Apps for Exceptional Students in the Classroom
Pocket Picture Planner - "This is an ideal self-management app for children, users with autism, TBI, and other cognitive disabilities, elders, second language learners. Use Picture Planner to create your schedule by selecting from either included photos and symbols or your own imported images. Then sync your schedule using Pocket Picture Planner to your iPad to view the schedule, get visual prompts and reminders, and track activity completion on the go."
P.O.V. - Spatial Reasoning Game - "P.O.V. is a set of 3 activities designed to teach spatial reasoning skills through fun, challenging, interactive activities. Players must think their way through the activities, which get increasingly difficult as each level is mastered. Players are timed and are challenged to continually improve on their best times."
Proloquo2Go - "Proloquo2Go is one of the few AAC apps that covers all users, from beginning to advanced communicators, while catering for a wide range of fine-motor, visual and cognitive skills. It is designed to promote growth of communication skills and foster language development through research-based vocabularies. Its innovative features provide support for parents, teachers and therapists to implement AAC best practices."
Social Quest - "Social Quest is an application developed by author and Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) Rosie Simms to improve pragmatic language comprehension and expression in a variety of social situations for older elementary, middle school, and high school-aged populations. Social Quest incorporates narratives about real-world situations in the home, school and community along with questions designed to increase positive social communication."
P.O.V. - Spatial Reasoning Game - "P.O.V. is a set of 3 activities designed to teach spatial reasoning skills through fun, challenging, interactive activities. Players must think their way through the activities, which get increasingly difficult as each level is mastered. Players are timed and are challenged to continually improve on their best times."
Proloquo2Go - "Proloquo2Go is one of the few AAC apps that covers all users, from beginning to advanced communicators, while catering for a wide range of fine-motor, visual and cognitive skills. It is designed to promote growth of communication skills and foster language development through research-based vocabularies. Its innovative features provide support for parents, teachers and therapists to implement AAC best practices."
Social Quest - "Social Quest is an application developed by author and Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) Rosie Simms to improve pragmatic language comprehension and expression in a variety of social situations for older elementary, middle school, and high school-aged populations. Social Quest incorporates narratives about real-world situations in the home, school and community along with questions designed to increase positive social communication."