Monkey Spot Scavenger Hunts

Looking for a fun app to keep your child entertained at a restaurant, museum, on a road trip, and more?  Check out Monkey Spot Scavenger Hunts, a fun app to help children engage with their surroundings!  Monkey Spot Scavenger Hunts puts a twist on the classic scavenger hunt and brings it to your phone or device. […]

Injini: Child Development Game Suite

Injini is a suite of 10 educational games inspired by children with special needs.  The game developers “worked for 2 years with parents, early childhood educators, and occupational, speech, and cognitive experts to create superior play-based learning experiences that help young children reach developmental milestones.” The games within this app were tested by children with cerebral […]

Learn Empathy with Training Faces

“Empathy is the lens by which we measure and respond to others’ emotions, expressions, and feelings.”  However, for individuals with autism, it is difficult for them to understand the emotional and mental states of others.  There are many resources available to help teach empathy; resources can be as complex as a robot or as common and “simple” […]

See.Touch.Learn Pro App

Looking for a complete visual learning and assessment tool for your student or child with autism?  See.Touch.Learn Pro is a full visual learning and assessment tool–conveniently wrapped up into an affordable iPad app! The See.Touch.Learn Pro app was developed by Brain Parade, a company founded shortly after the first iPad was released.  The founder, Jim […]

DayCape: Daily Visual Planning

DayCape “wants everyone to live in a world where they feel excited about the day ahead of them.”  DayCape is a fun and interactive digital image calendar that helps children with autism or other special needs, plan their day and make activities less intimidating.  The founder, Anton Håkanson, was diagnosed with autism as a young […]

Social Skills for Autism: Mission Rescue Kloog

The Social Skills for Autism: Mission Rescue Kloog app is designed to teach individuals with autism necessary social skills to operate “effectively and comfortably in social situations.”  I know I’ve written about dozens of social skill apps for autism on this blog, but this one is a little different from the rest.   Keep on […]