This chart contains a sampling of switch accessible educational apps. It does not list every app available. New apps are developed every day. No warranty is made about the accuracy or completeness of the information on this chart. Customers should consult the Apple App Store for detailed information about the apps. Switch accessible AAC apps are not included in this chart.
Updated 7/11/2023
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Educational Apps For Special Needs Students
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Clicker Docs
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App Description
Features/Skills
• Child friendly and accessible keyboard
• Writing review with speech
• Word predication and word banks with verbal cues
App
How Do You Know?
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App Description
Features/Skills
• Ten categories including: places,
activities, emotions, animals, occupations and more
• Audio and visual prompts
• Different levels of difficulty
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Learn with Rufus
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App Description
Features/Skills
Different apps teach emotions, grouping, counting and comparing quantities, colors and more. Rufus is a friendly character with an engaging approach to learning.
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Let’s Expand Vocabulary
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App Description
Features/Skills
Four simple ways to play mini games with clearly spoken words that help children remember and categorize them through repetition. Activities are: Odd One Out, Matching Pairs, Categorization and Add Another One.
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Match & Find
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App Description
Features/Skills
• Range of activities to develop memory, matching, searching and sequencing skills
• Visually clear and simple
• Support for those with poor fine-motor skills
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Montessori Numbers
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App Description
Features/Skills
Sequence of guided activitites that builds on each skill: counting to 999, learning quantitites, decimals, numerical orders, tracing numbers and more. Great for visual learners with touch buttons and ability for a student to move things on the screen to count numbers, move blocks and do other simple tasks.
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Peek & Seek
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App Description
Features/Skills
Activities that emphasize fundamental visual skills such as figure/ground, closure, and form constancy. Unique color palette for children with various color perception issues.
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The Sounding Out Machine
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App Description
Features/Skills
Three modes:
• Camera mode to take photo of book page
• Library mode – load previous photos
• Typing mode – type in a word Extensive dictionary with more than 80,000 words
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Speech Blubs: Language Therapy
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App Description
Features/Skills
• 1500+ activities to trigger sound and word production
• Voice-activated functionality for a fun, interactive learning experience.
• 24 fun sections such as shapes, colors, food, sounds, animals, sing along and more
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Super Why! Power to Read
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App Description
Features/Skills
Ten stories to read. Four unique games
teach letter identification, letter sounds, rhyming, writing and reading comprehension.