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IntroductionThe following resource contains a range of apps which may be bene�cial for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). The SEND & Inclusion Service in Durham does not endorse or recommend any of the following app products over others. This resource is intended as a useful starting point for parents, school sta� and professionals who work with children with SEND.

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of 5 Cause and Effect – September 2017

App icon App name Description Available for iPad, Android

and/or Windows Cost Switch

accessible Skills developed Suggested uses

Touch-Words

A simple cause and effect app containing the first 28 words from the See and Learn Language and Reading programme devised and published by Down Syndrome Education International. Touch the picture to see and hear the word.

£1.99 • Understanding ofsimple cause and effect

• Development ofexpressive & receptivelanguage

• Word recognition

• Individually with andwithout support

• Small group work• Paired work• Opportunities for

remediation and overlearning

Touch-Numbers

A simple cause and effect app containing written numbers from 0 to 20 with matching pictures. Touch the picture to see and hear the number.

£1.99 • Development of simplecause and effect skills

• Number recognition• Counting skills




Touch-Colours

A simple cause and effect app containing 12 colours with matching words. Touch the colour to see and hear the colour name.


• Colour recognition




http://www.seeandlearn.org/

http://www.dseinternational.org/






Touch-Shapes

A simple cause and effect app containing 12 shapes with matching words. Touch the shape to see and hear the shape name


• Shape recognition




Touch-Emotions

A simple cause and effect app containing faces depicting 8 different emotions with matching words. Touch the face to see and hear the emotion.

Free • Development of simplecause and effect skills

• Recognition andunderstanding ofsimple emotions




Touch-Animals

A simple cause and effect app containing 12 animals with matching words. Touch the animal to see and hear the animal name.


• Animal recognition








Peeping Musicians

Wait and watch for the musician as they ‘peep’ from the top, bottom or side of the screen. Simply touch them to make them move centre stage and play a piece of music. There are 20 different characters and instruments to find.

£2.99 • Develops basic targetand touch skills

• Understanding of causeand effect

• Timing and anticipationskills


Splat the Clowns

Touch the screen anywhere or press a switch to splat the clowns as they move across a target in the middle of the screen. Splat five clowns to get a reward.









Gloop Gloop is an interactive lava lamp. Touch the screen to make the lava move and collide with each other. Features warping of photos.

Free • Develops basic targetand touch skills



Pocket Pond 2

Touch the screen to move the water, watch the fish swim away.




Drawing with Heat

Sense

Move your finger across the screen to leave a red/yellow trail. Place your hand on the screen to create a handprint which gradually fades away.








Big Bang Pictures

Developed in conjunction with specialist teachers in the field of visual impairment, the activities have been specially designed for use with children with low vision, including those with cerebral visual impairments and complex needs. Three styles of image to choose from. Touch the screen to activate the animation.

£19.99

£33.99 as a

bundle

• Develops basic targetand touch skills



Big Bang Patterns

Developed in conjunction with specialist teachers in the field of visual impairment, the activities have been specially designed for use with children with low vision, including those with cerebral visual impairments and complex needs.

Big Bang Patterns contains four specially created sets of animated patterns, each containing twelve different animations, accompanied with a choice of music or sound effects.

These patterns have been designed to provide a range of visually stimulating activities with a choice of bold colours and movements including tracking, sliding and tunnelling.

£19.99

£33.99 as a

bundle




of 1 Emotions – September 2017




Touch-Emotions







Autism Help!

An app developed by the creators of The Incredible 5 Point Scale (www.5pointscale.com) that allows students to customise a five point scale to help with anxiety issues or voice volume in class. Pictures can be imported and audio added as well as text.

Free • Ability to recognisetriggers and note whengetting anxious

• Calming strategies tohelp when this happens

• Individually with a pupil• Good on a mini device or

smartphone for olderchildren

• Downfall is it needs to be aconstant companion andnot all schools have theresources for 1:1 use

http://www.5pointscale.com/

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Touch-Colours







Touch-Shapes

A simple cause and effect app containing 12 shapes with matching words. Touch the shape to see and hear the shape name.






Touch-Animals











Match & Find

An app designed to help develop young children’s memory, matching, searching and sequencing skills.

£7.99 • Develop workingmemory skills

• Auditory memory• Visual memory




My Play Home

An exploratory visual app. Visit different rooms in the house and garden, and listen to the sounds of everyday objects and activities.

£3.99 • Listening skills• Improvement of

expressive/spokenlanguage


• Small group work• Paired work• Targeted intervention work• Good to share with an adult

and talk about the picturesand actions

P.O.V – Spatial

Reasoning game

P.O.V. (Point of View) is a set of activities that teach spatial reasoning skills through fun, challenging, interactive activities. These spatial reasoning activities help develop an understanding of left and right, and maths and mapping skills.

£3.99

£4.99 as a bundle

• Visual reasoning skills• Spatial awareness• Left and right

discrimination • Map reading and

navigation skills• Geometry skills• Visualisation of shapes


• For best results theexercises should be done on a regular basis. The activities are designed to be repeatable and engaging.

http://vimeo.com/45213276

http://vimeo.com/45213276





Finger Paint with Sounds

Use finger movements on screen to create paintings, drawings and works of art.

Free • Fine motor skills • Individually with andwithout support

Build it up Build it up helps develop visual perception skills and fine motor skills. Place the objects in size order to build up the picture.

Free

upgrade £2.99

• Visual perception skills• Fine motor control

development






Maths, age 3-5

Designed to develop early maths skills including sorting, matching, counting, patterns and shapes.

Free

upgrade £21.99

• Understanding number0-10

• Counting, ordering,matching skills


Maths, age 4-6

Develop basic maths skills including shape, positioning, time, counting to 100, addition, subtraction and simple fractions.

Free

upgrade £38.99

• Develop understandingnumbers to 100

• Simple addition• Simple subtraction• Simple multiplication• Simple fractions• Shape and positioning


• Opportunities forremediation and overlearning

ChooseIt! Science

Choose It! Science contains over 160 activities with over 3,000 pages of simple multiple choice activities. The App includes simple performance reporting to record a student’s progress. Covers a range of concepts including living things, materials, forces and electricity, light, sound and space.

£31.99

£89.99 as a

bundle

• Living things:introduces the topics ofhuman beings, animals,plants and the worldaround us.

• Materials: materialsfrom everyday life andtheir properties.

• Forces and electricity• Light, sound and

space: topics of Earthand Space, Light andSound.


• Small group work• Opportunities for


of 4 Handwriting/Fine Motor Skills – September 2017




Dexteria A resource developed by Occupational Therapists to develop fine motor control.

£4.99

£12.99 as a

bundle

• Hand and fingerexercises

• Fine motor controldevelopment

• Letter formation


• Small group work

Hairy Letters

Letter sounds come to life with animated characters. Learn to form each letter shape with your finger. Play games to blend letter sounds into first words. Includes upper case letter names. Follows Jolly Phonics actions and pictures.

£2.99

£25.99 as a

bundle

• Handwriting and letterformation

• Phoneme andgraphemecorrespondence

• Spelling CVC words



Letter Reflex

App which addresses visual perceptual difficulties associated with visually similar letters. Tablet or phone needs to be tilted in the direction of the appropriate letter.

£3.99

£4.99 as a bundle

• Visual discrimination• Letter formation

• Individually





Mouse Fish

Mousefish is a flip-book for children. It contains illustrations of various animals whose heads, bodies and legs can be mixed and matched to create amusing combinations.

Free • Develop fine motorskills

• iPad specific skills e.g.swiping action

• Individually

Finger Paint with Sounds

Use finger movements on screen to create paintings, drawings and works of art.



Free

upgrade £2.99


development






Show Me Recordable whiteboard which records what is said, written and drawn for later play back.

Free • Fine motor skills• Develops

organisational skills• Aids planning and

preparation of writtenwork

• Revision tool


• Small group work• Paired work• Use a revision tool

Drawing with Heat

Sense

Move your finger across the screen to leave a red/yellow trail. Place your hand on the screen to create a handprint which gradually fades away.




StartDOT Handwriti

ng

Learn to form letters and numbers correctly. Letters are grouped to support developmental based learning. Includes challenge options and tracks progress. Printable worksheets available from accompanying website www.startdothandwriting.com/free-downloads

£1.99 • Handwriting and letterformation





Kids Doodle

A simple drawing and painting app. Includes "Movie" mode to play back the drawing steps just like a movie.






Cursive Writing Wizard

Motivational handwriting app which encourages children to trace letters using attractive images and sounds. Allows parents and teachers to create their own word lists and record audio for each. Creates report to record progress. Features underlying shapes, letter (including capitals), numbers and words. Reinforcement is available through worksheets.

£4.99 • Developing handwritingskills – straight lines,angles, curves androunded strokes.

• Hand-eye coordination.• Fine motor skills.• Visual perceptual skills• Reinforces cursive

script taught in school

• As a reinforcement tool.• Use to practise spelling

skills.• Letter formation.• Assessment information on

children’s developing finemotor and precision skills

• It is recommended thatchildren trace using astylus.

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Special Words

An app containing structured activities using 96 key words. Can be easily personalised with your own words, pictures and audio. Compatible with other Special iApp apps e.g. Special Stories. Also available in 23 different languages.

£12.99 • Enhancedcommunication,language and literacyskills

• Development ofexpressive andreceptive language

• Development of wordrecognition, readingand listening skills


• Small group work• Paired work• Targeted speech and

language intervention work• Opportunities for


Special Stories

Create your own stories with text, pictures and sound. Can read & share stories via email, PDF and iBooks.

£12.99 • Enhancedcommunication

• Development oflanguage and literacyskills

• Reading• Writing• Word & sentence level

work


• Small group work• Paired work• Whole class teaching.• Make social stories, topic

work, instructions, news,home/schooldiary/communication

• Use as an alternativemethod of recording writtenwork





Touch-Words

A simple cause and effect app containing the first 28 words from Special Words app. Touch the picture to see and hear the word.







Expressive Builder

A photo pops up. The child can then record their own spoken sentence and listen back to it. There is also a hint function to listen to. Good for modelling spoken language or encouraging children to make longer sentences - e.g. add an adjective.

£9.99 • Development oflistening skills

• Improvement ofexpressive/spokenlanguage

• Ability to monitor ownlanguage skills

• Adult modelling ofsentences

• Self-monitoring• Extending/ improving on

teacher’s model by addingconnectives oradjectives/adverbs

The traditional Storyteller

This app contains a video of an adult telling a story in an animated way. The child can then play games involving sequencing pictures, listen & repeat and listen to a song.

£2.99

£6.99 as a bundle

• Listening andsequencing skills


• Small group work• Paired work








Sentence Builder Teen

Prompt says ‘make a sentence about the picture’. Pupil listens to a sentence and has to choose from a range of options to produce written version of the sentence.

£5.99 • Listening skills• Word order/ sequencing

skills• Reading



Sentence Builder

By Abitalk

This app contains pictures with pre-set sentences. The user listens to a spoken sentence and then uses an array of words on screen to sequence and recreate the sentence. Useful with older pupils because they can input their own sentences and pictures, and record their own words.

£5.99 • Listening andsequencing skills




HOPE Words

Designed for Cochlear Implant users. Words are grouped according to target phoneme. Word is spoken as a picture appears. Speech sounds appear in initial, medial and final positions.

£1.99 • Listening skills• Speech production


• Targeted intervention work





My Play Home

An exploratory visual app. Visit different rooms in the house and garden, and listen to the sounds of everyday objects and activities.






Odd One Out

Designed to develop semantic reasoning skills. Contains 20 sets of cards per level and record keeping. Therapists and teachers can track progress and adjust the difficulty of the activity.

£1.99 • language and literacyskills

• Development ofreceptive language


• Targeted speech andlanguage intervention work


Forest Phonics

Choose a spelling pattern and you will be prompted to spell ten words using that spelling pattern, e.g. 'ay' words. Your child will become more confident in their ability to spell by learning to spell through patterns. Also uses segmenting and blending skills.

£2.99 • Language and literacyskills

• Segmenting & blendingskills

• Spelling







Story Creator

Create your own stories with text, pictures and sound.

Free • Enhancedcommunication



work





Talking Mats

Talking Mats is a communication tool that supports adults and children with communication difficulties to express their views. It helps them understand and consider a range of topics and say what they feel in a visual way that can be easily recorded.

Free

upgrade £5.99

• Enhancement ofcommunication,language and literacyskills.

• Individually with an adult orpeer





Minimal Pairs

Minimal Pairs is an app for working on speech sound discrimination and production. The app is designed for children with developmental communication difficulties and phonological difficulties. The program targets the following speech sounds in the initial, medial, final and blend position of words: p, b, m, n, t, d, k, g, f, v, s, z, w, r, l, th, sh, ch.

£3.99 • Over 700 individualwords targeted

• Develops auditorydiscrimination skills(identifying thedifference betweensounds in words)

• Covers all consonantsounds

• Individually with and• Targeted speech and



ChooseIt! Literacy

Choose It! Literacy contains over 250 activities with over 5,000 pages of simple multiple choice activities. The App includes simple performance reporting to record a student’s progress. Covers listening skills, initial sounds, initial letters, initial blends: sounds, initial blends: letters, tricky high frequency words, alphabet and everyday words.

£48.99

£89.99 as a

bundle

• Listening skills, initialsounds, initial letters,initial blends: sounds,initial blends: letters,tricky high frequencywords, alphabet andeveryday words.




of 4 Letters and Sounds – September 2017




Hairy Letters

Letter sounds come to life with animated characters. Learn to form each letter shape with your finger. Play games to blend letter sounds into first words. Includes upper case letter names. Follows Jolly Phonics actions and pictures.

£2.99 • Handwriting and letterformation


• Spelling CVC words



Phonics Genius

A phonic development app. £0.99 • Phonic development • With support

Forest Phonics




• Spelling







Hairy Phonics

1-3

Teaches consonant digraphs - where two consonants join together and make one sound. Hairy Phonics 1 - covers phonemes (sounds): sh, ch, th, ck, ff, ll, ss, zz, ng. Hairy Phonics 2 ai, ay, ee, ea, ie, oa, oi, oy, oo Hairy Phonics 3 ar, or, er, ir, ur, a-e, o-e, i-e, o-e, u-e Play games to blend the phonemes into a whole word.

£2.99 each

£25.99 as a

bundle

• Hairy Phonics developsphonemic awareness

• Follows Letters &Sounds guidelines fromDfE




Minimal Pairs

Minimal Pairs is an app for working on speech sound discrimination and production. The app is designed for children with developmental communication difficulties and phonological difficulties. The program targets the following speech sounds in the initial, medial, final and blend position of words: p, b, m, n, t, d, k, g, f, v, s, z, w, r, l, th, sh, ch.

£3.99 • Over 700 individualwords targeted

• Develops auditorydiscrimination skills(identifying thedifference betweensounds in words)

• Covers all consonantsounds


• Small group work• Targeted speech and







Phonics with

Letter Lilies

This app helps children to phonologically decode words and learn to read. It is narrated by Belinda the Bee who guides children through the game using spoken instructions. All the phonemes are spoken in an English accent. Report features are available as an in-app purchase and plot a child’s progress over time.

Free • Learn individualphonemes

• Learn to blend thesounds using syntheticphonics to read words

• Teaches children all thephonemes in English





ChooseIt! Literacy


£48.99

£89.99 as a

bundle









Phonics Keyboard

Phonics Keyboard is designed for early spellers and readers. Sound out each word as you spell it. Use the friendly images on each key to help find the letters. Designed by a speech and language therapist, Phonics Keyboard is great for children learning to read/spell simple words and to start to type using the QWERTY keyboard layout.

£2.99 • Learn letter sounds andlayout of the QWERTYkeyboard.



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Special Words

An app containing structured activities using 96 key words. Can be easily personalised with your own words, pictures and audio. Compatible with other Special iApp apps e.g. Special Stories. Also available in 23 different languages. Includes SALT activities.

£12.99 • Enhanced

communication,language and literacyskills


• Development of wordrecognition, reading andlistening skills





Expressive Builder

A photo pops up. The child can then record their own spoken sentence and listen back to it. There is also a hint function to listen to. Good for modelling spoken language or encouraging children to make longer sentences - e.g. add an adjective.

£9.99 • Development oflistening skills

• Improvement ofexpressive/spokenlanguage

• Ability to monitor ownlanguage skills


• Self-monitoring• Extending/ improving on

teacher’s model by addingconnectives oradjectives/adverbs

The traditional Storyteller

This app contains a video of an adult telling a story in an animated way. The child can then play games involving sequencing pictures, listen & repeat and listen to a song.

£2.99

£6.99 as a bundle

• Listening andsequencing skills







Sentence Builder

By Abitalk







Prompt says ‘make a sentence about the picture’. Pupil listens to a sentence and has to choose from a range of options to produce written version of the sentence. Focus on connectives.


skills• Reading



Spelling City

This app contains a variety of activities for practising spellings and sentences. In subject categories e.g. colours.

Free • Spelling• Word order/ sentence

level skills







Irregular Verbs

Listen to a sentence and choose the correct written form of the verb. Can select from a wide range of verbs.

Free • Reading• Grammar• Listening skills



Sound Touch

Lite

Listening to everyday sounds, grouped in categories.

Free

Upgrade £4.99

• Listening skills • Individually with andwithout support

• Small group work• Paired work• Targeted intervention work

Oticon Medical Rehabilitation

Game

Designed for Cochlear Implant users. Listening to everyday sounds, and speech sounds.

Free • Listening Skills • Individually with andwithout support






My Play Home An exploratory visual app. Visit different rooms in the house and garden, and listen to the sounds of everyday objects and activities.






AB Clix By Advanced

Bionics

Listening based app for assessing and improving speech recognition skills in quiet and in background noise. Can chart progress over time.

Free • Listening skills• Phonology – sound

awareness

• Assessment tool to be usedby adults with children

• Rehabilitation





Profile of Phonological Awareness (Pro-PA)

Assessment of phonological skills. Test format which records and stores pupil responses. Teacher has to speak test items to child and responses are recorded in iPad program. Gives separate scores for rhyme, blending, isolating, segmenting, deleting and substituting. No picture prompts.

£28.99 • Phonologicalawareness

• Assessment tool to be usedby adults with children

HOPE Words Designed for Cochlear Implant users. Words are grouped according to target phoneme. Word is spoken as a picture appears. Speech sounds appear in initial, medial and final positions.

£1.99 • Listening skills• Speech production


• Targeted intervention work





ChooseIt! Literacy


£48.99

£89.99 as a

bundle





of 2 Memory Skills – September 2017




Match & Find







Memory Block

Similar to Simon Says game. Watch the coloured lights appear and match it sequence for sequence.

£0.99 • Visual sequentialmemory skills

• Individually

Dyslexia Quest

Contains 6 games to test and develop visual and auditory memory skills.

£9.99 • Auditory memory• Visual memory• Sequencing skills



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Toy Story 3 Memory

Match

A pelmanism pairs game with Disney characters from Toy Story. Choose between three levels of difficulty. To infinity and beyond!!!

Free • Develop workingmemory skills

• Visual memory




iR Memory Match

Create your own matching pairs games, or play games created by others. The possibilities are endless; teachers, parents and children can create sets of cards to reinforce knowledge and improve concentration and memory skills.


• Visual memory




Memory Pairs

A simple and matching pairs game, ideal for young children and learners with special educational needs. Simply touch the card to turn it over to see the picture and then try to find its matching pair. Memory Pairs can also be accessed using one or two switch scanning.

£2.99 • Develop workingmemory skillsVisual memory



Opportunities forremediation and overlearning

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Special Numbers

0-20 Number and sequencingactivities including; counting,matching, ordering, how many,same or different.Settings can be changedeasily to meet the learningneeds of individuals.

£12.99 • Understanding number0-20

• Counting, ordering,matching skill

• Development ofmathematical languageto talk about size,position, comparing &quantities




Touch-Numbers







Pop Maths

Pop the balloons with the matching numbers/ answers. Practise all four number operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division).

£0.99 • Basic maths calculationskills

• Addition• Subtraction• Multiplication• Division• Times tables• Numbers facts• Inverse operations








Pickles Maths

Complete basic addition and subtraction activities using numbers 1-20.

Free • Basic maths calculationskills

• Addition• Subtraction



Maths, age 3-5


Free

upgrade £21.99




Maths, age 4-6


Free

upgrade £38.99









Choose It! Numeracy

ChooseIt! Numeracy contains over 230 activities with over 6,000 pages of simple multiple choice activities. Performance reporting is built-in. Covers a range of concepts including; foundation shape, space & measure, key stage 1 shape, space & measure, early number, number 0 to 5, number 5 to 10, number 0 to 100, money (uk only) and time.

£48.99

£89.99 as a

bundle

• Shape, space &measure: recognition of2D and 3D shapes,positional words,sequencing shapes,counting sides, nets,weight, length, capacity,and planes andsymmetry.

• Number 0 to 5:comparison of quantity,counting sets of objects,counting on, countingback, numeralrecognition, matchingsets to numerals.

• Number 5 to 10: oddone out, counting sets,counting on, numeralrecognition, more than,less than, simple additionto 10.

• Number 0 to 100: morethan, less than, countingin 2s, 5s, 10s etc.,number bonds to 10 anddoubling.

• Money (uk only): coinrecognition and workingout change.

• Time: times on-the-hour,counting on and back in5 minutes, analogue ordigital clocks, weeks,months and seasons.








AB Math Test your calculation skills. Practise all four number operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division).





Eggs on Legs

Test your addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills to crack the eggs open.

£0.99

£7.99 as a bundle

• Basic maths calculationskills

• Addition• Subtraction• Multiplication• Division



Cloud Tables

Multiplication tables game. Children answer the questions as rapidly as they can to gain greater score. Time penalties are given for incorrect answers. At the end of the game a score related to speed and accuracy is awarded and a prize monster.

£0.99 • Multiplication facts to x12.

• Increased rapid recall.

• Good tool to help childrenself-assess their ownstrengths and weaknessesacross all times tables.

• Children can record theirscores at the end of eachgame. Improvements easilymeasured.





Multiple Wipeout

Wall

Multiplication game with new levels to x15 and a challenge mode against the clock.

Pop all the balloons containing a multiple of selected times table. Total time taken plus any penalties will be displayed after each game with the quickest round for each fact being set as a ‘Best Time’.

£0.99

£7.99 as a bundle

• Rapid recall of tablesfacts to x15

• Great for individual targetsetting and improving rapidrecall.

Squeebles By answering times tables questions, children help Whizz to rescue the Squeebles from the clutches of the nasty Maths Monster. 35 Squeebles characters to rescue.

£2.99

£13.99 as a

bundle

• Covers tables from theregular 1 to 12 setsthrough to the 13, 14and 15 times tables.

• Practising tables across6 different game modes(Tables 1-12; TrickyTables; Mix It Up; Fill inthe Gap; ChallengeMode; Extreme Tables).

• Step by Step Trainingmode takes a pupilthrough tables one byone until all known.








Wipeout Wall

Students smash their way through walls of addition and subtractions facts.

£0.99

£7.99 as a bundle

• Covers addition facts inlevels to: 5, 10, 20, 30,40, 60, 80, 100, 200,500 and 1000.

• 4 levels of subtractionwithin 10, 100, 1000.

• Graded mental mathspractice of numberbonds and subtractioncalculations fromsimple to challenginglevels.




Eggy Add to 20

Focuses upon building skills that help children add to 20. 6 interactive games practising addition. Children pop balloons, match balls, snowboard, count sheep, catch fish and play the memory game while learning many strategies that will assist them with addition.

£2.29

£4.99 as a bundle

• Addition facts to 20 • Suitable for independentlearning or paired activities.

Number Math App

Number Math App is for practicing basic number facts.

Free • Missing Numbers• Before After• Greater Than, Less

Than• Rounding• Place Numbers in• Ascending Order• 4 difficulty levels.

• Some adult supervisionrequired.





Mystery Math Town

Mission based Maths game: students help a ghost rescue the fireflies that are hidden in Mystery Math Town. Players use maths skills to unlock rooms and passages to complete different stages. Along the way, players earn talking portraits of the townspeople.

£3.99

£9.99 as a bundle

• Can be customised totarget various mathsskills to suit age andability.

• Addition: 0 through 10,11 through 20, 21through 50

• Subtraction: 0 through10, 11 through 20, 21through 50

• Multiplication: x1, x2,x5, x10 and/or x1through x10

• Division: ÷2, ÷5, ÷10and/or ÷2 through ÷10

• Minimum support required.• Could be used in paired or

independent tasks.

Mystery Maths

Museum

Mission based approach to use maths skills and strategy to rescue the dragonflies that are lost in 8 themed museums. Earn talking portraits as rewards for completing mission stages.

£3.99

£9.99 as a bundle

• Can be customised totarget various mathsskills to suit age andability.

• Addition: 0 through 10,11 through 20, 21through 50

• Subtraction: 0 through10, 11 through 20, 21through 5

• Multiplication: x1, x2,x5, x10 and/or x1through x10

• Division: ÷2, ÷5, ÷10and/or ÷2 through ÷10

• Minimum support required.• Could be used in paired or

independent tasks.





Number Duel

Greater than and less than app. Tap the card that contains the larger value to score a point. Against the clock feature.

Free • Multiple levels• Numbers to 20• Sums to 20• Difference to 20• Products of numbers• Fractions• Decimals



Maths Slide

Math Slide is a multiplayer game helping children understand place value of tens and ones; numbers up to 100. Players learn by sliding tiles into the centre to match an answer, equation or image. The player who slides their tiles first wins.

Free • All 10 games focus onunderstanding 10s and1s place value.

• Each game is a littleharder than theprevious game

• Game 1 and Game 9can be used to workout if the app is at theright level of difficulty.

• Multiplayer game, suitablefor one, two, three or fourplayers.

Mathmateer Mathmateer is an arithmetic and basic maths game. Students earn coins to build rockets by solving problems. Each operation has questions at three difficulty levels -- easy, medium and hard -- with more difficult problems earning more coins. When they've earned enough coins, students design and build their own rockets. These can be launched into space on missions.

£1.99 • Missions cover topicssuch as odd/evennumbers, money,shapes, telling time, thefour operations,fractions, decimals, andsquare roots.

• Six levels of difficulty,from novice to genius.







Medieval Math Battle

Students race to defeat dragons, goblins, trolls, and many other treacherous beasts by solving number questions quickly. Attack enemies with maths and potions.

£4.99 • Four operations ofnumber - addition,subtraction,multiplication anddivision.

• Math problemsincrease in difficulty asstudents improve.

• Report card featuredisplays fact mastered.



of 3 Organisation – September 2017




Special Stories





work





Popplet A mind mapping tool designed to aid organisation of ideas. Can be used to create visual timetables and writing frames.

£4.99 • Developsorganisational skills

• Aids planning andpreparation of writtenwork



I can animate

Create short animated stories and publish as a movie or video.

£2.99 • Development of literacyskills

• Organisational skills• Aids planning and


• Individually• Small group• Paired work• Use as an alternative

method of recording writtenwork





Simple Mind

Mind mapping tool to aid brainstorming, idea collection and thought structuring.

Free

Upgrade £5.99

• Development of literacyskills





Inspiration Maps

Create concept maps, diagrams, flowcharts, family trees and more! Allows you to create up to five documents to test the functionality of the app for free before using in-app purchase to upgrade to full, unlimited function. Inspiration Maps VPP gives you all the features available in the Inspiration Maps upgrade without having to use in-app purchase to access them.

Free • Developsorganisational skills








Inspiration Maps VPP

Create concept maps, diagrams, flowcharts, family trees and more! Inspiration Maps VPP gives you all the features available in the Inspiration Maps upgrade without having to use in-app purchase to access them.





Sand Timer

Sand timer with digital timer display. Set the length of time required and sound alert.

Free • Organisational skillsand timing

• Individually

Show Me Recordable whiteboard which records what is said, written and drawn for later play back.

Free • Fine motor skills• Develops

organisational skills• Aids planning and


• Revision tool


• Small group work• Paired work• Use a revision tool

Photo Reminders

A planning and organisational tool. Record a voice memo with a photo and text to create a memory aid or reminder.





of 6 Reading – September 2017




Special Words

An app containing structured activities using 96 key words. Can be easily personalised with your own words, pictures and audio. Compatible with other Special iApp apps e.g. Special Stories. Also available in 23 different languages.

£12.99 • Enhanced

communication,language and literacyskills








Prompt says ‘make a sentence about the picture’. Pupil listens to a sentence and has to choose from a range of options to produce written version of the sentence.


skills• Reading



Spelling City



level skills







Irregular Verbs

Listen to a sentence and choose the correct written form of the verb. Can select from a wide range of verbs.

Free • Reading• Grammar• Listening skills



Clicker Sentences

Create sentence building activities linked to any topic. Can be personalised to meet individual needs. Compatible with Clicker 7 support writing software for Windows/Apple laptop or PC.


• Word and sentencelevel work

• Comprehension skills

• Individually• Use as an alternative


• Simple reading practise

Clicker Connect

The next step for Clicker Sentence users. Provides pupils with words, phrases and/or pictures to build and write sentences. Compatible with Clicker 7 support writing software for Windows/Apple laptop or PC.

£31.99 • Building on ClickerSentences app











Speak It! Copy emails, documents, web pages, PDF files, and more; paste them into Speak it! and have the text spoken back to you .


• Reading


Hairy Phonics

1-3

Teaches consonant digraphs - where two consonants join together and make one sound. Hairy Phonics 1 - covers phonemes (sounds): sh, ch, th, ck, ff, ll, ss, zz, ng. Hairy Phonics 2 ai, ay, ee, ea, ie, oa, oi, oy, oo Hairy Phonics 3 ar, or, er, ir, ur, a-e, o-e, i-e, o-e, u-e Play games to blend the phonemes into a whole word.

£2.99 each

£25.99 as a

bundle

• Hairy Phonics developsphonemic awareness





Hairy Words

1-2

Learn the first 100 high frequency Sight words. Sight words are words that appear frequently in most of the text we read, but can't easily be sounded out. Learning them helps children become more confident at reading and spelling. Knowing these words is essential – they make up half of all written material!

£2.99 each

£25.99 as a

bundle

• Learn to read and spellthe first 100 highfrequency words








Word BINGO!

Practice reading and spelling over 300 sight words by playing 4 games.Word BINGO Listen to the word the BINGO Bug speaks and tap on the corresponding word on the screen. Spelling Practice Tap and drag the letters to spell the word the BINGO bug speaks. Word Fling You have one hundred seconds to find as many BINGO Bugs as possible. To find the bug, tap the word the BINGO bug speaks. Word It Up Stop the word blocks from stacking up to the top of the screen! Tap on the word the BINGO bug speaks to get rid of the block.


• Reading• Spelling




ChooseIt! Literacy

Choose It! Literacy contains over 250 activities with over 5,000 pages of simple multiple choice activities. The App includes simple performance reporting to record a student’s progress. Covers a range of literacy skills including listening skills, phonics, high frequency words, alphabet and everyday words.

£48.99

£89.99 as a

bundle









Read &Write

For students who struggle with reading and writing. This app is a 30 day trial version of TextHelp iReadWrite. Features include; Hear text read aloud with easy-to-follow on-screen highlighting • Speak As I Type• Word prediction• Talking Dictionary andPicture Dictionary for use inany writing app• Spell checker• Read&Write web toolbar forSafari* Once the 30 day trial hasended Text-to-Speech remainsfree forever, premium featuresare available via an in-Apppurchase.

Free

upgrade £19.99


• Reading• Writing• Spelling


• Small group work• Use as an alternative


Write Online

WriteOnline provides secondary school students with age-appropriate support throughout the writing process. Text to speech, word prediction and word bank support are all features within this app.


• Reading, writing andspelling







CoWriter CoWriter is a writing tool that aids spelling, grammar, and topic-related vocabulary. As letters are typed, CoWriter predicts the intended word. Built-in text to speech reads letters, words, sentences, paragraphs and the entire document.





of 2 Shape – September 2017




Touch-Shapes







Maths, age 3-5


Free

upgrade £21.99




Maths, age 4-6


Free

upgrade £38.99





of 2 Shape – September 2017




Choose It! Numeracy


£48.99

£89.99 as a

bundle










of 3 Spelling – September 2017




Spelling City



level skills



Pop Words!

A simple word finding game with three different play modes. Classic: Find words as fast as you can from an endless stream of letters. Puzzle: You only get one board full of letters, so use them wisely! Longer words will earn you more points, and clearing the board completely will double your points for the whole game. Practice: Find as many great words as you can with no time limit.

Free • Literacy and spellingskills

• Individually at home• Opportunities for






Forest Phonics




• Spelling



Hairy Words

1-2

Learn the first 100 high frequency Sight words. Sight words are words that appear frequently in most of the text we read, but can't easily be sounded out. Learning them helps children become more confident at reading and spelling. Knowing these words is essential – they make up half of all written material!

£2.99 each

£25.99 as a

bundle

• Learn to read and spellthe first 100 highfrequency words








Word BINGO!

Practice reading and spelling over 300 sight words by playing 4 games.Word BINGO Listen to the word the BINGO Bug speaks and tap on the corresponding word on the screen. Spelling Practice Tap and drag the letters to spell the word the BINGO bug speaks. Word Fling You have one hundred seconds to find as many BINGO Bugs as possible. To find the bug, tap the word the BINGO bug speaks. Word It Up Stop the word blocks from stacking up to the top of the screen! Tap on the word the BINGO bug speaks to get rid of the block.


• Reading• Spelling




of 11 Switch Access – September 2017




Special Words

An app containing structured activities using 96 key words. Can be easily personalised with your own words, pictures and audio. Compatible with other Special iApp apps e.g. Special Stories. Also available in 23 different languages. Includes SALT activities.

£12.99 • Enhancedcommunication,language and literacyskills







Special Stories





work





Match & Find











Sound Touch

Lite

Listening to everyday sounds, grouped in categories.

Free

Upgrade £4.99

• Listening skills • Individually with andwithout support


Odd One Out

Designed to develop semantic reasoning skills. Contains 20 sets of cards per level and record keeping. Therapists and teachers can track progress and adjust the difficulty of the activity.

£1.99 • language and literacyskills

• Development ofreceptive language


• Targeted speech andlanguage intervention work


Sand Timer



• Individually





Clicker Sentences








Clicker Connect









Clicker Docs

Word processor with word prediction, onscreen word bank support and speech feedback facilities. Access to free resources and activities via internet connection. Compatible with Clicker 7 support writing software for Windows laptop or PC.









Speak It! Copy emails, documents, web pages, PDF files, and more; paste them into Speak it! and have the text spoken back to you .


• Reading


Visual Attention Therapy

Lite

A range of letters, symbols and icons are shown on screen. Track/scan each line and tap the letter indicated at the top of the screen.

Free

upgrade £9.99

• Visual scanning andtracking skills

• Visual discrimination• Letter recognition

• Individually

Simple Mind


Free

Upgrade £5.99






Pop Maths

Pop the balloons with the matching numbers/ answers. Practise all four number operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division).










Pickles Maths

Complete basic addition and subtraction activities using numbers 1-20.

Free • Basic maths calculationskills

• Addition• Subtraction



Touch-Words

A simple cause and effect app containing the first 28 words from Special Words app. Touch the picture to see and hear the word.







Touch-Numbers











Touch-Colours







Touch-Shapes







Touch-Emotions











ChooseIt! Literacy


£48.99

£89.99 as a

bundle





Touch-Animals














Big Bang Pictures


£19.99

£33.99 as a

bundle




Big Bang Patterns




£19.99

£33.99 as a

bundle








Tick Tock Tell The

Time

This app is aimed at helping children learn, explore and practise telling the time.

The app includes converting; Analogue to Digital Digital to Analogue Analogue to Words Words to Analogue Digital to Words Words to Digital

£0.99 • Consolidate children’sknowledge andunderstanding of time

• Covers time fromo’clock to 5 minuteintervals



Splat the Clowns

Touch the screen anywhere or press a switch to splat the clowns as they move across a target in the middle of the screen. Splat five clowns to get a reward.





Write Online










Pop Words!

A simple word finding game with three different play modes. Classic: Find words as fast as you can from an endless stream of letters. Puzzle: You only get one board full of letters, so use them wisely! Longer words will earn you more points, and clearing the board completely will double your points for the whole game. Practice: Find as many great words as you can with no time limit.

Free • Literacy and spellingskills

• Individually at home• Opportunities for


ChooseIt! Science

Choose It! Science contains over 160 activities with over 3,000 pages of simple multiple choice activities. The App includes simple performance reporting to record a student’s progress. Covers a range of concepts including living things, materials, forces and electricity, light, sound and space.

£31.99

£89.99 as a

bundle

• Living things:introduces the topics ofhuman beings, animals,plants and the worldaround us.

• Materials: materialsfrom everyday life andtheir properties.

• Forces and electricity• Light, sound and

space: topics of Earthand Space, Light andSound.








Choose It! Numeracy


£48.99

£89.99 as a

bundle










of 12 Switch Access - July 2016


and/or Windows Cost

Switch accessible

Skills developed Suggested uses

Pop W ords!

A simple word finding game with three diffe rent pla y modes. C lassic: F ind words as fast as you can from an endless stream of le tte rs. Puzz le : You only ge t one board full of le tte rs, so use them wise ly! Longer words will earn you more points, and clearing the board comple te ly will double your points for the whole game. Practice : F ind as many grea t words as you can with no time limit.

F ree Lite racy and spe llingskills

Individua lly a t home O pportunities for

remedia tion and overlearning

W rite O nline

W riteO nline provides secondary school students with age-appropria te support throughout the writing process. T ext to speech, word prediction and word bank support a re a ll fea tures within this app.

£24.99 Deve lopment of lite racyskills

Reading, writing andspe lling

Individua lly Use as an a lte rna tive


of 3 Time – September 2017




Interactive Telling Time

Practise telling the time by matching analogue and digital clocks- can be set for either 12 or 24 hour clock. Settings can also be used to meet individual needs and set to 5 minute interval times.

Free

upgrade £2.99

• Consolidate knowledgeand understanding oftime




Maths, age 4-6


Free

upgrade £38.99





Tick Tock Tell The

Time

This app is aimed at helping children learn, explore and practise telling the time.

The app includes converting; Analogue to Digital Digital to Analogue Analogue to Words Words to Analogue Digital to Words Words to Digital

£0.99 • Consolidate children’sknowledge andunderstanding of time








Choose It! Numeracy


£48.99

£89.99 as a

bundle














Sand Timer



• Individually

of 4 Visual Skills – September 2017




Letter Reflex

An app which addresses visual perceptual difficulties associated with visually similar letters. Tablet or phone needs to be tilted in the direction of the appropriate letter.

£3.99

£4.99 as a bundle

• Visual discrimination• Letter formation

• Individually

Visual Attention Therapy

Lite

A range of letters, symbols and icons are shown on screen. Track/scan each line and tap the letter indicated at the top of the screen.

Free

upgrade £9.99

• Visual scanning andtracking skills

• Visual discrimination• Letter recognition

• Individually

Memory Block

Similar to Simon Says game. Watch the coloured lights appear and match it sequence for sequence.

Free • Visual sequentialmemory skills

• Individually

My Happy World

Find the hidden objects in each scene and help your child develop their observation skills.

Free • Visual perception skills • Individually with andwithout support.





Peeping Musicians

Wait and watch for the musician as they ‘peep’ from the top, bottom or side of the screen. Simply touch them to make them move centre stage and play a piece of music. There are 20 different characters and instruments to find.






Free

upgrade £2.99


development


P.O.V – Spatial

Reasoning game

P.O.V. (Point of View) is a set of activities that teach spatial reasoning skills through fun, challenging, interactive activities. These spatial reasoning activities help develop an understanding of left and right, and maths and mapping skills.

£3.99

£4.99 as a bundle

• Visual reasoning skills• Spatial awareness• Left and right

discrimination• Map reading and

navigation skills• Geometry skills• Visualisation of shapes


• For best results theexercises should be doneon a regular basis. Theactivities are designed tobe repeatable andengaging.





Animal Hide and

Seek

Animal Hide and Seek is a hidden object game designed specifically for young children. Find the hidden object in each scene.

Free

Upgrade £0.99


development.

• Individually with andwithout support.

Big Bang Pictures


£19.99

£33.99 as a

bundle








Big Bang Patterns




£19.99

£33.99 as a

bundle




of 8 Writing/Recording – September 2017




Special Stories





work





Sentence Builder

By Abitalk










Spelling City



level skills



Clicker Docs

Word processor with word prediction, onscreen word bank support and speech feedback facilities. Access to free resources and activities via internet connection. Compatible with Clicker 7 support writing software for Windows laptop or PC.









Clicker Sentences








Clicker Connect









Strip Designer

Insert photos and pictures into a template to create your own comic book. Use speech bubbles, thought bubbles and captions to add text to your comic strip. Export comics to PDF format which can be viewed on a computer, printed out, and shared.



• Individually• Small group• Use as an alternative






Photo Card

A modern day postcard! Write your own electronic postcard. Input your own photos, audio and stamps. Print or email- credits are needed to email (in-app purchase).

Free

In-app purchase available


• Alternative method ofrecording writing

• Individually• Small group• Use as an alternative


• Take a screen shot andprint instead of purchasingcredits to email or print

Popplet A mind mapping tool designed to aid organisation of ideas. Can be used to create visual timetables and writing frames.





I can animate

Create short animated stories and publish as a movie or video.










Simple Mind


Free

Upgrade £5.99






Read &Write

For students who struggle with reading and writing. This app is a 30 day trial version of TextHelp iReadWrite. Features include; Hear text read aloud with easy-to-follow on-screen highlighting • Speak As I Type• Word prediction• Talking Dictionary andPicture Dictionary for use inany writing app• Spell checker• Read&Write web toolbar forSafari

* Once the 30 day trial hasended Text-to-Speech remainsfree forever, premium featuresare available via an in-Apppurchase.

Free

upgrade £19.99




• Small group work• Use as an alternative






CoWriter CoWriter is a writing tool that aids spelling, grammar, and topic-related vocabulary. As letters are typed, CoWriter predicts the intended word. Built-in text to speech reads letters, words, sentences, paragraphs and the entire document.





Inspiration Maps

Create concept maps, diagrams, flowcharts, family trees and more! Allows you to create up to five documents to test the functionality of the app for free before using in-app purchase to upgrade to full, unlimited function. Inspiration Maps VPP gives you all the features available in the Inspiration Maps upgrade without having to use in-app purchase to access them.

Free • Developsorganisational skills




Inspiration Maps VPP

Create concept maps, diagrams, flowcharts, family trees and more! Inspiration Maps VPP gives you all the features available in the Inspiration Maps upgrade without having to use in-app purchase to access them.









Story Creator


Free • Enhancedcommunication



work





2Create a Story


Free

Upgrade £2.99

• Enhancedcommunication



work









Phonics Keyboard

Phonics Keyboard is designed for early spellers and readers. Sound out each word as you spell it. Use the friendly images on each key to help find the letters. Designed by a speech and language therapist, Phonics Keyboard is great for children learning to read/spell simple words and to start to type using the QWERTY keyboard layout.

£2.99 • Learn letter sounds andlayout of the QWERTYkeyboard.

• Type words andsentences.



Write Online






of 9 Writing/Recording - July 2016


and/or Windows Cost

Switch accessible

Skills developed Suggested uses

Phonics Ke yboard

Phonics Keyboard is designed for early spe lle rs and reade rs. Sound out each word as you spe ll it. Use the friendly images on each key to he lp find the le tte rs. Designed by a speech and language therapist, Phonics Keyboard is grea t for children learning to read/spe ll simple words and to start to type using the Q W E RT Y keyboard layout.

£9.99

£27.99 as a

bundle

Learn le tte r sounds andla yout of the Q W E RT Ykeyboard.

T ype words andsentences.

Individua lly with andwithout support

Small group work

W rite O nline

W riteO nline provides secondary school students with age-appropria te support throughout the writing process. T ext to speech, word prediction and word bank support a re a ll fea tures within this app.

£24.99 Deve lopment of lite racyskills

Reading, writing andspe lling

Individua lly Use as an a lte rna tive


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