Educational Mobile Apps for the I-pad

1)  Feed the Animals is a great app for toddlers, preschool, and kindergarten students who are at-risk.  The activity is eye catching, teaches about animals, what animals like to eat, and is great for eye-hand coordination.  Also, the app strengthens cognitive skills and provides opportunities for problem-solving. 

2.)  Toddler Puzzle Shapes is a great app and appealing to the eyes.  The games are made for toddlers.  However, I have students who are functioning on this skills level.  The app provides activities to strengthen eye-hand coordination, gives positive feedback, and sets the student up for success.  Additionally, the app offers several languages that can be beneficial for bilingual students.  The app offers puzzle games that provides problem-solving in order to complete the puzzle.  This app is a lot of fun for kids.

3)  Clean Up is a great app for young children to develop language, reasoning, sorting, and classifying skills.  The app provides 75 photographic images of toys, clothing, and food to be put away in the appropriate area.  Correct answers are rewarded with visual and audio rewards and incorrect responses are corrected by visual cues.  The photo images are appealing to the eye and very clear for the learner.  My students enjoy this app. 

4.)  Proloquo2Go is an expensive app.  However, it can take the place of high tech very expensive communication devices.  It is a full-featured augmentative device and a great app for students who have difficulty with speaking.  It has a library of over 14,000 symbols, powerful automatic conjugations, two researched based vocabulary organizations, advanced word prediction, multi-user support, and the ability to fully customize vocabularies for users along a broad continuum of abilities from beginning symbolic communication to full literacy.  2008-2013 AssistiveWare