iPad Apps for Children

IPads are a fantastic technology resource to have in the classroom! 

Apps for limited movement/easy reward with sound:

• Awesome Xylophone
• Cause and Effect Sensory Light Box
• Cause and Effect Sensory Sound Box
• Paint Sparkles
• Magic Zither
• Piano Pals
• Magic Piano
• Touch Band
• Little Fox Music Box
• Pocket Pond
• Fireworks Arcade
• Bubblish
• Old McDonald by Duck Duck Moose
• Peek-A-Zoo HD by Duck Duck Moose
• Itsy Bitsy HD by Duck Duck Moose
• Fish HD by Duck Duck Moose
• Peekaboo Barn
• Peekaboo Wild
• Peekaboo Forest
• Music Color
• Sound touch
• Baby Rattle 123
• Rattle
• Draw Stars!
• I Love Fireworks
• Baby Rattler Plus My First Colors
• Fisher Price Giggle Gang
• Fisher Price Where’s Puppy’s Nose?
• Fisher Price Shapes & Colors Music Show
• Fisher Price Let’s Count Animals
• Fisher Price Animal Sounds
• Volt Lite
• Baby’s Magical Hands

Apps for limited movement/easy reward without sound:

• Art of Glow
• Tesla Toy
• Fluidity
• My Scene by First App
• Baby Screen
• Laser Light Show
• Kaleidoscope

Apps for playtime:

• EZ Bake Oven
• Any of the Toca Boca apps
• Trucks HD by Duck Duck Moose
• Musical Me by Duck Duck Moose
• Elmo’s Monster Maker
• Swapsies
• Play Home Lite
• Curious George at the Zoo
• Lego Duplo

Apps for low vision:

• Infant visual stimulation
• Baby Screen
• Music Color
• Sound Touch
• Bloom HD
• I love Fireworks
• Little Bears Sees Tap-N-See Zoo
• Laser Light Show
• Baby Rattler Plus My First Colors
• Volt Lite
• Color ID (uses camera to speak the name of colors)
• Bigger and Brighter

Apps for learning and writing letters:

• Writing Wizard
• Letter School
• Touch and Write
• Handwriting Without Tears
• I Write Words
• Elmo’s ABC’s
• Pocket Phonics
• Kids ABC Letters

Apps for pre-writing skills:

• Lazoo Let’s Color
• Lazoo Squiggles
• Letter School
• Let’s Make Shapes!
• Dot to Dot Numbers and Letters
• Doodle Dots
• Hand writing without tears: Wet-Dry-Try
• iWritewords
• Ready to Print
• Kandy Fish (color matching, patterning finishing, and tracing)
• Any free drawing apps such as Drawing Pad, Crayola Paint & Create, Kids Doodle
• Trace Blast
• Write my name by Injini

Sensory Apps:

• Avoiders:
• Annoying Sounds
• Balloon Pop
• deciBel
• Sounds Annoying
• Too Loud
• Seeking:
• Art of Glow
• Fireworks
• Fruit Ninja
• White Noise
• White Noise Recorder

Apps for visual perception:

• Numerous puzzle apps to search for with wide range of difficulty
• Numerous memory match games available
• Kidz Hunt HD
• Rush Hour
• Little Things
• Found It
• Thomas & Friends Engine Activities (puzzles and memory match)
• Kids Love Puzzles
• Hello Kitty Jigsaw
• Hello Kitty Match
• Tangrams
• Labyrinthe
• My First Tangrams Lite
• Tangrams HD
• Tetris
• Monkey Pre-school lunch box
• Visual Attention Therapy

Apps for fine-motor:

• Dexteria
• Dexteria Jr.
• Color and draw for kids
• Colorific
• Shelby’s Quest

Apps for Body awareness:

• Recognise

Visual Timers/Schedules:

• Time Timer
• Children’s Countdown—visual countdown timer for preschoolers
• The Clock app included on the Ipad has a timer with a visual feature as well as a stopwatch
• Activity Timer Trial
• Nudge (simple reminder app)
• First then board
• Picture Card Maker
• My choice board
• iPrompts ($49.99 schedule board)
• Off We Go (social story) 

Speech Development/AAC:

• Quick Talk AAC
• Say Hi AAC
• Articulation Coach (word sound cards)
• Articulation Station (learn to speak and pronounce)
• WordToob (Learn words and new skills vis video modeling)

My favorite kids books:

• Monster at the End of This Book
• Another Monster at the End of This Book
• Jack and the Beanstalk by Mindshapes
• Toy Story
• Lots of interactive free books available through Tab Tale

Other Apps:

• SnapType (take a picture of worksheet and use iPad to type in answers) 

Apps about more apps:

• Autism Apps
• Smart Apps for Kids (website)
• KinderTown
• Moms with Apps

 HUGE Thank-you to my wonderful clinical educators for letting me build upon their ideas for this extensive list! 

Resource: http://www.aota.org/practice/children-youth/cy-apps.aspx