Useful Apps
Apps for Autism
Doodle Buddy
This app allows you to finger paint using many colours and stamps and it also allows for communication between users so they can interact with a friend by drawing together over the internet. This app is FREE!
This app allows you to finger paint using many colours and stamps and it also allows for communication between users so they can interact with a friend by drawing together over the internet. This app is FREE!
AutismXpress
Description: This app was created to help promote awareness of autism spectrum disorders and it is designed to encourage people with autism to recognize and express their emotions through an easy-to-use interface.
This app is FREE!
Description: This app was created to help promote awareness of autism spectrum disorders and it is designed to encourage people with autism to recognize and express their emotions through an easy-to-use interface.
This app is FREE!
Faces iMake is an app that simulates the use of the right brain and give a fun educational environment. The app encourages children to solve problems creatively, to innovate, to see things from a different perspective, and to create the most unexpected combination of objects. This app costs $1.99 www.imaginemachine.com.
Visules - communicating visually is important to many children with autism and this app communicates checklists and individual cues using text, images, and colour.
$4.99 by Dean Huff
$4.99 by Dean Huff
Apps for Anxiety
SAM - Self-Help for Anxiety Management: This app is meant to help control anxiety and emotions. The app works by letting users to tell the app how you are feeling or how anxious you are, then the app's self-help features walks you through some calming or relaxing practices. The app also lets you to connect with other users. This app is FREE!
Calm - This app is meant to help users mediate, sleep, and relax. The app features 7 guided meditation sessions from 2 to 30 minutes 10 nature scenes, 16 music tracks to help users mediate, 50 guided meditations for focus, creativity, energy, confidence, and sleep. New content is added monthly. This app is FREE!
7 Cups of Tea
This app allows for FREE anonymous and confidential conversations with trained active listeners. Emotional support, counselling, and therapy to help address depression, anxiety, and stress. Thousands of people use 7 cups of Tea everyday for emotional support and counselling. Users can contact anyone in the world at anytime and conversations are deleted for confidentiality. Users also get to choose their ideal listener and each listener has a profile with reviews and a list categories they specialize in, such as
bullying, depression, anxiety, breakups, and more. This app is FREE!
This app allows for FREE anonymous and confidential conversations with trained active listeners. Emotional support, counselling, and therapy to help address depression, anxiety, and stress. Thousands of people use 7 cups of Tea everyday for emotional support and counselling. Users can contact anyone in the world at anytime and conversations are deleted for confidentiality. Users also get to choose their ideal listener and each listener has a profile with reviews and a list categories they specialize in, such as
bullying, depression, anxiety, breakups, and more. This app is FREE!
Stop Panic & Anxiety Self-Help
This app is meant for users who are suffering from panic attacks due to Panic Disorder. It focuses on the fear of having a panic attack and the fear of sensations of having a panic attack. The app includes articles about panic/anxiety and cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), a dairy to learn to challenge fearful thinking, emotion training audio, and panic assistance audio to coach through panic attacks and to learn deep relaxation. This app is FREE!
This app is meant for users who are suffering from panic attacks due to Panic Disorder. It focuses on the fear of having a panic attack and the fear of sensations of having a panic attack. The app includes articles about panic/anxiety and cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), a dairy to learn to challenge fearful thinking, emotion training audio, and panic assistance audio to coach through panic attacks and to learn deep relaxation. This app is FREE!
Apps for Intellectual Disabilities
iDiary
Parents need to know that iDiary for Kids is a top-notch first experience in journaling for kids ages 5 to 13 to express themselves; make a photo, drawing, and text scrapbook of their day; and create their first address book. There's some guidance for how to password protect and back up the diaries, but as far as what kids may or may not want to share with others via email, or what may be considered inappropriate words or images to share will have to come from parents and teachers because that's not offered here. This app is $1.99
Parents need to know that iDiary for Kids is a top-notch first experience in journaling for kids ages 5 to 13 to express themselves; make a photo, drawing, and text scrapbook of their day; and create their first address book. There's some guidance for how to password protect and back up the diaries, but as far as what kids may or may not want to share with others via email, or what may be considered inappropriate words or images to share will have to come from parents and teachers because that's not offered here. This app is $1.99
Creative Book Builder
Creative Book Builder enables everyone to create, edit and publish ebooks in a few minutes on the go. All published ebooks can be read by any EPUB reader including iBooks. Everyone is professional writer now! Besides EPUB, you can export your book into PDF, audio and video format. This app is $4.49
Creative Book Builder enables everyone to create, edit and publish ebooks in a few minutes on the go. All published ebooks can be read by any EPUB reader including iBooks. Everyone is professional writer now! Besides EPUB, you can export your book into PDF, audio and video format. This app is $4.49
Pictello
Everyone loves to tell fun, engaging, and imaginative stories. This App allows the user to make a photo book with text and speech. Comes with example stories. Pictello makes it a breeze to create and share! Whether you use the included natural-sounding Text to Speech voices, or record your own voice, Pictello is the perfect tool for visual storytelling. This app is $19.99
Everyone loves to tell fun, engaging, and imaginative stories. This App allows the user to make a photo book with text and speech. Comes with example stories. Pictello makes it a breeze to create and share! Whether you use the included natural-sounding Text to Speech voices, or record your own voice, Pictello is the perfect tool for visual storytelling. This app is $19.99
iMovie
iMovie is designed with the tools required to make and edit your own movie – choose themes, complete credits then begin filming. The app’s storyboard will guide the user with what type and how long the shots need to be. It’s a BIG app at 403MB. app. This app is $5.49
iMovie is designed with the tools required to make and edit your own movie – choose themes, complete credits then begin filming. The app’s storyboard will guide the user with what type and how long the shots need to be. It’s a BIG app at 403MB. app. This app is $5.49
Apps for Conduct Disorder
Apps for ADHD
MindNode—Delightful Mind Mapping
Mind maps are visual representations of your ideas, starting with a central thought and growing from there. Perfect for brainstorming, planning, and organizing, this app allows you to share your thoughts in an intuitive way, so you can focus on the idea behind it. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mindnode/id312220102?mt=8
Mind maps are visual representations of your ideas, starting with a central thought and growing from there. Perfect for brainstorming, planning, and organizing, this app allows you to share your thoughts in an intuitive way, so you can focus on the idea behind it. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mindnode/id312220102?mt=8
How to Make Origami
This app provides step-by-step instruction along with 3-D animation. Over 80 free patterns to download ranging from simple to complicated. By the way, origami develops logical reasoning, attention span, spatial thinking and fine motor skills. https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/how-to-make-origami/id472936700?mt
This app provides step-by-step instruction along with 3-D animation. Over 80 free patterns to download ranging from simple to complicated. By the way, origami develops logical reasoning, attention span, spatial thinking and fine motor skills. https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/how-to-make-origami/id472936700?mt
MotivAider for Mobile by Behavioural Dynamics Inc.
This app, originally invented by a clinical psychologist, is meant to help anyone change any behaviour. This app works in the background using a simple proven method to automatically facilitate behaviour change.
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/motivaider-for-mobile/id562217364?mt=8
This app, originally invented by a clinical psychologist, is meant to help anyone change any behaviour. This app works in the background using a simple proven method to automatically facilitate behaviour change.
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/motivaider-for-mobile/id562217364?mt=8
ADHD Tracker
Using the Vanderbilt Scales published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, ADHD Tracker makes completing and submitting a behavioural assessment easier for parents and teachers of children ages 4 through 18 years who have already been diagnosed and treated for ADHD. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adhd-tracker-1.0/id553571938?mt=8
Using the Vanderbilt Scales published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, ADHD Tracker makes completing and submitting a behavioural assessment easier for parents and teachers of children ages 4 through 18 years who have already been diagnosed and treated for ADHD. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adhd-tracker-1.0/id553571938?mt=8
ADHD Treatment by Eytan Shleizer
Based on the current scientific literature, this app is designed to increase attention and control impulsivity. Note: this app claims to be a valid alternative to medication, but as yet, does not have research to support his.
http://www.adhd-app.com/
A link to the research behind this app: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0058546
Based on the current scientific literature, this app is designed to increase attention and control impulsivity. Note: this app claims to be a valid alternative to medication, but as yet, does not have research to support his.
http://www.adhd-app.com/
A link to the research behind this app: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0058546
