Ten Educational Apps For Students with Special Needs

This chart contains a sampling of switch accessible educational apps. It does not list every app available. New apps are developed every day. No warranty is made about the accuracy or completeness of the information on this chart. Customers should consult the Apple App Store for detailed information about the apps. Switch accessible AAC apps are not included in this chart.

Updated 7/11/2023

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Educational Apps For Special Needs Students

App

Clicker Docs

communication app

Vendor

Crick Software

Price

Varies. Home and School Licenses Available

App Description

Simple word processing app that helps children with all types of disabilities create effective writing pieces. Apps available for Windows, Mac, iPad and Chromebook

Features/Skills

• Child friendly and accessible keyboard
• Writing review with speech
• Word predication and word banks with verbal cues

App

How Do You Know?

elephant app

Vendor

Lynn Epstein

Price

$4.99

App Description

Helps students improve critical thinking and verbal reasoning skills by answering who, what, when, where and how questions. Available for Android, iPad and iPhone

Features/Skills

• Ten categories including: places,
activities, emotions, animals, occupations and more
• Audio and visual prompts
• Different levels of difficulty

App

Learn with Rufus

learn with rufus app

Vendor

Rufus Robot Inc.

Price

$0.99 - $4.99/app

App Description

Company has six different apps: Group and Categories Feelings and Emotions Boy & Girls Numbers & Counting Fun and Games Color, What?

Features/Skills

Different apps teach emotions, grouping, counting and comparing quantities, colors and more. Rufus is a friendly character with an engaging approach to learning.

App

Let’s Expand Vocabulary

let's expand vocabulary app

Vendor

Ruth Crampton

Price

$4.99

App Description

Designed for children with speech and language difficulties, specifically word retrieval difficulties and/or expressive language delays

Features/Skills

Four simple ways to play mini games with clearly spoken words that help children remember and categorize them through repetition. Activities are: Odd One Out, Matching Pairs, Categorization and Add Another One.

App

Match & Find

match and find app

Vendor

Special iApps C.I.C.

Price

50 Euros for an Annual Membership

App Description

Activities to improve memory, language and fine motor skills

Features/Skills

• Range of activities to develop memory, matching, searching and sequencing skills
• Visually clear and simple
• Support for those with poor fine-motor skills

App

Montessori Numbers

Vendor

L'Escapadou

Price

$3.99

App Description

Teaches basic math skills. Helps students understand the relationship between numbers and the quantities they stand for.

Features/Skills

Sequence of guided activitites that builds on each skill: counting to 999, learning quantitites, decimals, numerical orders, tracing numbers and more. Great for visual learners with touch buttons and ability for a student to move things on the screen to count numbers, move blocks and do other simple tasks.

App

Peek & Seek

peek and seek app

Vendor

Play Odyssey

Price

Free

App Description

Designed to promote visual discrimination

Features/Skills

Activities that emphasize fundamental visual skills such as figure/ground, closure, and form constancy. Unique color palette for children with various color perception issues.

App

The Sounding Out Machine

sounding out machine app

Vendor

Fizzbrain LLC

Price

$3.99

App Description

Assistive reading device helps children focus on challenging words in their books and models how to sound out those words.

Features/Skills

Three modes:
• Camera mode to take photo of book page
• Library mode – load previous photos
• Typing mode – type in a word Extensive dictionary with more than 80,000 words

App

Speech Blubs: Language Therapy

speech blubs app

Vendor

Blub Blub Inc.

Price

Free trial, then monthly subscription of $4.99

App Description

Voice-controlled speech therapy app designed to help children learn new sounds and words and practice speaking

Features/Skills

• 1500+ activities to trigger sound and word production
• Voice-activated functionality for a fun, interactive learning experience.
• 24 fun sections such as shapes, colors, food, sounds, animals, sing along and more

App

Super Why! Power to Read

power to read app

Vendor

PBSKids

Price

$3.99

App Description

Teaches reading with characters from the popular PBS show Super Why

Features/Skills

Ten stories to read. Four unique games
teach letter identification, letter sounds, rhyming, writing and reading comprehension.