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Apps for Support

All Ages

  • AACESSIBLE: 7 Engaging Apps to Inspire Emergent Literacy Skills for Complex Learners
  • ABA Centers of America: Best Autism Apps For 2024: Tech For Better Outcomes In ASD!
  • Autism Parenting Magazine: Best Autism Apps for kids on iPad, iPhone and Android in 2023
  • Common Sense Education: Best Apps for Kids with Autism
  • iPad Apps for Learners with Complex Additional Support Needs
  • WizCase: 20 Best Apps for Kids With Autism (+ Parents) in 2024

Apps for Communication

  • CoughDrop - Communication system should be unique to each individual. CoughDrop has vocabulary sets for many different levels, with built-in supports, assessment tools, and vocabulary progression tools to start basic and grow over time. CoughDrop is one of the most flexible apps available, with support for two-way messaging, remote modeling, eye or head tracking and switches, all to give the user more flexibility and support.

  • GoTalk NOW - Newly included with NOW are the Core word communication pages. Core vocabulary refer to a small collection of words that make up the majority of words used in daily communication. These Core pages will be a great starting point and will have you communicating in no time. Communicate using one word to 36 words enhanced with these core pages and more! Create and add new pages that suit your personality too. 

  • LAMP Words for Life - LAMP Words for Life® has thousands of words to support robust communication. It allows the individual to put words together to say whatever they want to say, use verb and adjective forms, and add word endings to use language the same as verbal speakers. Having a robust communication system even if the individual is an emergent communicator, allows for words to be learned the way they will always be said on the device. It provides a pathway for unlimited growth with no change and relearning along the way. There are features in the app to simplify learning while maintaining consistency.

  • Proloquo2Go - Proloquo2Go is a customizable augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) app for iOS. Supporting users from beginner to advanced, the app allows users to customize their experience by utilizing the 25,000 built in buttons or by adding personal photos, and includes over 100 text-to-speech natural-sounding voices.

  • WeaveChat AAC - Weave Chat AAC is a free, category-based, dynamic, and completely customizable AAC application designed to run on iOS and Android devices. Currently it contains a vast array of words including pronouns, verbs, nouns, adjectives, prepositions, and other syntax completing words. Additional words/icons are added weekly. 

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