This post is sponsored by Equate Formula Solver.
April is Autism Acceptance Month, with April 2 declared Worldwide Autism Awareness Day by the United Nations. To celebrate, oodles of developers kindly set their apps to free or reduce their prices for a limited time during the month. Sign up to receive our FREE APP ALERT and keep checking the website every day to see what new apps have been added.
Today we have 31 apps that have gone free and 39 apps that have been discounted. Total savings = LOTS! (too much to count)
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Today's post is sponsored by Equate Formula Solver
Rated 5 Stars by Kelli
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Kids Email
iPad/iPhone - FREE app with 1 year subscription for FREE (normally $38.95)
+ Kids-safe email service with parental controls
+ Email a copy of incoming and outgoing messages to the parent
+ Allow a parent to approve or deny any email sent to your children via the mail queue
+ Filter out offensive words found in incoming emails
**To activate free 1 year subscription register at KidsEmail.org and use the code: autismmonth
Touch and Write Storybook: 3 Bears
iPad only - $2.99 to FREE
"Touch and Write Storybook" was designed by classroom teachers and it is unique: on each page of the story, children master the story vocabulary using our engaging "Touch and Write" reading and writing activities. By the end of the story, children will have mastered almost 200 important vocabulary words, and learned the phonics pronunciations of each word's letters!
My Little Pony: Cutie Pox
iPad/iPhone - $2.99 to FREE
Getting your cutie mark is part of growing up in Equestria. Earning a cutie mark signifies that a pony has discovered his or her special talent and can use that talent to shine and make a difference in Equestria. Well, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo, Ponyville’s self-proclaimed Cutie Mark Crusaders, can’t wait to grow up and find out who they truly are.
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This for That: Visual Schedules
iPad/iPhone - $4.99 to FREE
Help your child perform daily routines independently with This for That: Visual Schedules, developed by PixelAtion Labs! Visual schedules are great assistive tools for children with autism spectrum disorder or other developmental disabilities who need help with adaptive and task completion skills.
This for That: Token Store
iPad/iPhone - $4.99 to FREE
Keep your child motivated with This for That: Token Store, developed by PixelAtion Labs! With Token Store, you can manage a token economy and customize a store of rewards for your child. The child earns tokens at your discretion for good behavior and completing tasks.
Tuck Me In
iPad only - $9.99 to FREE
Tuck Me In Book Engine is an application that you can create their own bedtime stories. We prepared background pictures, characters, sound effect, sound background, animation which you can just drag and drop, created your own wonderful story and finish in 5 minutes.
Max & Ruby: Bunny Make Believe
iPad/iPhone - $2.99 to FREE
To support Autism Awareness Month, Make Believe is FREE for the first week of April! Let your imagination run wild in Max & Ruby: Bunny Make Believe! Make Max a playful pirate or give Ruby a twirl in her tutu, and spend hours playing in your imagination! Visit playful locations and fill them with ladybugs, music, and rocket ships to create the picture perfect scene.
Quick Math Jr. (in-app purchases)
iPad/iPhone - $2.99 to FREE
Perfect for children aged 3 - 7, Quick Math Jr. covers important foundations of mathematics including counting, addition and subtraction, place value, writing numbers and much more! As children play through the SIX fun games, Quick Math Jr. dynamically adjusts the difficulty of questions so that young learners are always at a challenge level that is just right for them!
Skill Champ
iPad only - $9.99 to FREE
Skill Champ uses your child's interests to teach new skills. Quickly customize any of the 10 lessons with your child's favorite theme - so you can use sailboats to teach numbers or train signs to teach colors! Skill Champ covers a range of early academic skills: Picture Matching, Letters, Numbers, Colors, Put In, 1:1 Put On, Big & Little, Happy & Sad, A/B Patterns, and Shape Puzzles.
Musical Paint Pro
iPad/iPhone - $4.99 to FREE
Create audio-visual compositions that you can save and play! Musical Paint was originally created for young children, but "big kids" liked it as much as the little ones! We made Musical Paint Pro as a solution for older users who still love to create. It's a more sophisticated version of the app with additional features and no animated characters.
Balloon Kid
iPhone/2x iPad - $0.99 to FREE
An amazing way to learn the alphabet , the numbers and the colors. It combines gameplay with learning. Kids will have hours and hours of fun playing this game.
With original music found on iTunes!
Farmer Blake and Sneaky Snake
iPad/iPhone - $2.99 to FREE
Farmer Blake needs eggs to bake a cake but he has a problem! After the hens lay the eggs, the eggs disappear!
What could be happening to the eggs?
Why are the hens making a horrible hullabaloo?
Will Farmer Blake ever be able to bake his cake?
Match Right 2
iPad only - $2.99 to FREE
How to play:
There are cards with pictures on them. They placed face down in random arrangement. You need to find matches by turning over two cards at a time. If cards successfully match, they are removed. Otherwise, cards are turned face down again.
Show Me… Social
iPad/iPhone - $1.99 to FREE
The pictures in this app are scenes from the life of a set of characters. We see them eating, playing, sleeping, and studying around their house, school, and town. Each scene has a main idea that is usually fairly obvious and often it has several sub-themes that you can explore with the child.
Music4Kids - Learn, create and compose music through play
iPad/iPhone - $2.99 to $0.99
With Music4Kids (ages 4 and up), write and play music at the same time! Just touch the screen to create and play notes, then move them around to make up your own tunes… it’s intuitive! Play our musical recognition games, with 140 challenges created by a composer. As you play, learn the basics of music, develop your creativity and improve your ear for music.
Digital Mysteries: Trev the Triff (Maths)
iPad only - $1.99 to FREE
Digital Mysteries: Trev the Triff is a unique app for KS2 which allows pairs to work simultaneously on one iPad with a task mapped to the national mathematics curriculum for England. Users are given illustrated slips of information which they read, organise into groups and lay out across the screen. These are all about Trev, the boss of a Robot Packing Factory on planet Triffen.
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BalloonMaker
iPad/iPhone - $0.99 to FREE
Inflate and pop vibrantly colored balloons in this simple, yet highly entertaining app. The realistic, balloon-like motions and sounds are fun for all ages. The simplicity, consistency, predictability, and relaxation factor of this app has proven to be very enjoyable for autistic children.
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Hiya safe mobile chat for kids
iPhone/2x iPad - $7.99 to FREE
[+] No photo sharing
[+] All friends are vetted by parents
[+] Message logs are sent by email to parents once-a-day
[+] No video sharing
Peppy Pals Beach
iPad/iPhone - $2.99 to FREE
Peppy Pals is a fun adventure game for children ages 2 to 6 about emotions and friendship in which you meet five quirky animals. There's plenty to do in this colorful and exciting world, be it playing with your new friends, helping them out in various situations, or enjoying a mini-game.
Twist and Count - Pinball Math!
iPad/iPhone - $0.99 to FREE
Twist and Count is a pinball-inspired math app for young children. It combines animated animals and colorful bumpers to create a happy, fun-filled learning experience. The soundtrack is a hoot! It's a great way to learn to add.
SpellNow Year 1
iPad/iPhone - $2.99 to FREE
SpellNow Year 1 will transform the way students develop their spelling skills. The student will be transported to a colourful, creative and educationally relevant environment that they will love! Best of all, SpellNow Year 1 is designed to boost student achievement and confidence levels.
Bita's Abc
iPad only - $2.99 to FREE
The Bita's ABC is an interactive way to children, in literacy age, learn by playing. Its educational games stimulates logical reasoning, coordination and helps the little ones development.
Every child will love to have fun, interact with characters and learn!
Kiddos - Electronically store photos and vital information about your children.
iPhone/2x iPad - $0.99 to FREE
The first three hours are the most critical when trying to locate a missing child. This app provides a convenient place to electronically store photos and vital information about your children so that it’s all at hand if you need it. You can show pictures and provide physical identifiers like height and weight to security or police officers on the spot.
Stickyboard 2
iPad only - $9.99 to FREE
Nothing beats a whiteboard and sticky-notes for capturing lots of loose information and seeing the big picture. Stickyboard takes that flexibility and adds the convenience and power of your iPad. Don't worry about losing notes after a meeting again. It's much easier to carry around, and a lot friendlier for the environment.
PictoPie
iPad only - $1.99 to FREE
Many special needs classrooms, living environments and therapy centers use some form of pictograms to help children visualize the tasks, activities and chores that make up their daily lives. Additionally, many special needs children have difficulty with transitions - managing the jump from one activity to the next.
Connect the Dots - Learn to count
iPad/iPhone - FREE app with IAP for Packs 1,2 & 3 $0.99 to FREE, All packs $1.99 to FREE
Entertaining game for learning numbers. Connect the dots with numbers and open pictures that are hidden in the contours of the figures. After successful circuit whole contour shape is shown, which has been described outline data. Connect the Dots and open new pictures.
Mind Quiz Pro - Exercise for your Brain (in-app purchases)
iPad/iPhone - $0.99 to FREE
The Mega Mind quiz is trivia game full of fun.
350+ Exciting Puzzles. No Ads.
A pic can speak 1000 words !!
A pic can represent an idea, belief, action!!
Forestry - Funny Animals
iPad/iPhone - FREE app with IAP animals set to FREE
Forestry is a lively, interactive application with wonderful animations and background music that will show your child wild nature, the forest and its dwellers. Playing funny and educational mini-games, your kid will help forest dwellers build a house, gather food stuffs, pick up berries, go swimming and, of course, prepare for sleep.
Around the World Pony Quiz
iPad/iPhone - $0.99 to FREE
Do horses sleep standing up? When did we first start riding horses? Do horses yawn? Scooby has taught many little kids to ride, and instilled confidence in them to last a life time. It is for this reason Scooby and the kids program here at Visual Equestrian inspired us to write this fun fact quiz about ponies and horses.
LWP Hotspot Activity
iPad/iPhone - $0.99 to FREE
This app is designed as a supplementary tool for the enhanced book The International Phonemic Symbols - English Pronunciation Guide available on the iBookstore. It is based on the glossary from the Student's Workbook and contains 3 levels of difficulty.
DISCOUNTED APPS
Eli Explorer - a Top Pick App rated 4.5 Stars by Heather S
iPad/iPhone - $1.99 to $0.99
Kids will laugh out loud as they discover their first 100 words and phrases and learn their meaning and correct pronunciation in 10 different languages! Created by early childhood experts and recommended by teachers, this app is designed to encourage kids to explore while learning their first words in a safe, interactive world free from levels and rules.
Avaz Pro - AAC App for Autism (Augmentative Picture Communication Software for Children with Special Needs) - a Top Pick app rated 4.5 Stars by Rachel
50% off on Avaz apps this Autism Awareness Month
This can’t get better!! Avaz is offering 50% off on its apps.
Avaz is a full-featured AAC app for children with Autism and complex communication needs. Avaz is available in multiple languages and localized vocabularies. The offer details are as below:
- Avaz – Pro – 50% off - $149.99 - $74.99
- Download from iTunes here: http://app.appsflyer.com/id558161781?pid=SAFK&c=AAWMon
- Download from Android here: http://app.appsflyer.com/com.avazapp.autism.en.avaz?pid=SAFK&c=AAWMon
- Avaz – India – 50% off - $109.99 - $54.99
- Download from iTunes here:
http://app.appsflyer.com/id568584776?pid=SAFK&c=AAWMon
- Avaz – Italiano – 50% off - $299.99 - $149.99
- Download from iTunes here: http://app.appsflyer.com/id771013888?pid=SAFK&c=AAWMon
- Avaz – Español – 50% off - $149.99 - $74.99
- Download from iTunes here: http://app.appsflyer.com/id923997149?pid=SAFK&c=AAWMon
Limited period offer. Valid till 10-April only!!
The best gift you could give your loved one.
Visit: http://bit.ly/1MEeost for more details on the app.
Speech Sounds For Kids - read our 4 Star staff review HERE
iPad only - $19.99 to $9.99
Speech Sound for Kids is an iPad app for promoting phonemic awareness, auditory discrimination and speech sound production using a multi-sensory approach. This app can provide many hours of speech therapy and early literacy programming. It is recommended for children aged approximately 4 years – 7 years, however younger and older children may find it useful depending on their individual needs.
Autism Language Learning - rated 4.5 Stars by Heather H
Series 1 - iPad/iPhone - $26.99 to $6.99
Series 2 - iPad/iPhone - $16.99 to $6.99
•Developed by a speech-language pathologist
•Uses functional, real-life VIDEO, not still pictures
•Improves functional language use
•Targets 60 actions with 91 novel video clips & 160 total clips start to finish
Write On Handwriting: Powerful Printing Letters & Numbers - rated 4 Stars by Heather H
iPad only - $2.99 to $1.99
Powerful Printing is developmentally sound and supported by research and years of educational experience. The App by Write-On Handwriting fully engages students through multi-sensory instruction of letter and number patterns.
We will also offer FREE Powerful Printing Practice Pages with purchase of Powerful Printing App for iPad. Email sherry@writeonhandwriting.com after your purchase and we will email you a pdf! See sample on our Pinterest page: http://pinterest.com/pin/AyoBGwAQwIkGYmilh6wAAAA/
Write On Handwriting: Conquering Cursive Letters & Numbers
iPad only - $2.99 to $1.99
Conquering Cursive is a developmentally sound app supported by research and years of educational experience. The Write-On Handwriting app fully engages students through multi-sensory instruction of letter and number patterns. The design is age-neutral and provides both instruction and practice modes – suitable for all learners.
** We will also offer FREE Conquering Cursive Practice Pages with purchase of Conquering Cursive App for iPad. Email sherry@writeonhandwriting.com after your purchase and we will email you a pdf! See sample on our Pinterest page: http://pinterest.com/pin/AzsBGwAQwIkGKZPV5CoAAAA/
Write On Handwriting: Spanish, Powerful Printing Letters & Numbers
iPad only - $2.99 to $1.99
Powerful Printing, with Spanish audio, is a developmentally sound app supported by research and years of educational experience. The Write-On Handwriting app fully engages students through multi-sensory instruction of letter and number patterns.
We will also offer FREE Powerful Printing Practice Pages with purchase of Spanish Powerful Printing App for iPad. Email sherry@writeonhandwriting.com after your purchase and we will email you a pdf! See sample on our Pinterest page: http://pinterest.com/pin/AyoBGwAQwIkGYmilh6wAAAA/
i Get... Easter Social Skills Stories
iPad/iPhone - $2.99 to $0.99
i Get... Easter is an application providing a photo social skill story for individuals that need support in understanding the process of Easter-related activities and an Easter egg hunt. In the Easter book, 36 unique pages illustrate a variety of Easter-related activities. The Easter egg hunt book includes twelve pages with real picture images that are used to illustrate the sequence of events.
Yes / No Barn: Answering Yes No Questions
iPad only - $5.99 to $3.99
Yes/No Barn contains over 300 questions that will serve as a tool to help children practice answering yes/ no questions. The questions on Yes/No Barn are organized into six categories
iPad only - $14.99 to $8.99
Pronoun Heroes is an engaging way to teach inspiring superheroes the use of pronouns. Created by certified speech-language pathologists and developed by Smarty Ears Apps, Pronoun Heroes teaches and reinforces the use of pronouns in multiple ways.
iPad only - $21.99 to $12.99
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.
iPad only - $24.99 to $14.99
Language Adventures, now updated with additional content targeting categories, inferences, and wh-questions, is a new spin on your old speech and language game boards! Language Adventures is a first-of-its-kind app that allows you to engage students in a contextual language intervention experience on your iPad!
iPad/iPhone - $6.99 to $3.99
Is That Silly is a fun way to teach children of various ages to pay attention to detail and expand their language skills. Designed with over 120 pictures created specifically to attract children’s attention, Is That Silly helps develop both receptive and expressive language as well as encouraging visual and auditory attention.
iPad/iPhone - $39.99 to $23.99
Expressive was featured on the "Autism Hangout" Podcast and the "TUAW.COM" as an app that is helping children & adults to communicate and learn. This is an entry to mid-level, easy to use, and powerful app that allows children and adults with speech impairment or communication difficulties to express their wants and needs
iPad only - $54.99 to $32.99
Custom Boards Premium is an evidence based app designed to serve as a board and activity creator for speech therapists, teachers, special education and parents of children who need symbols to communicate and learn. Custom Boards includes over 11 thousand built in symbols from the Smarty Symbols library and the ability to add your own photos.
Train Talk!
iPad/iPhone - $9.99 to $4.99
Train Talk is for children who love to talk about trains. This app helps direct that conversation to learn to ask and answer WH questions. Here are 128 pictures with question prompts and sample answers to encourage turn taking, spontaneous speech, conversational skills, and auditory comprehension.
Brainjogging for Kids
iPad only - $3.99 to $1.99
Brainjogging reinvented for kids! With great attention to detail this game addresses children and parents looking for family friendly gaming fun and a great learning experience. You will find the funny setting on the Isle of Brains an ideal environment with comical fruit taking the role of the brain trainers.
AutoVerbal Pro Talking Soundboard! AAC Chat App Speaks for Autism/Deaf/NonVerbal TTS Text To Speech Users
iPad/iPhone - $29.99 to $14.99
Elegant interface, quality recognizable images & customizations allow for quick & easy communication! Very affordable! Don't pay hundreds out of pocket or worry about Medicare or rationing devices. Everyone can have AutoVerbal!
Bogga Vacation
iPad/iPhone - $3.99 to $1.99
Pack your things, kids! Fly off to a tropical island, build sand castles, make your own juice and go treasure hunting!
* Learn about planning a trip
* Interpret signs
* Stimulate logic by picking shapes and reading maps
Clay Animals: Make Creative Pets and Zoo Animals with Playdough
iPad/iPhone - FREE app with IAP to unlock everything reduced from $14.99 to $1.99
Customize your adorable, fantastical or wild new animal, or make up your very own animal no one's ever seen before! Choose from dozens of bodies, faces, ears, eyes, teeth and tails. Dress up your animals with decorations, stickers, candy, backgrounds, and colors. You will have fun for HOURS with this awesome clay animal factory!
HooplaKidz Preschool Party (FULL)
iPad/iPhone - $9.99 to $4.99
Your kids are invited to a party they will never forget! At this party your little ones get to explore, learn, and play. Preschool Party is a whole lot of learning and a whole lot of fun. The carefully selected items and categories are suitable for preschool children.
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Dic-Dic. Multilingual dictation to practise spelling, writing and sound-letter matching
iPad only - $2.99 to $1.99
DIC-DIC is the perfect educational game to learn to spell commonly-used words in several languages. The audiovisual dictation at 3 levels of difficulty lets boys and girls from 3 to 8 years of age learn spelling and vocabulary in a fun way.
Matching! My First Brain Training
iPad only - $1.99 to $0.99
MATCHING! My First Brain Training is an educational game to help children aged 2-6 years old learn the names of letters, numbers and colours in different languages. It is a fun way for them to develop different abilities and skills.
Take Back 6th Grade Math
iPad/iPhone - $4.99 to $1.99
Fully qualified and experienced teacher taught video tutoring course.
+Searchable database with a full course of lessons
+All lessons are USA teacher taught
+All lessons have self-graded practice quiz for each lesson with email-able results
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Pre Algebra
iPad/iPhone - $4.99 to $1.99
Fully qualified and experienced teacher taught video tutoring course.
+Searchable database with a full course of lessons
+99 full streaming video lessons taught in direct teaching easy lessons
+2 to 10 minute easy to follow lessons
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MathOwl
iPhone/2x iPad - $3.99 to $1.99
MathOwl is a fun, easy to use app for kids to solve elementary level math problems. Simple, step-by-step guidance helps kids solve math problems interactively. No guessing multiple choice answers or flash cards. Helps prepare for Common Core standards.
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Learn Music Theory and Learn To Play Music
iPad/iPhone - $2.99 to $0.99
This educational app is perfect for music students to learn & explore the fundamentals of music. The goal of this app is to help make learning music theory fun. Each animated lesson is interactive and easy to understand. You will be able to read and play music on your own in no time.
Algebra.
iPad/iPhone - $4.99 to $1.99
****Search – Learn – Practice****
Fully qualified and experienced teacher taught video tutoring course.
+Searchable database with a full course of lessons
+All lessons have self-graded practice quiz for each lesson with email-able results
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Saint Nick and the Space Nicks HD
iPad only - $2.99 to $0.99
Space Nicks has improved page flow that utilizes the artwork for a more enjoyable result. It includes stronger audio, more animated interactivity and visual eye candy for the kids! Plus, we have more than doubled the Color Pots and added more brush sizes in the Paint Nicks section giving children greater control over the artwork they create.
Make My Family
iPad only - $1.99 to $0.99
Make My Family is an exciting and powerful Tablet App. It allows users to create beautiful, personalised cartoon versions of themselves and their family and friends. Make My Family's creations can be used on social media profiles or printed out to create fun personalised greetings cards and posters.
One Globe Kids – children’s stories from around the world - rated 5 Stars by Emily
iPad/iPhone - FREE app with IAP reduced from $1.99 to $0.99
Limited time special for Autism Awareness Month - all stories are 1/2 price!
Applied behaviour analysis, used in conjunction with One Globe Kids, can help autistic children foster basic skills like listening and imitating, as well as reading and understanding another child's perspective.
Globe Smart Education 1
iPad/iPhone - $19.99 to $9.99
Applied behaviour analysis, used in conjunction with One Globe Kids, can help autistic children foster basic skills like listening and imitating, as well as reading and understanding another child's perspective. All One Globe Kids stories follow a chronological and familiar cultural pattern in their telling using vivid imagery. Each story features a day in the life of a child in another country, culture, and/or context.
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LWP Phonemic Grid
iPad/iPhone - $4.99 to $2.99
A fun, fast and effective method to learn and remember the IPA (International phonemic alphabet). Each group of symbols is colour coded differently (red for vowels, green for diphthongs and blue for consonants). Each symbol is accompanied by an audio demo, example word and image.
World History - Educational Interactive Story Books for Children
iPad only - $7.99 to $3.99
This Pack includes great stories of famous people that blend real life and history. Various read along stories are offered and include brightly colored and attractive characters children love. It is a smart way to give a child the gift of knowledge both in and out of the classroom.
American History - Educational Interactive Story Books for Children
iPad only - $7.99 to $3.99
This Pack includes great stories of famous people that blend real life and history. Various read along stories are offered and include brightly colored and attractive characters children love. It is a smart way to give a child the gift of knowledge both in and out of the classroom.
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Lisa M has three kids on the Autism Spectrum and one kid that can not sit still or be quiet.
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