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Closing the Gap is a website that provides resources for parents or families with children with special needs in finding different, affective assistive technology. There are so many resources and researched articles that provide helpful information about assistive technology. This website and organization has live webinars, and this would also be a resource for families to find ideas of strategies that they could implement for their child.

http://www.closingthegap.com/

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The National Association of Parents with Children in Special Education is a website and association to help support and assist parents that have children with special needs. It provides different resources for parents as well as information about transition services. There is a place where parents can ask different questions about their children, and there are also publications for parents to access. This organization is a place that parents and families that have children with special needs can access so many different resources, help, and different information that can assist them.

http://www.napcse.org/

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My Autism Team is a website for parents with children with autism. It allows parents to connect and communicate with other parents who are dealing with similar circumstances. On this website, parents can ask questions about autism or therapists in the area, etc. Parents can communicate about their daily experiences and seek advice through this helpful resource.

https://www.myautismteam.com/

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iReward is an app that is helpful for many children with special needs that need motivation through a reward system. It promotes positive behaviors and also utilizes visual rewards. Users of the app can create star charts, token boards, etc. in order to accomplish their motivational system. It costs $2.99.

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SmartEdApp is an app that parents, as well as teachers and therapists, can use for their child (or student) with special needs to track and log therapies as well as assign goals and track IEP goals. This app is customizable to individual children, and therefore, a child can partake in the activities that are helpful for him.

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Lotsahelpinghands.com is a website that is helpful for parents that have children with special needs. It provides a “help calendar” that friends or community members can sign up on to provide meals, help with transportation to appointments, and many more needs that the parent or family may have. This website helps to give parents with special needs children help that they greatly need as well as relieve some of their day to day stresses.

http://lotsahelpinghands.com/

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Brown Bear Calendaris an app for parents of children with special needs. This app helps parents to keep track of their children’s schedule, which might include multiple appointments, therapy sessions, etc. This app can be shared with others, and it includes highlighting features and others, which make it easier to manage.

http://www.brownbearsw.com/freecal/

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Cause and Effect Sensory Light Box is an app that was originally created for teenagers with autism, but it is also developmentally appropriate for children as well. This app uses animation and sound to present basic touch skills and awareness. Three areas that this app is specifically helpful for are cause and effect, targeting, and visual attention.

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ABA Flash Cards and Games – Emotions is an app that helps identify and understand different emotions and facial expressions. This would be helpful for someone with autism. It uses different pictures, voices, games, and many other features to help people that struggle with identifying emotions. This app is customizable and engaging, and it costs $0.99.

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Articulation Station is an app that was created by a certified Speech-Language Pathologist that helps children with speech delays or issues pronounce and practice sounds. This app is engaging and implements fin and exciting activities and games that help target different sounds and words to help their speech development. This app is free.

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Social Stories Creator and Library is an app that helps to teach social skills to children with special needs and autism in particular. Children with autism often need direct instruction about social skills, and this app provides an easier way to teach children with visuals and stories. It helps children to know what is expected and what to expect in different situations.

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SoundingBoard is an app that turns an iPhone or iPad into a communication technology. You can create boards while utilizing ones own photos and audio recordings. This app is helpful for children with special needs by helping them communicate through pictures and audio sounds.

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Sign Me A Story is an app that uses stories and videos to teach different signs. This app is helpful for children with communication challenges. It is a creative and exciting, and it provides an engaging way to help children learn sign language.

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Storyline Online is a helpful website for children because it reads different books aloud to the children. It is engaging, and the website shows the pictures of the story pages while reading the words on the pages. This website is an engaging and creative way to help assist literacy skills in an exciting way.

www.storylineonline.net

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The Sounding Out Machine is an app that helps assist children in reading challenging words through techniques and audio sounds. It is a great way for them to be independent while still receiving help. This app shows students how to separate words into different syllables as well as how to blend phonemes together and pronounce words. It costs $3.99.

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Autism Learning Games: Camp Discovery! is an evidence-based app for children with autism that provides learning opportunities as well as games, which serve as a break or reward. The app includes activities that involve objects, shapes, colors, emotions, community helpers, and many more. It was developed by the Center for Autism and Related Disorders. The app was designed to be easy to use, and it is free.

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Dexteria is an app that is helpful for children with developmental delays. This particular app does not include games, but it provides therapeutic hand exercises to help improve fine motor skills. It includes a multi-touch interface to help strengthen, control, and help dexterity in order to enhance fine motor skills. This is a great app for fine motor help because it engages children and keeps them motivated to participate since it involves technology, which is often appealing to children, and it costs $3.99.

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Speech with Milo: Verbs is an app that was created by a licensed speech pathologist and was designed to help infants, toddlers, and other children with language delays. The app incorporates an animated mouse named Milo who demonstrates more than one hundred actions; the app focuses on common verbs, which include, ‘bounce’, ‘count’, and ‘play’. This app keeps children entertained while helping their language delay in a developmentally appropriate fashion. This app costs $2.99.

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Social Skill Builder is an app for children with developmental delays.This app provides interactive videos that promote social thinking, language, and behavior that are important to everyone’s daily lives. It helps children to think about problem solving, life skills, critical thinking, emotions, and consequences. Through the videos, the children engage in different thinking skills, which help them become aware of important social skills. This app costs $2.99.

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Visual Routine is an app that would be helpful for children who need to have a visual picture of their day-to-day routine. This is helpful for children with developmental delays as well as children with autism who need predictability. This app provides ways to build a daily schedule with pictures, words, or a combination of both. It can be accustomed to different ages of children. It could be a game changer for a child with autism and help him/her regulate his/her body due to this simple app that provides stability and consistency. This app costs $3.99