iPhone and iPad apps for disabled children
Summary: This is a selection of apps designed to assist children with learning disabilities.
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Category: Schedule and organisation
Compatibility: iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.1.3 or later.
Maker: Handhold Adaptive
Price: $49.99
iPrompts is an application for the iPod Touch and iPhone that offers a visual schedule, a countdown timer and a simple choice making utility. It is designed to replace needing to carry physical schedules or boards.
The visual schedule does allow for a portable way of using the feature for reference, and this in turn can be used as a public means of demonstrating cues for disabled children.
However, when testing the app, I found that the countdown visual could be slightly confusing to younger children – an improvement would be making this element of the app clearer and more user-friendly. There is also no way to ‘lock’ the option menu.
Click here to view the iPrompts tutorial.
(Source: Apple)
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RE: iPhone and iPad apps for disabled children
Are there any communications aids that use Makaton
I rebuilt a PDA for my daughter about 5 years ago, and programmed it to display tiles on its touchscreen and then speak the phrase built with them as she cannot speak herself. PECS threatened me with legal action if I didnt cease development, or turn over my work to them, so I trashed it rather than give my work to those thieving swine... However, seeing Proloquo must mean they were bluffing about copyrights, because thats like my device too. More comprehensive, but visually very similar.
My daughter really needs a way of communicating that others can understand, because most people (here in the UK at least) dont understand BSL, let alone one of the many symbolic languages that have spread here from the US. I've never heard of Proloquo, and I know more symbolic languages than most people.
I personally dont like them, and cant program for one, but an iPod Touch has the form and the software to do the job and would save me a lot of work too - so long as it contains a language she already knows.
It would be nice if I wasnt charged a fortune for it too. From experience, manufacturers charge more if it has a 'for special needs' sticker on it.
RE: iPhone and iPad apps for disabled children
You might like to check out "taptotalk.com" as they have an app which you can add your own library to. I don't remember paying much for it.
Thanks, I'll do that.
Still, thanks. I suppose I should be grateful I can just 'get an app' for her now, because I honestly didnt see that coming.