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Rating scale:

*        not worth the download

**       maybe if you have no other choice

***      you get what you paid for

****     could be good in some situations

*****    top picks

 

Top Picks

First Then Visual Schedule - $9.99


An audio-visual prompting tool that uses images to schedule daily events or steps needed to complete a specific activity. Comes with some built-in images or you can also use your own. Add a recorded voice to further reinforce a schedule. Create as many schedules as you need and change the order of a schedule, anytime!

Rating

*****

 

Story Kit – free


 

This application allows individuals to create photo social scripts with audio recordings.  Create talking photo albums,  review a social story to cope with difficult  situations, prepare for an upcoming event, etc. 

Rating

***** 

 

Pictello - $18.99

Developed by AssistiveWare, the makers of Proloquo2Go, Pictello is an app to create social stories.  Very easy to use. In Pictello you can edit stories, create new stories, share stories, export stories.  Pictello is a complete app for social stories, much like Proloquo2Go is a complete app for AAC. You can record your own voice or use high quality male or female voices to speak what you type in. 

Rating

*****

 
iPrompts -  $49.99  

Provides several easy-to-use, visual prompting tools (no audio prompts or voice output) to help individuals transition from one activity to the next using a visual countdown timer, understand upcoming events, make choices, and focus on the task at hand.  http://www.handholdadaptive.com/    Search for iprompts on you tube to watch video.  

Rating

*****

Others

SonicPics - $2.99

SonicPics is a very easy to use tool for turning your images into custom slideshow movies that you can share with your friends online! SonicPics lets you add images from your iPhone's photo library or camera, arrange your photos, and then narrate the project to create an enhanced m4v video (complete with chapters).  

Rating

**** 

 
Visules   $4.99 

 

Create visual checklists to promote independence; “my reminders “ category to encourage self-prompting and self regulation. Currently there are glitches that need to be corrected.

Rating

*

Picture scheduler  $2.99


 

Picture scheduler with photos/videos and recorded voice.  Great for video modeling.  Learn a new task or job, prepare for an upcoming event by watching the video.

 

Rating

****

 
Click n' Talk - $2.99   
An augmentative communication app that allows the user to attach text and voice to individual pictures, and organize photos in photo albums

Rating

**** 

 
Stories2Learn - $13.99  
Create personalized stories using photos, text, and audio messages. These stories can be used to promote an individual’s literacy, leisure, as well as social skills. It comes preloaded with a story illustrating the skills necessary to play a game with a friend. Quickly create a story that shows various social cues. The creator is able to add their own audio and write dialogue that corresponds to the photos. Quickly add a photo and add text to help organize the individual throughout the day. This can be effective for individuals who benefit from a high degree of structure through visual supports.

Rating

*** 

 
My Pictures Talk - $4.99 
Like a talking photo album. Take a picture. Record a note, memory or someone speaking. Mail to friends or yourself. Pictures can be sorted by when they were added to category. Pictures that have audio recorded now show you the length of the audio file. Added ability to zip up all pictures and audio from a category and email.

Rating

*** 

 

iCommunicate – $ 49.99. 

 

  

Create pictures, flashcards, storyboards, routines, and visual schedules. Recorded message can accompany each picture. Add pictures from the symbolstix library or from your camera roll or image search on the internet. 

Rating

** 

 

Look in My Eyes 1 (Restaurant) and 2 (Car Mechanic) and Dinosaur - $2.99 each  


Games for the iTouch and iPhone designed to help children on the autism spectrum practice eye contact.  The games reward children for quickly focusing in on a person’s eyes.  Through repeated practice it attempts to develop a habit that families can transfer to real-life settings as they remind children to use the skills they have practiced in the game. 

Rating

**

 
 AA Visual Schedule - $9.99

A tool to create VISUAL schedule for visually oriented individuals. Use your own images from the photo album or capture real time images using the phone camera. Record voice to the images. Arrange images in a Visual Schedule using the built-in schedule create capabilities of the application

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Steps - $9.99

Steps, formerly known as StepStones, is an app that illustrates a sequence of steps to perform a task.  Can also use for daily visual scheduling.  This app is best used to zero in on the exact steps that one must take in order to complete a given task, like doing a recycling job or a dressing routine. Each of the steps is detailed with a picture, text, and even audio.  In addition, when a step is completed it is checked off and moved over to a 'completed column'

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Easy Board - $0.99
     
ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard - Free
     
Autism Scheduler - $49.99
     
Now What - Free
     
Learn by Video - Educational Movie Maker - $0.99
     
Making Sequences - $4.99 (iPad only)
     
Visual Cue Lite - Free
     
     
Lists
ListPro - $4.99

Excellent tool for outlining steps of various tasks such as going to my locker, doing my recycling job, etc. Cross out completed steps and reset list to use over and over again. No symbol or photo cues available - uses text only. With over 40 fully-customizable templates, 7 column types, item indenting, and a host of other list-making tools, ListPro lets you craft the list you need. 

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****

 
Lists (iPad only) - $.99
 

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**** 

 
Amazing List - $.99
Amazinglist lets you store any number of lists for any purpose, such as grocery lists, to do lists, wish lists or what ever you can imagine. 

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***

 
Timers
Time Timer - $1.99 (iPad - $6.99)
A visual timer delivers an innovative and practical way to address the universal question of, “How much longer?” With the Time Timer’s patented “visual-disc” technology, you don’t just tell time. You see the passage of time. Its clear-cut, visual cue is its strength…for children and adults.
http://www.timetimer.com/products/software.php

Rating

****

 
Days Until - Free

A simple application that helps you to track exact time which elapsed after or remains before some very important event for you.  

Rating

*** 

 
ASD Timer - $2.99
ASD Timer© shows the passing of time without the need to tell time. 

Rating

*** 

 
VisTimer - Free 
     

 

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