If you work with children with autism or have difficulty regulating their emotions, you most likely have come across The Zones of Regulation. The Zones of Regulation itself is a curriculum that was developed by an occupational therapist named Leah Kuypers. She specializes in autism, ADHD and anxiety and developed the Zones, which incorporates ...

Board and Tokens is a free token board app by Maiz Apps. You can utilize this app for behavior, motivation or incorporate it as a visual for a therapy task. You are able to save a child's profile, change the theme of the board, take a picture of the reward, and choose from 1-24 tokens to be available during the task.There are also ...

 This is a unique game the combines both the use of the iPad's camera as well as the microphone. The premise of the game is the lay some bait out for a ''beastie'' and when you seem the beastie come out to eat the bait you slowly sneak over and take a picture. The image below shows the 5 bait types used in the game, each luring out a ...

This app must have been hiding on me in the app store because I was so mad I didn't know it existed! Knock Knock Family is a free app with a very simple concept. Someone is knocking at the door and you have to answer it to see who it is. The app come preload with a variety of cartoon characters including a mom, dad, grandma, etc. ... You are ...

I have been using Treat Street ($1.99) in my sessions for the last two weeks and my clients just love it! This is a fabulous app if you want to work on role-playing skills or just practice saying ''trick or treat'' for Halloween. To play, you dress your character up in their costume and then head out down your street ringing the doorbell or ...

Custom Boards by Smarty Ears Apps and Visual Creator by Silver Lining Multimedia are both similar apps that give you a ''Board Maker''-like experience on your iPad. As you can see by the comparison chart below, both of these apps have very similar features. So which one do I recommend? I really like Custom Boards because of the iTunes backup, ...

The Bag Game, .99 cents by all4mychild, is a new twist on the game 20 questions. This is a great app for children working on asking questions, describing, categorization, and more. To play you select the object (the app comes with 100 items to hide) to be hidden, hit hide and then ask your questions!  Along  the right side of the screen ...

  The CCELS is a screening tool similar to other early language screeners on the market, but priced much lower at $29.99. It's based on the Common Core Standards that are now making their way into the school systems (Is your school using them yet?). I am not an SLP in the schools so I am not totally up to speed on everything common core. ...

Here is a fun little app that costs 99 cents. It's developed by Jr Imagination for the iPhone but works perfectly on the iPad. On-The-Go appears to be meant for a fun car trip but also makes a fun creative therapy session! It is made up of three cool activities that foster creative thinking and are really great for expressive language. It ...

Story Builder  Story builder, by Mobile Education Store, works on both narrative formation and comprehension goals. This was one of the first few apps put out by Mobile Ed so it doesn't have some of the vibrant animation you have become accustomed with in the recent apps It offers 50 story lines for the user to create a verbal narrative ...