This blog is going to explore the best apps for kids with autism. These apps will cover a wide range of important areas: speech, motor skill development, play skills and social skills. There are many types of autism spectrum disorders, including PDD-NOS, Asperger’s Syndrome, and Rett Syndrome. Every child is different and therefore may benefit from a different type of app or website.
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Best Apps For Kids With Autism
Proloquo2Go
iPhone rating: 4.7 stars
Price: $249.99
Proloquo2Go is an app specifically designed for people who are nonverbal. It promotes language development and allows people to communicate through the use of pictures. It’s designed not only for autistic children, but their families, therapists, and educators. It presents users with images they’re most likely to use and has a level-based system for basic to advanced vocabularies.
Endless Reader
iPhone rating: 4.4 stars
Android rating: 4.3 stars
Price: Free with in-app purchases
One of the first steps in learning to read is recognizing sight words, which are some of the most commonly used words in children’s books. Endless Reader begins here, teaching children the words most important in learning to develop reading skills. The app and first package of words are free! The app uses colorful monsters and fun sounds to keep users entertained and engaged.
Language Therapy for Kids – MITA
iPhone rating: 4.4 stars
Android rating: 4.6 stars
Price: Free with in-app purchases
This app for language and cognitive abilities has gone through clinical studies and helped over 8,000 children learn how to speak confidently and achieve language development milestones. It’s also available in numerous languages, including English, Spanish, German, Arabic, and more.
Otsimo | Special Education AAC
iPhone rating: 4.5 stars
Android rating: 3.2 stars
Price: Free with in-app purchases
The Otsimo app uses techniques designed around applied behavior analysis (ABA) and alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) to help children reach speech development milestones as well as achieve desired lifestyle skills, behaviors, and much more. It has over 50 games that can be personalized to a child’s specific needs, and it provides progress reports along the way that show how far they’ve come since using the app.
CommBoards Lite – AAC Speech Assistant
Android rating: 4.1 stars
Price: Free with in-app purchases
Using the AAC method, this app provides a communication assistance method that lets users tap on images, hear sounds and words pronounced aloud, and develop personalized communication boards that can help them verbally communicate their needs and thoughts. It acts as a virtual tool belt of common words and can help users learn to verbalize their thoughts with practice over time.
ABC Autismo
Android rating: 4.4 stars
Price: Free with in-app purchases
This app provides a number of fun, educational activities in English, Spanish, and Portuguese based on the TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communications Handicapped Children) methodology that acknowledges the biological basis of autism and other spectrum conditions that result in specific communication strengths and weaknesses. This app helps people of any level of verbal communication develop their skills, build their confidence, and have fun learning.
Free apps for autism
Autism Therapy with MITA
Available on Android & iOS
Free
Out of all Autism Apps this is the Best Autism App of 2017 on the Healthline’s list Used by over 150,000 children with ASD as a supplement to their regular therapy Includes unlimited language and cognitive exercises designed to last for approximately 4 years Recommended by hundreds of physicians for children with ASD starting from two years of age Mental Imagery Therapy for Autism (MITA) is a unique, early-intervention application for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). MITA includes bright, interactive puzzles designed to help children learn how to mentally integrate multiple features of an object, an ability proven to lead to vast improvements in general learning. Success with MITA could overtime result in significant improvements in a child’s overall development, specifically in the realms of language, attention and visual skills. MITA develops your child’s mental-integration ability and language functions. The visual exercises follow a systematic approach for developing your child’s ability to notice multiple features of an object. MITA starts with simple exercises that teach your child to attend to only one feature, such as size or color. Over time, the exercises get more difficult and require your child to attend to two features simultaneously, such as both color and size. Once your child has practiced attending to two features, the program moves on to puzzles that require attending to three features, such as color, size and shape and then eventually to puzzles that involve attending to an ever-increasing number of characteristics.
Mental Imagery Therapy for Autism (MITA) is a unique, early-intervention application for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
ABA DrOmnibus Pro
Available on Android & iOS
Free
All-in-one tool focusing on resources for ABA therapy, with not just another data collection system but something more – it combines resources, ABA programs with real time data collection, reports after each session and support for cooperation with parents. Out of all the ABA Therapy Apps this is the first ABA resource app in Google ecosystem.
Autism Early Intervention App
Available on Android
Free
Cuedin is an android based Early Intervention educational App for slow learners and children with special needs. Most students with disabilities can and do benefit from technology. Using technology has been proven to be a great equalizer in a classroom with diverse learners. While there are 1000s of Autism Apps in the marketplace, Cuedin has been specially built (with input from experts) for children with developmental delays and other special needs.
Autism iHelp – Play
Available on Android & iOS
Free
Autism iHelp is a vocabulary teaching aid developed by parents of a child with Autism and a speech-language pathologist. Autism iHelp was inspired by the need for specific language intervention tools for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder focusing on their unique strengths and difficulty with expressive vocabulary. Autism iHelp is an invaluable tool for your child with Autism when those first words just don’t come. The colorful real-life photos are presented in an easy-to-label format. This app includes several features: 24 real world photos; it has been proven that children with Autism respond best to photos as opposed to illustrations and are very visual learners.
Let Me Talk
Available on Android & iOS
Free
A free AAC talker app supports communication in all areas of life and therefore providing a voice to everyone. LetMeTalk is donation financed. LetMeTalk enables you to line up images in a meaningful way to read this row of images as a sentence. To line up images is known as AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication). The image database of LetMeTalk contains more than 9,000 easy to understand images from ARASAAC (http://arasaac.org). Additionally, you can add existing images from the device or take new photos with the build in camera. For LetMeTalk no internet connection or mobile contract is necessary, so you can use LetMeTalk in almost any situation, like hospitals, nursing home or schools.
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