It's never too early to improve your vocabulary skills! 6th Grade Vocabulary Prep was designed for the student and family looking for an advantage in solidifying their word skills: - Study anywhere and learn hundreds of vocabulary words at your own pace - Specifically appropriate words chosen at the 6th grade level - Look through the definitions and practice with both word and definition quizzes - Take the big final test to see how well you've learned - Email your test results to share your score - Increase your vocabulary knowledge and your scores! Teachers and parents - have your students email their scores from the 50 question assessment test as a way to provide extra credit for mastery of the vocabulary.

Basic Sight Words

Independent research found kids learnt nine times as fast using PocketPhonics compared to a lesson in a classroom (see appsinmypocket.com/research).

PocketPhonics teaches the basics of reading and writing to young kids. Most surprising? It seems to work.

The WordNet Dictionary and Thesaurus is a large lexical database of English with up to 140,000 entries and more than 1.4 million words, developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University. Instead of following the standard dictionary format, the WordNet dictionary is organized with an innovative and convenient approach. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms, interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. In addition to the straightforward definition the dictionary shows how each word is linked to other words in terms of synonyms, opposites and similar words, but also hyponyms and hyperlinks within the group.

Learn the ancient wisdom from one of the classic series of all time, Aesop's fables. For iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, this is app full of beautiful graphics, pictures and animations.

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.

Feed your appetite for words in this award-winning puzzle game for all ages, from PopCap. Link letters left, right, up and down to build words to keep Lex the Bookworm sated and smiling. Bigger words return better bonuses. But watch out for burning letters — they could spell disaster!

Chicktionary is one of the most popular word games on the Internet and now you can hatch up some fun on your iPhone! Each hen bears a letter. The more words you create, the more points you earn!

Special Learning’s new app “Communicating Basic Needs” has been created using the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) to allow children with autism or any other language deficit to easily and effectively communicate their basics needs and wants in five main categories: food, drink, clothing, toys and emotions using actual photographs and real voices. The app can easily be turned into an AAC device by simply installing it onto a device, providing savings of thousands of dollars.

Top-rated app with trusted reference content from Dictionary.com & Thesaurus.com. WORKS OFFLINE - no Internet connection needed when searching words. ★ Time Magazine ‘Top 10 Back-To-School App’, Apple ‘Top 10 App’ High School Survival Guide, Winner: CNET Top 100 Mobile App Award ★

Contains cartoon images of expressions to help in expressing and identifying emotion.

Browse our handpicked collections, download any of our 23,469 classic books, and read with our fully featured ereader. Notes, highlights, bookmarks, dictionary support -- it’s all here.

Grammar Up was designed to replicate questions with a business focus commonly found in the popular TOEIC (TM) English proficiency test.

If you're looking for a fantastic multiplayer game AND a fun way to help children learn new words, look no further.... 

Futaba is a 4 player game designed for kids. This outrageously fun word quiz game can be used at home or in the classroom as a entertaining way to build language skills. 



GoodReader® is the super-robust PDF reader for iPad - the #1 selling non-Apple app for iPad in USA in 2010! Mashable describes it as “a Swiss Army knife of awesome!” Reviews worldwide hail it as “essential,” “the best,” “magnificent” and “the killer app”. With GoodReader on your iPad, you can read virtually anything, anywhere: books, movies, maps, pictures. Use it once and you’ll be hooked. Soon you'll be wondering how you ever managed to use your iPad without GoodReader.

The Grammar App uses a new approach - that of an Interactive Book with an easy to learn format and a simple step by step guide. The app also includes a quick check while taking a tutorial to test your understanding of what you just read.

Grammar Express : Tenses is the complete course in mastering English grammatical tenses. It contains over over 100 pages of lessons explaining each grammar tense with several examples. You can learn the grammar rules, study the examples and then test their understanding by taking quiz. At the end of each quiz the user is presented with test summary and explanation for each test question. Grammar Express can help you to improve your understanding of tenses and make use of correct form of verb. Custom timer setting can assist you to improve response times under exam time constraints. Research suggests that kids and adults learn most quickly when playing learning games with real-time error-feedback. Grammar Express provides learners with an opportunity to improve strategies for grammar success.

Catchy animated songs and rhymes make English language arts exciting! Grammar Jammers animations will have you tapping your toes to the beat while learning grammar usage and mechanics. Each animation unlocks a quiz. Answer all the quiz questions for all the Grammar Jammers topics and unlock an interactive reward.

Grammar Jammers Primary Edition, Grades K-5 Catchy animated songs and rhymes make English language arts exciting! Grammar Jammers animations will have you tapping your toes to the beat while learning grammar usage and mechanics. Each animation unlocks a quiz. Answer all the quiz questions for all the Grammar Jammers topics and unlock an interactive reward.

There are a few levels of Grammar only one is shown on this list

Whether you are a student who wants to get better grades on tests and assignments, a professional who wants to communicate effectively in the workplace, or an English-language learner who wants to master English grammar, Pearson’s GrammarPrep app series can help you get your writing where it needs to be. Good writing is key to advancing academically and professionally. The majority of employers say that writing proficiency directly affects hiring and promotion decisions. Your use of grammar can contribute to a lasting first impression – make sure that impression is a positive one! Created by Pearson, the world’s leading educational company, GrammarPrep is the first grammar app built specifically for college students and professionals. With multimedia tutorials, quizzes and mastery tests, answer feedback, and progress tracking, it is the only grammar app that offers proven, educational-quality content. If you’ve used Pearson’s Algebra Prep apps for math, you now have the same chance to improve your skills in grammar!

Whether you are a student who wants to get better grades on tests and assignments, a professional who wants to communicate effectively in the workplace, or an English-language learner who wants to master English grammar, Pearson’s GrammarPrep app series can help you get your writing where it needs to be. Good writing is key to advancing academically and professionally. The majority of employers say that writing proficiency directly affects hiring and promotion decisions. Your use of grammar can contribute to a lasting first impression – make sure that impression is a positive one! Created by Pearson, the world’s leading educational company, GrammarPrep is the first grammar app built specifically for college students and professionals. With multimedia tutorials, quizzes and mastery tests, answer feedback, and progress tracking, it is the only grammar app that offers proven, educational-quality content. If you’ve used Pearson’s AlgebraPrep apps for math, you now have the same chance to improve your skills in grammar!

Whether you are a student who wants to get better grades on tests and assignments, a professional who wants to communicate effectively in the workplace, or an English-language learner who wants to master English grammar, Pearson’s GrammarPrep app series can help you get your writing where it needs to be. Good writing is key to advancing academically and professionally. The majority of employers say that writing proficiency directly affects hiring and promotion decisions. Your use of grammar can contribute to a lasting first impression – make sure that impression is a positive one! Created by Pearson, the world’s leading educational company, GrammarPrep is the first grammar app built specifically for college students and professionals. With multimedia tutorials, quizzes and mastery tests, answer feedback, and progress tracking, it is the only grammar app that offers proven, educational-quality content. If you’ve used Pearson’s Algebra Prep apps for math, you now have the same chance to improve your skills in grammar!

Whether you are a student who wants to get better grades on tests and assignments, a professional who wants to communicate effectively in the workplace, or an English-language learner who wants to master English grammar, Pearson’s GrammarPrep app series can help you get your writing where it needs to be. Good writing is key to advancing academically and professionally. The majority of employers say that writing proficiency directly affects hiring and promotion decisions. Your use of grammar can contribute to a lasting first impression – make sure that impression is a positive one! Created by Pearson, the world’s leading educational company, GrammarPrep is the first grammar app built specifically for college students and professionals. With multimedia tutorials, quizzes and mastery tests, answer feedback, and progress tracking, it is the only grammar app that offers proven, educational-quality content. If you’ve used Pearson’s Algebra Prep apps for math, you now have the same chance to improve your skills in grammar!

Whether you are a student who wants to get better grades on tests and assignments, a professional who wants to communicate effectively in the workplace, or an English-language learner who wants to master English grammar, Pearson’s GrammarPrep app series can help you get your writing where it needs to be. Good writing is key to advancing academically and professionally. The majority of employers say that writing proficiency directly affects hiring and promotion decisions. Your use of grammar can contribute to a lasting first impression – make sure that impression is a positive one! Created by Pearson, the world’s leading educational company, GrammarPrep is the first grammar app built specifically for college students and professionals. With multimedia tutorials, quizzes and mastery tests, answer feedback, and progress tracking, it is the only grammar app that offers proven, educational-quality content. If you’ve used Pearson’s Algebra Prep apps for math, you now have the same chance to improve your skills in grammar!

A phrasal verb is a combination of a verb and a preposition, a verb and an adverb, or a verb with both an adverb and a preposition. Phrasal verbs are very common in spoken and written English so we need them to understand. This app helps you with just that.

• Picture and voice communication aid for children • Ideal for pre speech toddlers or children with disabilities • Heighten child engagement by adding your own photos • Confirm all choices with a yes/ no screen

iConverse is an educational tool designed for young children, autistic individuals, and individuals with other communicative disabilities, and also toddler-aged children who have yet to master language. iConverse is an Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC) application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that replaces bulky and expensive communication devices used in the past. iConverse gives users the ability to carry an AAC device in their pocket creating a means of communication that is appropriate, effective and discreet.

Idioms are the real guts of English. Idioms app provides learners with an opportunity to improve strategies for successfully utilising native level expressions Idioms is a multiple choice quiz system for English which provides 700 common idiomatic questions across different topic & categories with explanations. It also contains over 600 idioms with meanings and explanations as a tool to learn new idioms. Idioms was designed to provide a method of aquiring idiomatic expressions and a context for using them in everyday English conversation. Idioms can help learners to improve their understanding and usage of idioms. Custom timer setting can assist learners to improve response times under exam time constraints. Research suggests that kids and adults learn most quickly when playing learning games with real-time error-feedback.

iTalk Recorder is a full-featured recording app with a streamlined and intuitive user interface. Press the big red button to record; press it again to stop. You can append to existing recordings, choose from three levels of recording quality (11.025, 22.05, or 44.10 kHz sample rates), and manage your recordings, all with just a fingertip.

12 Timed Reading Practice Lite lets readers in grades K-4 practice fluency, the ability to read smoothly and quickly.

Look2Learn (L2L), a revolutionary AAC software application for the iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad allows individuals to work at their communicative level using photographs to express wants and needs. The easy to use system integrates preloaded vocal output so that individuals can use their “voice”. In addition, users are able to record their own personalized audio and pair it with photos!

mprove Your Vocabulary! Middle School Vocabulary Prep was designed for the busy student looking for an advantage in solidifying their word skills: - Study anywhere and learn over 300 vocabulary words at your own pace - Look through the definitions and practice with both word and definition quizzes to get ready for the big final test - Email your test results to share your score - Increase your vocabulary knowledge and your scores! Teachers and parents - have your students email their scores from the 100 question assessment test as a way to provide extra credit for mastery of the vocabulary.

MindMeister lets you create, edit and share your mind maps on the go and synchronize them with the award-winning free online MindMeister service.

Model Me Going Places™ for the iPad is a great visual teaching tool for helping your child learn to navigate challenging locations in the community. Each location contains a photo slideshow of children modeling appropriate behavior.

The primary purpose of MY CHOICE BOARD is to present a visual display of “choices” to those with limited communication skills. This gives individuals with Autism, communication delays or learning differences the opportunity to be independent and express their own specific needs and wants.

My First AAC is for iPad only, and is a wonderful AAC application for kids with special needs. You can choose different categories, and then select certain things to vocalize within those categories.

Pages is the most beautiful word processor you’ve ever seen on a mobile device. This powerful app has been exclusively designed for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Create, edit, and view documents wherever you are. Pages works with iCloud, so your documents stay up to date on all your devices — automatically. And the Retina display on the new iPad makes everything you do in Pages even more brilliant.

Capture the right moments and be creative with PhotoComic! Create your own comic strip and share with your friends.

Picture Scheduler is based on the other app in App Store - Audio Notes. This gives you reliability, which has already experienced thousands of costumers worldwide. Audio Notes application is good for fast and easy recording of your ideas instead of writing it into a calendar. But what if your ideas are your personal tasks? We have been thinking about the same thing and we have developed new application - Picture Scheduler.

Warning: Cute alert! Pocket Penguins, streaming in real-time from the California Academy of Sciences, provides an intimate view into our live African penguin exhibit. Watch the birds swim, dive, flirt, nest and relax from any one of three live webcams. Listen in as Academy biologists answer questions from visitors during meal time, daily at 10:30am and 3:00pm PST.

Augmentive Communication

Using scroll wheels student practice building sentences.

Text to speech type and speak, save phrases

Splatter paint on your iPad with this simple and free application.

Inspired by Les, Talk Assist is an alternative speech aid that provides a voice for people who cannot speak for themselves.

Talking Tom Cat 2, the sequel to the beloved application, is an all-time favorite of many kids who have autism, making it one of the best free ipad applications for children on the spectrum. Tom repeats what you say, gets into pillow fights, and reacts to your touch.

TapToTalk turns an iPhone™, iPad™ or iPod touch® into an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device. TapToTalk makes communication fun, like another “game” on this cool device. Just tap a picture and TapToTalk speaks. Each picture can lead to another screen of pictures.

Verbal Victor is an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) software application for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. Verbal Victor is designed primarily for individuals with emerging communication skillls and developmental delays. It has two modes: administrator and user modes. In administrator mode, Verbal Victor can be customized to show one, two, four, or six (and up to eight buttons in iPad) on each screen. Parents or therapists can also use the administrator mode to create new buttons and record related audio for each button. In user mode, Verbal Victor allows the user to communicate in the same way as he/she would with a traditional AAC device. Access to the administrator mode is protected by gesture control (the user must hold two fingers on the screen) and a password.

Verbally is an easy-to-use, comprehensive Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) app for the iPad. Verbally brings speech to those without and enables real conversation with its simple, intuitive design. Just tap in what you want to say and Verbally speaks for you. Premium Features available with an in-app purchase.

Be the maestro with Virtuoso Piano Free, a new iPod touch, iPhone and iPad instrument. Learn and play the piano anytime and anywhere.

Voice4u is an simple application that consists numerous of fun and memorable images that can help assist and improve language. There could be countless reasons of why individuals may be struggling with impeding communication; ie. could be due to autism, stroke, language barrier, traumatic brain injury, etc. It can be a frustrating process for both the struggling individual, and the ones around him/her. But with Voice4U, you can easily bridge the communication gap and have a more better and accurate understanding of the individual’s wants and needs. Voice4U is easy to use, light weight(use it anywhere/anytime), and comes with an affordable price tag of $49.99.

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