Autism Resources
Are you looking for Autism resources to help you and your child's education? Since many children on the autism spectrum are visual learners, apps can be a very effective way to teach concepts. Help prepare children for new experiences and demonstrate how autism isn't a barrier with these stimulating apps.
Check our Special Education Apps section for more apps for children with special needs and learning disabilities, including Dyslexia, Down syndrome, AAC and social skills. Read our recommended autism apps to help gain knowledge about autism and how to handle it.
As part of our ongoing endeavor to provide families affected by autism, we have compiled a list of autism resources for children. Whether you are a parent, family member, caregiver or teacher of someone with autism, or you are on the spectrum yourself, we hope the following autism resources can help guide you in the right direction.
Touch Trainer is a simple cause and effect app designed for an individual diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, down syndrome, or other special need, or a young child just learning about touch screen technology.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
iPrompts is a highly recommended app for supporting organizational skills, setting expectations for performance, and setting up subtle supports and reminders. Users can create and modify visual schedules, as well as use a countdown timer with picture supports to indicate how much longer a task or activity will last.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
Sentence Maker app is a simple sentence-forming app aimed at kindergarten and preschool that can help kids to practice sight words and sentence structure.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
Autism Core Skills is a comprehensive academic and social skills practice system designed for students with autism. The app employs best educational practices to provide scaffolded learning experiences in math, reading and social skills for autistic students of any age working on preschool through first grade level skills.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
Autism Therapy with MITA is an app designed to help children with autism learn using pivotal response treatment, a type of therapy for autistic children. MITA stands for “mental imagery therapy for autism” and uses puzzles to improve childhood development, attention, language, and visual skills, according to the app makers. It’s available for both iOS and Android and is free to download and install.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Fun literacy games for kids ages 3 to 6.
Devices: Android
Encouraging people with autism to have fun and recognize and express emotions.
Devices: Android
Proloquo2Go is an Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) app that can provide a voice for those with expressive and receptive language difficulties. From basic wants and needs to more complex sentences, Proloquo2go app is a viable communication tool for children and adults with autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, apraxia, aphasia, or traumatic brain injury.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
Speak My Mind is a revolutionary assistive communication solution for nonverbal and speech delayed children as well as adults with language and communication challenges. It provides a voice for individuals who have difficulties using their own natural voice. Speak My Mind can be used by people with Autism, ALS, Down Syndrome, Apraxia, Cerebral Palsy, Stroke, developmental delays and difficulties in language acquisition.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
Emoface helps kids who find it difficult to recognise emotions in other people. These kids might be on the autistic spectrum, but not necessarily. Through a series of games, players learn to recognise six emotions and how people's faces show them. Emoface is available on iOS and Android devices. After a free 30-day trial of the whole app, a monthly or yearly subscription can extend it.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
AutiSpark is an application especially designed for children on Autism Spectrum. The app contains a wide array of games for the development of educational and life skills. AutiSpark is available for free to download on iOS and Android devices. The developers allow a 14 day trial period with an annual subscription of $59.99/£45. With the existing content and additional features in the pipeline, AutiSpark offers excellent value for money. The premise of AutiSpark is it to teach children basic learning concepts and daily living skills. The design is warm and friendly and easily gains the attention of the child using the app. Set up is straightforward and requires very little information to get started.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
Match & Find has been created for children with special educational needs. Both its activities and the nature of its design are specially designed to create an environment and a learning experience suitable for these children to enjoy developing their understanding.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
As a teacher of children on the Autism Spectrum with complex communication needs, I am constantly looking for the most appropriate form of Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) to use with the children at our school.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
Special Words is an app that seeks to address deficiencies in expressive and receptive language in addition to attention, fine motor and hand-eye co-ordination skills. Special Words can be used by Teachers, therapists and parents to improve these skills.
Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad
See Touch Learn Pro is an app for creating and sharing instructional lessons for special educational needs students.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
I Can Have Conversations With You app is a social language therapy system that teaches children with autism how to begin a conversation, maintain one, and end one in a much better capacity than before.
Devices: iPhone, iPad
SENspeller is an application that helps to teach letter and sound recognition to those on the autistic spectrum. The concept behind the app is to play to the strengths of visual learners.
Devices: iPhone, iPad