Special Education Apps
Find apps to help special needs children learn specific skills and goals. Here are a few good Special Education apps.
Train – Code Visually
Train-Code Visually is a great program that has fun to offer to a very wide range of users, from the very young to the student of computer programming. It uses a virtual toy train set to allow users to build and experiment with commands that can be transferred to computer programming concepts, like loops, variables, and more.
ArithmeQuick
ArithmeQuick is a functional system of timed math practice that keeps at-a-glance performance records for students. The free version allows practice with basic computation and signed computation. A subscription allows access to a huge array of skills and subtopics suitable for kindergarten through grade 8.
Little Chatterbox for Kids
Little Chatterbox for Kids is a fun way to learn a selection of nouns in up to eight languages. The app is engaging, educational, and fun for children well past the preschool years.
Math Galaxy 8th Grade Math
Math Galaxy 8th Grade is a comprehensive and very useful review and practice app that covers all of the math standards from Common Core in this grade. It offers quick, clear review text and videos and an infinite set of practice problems for each skill.
Purepaint Kids
PurePaint Kids is a highly-realistic painting app that allows users to experience a close approximation of painting with real paint. Colors mix and catch light, the brush fills and empties, and paints can blend with one another in realistic and exciting ways.
Monty’s Backyard Adventure
Monty’s Backyard Adventure is an entertaining and colorful set of activities designed to help young children with early learning tasks such as matching, memory, numbers, and more. Players will enjoy interacting with the canine main character and will get lots of play value from this app.
Lagoona: Kids’ Activity Center
Lagoona: Kids’ Activity Center is an engaging and delightful romp through an underwater paradise complete with friendly fish and other creatures. It includes seven different mini games and a host of levels within each game that will keep preschoolers and young elementary-aged children happily playing for a very long time.
American Wordspeller ESL Edition
Word Speller is an outstandingly useful app that will quickly become indispensable for anyone who struggles with spelling in English. The app will be very useful to special needs persons, to ESL students, and to anyone who simply never got the hang of spelling.
Krakeln
Krakeln is a simple yet fun app that will help young players learn to spell words related to sixteen themes, and can also be used to help older players build vocabulary and spelling skills in other languages such as French, Spanish, and German.
OOKS
OOKS is a kid-friendly story-telling app that encourages language, memory, organization, and other important skills. It incorporates user choices, artwork, and other information to create personalized, unique stories within a colorful and entertaining universe.
Learning Upgrade
Learning Upgrade will provide hours of productive content for students learning English (K-5 level) or math (K-adult level). The lessons are engaging, animated and musical. The practice games are fun and provide valuable review of the material. All in all, it’s a really great app!
Learnia
Learnia is a game-like, 3-D world that mimics many popular video games. Players have access to activities, lessons, and games covering concepts from spelling and math in grades 1 to 3. The free game includes a wealth of content, and there are more complete versions of each subject and grade level available as in-app purchases.
MathLand: Mental Arithmetic
MathLand: Mental Arithmetic is a fun, arcade-style math practice game that offers a heavy dose of play sprinkled with math problems. The app will appeal to most elementary-aged students, and will motivate many to practice critical addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and number sequencing skills.
Super School Kids
Super School Kids is a fun and educational collection of games, music videos, ebooks, and more designed for preschool children. It includes over 50 activities that span the typical preschool curriculum and is a good tool for helping young students explore and develop crucial concepts.
Spelling Stage
Spelling Stage is an engaging app that makes spelling practice as much fun as it can be! With a paid subscription, it offers a wide range of words that will be suitable for everyone from preschoolers through adults and makes a great practice tool for an amazing array of situations.
Math Bakery 1 – Start Counting
Math Bakery 1 – Start Counting is a wonderfully hands-on and manipulative app that will help preschoolers, kindergarteners, and first graders master basic addition and subtraction skills. It not only helps children practice simple problems, but it reinforces the underlying concepts such as making groups of ten while the children play.
ABA DrOmnibus Home
ABA DrOmnibus Home is an outstanding app designed to help autistic children and those with similar conditions practice early social, language, attention, cognition, and comprehension skills. The exercises are plentiful and appropriate for the target audience, and the app includes an excellent scaffolding system to help children feel successful while they build skills.
Wonster Words Learning: ABC Phonics & Spelling
Wonster Words Learning is an outstanding phonics and spelling practice app that will help young students develop understanding and internalize common spelling patterns that will help them memorize familiar words and learn to decode new ones. It’s fun and entertaining as well as very solid educationally speaking.
40 Apps, Tools, and Freebies That Help Autistic Kids
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) develop at a rate differently than their peers. But instead of singling them out, it’s better that we adhere to their specific needs and specialties. Thankfully, there are many ways to cater to their challenges and strengths by offering up lots of apps, tools, freebies, and games that enhance …
Pegs ‘n Holes
Pegs ‘n Holes is an outstanding game for older players. The range of options makes it perfect for all levels and abilities, and the competitive option will be very motivating for players who enjoy head-to-head competition.
Zap Zap Math
Zap Zap Math offers a wealth of free math practice at grade levels from K to 6, with even more possibilities available through an annual subscription. Since it’s based on Common Core standards, there’s no doubt that kids will be on the right track to build important skills.
5th Grade Reading Comprehension Prep
5th Grade Reading Comprehension Prep is a simple and effective app that will help students practice vital comprehension skills in the classroom or at home. The feature of highlighting text evidence to support the correct answer is particularly valuable to learners.
Miniwalla The Forest Story
App Info Price: Overview Miniwalla the Forest Story is an ebook designed to teach children about values and conservation. There are six chapters, each centering around the main character, eight year old Henry who lives at the animal sanctuary, Miniwalla, on the island of Java in Indonesia. Henry has adventures and learns lessons in each …
Teachley: Fractions Boost
App Info Price: Overview Teachley: Fractions Boost is a program designed to help third through fifth grade students deepen and internalize their understanding of fractions and the places where fractions are located on a number line. Players drive down a futuristic highway full of hills, banks and curves, and more, and periodically are challenged to …
Three Good Things – A Happiness Journal
App Info Price: Overview Three Good Things is a journaling app that prompts users to write down three positive sentences each day using notifications and messages. The goal is to build a habit of thinking in a positive manner each day to improve mental health. Features include: Simple user interface Game-like atmosphere Optional social media …
Animal Sounds, Photos and Info
App Info Price: Overview Animal Sounds, Photos and Info offers 50 animals in the free version with high-quality pictures, recordings of sounds, and fact sheets about each. The app includes a match the sound to the animal game, and a jigsaw puzzle activity. Features include: 50 animals in free version, 60 others available as in-app …
Magic Animals
App Info Price: Overview Magic Animals is an intelligent animal art app that allows users to draw any of over 36 animals for the app to guess which animal is being drawn. There are also high quality pictures of the real animals, as well as a system to color and decorate the drawings. Features include: …
Playtime in Appelsin Town for Kids 2-5 Years
App Info Price: Overview Playtime in Appelsin Town is a low-key, gentle fun app designed for the very young. Kids can explore interactive activities that include enjoying a picnic, decorating cupcakes, getting the “mail,” and growing carrots in the garden. Features include: Play without using data or internet connection Cute, engaging characters Simple, child-friendly interface …
Missing Friend-Lite
App Info Price: Overview This ebook tells an engaging story of the kidnapped Mr. Mole and Mr. Rabbit’s daring rescue from Icky Mr. Fox. It features interactive pages, vocabulary-building labels, and narration for all text. Features include: Quirky scenes and characters Narration of all pages Interactive pages activated with taps and swipes Tap objects to …
Peppa Pig: Happy Mrs Chicken
Peppa Pig: Happy Mrs. Chicken is a delightful app that will make parents search for more in the series. Young children will adore it, it’s easy to use, and it’s very educational.
Autism Games 4 – Matching
Help kids with autism learn new words, colors, letters, and numbers with a series of simple matching games in Autism Games 4 Matching.
Story Starters Pro
Story Starters Pro offers a nearly limitless supply of stimulating prompts to set writing off on the right foot. Everyone from students of all ages to professional writers will benefit from the material that this app has to offer.
Pepi Super Stores
Let kids explore the mall on their own along with a host of different characters in Pepi Super Stores.
Mimics
Gather your friends and make crazy faces while playing a game of Mimics.
Pick-A-Pic
Pick-A-Pic is a simple app that encourages young children to match pictures of common items to their written word names. It’s easy to use and provides both practice and quizzing modes.
Spell Bear
Spell Bear is a simple and pleasant app that is designed to help very young students develop basic understandings about letter sounds and word order. The app provides practice with spelling three letter words, sounding words out, and more.
MonSticky-Decorate Your Monsters
MonSticky-Decorate Your Monsters is an entertaining app that will unleash creative streaks in small children. Users can create thousands of variations of these not-so-scary monsters.
Math Bakery 2 – Continue Counting
Math Bakery 2 – Continue Counting is a fun app that does a fine job of introducing and providing practice with larger addition and subtraction problems that require regrouping.
The Turtle, Hare, and Friends Learning Puzzle Race
The Turtle, Hare, and Friends Learning Puzzle Race is a free app that features three simple games suitable for toddlers and preschoolers. The app is pleasant, but somewhat limited in scope unless parents make some in-app purchases.