AAC App "So Much to Say" to go on sale for Teacher Appreciation Week

Kirsten Ferguson, app developer, announced the following:

What a difference a great teacher can make! In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, Close 2 Home Apps is reducing the price of So Much 2 Say from $24.99 to $7.99! Sale begins tonight at midnight (EST). The price reduction will stay in effect until Sunday at midnight (EST). We know many of you spend your own money to purchase apps to use on your own iPad with students. This is just our way of saying, "Thank you!"

Check it out after midnight tonight!

iTunes Link


This app is optimized for the iPad2.  A great price for a basic AAC app.

Math App Recommendations

A blog doing similar things to this blog had an intriguing post about FREE math apps. Another great resource to add to your toolbox.

Check out
 Autism Plugged In.

Act Quickly - Free App Opportunity

Tappie Puzzles Mobile free temporarily.  

Children are encouraged to navigate their way around the world from the icy extremes of the Arctic to the heat of the desert. In each animated scene visited, children will find crucial parts of the picture missing, for example the monkey’s bridge or the polar bear’s igloo. The challenge is to solve puzzles by matching shapes to the missing areas. By using the drag and drop technique, the scene can be completed and further animation of the characters in the scene is triggered.

Find it in iTunes here. 

Technology from a Speech Professionals Point of View

A neat resource to add to your toolbox, an SLP(speech language pathologist) who is also an Instructional Technology Specialist has a blog and maintains a great app list for SLPs.  Check out SpeechTechie - "Looking at technology through a language lens" for great tips and app recommendations. The webiste can be found here.

Khan Academy

The Khan Academy is a website that offers a free online collection of more than 3,100 video lectures created to support learning .  The Academy started when Salman Khan began remotely tutoring one of his cousins using Yahoo Doodle images. Eventually , Khan transitioned to making YouTube video tutorials.  "We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere"

And this makes it a good resource for some of our learners with special needs who are visual learners and those who choose to home school their children.  

To learn more about the academy - check out their website.
And yes, there is an app for that.  Check that out iOS app here and what is available in the Android market here.  

Temporary FREE app: Shape Galaxy

Check out this fun app that is temporarily free! iTunes Link

Another Great AAC Resource

If you are looking for a way to determine which AAC apps exists on an Android versus an iOS device, check out this great pdf matrix made by a couple of Assistive Technology professionals, Kelly Fonner and Scott Marfilius. You can fine the pdf here!