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Dragon Dictation (free): Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages. In fact, it’s up to five (5) times faster than typing on the keyboard. Beep Beep (Free):  Turn your iPad™ into a coloring book. Give your kids hours of fun with Corel Beep Beep, a creative collection of coloring books made for iPad, complete with pictures, sounds and lots of vibrant colors. Beep Beep is perfect for the car, at home and anywhere you’re on the go. It helps young artists discover and play, with plenty of themes and drawings to choose from.  ICDL - Free Books for Children (Free) The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) brings a worldwide collection of free children's books to the iPad. The largest collection of its kind, the ICDL spans the globe with thousands of children's books from over 60 countries, in a wide assortment of beautiful languages with captivating illustrations. Meet the six Mongolian brothers in search of knowledge, the gray Palestinian peacemaker cat that does something most unusual to the other cat's ears, or a version of the Three Little Pigs that you surely have never heard before. Books in dozens of languages. iPad support for rotation (automatically shows two pages at a time in landscape view). All books have summaries in English and the native language of the book. Special support for readability - by zooming text (for many books). Many books translated into other languages  IEP Checklist (free):   IEP Checklist is a tool for parents and teachers to consider as they develop the IEP. Not every item on the checklist is required by special education regulations. Answers yes/no ($): Answers:YesNo was designed with one purpose in mind. Provide an easy to use, affordable way for a nonverbal young man with autism and motor planning issues to communicate with those around him. The application is straightforward. It has two, large, color-coordinated buttons…one for yes, and one for no. Press either, and you will hear a voice read your selection. ASD Timer ($):  All individuals must change from one task to the next throughout the day. Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder may have greater difficulty in making these changes. Change can bring about anxiety and fear for people with ASD. Concepts related to time are fairly abstract. A visual timer can show the passing of time and therefore prepare the individual for change. ASD Timer© shows the passing of time without the need to tell time. This reduces the amount of transition time between tasks, increasing appropriate behaviour during transitions and developing independence and self management skills. Timers are a wonderful visual aid for individuals needing help with transitioning from one task to another.  AutismXpress Pro ($): The ‘Autism Xpress’has been created to help promote greater awareness about autism spectrum disorders. It is designed to encourage people with autism to recognizes and express their emotions through its fun and easy to use interface.  Hidden Curriculum for Kids ($) Some people seem to learn the hidden curriculum almost automatically. Others learn it only by direct instruction. This includes children with autism spectrum disorders. These real-life based entries spur conversations about the countless “unwritten social rules” that we encounter every day and that can cause confusion and anxiety. Language Builder ($): <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">Language Builder is designed to help children accomplish the following educational goals: 1) Improve sentence ideation ; 2) Improve sentence formation; and 3) Improve receptive and expressive language. Extensive use of audio clips promotes improved auditory processing for special needs children with autism spectrum disorders or sensory processing disorders. Auditory playback of child’s voice offers reinforcement for language development.  <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">Phonetics Focus ($):  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Help perfect your pronunciation with the best-value, most-comprehensive English phonetics iPad app available. Enjoy 19 ‘big-screen’ activities and resources in one popular powerful app. Perfect for teaching and learning this difficult area of English, and all in fabulous iPad HD. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">Vast. Autism 1 :($): <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">VAST-Autism provides unprecedented support for spoken language, combining evidence-based best practices and technology to deliver remarkable results. A groundbreaking tool that provides state-of-the-art therapy to students with autism and motor speech programming disorders such as apraxia. VAST-Autism combines the highly effective concept of video modeling with written words and auditory cues to help individuals acquire relevant words, phrases and sentences so that they can speak for themselves. For children and individuals with strong visual skills, this can be a key to developing speech.