Mobile Applications

There are softwares and applications designed for smartphones that might help you keep yourself up-to-date efficiently or find the information you need.

Answers:YesNo

• Description: "Answers:YesNo was designed with one purpose in mind. Provide an easy to use, affordable way for a nonverbal young man with autism and motor planning issues to communicate with those around him. The application is straightforward. It has two, large, color-coordinated buttons...one for yes, and one for no. Press either, and you will hear a voice read your selection."

Autism News Reader

• Description: "Autism News Reader grabs the top stories from the best autism health news and information sites and delivers them to your iPhone."

Autism: Advice For Parents

• Description: "Advice For Parents of Young Autistic Children, presented as a public service by the Autism Research Institute, was written by four autism experts with over one hundred years of combined experience in the field: James B. Adams, Ph. D, Stephen M. Edelson, Ph. D, Temple Grandin, Ph. D, and the late Bernard Rimland, Ph. D . The intended audience is parents of newly diagnosed chil... Read Moredren, and the overriding message is that “autism is treatable”. This valuable overview acquaints the new parents with basic information on such subjects as effective forms of therapy, speech development, Asperger’s Syndrome, nutritional supplements, finding a doctor, possible environmental causes, what steps to take next, etc."

Autism.com

• Description: "In this application parents of children with autism, will be able to get a 360 degree view of the causes, symptoms, treatments, medical diagnoses and assessments related to autism. Using this information, parents will be better informed to support their children and make effective decisions concerning autism treatment."

Behavior Tracker Pro

• Description: "Behavior Tracker Pro is an iPhone/Ipod Touch application that allows BCBAs, behavioral therapists, aides, teachers or parents to track behaviors and graph them. The application was specifically designed to support the behavioral treatment plans for children with Autism however it can be used to track behavior in any field."

LangLearner Speaker

• Description: "Ideal for medical applications such as people with autism, lisp, sore throat, or other speech condition. The pad can also be used for fun and to play practical jokes. Also useful for correct vocabulary pronunciation. Utilizes advanced TTS (text to speech)."

mTrial

• Description: "mTrial is a software program that you use to record and report discrete trial, cold probe, and verbal behavior data. Research shows that it's easy to learn how to use and that it saves time."

PixTalk

• Description: "The software, available for download under an open-source license, lets kids form visual sentences by touching the phone's screen to select pictures and move them around."

Proloquo2Go

• Description: Proloquo2Go™ is a new product from AssistiveWare that provides a full-featured communication solution for people who have difficulty speaking. It brings natural sounding text-to-speech voices, up-to-date symbols, powerful automatic conjugations, a default vocabulary of over 7000 items, full expandability and extreme ease of use to the iPhone and iPod touch.

Question Builder

• Description: "Question Builder is designed to help elementary aged children learn to answer abstract questions and create responses based on inference. Extensive use of audio clips promotes improved auditory processing for special needs children with autism spectrum disorders or sensory processing disorders. Audio clip reinforcement can be turned on or off for non-special needs children."

Vocal Slides

• Description: "Vocal Slides is an application born from the idea of a parent whose son is autistic. This application does NOT cure autism, but has the precise aim of creating between father and son game enough to entice a child to communicate."