Provincial Integration Support Program (PISP) Apps

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1 Provincial Integration Support Program (PISP) Apps School District 8 and School District 20 Student Services Staff, and POPARD Consultant December 2011

2 Provincial Integration Support Program (PISP) Apps Name of App Subject/Domain area Ages/Target groups Comments Price Rating 1-5 Zoom Academic/numbers 8-12 Different types of numbers (motion math) (decimals, whole # s etc). Find the blank space for the target #. Arithmaroo1 Academic/numbers 4-40 Good # to object correspondence. Alphababyfre Academic/numbers 4+ Touch screen, hear name of #, Free 5 e /letters/spelling letter or photo you ve taken. Can add your own voice. Touch screen & throw pictures around the screen. A Bee Sees Academic/numbers 3+ Colours part is free guide bee Free/.99 3 /colours to the correct balloon. Slow Logic Lite Academic/numbers 3+ colours/shapes Free/1.9 5 /colours 9 Color Slapps Academic/colours 3+ very basic Find out of 1 to 3 choices. Pictello Academic/books 4+ Talking photo album. Can enter own photos & export in different formats MeeGenius Academic/books 4+ Reads story or child can read story without sound. Reads slowly with words highlighted. Lovely illustrations. Nice selection of stories 1.99 to 3.99 Read Me Stories Academic/books 3+ Reads story to or child can read story on own. A few free stories available. Story Wheel Academic/books 4+ Spin the wheel and record your voice as you tell part of the story prompted by the picture on the wheel. Name the story and re-play. Bookster Academic/books 3+ Reads story to child. Free stories are very simple. Words highlighted as read. Difficult to flip pages for little hands. Only 6 Free stories Free/can purchase stories Free (basic version)/ pay for pictures/ themes on wheel 2 Free stories, can buy

3 Toddler Puzzle Shapes Shapes Toddler Preschool 2 free stories Academic/shapes 3+ choose/match shape to target shape. Has a 4 piece puzzle between levels Academic/shapes 3+ Where s the? /Shapes flashcards/some fun games (popping balloons). vehicle word Match Academic/word recognition 4+ Match name of vehicle to picture. Names are very long and complicated (cement truck, Farm truck, army tank). ABC cards Academic/spelling 4+ Touch screen, listen to letter name, scroll through alphabet very basic Abby Animals Free Alpha Books lite Treasure Hunt Little Red Riding Hood Sesame Street: the playground Academic/spelling? Academic/spelling/ reading 4+ animal puzzles, then a monkey tells you the name of the animal (no spelling) 4+ 3 of 24 letter books (a,b&c). Has 6 words starting with the target letter, then each words is used in a sentence. Academic/spelling/ math/shapes etc 10+ Help the pirate find the treasure. Cool, but hard. Reading 4+ Narrated Little Red Riding Hood book. Can click on parts of the illustration to hear label of object (corresponds to one/ words in storty text) Reading 4+ Similar to Curious George Birthday book Reads story to you, can record your own voice reading story stories2learn Reading/Social 4+ take photos, add voice & text to read through stories/social stories. Looks like editing should be easy. Kids can match Memory with animals 2+ Great pictures with sound effects of animals, can make easy or difficult Tiger NG Memory 2+ Make a puzzle, find a picture Need to put in all of your own pictures, not user friendly, but great adaptable. Lots of pre-set up needed Free

4 Road vehicles Peekaboo ocean HD Lite Baby Touch and Hear Lite 3D Magic Words Free Vehicle sounds and finger dexterity Find animals in their environments Animal names and sounds Spelling 3-5 letter words 2+ Kids drag the vehicles across the ipad to the building it goes to. Vehicles make sounds. Only five vehicles on the free version, and only drives in a straight line. 2+ Moving animation, with funs music and sound effects 1-3 Cartoon characters. Large pics to touch. No animation for animals 6+ Great animation, beat your score,. Talking Tom or Talking Roby Repeating what child says with funny voices Any Cute animation and entertaining voices. Fruit book Labels fruit 1+ Large cartoon pics. Large objects to touch on Hello farm Sound animals 1+ Animated cartoons that make animal noises in various backgrounds Learn to talk sampler Vehicle book Singing Fingers I can drum Pictures of words on cards Pictures of vehicles Dextarity of fingers touch drum or cymbol and it makes the appropriate noise 2+ Says words on cards. Minimal entertainment value 2+ Multiple pictures, both real and cartoon of each vehicle. 6+ Trace various shapes and it makes tunes, or say different words or sounds. Adjust both speed of tracing and accuracy. 5+ Fine motor finger skills to touch each individual drum or cymbol. Free/can 4 upgread e PISP Sound/Music Apps Tonepad Music all Easy to use relaxing, sensory appeaser, fine motor Virtuoso Music all Can be used by two people; group activity? Social skills? Joint attention/turntaking

5 Relaxing sounds of nature Music/sounds all Calm-down, many choices, free, mixer is cool, different pix, easy to use Glee kareoke Music All Difficulty with operation, seems like it should be Fun sounds Sounds All Sound effects, questionable applicability Pocket piano Sound/Music All More tools but smaller, can t iphone only use with two people Beat wave Sound/Music all Easy to use, sound discrimination, patterns, relaxation?, multiple sounds than tonepad Nature Music Sounds All Very much like sounds of music.5 Free 1