Do Apps

      Categorization is an important cognitive-linguistic skill. The ability to accurately categorize allows individuals to learn and access new vocabulary, increase expressive, receptive and reading skills. Categorizing helps individuals develop associations and connections between concepts. This interactive teaching tool can be used by parents, teachers, therapists and individuals to further develop listening skills, reading comprehension, identification of vocabulary, reasoning and problem solvin...

      • Release date
        Apr 14, 2013
      • Runtime
        03:47
    • Live Alphabet

      In the animated and narrated book Live Alphabet, the youngest readers will be introduced to their ABCs in a fun and entertaining way! Every letter reveals a cartoon with characters that your children will love. Here, you can meet a giraffe; drive an airplane or a car; try different outfits on a doll or different mustache on a gentleman; learn how to make magic with a common jar; or what came first: the hen or the egg? Also we are proud to present a big poster Live Alphabet with these letters a...

      • Release date
        Apr 14, 2013
      • Runtime
        03:50
    • Dexteria Jr. Fine Motor Skill Development for Pr...

      From the makers of award-winning Dexteria, Dexteria Jr. is a set of hand and finger exercises that help develop fine motor skills and handwriting readiness. The activities are specially designed for kids age 2-5. New characters, sprite animations, music, and sound effects all add up to a fun and engaging experience for toddlers and preschool-aged children. Dexteria Jr.’s unique hand and finger activities take full advantage of the iPad’s multi-touch interface to help build strength, control, a...

      • Release date
        Apr 4, 2013
      • Runtime
        07:45
    • ABC Farm

      Expose your child to the amazing farm world! Our award-winning ABC Series teaches children new words in English and Spanish through sight, sound & touch. Let them pet pigs, work in the orchards, discover vegetables, and even play with goats through beautiful pictures, lively videos, spoken fun facts and interactive scenes.

      • Release date
        Apr 4, 2013
      • Runtime
        03:32