By Timagine HB
- 25,99 €
- Category: Education
- Updated: 16 January 2012
- Version: 2.2.0
- Size: 73.0 MB
- Language: English
- Developer: Timagine HB
Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.2 or later.
Talking Cards provides children with special needs an excellent tool for improved communication.
Talking Cards is user friendly and developed for the use of children with all types of disabilities, but additional efforts have been added to also suit children with motor skill disorders.
Talking Cards is an excellent tool for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). Choose the 1x2 view in settings for first communication training with your child. Then move on to 2x3 and 3x4 for more advanced communication.
Talking Cards was specifically designed for children who are in the early stages of communication, or not yet able to express themselves by forming long sentences.
Toontastic Jr. Pirates - for iPad
By Launchpad Toys
- $1.99
- Category: Education
- Released: Dec 13, 2012
- Version: 1.0.1
- Size: 193 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Launchpad Toys
Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later.
Lights, Camera, PLAY! Toontastic Jr. Pirates is a playful storytelling tool for swashbucklers and scallywags as young as 3 to create their own pirate cartoons. Pick a beginning, middle, and ending - then animate your story just like a puppet show, recording your voice while you move the characters onscreen!
Toontastic Jr. Pirates features 12 animated "Story Starter" videos and a host of characters and settings to inspire your child's imagination. Dig for buried treasure with Crazy Bearde on Pirates Cove, sail the high seas with Bonnie Flintlock on the Cutlass, and defend the landlubbers of Hardtack Harbor from the attack of the Barnacle. Avast!
Toontastic Jr. Pirates empowers young children to be producers of creative media, not just consumers, and introduces them to key storytelling concepts while developing their oral literacy skills.
Toontastic Jr. Pirates features 12 animated "Story Starter" videos and a host of characters and settings to inspire your child's imagination. Dig for buried treasure with Crazy Bearde on Pirates Cove, sail the high seas with Bonnie Flintlock on the Cutlass, and defend the landlubbers of Hardtack Harbor from the attack of the Barnacle. Avast!
Toontastic Jr. Pirates empowers young children to be producers of creative media, not just consumers, and introduces them to key storytelling concepts while developing their oral literacy skills.
LetterSchool
By Boreaal
This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
- $2.99
- Category: Education
- Updated: Jan 24, 2012
- Version: 1.0.1
- Size: 40.1 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Boreaal b.v.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.2 or later.
HOW IT WORKS
Kids practice essential skills as they play four exciting games per letter/number:
Kids practice essential skills as they play four exciting games per letter/number:
INTRO - discover the letter’s shape, name and sound
TAP - learn where to start, change direction and finish by tapping the dots
TRACE - learn the letter trajectory by tracing it
WRITE - test your knowledge by writing from memory
PLAY TO LEARN…
◆ how to write letters and numbers
◆ letter names and sounds
◆ uppercase and lowercase letters
◆ manuscript handwriting style
◆ count to 10
◆ fine motor skills
◆ eye-hand coordination
◆ the foundations of literacy and numeracy
Word Wizard - Talking Movable Alphabet & Spelling Tests for Kids
By L'Escapadou
This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
- $2.99
- Category: Education
- Updated: 30 October 2012
- Version: 3.0.1
- Size: 300 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: pierre abel
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.
Word Wizard is a unique app that lets kids hear the sounds of letters and words using a talking movable alphabet. Featuring advanced text to speech capabilities, the app can pronounce and spell-check an unlimited number of original words and sentences built using the movable alphabet.
Word Wizard also provides spelling practice with a list of more than 1,400 questions and answers, and the best is that you can add your own words to create any spelling quiz.
Word Wizard also provides spelling practice with a list of more than 1,400 questions and answers, and the best is that you can add your own words to create any spelling quiz.
Montessori Crosswords - Spelling With Phonics-Enabled Alphabet
By L'Escapadou
This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
- $2.99
- Category: Education
- Updated: 15 March 2012
- Version: 3.6
- Size: 16.0 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: pierre abel
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
Based on the proven Montessori learning method, Montessori Crosswords helps kids develop their reading, writing, and spelling skills by building words from a set of 320 word-image-audio-phonics combinations using a phonics-enabled movable alphabet.
Montessori Crosswords helps kids learn and understand two fundamental concepts:
➜ First, the app helps kids understand that words are made up of sounds or phonemes (phonemic awareness). For each word, your kids can touch the empty rectangles where letters must be dragged to complete the word, and hear the sound the corresponding letter produces.
➜ Secondly, the app helps kids memorize the phonics associated with letters by providing a phonics-enabled alphabet where kids can touch each letter and hear the associated phonic.
Montessori Crosswords helps kids learn and understand two fundamental concepts:
➜ First, the app helps kids understand that words are made up of sounds or phonemes (phonemic awareness). For each word, your kids can touch the empty rectangles where letters must be dragged to complete the word, and hear the sound the corresponding letter produces.
➜ Secondly, the app helps kids memorize the phonics associated with letters by providing a phonics-enabled alphabet where kids can touch each letter and hear the associated phonic.
Picture Card Maker - For Communication and More!
By Bo Innovations
This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
- Free
- Category: Education
- Updated: 30 August 2012
- Version: 4.4
- Size: 8.9 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Tony Bo
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
Picture Card Maker is an ideal tool for parents and educators. It is a simple-to-use program that allows you to create Picture Cards or Visuals to be used for communication, reading and many other educational purposes. These picture cards may either be used directly over your device as a communication tool or they may be printed off and used in communication folders and as visuals in the home or classroom.
The 'Choice Board' feature will allow your child/student to make choices directly over your device and the 'Sentence Strip' feature will help expand your child/student's vocabulary. Picture card Maker can be used by people of all ages including young toddlers learning to talk to adults who struggle with speech. It is also designed to benefit children/adults with a disability such as those with autism who have difficulty communicating their needs and wants.
The 'Choice Board' feature will allow your child/student to make choices directly over your device and the 'Sentence Strip' feature will help expand your child/student's vocabulary. Picture card Maker can be used by people of all ages including young toddlers learning to talk to adults who struggle with speech. It is also designed to benefit children/adults with a disability such as those with autism who have difficulty communicating their needs and wants.
TallyTots™
By Spinlight Studio
This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
- Free
- Category: Education
- Updated: 30 August 2012
- Version: 4.4
- Size: 8.9 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Tony Bo
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
Welcome to TallyTots— the interactive counting game that turns numbers into action. And learning into a whole lot of fun. Whether they’re feeding chipmunks, picking apples or racing cars around the track, they’ll learn how to count from one to 20, with plenty of fun and laughter to keep you both entertained.
Features:
• All new sing-a-long number song!
• 20 different numbers with an activity for each. This is a big app with lots to do.
• Audio and visual cues that help children associate numbers with sounds.
• Kid-friendly navigation that makes it easy to return to their favorite numbers.
• Frequent repetition that teaches young children how to count.
• Positive verbal reinforcement for completed tasks.
• Fun surprises that keep them coming back for more.
• From the award winning designers who created Swapsies and AlphaTots.
• All new sing-a-long number song!
• 20 different numbers with an activity for each. This is a big app with lots to do.
• Audio and visual cues that help children associate numbers with sounds.
• Kid-friendly navigation that makes it easy to return to their favorite numbers.
• Frequent repetition that teaches young children how to count.
• Positive verbal reinforcement for completed tasks.
• Fun surprises that keep them coming back for more.
• From the award winning designers who created Swapsies and AlphaTots.
Felt Board
By Software Smoothie
- $2.99
- Category: Education
- Updated: Oct 08, 2012
- Version: 1.2.1
- Size: 67.3 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: David Douglas
Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
iTunes link
Felt Board for the iPad is inspired by actual felt boards used by children, teachers and storytellers worldwide. Create characters by selecting skin color, hair and facial features. Choose from a wide variety of costumes, settings and props for hours of magical make believe play. And because it is an app, the pieces will never get lost.
Whether used by children as a creative play set, or by adults as a storytelling resource and teaching aid, Felt Board offers a variety of benefits for children, including:
-A simple user interface that allows independent exploration
-A wide variety of characters and settings to encourage creativity and imaginative play
-Fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination skills are developed while dragging, placing and pinching objects to scale
-Shapes, Numbers and Letters are included as an educational resource
-Includes animals and settings for popular nursery and preschool songs / rhymes like Itsy Bitsy Spider, Old MacDonald, 5 Little Monkeys, 5 Little Speckled Frogs and more
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Thank you so much for including Felt Board. What a great list of apps. We are honored.
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