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Home » Gadgets » Apps » Can iPhone® Apps Assist Autistic Children Speak Better?

Can iPhone® Apps Assist Autistic Children Speak Better?

apps-for-autistic-childrenAutistic children have special needs and they are non-verbal. Apart from crying, kids with autism know little ways to communicate and express what they feel. However, with touchscreen gadgets like iPhone and iPad have been proven to give them controls and assist them to express and develop communication skills. As they experience small results on touching the screen of iPad and iPhone, they find it easier to express their feelings better with iPad and iPhone. Kids with special needs and autism have shown increased interest and ease with which they use and interact with content on iOS devices. Hence, a gamut of iPhone apps and iPad apps targeted towards autistic children are made available on iTunes App Store. Here is a roundup of the most effective iPhone apps for kids with autism.

Proloquo2Go

Compatible with: iPhone and iPad running iOS 4.2 or later.

Price: 189.99

Many parents having kids with autism have experienced life-changing benefits with this one of the best iPhone apps for autistic children and kids with speaking difficulties. The Proloquo2Go app offers text-to-speech voices with support for US, UK, Australian, and Indian English languages. The app consists of a vast database of 14,000 symbols, two researched-based vocabulary organizations, powerful automatic conjugations, advanced word prediction, and customizable list of vocabulary that can cater to beginning symbol based communication to imparting full literacy. Click here to get more details.

AutismXpress

Compatible with: iPhone and iPad running iOS 3.1.2 or later

Price: Free

AutismXpress is one of the most focused iPhone apps for kids with autism. The app addresses autistic children’s hindrance in social interactions, repetitive behavior and ability to communicate etc. Parents using this app for their kids with autism find assistance to interpret and understand from various facial expressions. This app enables autistic children to express their feelings through the chart of various facial expressions such as ah angry, hungry, happy etc., displayed through the app. Click here to get this app.

Other notably effective iPhone apps and iPad apps for autistic children are TapToTalk, First Then Visual Schedule, Behavior Tracker Pro, iConverse and Grace.

By Bidisha


Bidisha wanted to buy a new cell phone and her thorough research for gadgets revealed her passion for technology. Gradually, she found her drawn to everything related to technology and her work which involves extensive research and writing on new gadgets, apps, and smarter use of technology. Careful, her mission is to manipulate technology-naïve women to juice up their ordinary lives with use of technology.

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