Educational Apps for Early ChildhoodDisclaimer: ABLE Tech does not own the majority of these applications and only provides images, descriptions, and prices to help users find the best apps to download. To search for apps specifically in the ABLE Tech inventory, go to the ABLE Tech inventory and search for Device Type “apps”.

Daily Living Device Type

Description Price

Autism Tracker Pro

iOS Autism Tracker Pro app can be life-changing for families. Track what matters to the child and family. Use the visual calendar and multi-item graphs to view and discuss patterns. Share individual events or entire screens with the team using Dropbox, email or Twitter.

Free Lite Version and Pro Version $9.99

Breathe Think Do with Sesame

iOS This app will help a child to self-regulate by learning to “Breathe, Think, Do.” First, help the monster calm down by breathing after facing a challenge, next think of plans to problem solve the challenge, and lastly, choose a method to navigate the challenge.

Free

Choiceworks iOS The Choiceworks app is a picture-based learning tool that helps children complete daily routines, regulate emotions, improve waiting skills, and make choices.

$14.99

iDo Getting Dressed

iOS iDo Getting Dressed is an application that walks children through daily routines that require a combination of motor, cognitive, emotional, and social skills. The app’s components include example videos, sequenced pictures of step-by-step dressing directions, and games to practice daily routine sequences by adapted learning strategies.

Free – In-App Purchase

iDo Hygiene iOS iDo Hygiene is an application that walks children through daily routines that require a combination of motor, cognitive, emotional, and social skills. The app’s components include example videos, sequenced pictures of step-by-step hygiene directions, and games to practice daily routine sequences by adapted learning strategies.

Free – In-App Purchase

Kids ToDo List Google Play and iOS

Kids ToDo List app helps create a task list by simply arranging picture cards for kid’s chores and tasks. The Kids ToDo List supports use of children’s own pictures and voice recordings. This is a great app for setting routines, daily living, and much more. 

Free

Tantrum Tracker

Google Play

Tantrum Tracker app is a handy way to keep a record of a child's behavior by entering data. Observe and document behaviors while

$2.99

and iOS recording the date and time automatically. The Tantrum Tracker has a built-in reward system that the caregiver and child can design.. You award or remove stars or half-stars that have been agreed upon as the desired reward.

Wait Timer iOS The Wait Timer app is a visual timer that teaches waiting with a social story that explains the importance of waiting. The timer includes a color-coded clock that a child can watch while they are waiting to do something. When the timer runs out, the child knows the waiting is over.

$2.99

Environmental Adaptations

Device Type

Description Price

Adapted Play Book – EIEIO!

iOS EIEIO! Is the first in a series of interactive playbooks for children with disabilities. Children will learn about farm animals and animal sounds through this engaging app that provides increased literacy activities, attention to storybooks, independent play, beginning augmentative and alternative Communication (AAC) skills, beginning touch skills, and beginning switch skills. Accessible features include real digitized voices, touch sensitivity, auditory preview, single switch automatic scanning, step scanning, and tap scanning. The application works with these environmental controls: R.J. Cooper’s Bluetooth switch interface, AbleNet’s Blue2 Switch Interface, and APPlicator.

$6.99

Bumper Cars Google Play and iOS

Bumper Cars app is a simple touch or switch game to encourage targeting skills, counting, and developing two-switch skills. This app uses large targets and plain backgrounds for clearer visual discrimination. Touch either of the bumper cars or press one of the switches to knock the other car off the screen.

$2.99

Little Lost Penguin

Google Play and iOS

Little Lost Penguin app is a single touch or single switch accessible game. Help the little penguin safely find his way home by waiting and watching for obstacles. This app is excellent to increase attention, visual scanning, and switch access. 

$2.99

Five Speckled Frogs

iOS Five Speckled Frogs app offers an uncluttered platform with bright images to assist with visual discrimination difficulties. It can be used with Bluetooth interface switch accessibility. Count down from five to zero as the frogs jump off the log, and sing along to the catchy tune.

$2.99

Forest Fighter Google Play and iOS

Forest Fighter app is a fun cause and effect game with special features to improve hand-eye coordination, visual perception, visual tracking, switch access, and fine motor skills. This app has fully customizable settings that can be adjusted based on the user skill level. In this game, a forest fire is suddenly raging out of control. Drip water droplets on the fire to save the forest. Touch the screen or switch to activate the water droplets to put out the forest fire.

$2.99

Racing Cars Google Play and iOS

The Racing Car app is an accessible switch game that introduces switch scanning and selection using one or two switches with auditory prompts. This app has bright graphics, large targets, and dark background making this game ideal for users with visual difficulties and motor impairments learning to locate and target pictures. 

$2.99

Shhhhh! Google Play and iOS

The Shhhhh! app is excellent for language development, turn-taking, early touch skills, targeting skills, and two-switch access skills. This app uses large targets and plain backgrounds for clearer visual discrimination. Wake Old Wilfred up by touching the door, or press one switch to let in a noisy musician. Touch Wilfred or press the second switch, and he will say Shhhhh! to send the music away. Or listen to the whole tune and keep Wilfred awake!

$2.99

Splat The Clowns

Google Play and iOS

Splat The Clowns is a silly app that allows one to participate in clownishness games. Splat The Clown with a single touch or single switch access device by hitting the moving target at the proper time. The game allows custom settings to choose a speed perfect for the player. Splat The Clowns helps to develop hand-eye coordination, switch timing skills, visual tracking and waiting.

$2.99

Switch Accessible Puzzles

iOS Switch Accessible Puzzles is an exciting 3D puzzle matching app for kids. When the puzzle piece is placed in the correct cutout, a new puzzle piece appears. Once all the pieces are placed into the accurate cutouts, a new puzzle board appears. The app allows switch accessibility with auto scan, scan second intervals, step scanning, and direct selection. 

$7.99

Train Tracker Google Play and iOS

The Train Tracker app will help develop cause/effect, thinking, problem-solving, visual perception, and two-switch access skills. Choose a train and then build a track from a choice of straights, curves, and cross-over tiles. Activate the engine, coaches, and passengers to run the train around the track.

$2.99

Turtle Invaders

Google Play and iOS

Turtle Invaders is a fun, cause and effect game, with special features to improve hand-eye coordination, visual perception, visual tracking, switch access, and fine motor skills. This app has fully customizable settings that can be adjusted based on the user's skill level. The turtles have decided to take over the underwater Aqua world. The fearless Octoremus has decided to fight back!! To stop the turtles, Octoremus must ink the turtles, which magically transport them back to the lair. Touch the screen or switch to put the turtles back in the cave.

Free

LCD Device Type

Description Price

Baby’s Musical Hands

Google Play and iOS

Baby's Musical Hands feature brightly-colored squares that a child can touch. Each time the screen is touched, colorful stars will burst from their fingers. Watch them delight in the audio and visual feedback!

$0.99

Baby Piano for Toddlers & Kids

iOS Baby Piano for Toddlers & Kids is a collection of musical puzzles. It has ten games that provide a playful way for children to explore and create music, record music, practice cause and effect, listening skills, finger isolation, and working memory.

Free – Offers In-App Purchase

Cookie Doodle iOS Virtually bake and decorate a cookie with the Cookie Doodle app. The app provides all the virtual necessities: the dough, a rolling pin, cookie cutters, your choice of frostings, sprinkles, and candies. The interactive app works on fine motor skills, sequencing, early literacy skills, and creativity.

$0.99

Dexteria Jr. - Fine Motor Skills Development

iOS Dexteria Jr. is a fun and engaging fine motor and hand readiness app. The activities are specially designed for kids ages two through six. Dexteria Jr. is filled with hand and finger activities that take full advantage of the iPad's multi-touch interface to help build strength, motor control, and dexterity.

$3.99

Finger Paint with Sounds

Google Play and iOS

Finger Paint with Sounds offers a multi-sensory approach to the user’s first interaction with the touch screen. Finger paint with different colors, multiple sound effects, music, or with the option to turn the sound off.

Free

Fireworks Arcade

Amazon, Google Play, iOS, and Microsoft

Fireworks Arcade is a fun-filled app for all ages. Tap or drag to create brilliant displays of light and sound. Paint art with firework or watch a generated show. This is a simple cause and effect app to increase attention, use finger isolation, and regulate sensory needs.

Free – Offers in-App Purchase

Fish School – 123 ABC

Amazon, Google Play and

Fish School – 123 ABC app is a playful underwater experience filled with colorful fish and friendly sea life creatures. It provides eight educational activities. Learn about letters, numbers, shapes,

Free

iOS cause and effect, differences, and colors with the colorful fish and friendly sea life creatures.

Five Sharks Swimming

Google Play and iOS

Five Sharks Swimming app encourages attention, listening, and engagement. This activity is an enjoyable way to help a child become familiar with seeing and hearing numbers from one to five. The app is ideal for young children requiring a simple touch or a one-hit switch for cause and effect. The music and animation stop at the end of the verse, and a simple touch of the screen will continue the counting song.

$2.99

Inclusive Smarty Pants

Google Play and iOS

Inclusive Smarty Pants app is an exploratory, animated, expressions game for early learners. Pick one of the characters then choose an expression for the character to act out, and then encourage imitation with the learner to study facial expressions.

$2.99

Itsy Bitsy Spider – Easter Egg

iOS Itsy Bitsy Spider app offers children a fun, interactive, and educational experience. Follow the spider on an adventure with hidden surprises on each page and poke the spider to move to the next screen. Learn to sing, count, visually track, and increase attention to tasks with this app.

Free

Learn & Play by Fisher-Price

iOS Learn and Play is a colorful play-based app with age-appropriate early literacy content. The app works on a simple tap gesture, has large-touch target areas, and a non-cluttered background. The app layout is predictable, and the activities are repetitive, making it easy and fun for all participants.

Free

Monkey Preschool Lunchbox

Amazon, Google Play and iOS

Monkey Preschool Lunchbox app is designed for preschoolers with six different games. The lovable monkey guides the preschooler throughout the game. Learn early literacy skills of colors, letters, counting, differences, matching, and shapes with interactive sounds, voice recordings, and an animated sticker reward system.

$1.99

Old MacDonald - HD

iOS The Old MacDonald - HD is a fun interactive app for toddlers based on the classic children’s song. Select an animal from the wheel, drag and drop the animal on the farm, and see where the animal belongs. In this app, build fine motor skills, learn word recognition, listen to rhythm and rhyme, and sharpen auditory skills. 

$1.99

Peekaboo Barn Amazon, Google Play and iOS

Peekaboo Barn app is an interactive game using farm animals. Inside a little bouncing barn, friendly farm animals are waiting to pop out and make a surprise. Tap the doors to find out what is inside. Practice predications, sounds, and teach early reading skills with this fun interactive app.

$1.99

Peeping Musicians

Google Play and iOS

Peeping Musicians app is designed to encourage early learning looking and observation skills. This app addresses the necessary touch targeting skills. Watch for the peeping musician as he or she appears from the top or side of the screen. Touch them to make them move to center stage and play a piece of music.

$2.99

Sensory Light Box

Amazon, Google Play and iOS

Sensory Light Box app uses abstract animation, music, and sound to introduce necessary touch skills and awareness of cause and effect. Thirty colorful scenes are included ranging from calming, and immersive, to energetic, and stimulating.

$3.99

Sensory Sound Box

iOS Sensory Sound Box is a developmental touch skills app. Sensory Sound Box is also a popular choice for users who are beginning to explore touchscreen phones and tablets. Each of the twenty-four scenes plays a continuous sound that changes pitch or intensity as one or two fingers move around the screen. Several color palettes are provided, including high contrast variations for those with visual impairment. The app supports touch-free play for cause and effect switch access, single tap, and sound activation switch control using the microphone.

$3.99

Tap Tap Baby iOS Tap Tap Baby app has three interactive levels working on many skills: recognizing emotions, waiting, cause and effect, and early literacy skills. First, interact with a cute monkey face as it pops through a range of emotions with every tap. Second, sweet surprises are around every corner as tapping on a picture reveals a hide 'n seek image. Third, tap on the baby’s favorite animal to reveal lively animations and sounds.

$1.99

Wheels on the Bus

Google Play and iOS

Wheels on the Bus app is an interactive book by Duck Duck Moose. Poke or slide things on the screen to see what happens! Learn to sing, visually track, directionality, and increase attention to tasks with this app.

Free

Hearing Device Type Description Price AB Listening Adventures

iOS AB Listening Adventures is an app that helps children with hearing loss practice listening for words in sentences. This app helps to increase auditory processing, attention to task, cooperation, and waiting skills. The child watches the adult naming two pictures in a sentence. The child then taps each of the named images to successfully progress in the game.

Free

Articulation Station

iOS Articulation Station app is a comprehensive articulation program offering six engaging activities practicing target sounds. Each activity in Articulation Station has real photographs isolated on a white background that are clear and easy to identify. The Articulation Station is customizable by using personal images, creating word lists, and participating in group sessions.

$59.99

ASL with Care Bears

iOS ASL with Care Bears app is designed for kids to learn American Sign Language! Kids will learn common signs, popular phrases, and the ASL alphabet in the categories of colors, feelings, shapes, textures, and expression of needs. Learn by reading along and mimicking the characters throughout the program. 

Free – Offers in-App Purchase

BabyBeats™ Resource

Google Play and iOS

BabyBeats app is an early intervention resource to teach a child to listen and communicate through sounds, music, and voice. Discover how to use music to stimulate bonding, brain development, early communication, listening skills, and early literacy skills. Find instructional videos, the parent guide, musical tracks, and transportation and animal picture cards in the app to guide communication.

Free

Basic Sounds – for Toddlers

Amazon, Google Play, and iOS

The Basic Sounds for Toddlers app offers a primary sound collection that is animated, has various voices with voice-recording, and bright color images. The app is easy to play by tapping on each object to explore the displayed picture sound. Enjoy the colorful, exciting new games that help a child acquire new cognitive and fine motor skills.

Free – Offers in-App Purchase

Following Directions Monsters

iOS Following Directions Monsters app was designed to help children practice and improve auditory memory and following directions skills with up to five participants. This application starts with basic recognition of items, concepts of color, size, and order. Graduate to more complex directions involving sequential directional skills.

$19.99

Listen and Learn

Google Play and iOS

Listen and Learn app is a simple fun game to help children learn the sounds of familiar objects, vehicles, and popular animals. Select from twelve different categories with clear and straight forward animated graphics with sound. The app includes a 'Which sound?' game for children to test knowledge of sounds. A random sound is heard, and the child selects

Free

which sound they heard from a choice of 2 images. After five consecutive correct answers, they are rewarded with an animated firework celebration.

Phonak Leo

iOS Phonak Leo is an interactive storybook app that helps parents and teachers put children at ease with the hearing care process and associated technologies. Leo’s storybook is suitable for children aged 1-8 years. It uses easy-to-follow language and engaging full-color illustrations to depict Leo and his animal friends as he travels through his hearing care journey. The app contains two stories: “Leo Gets Hearing Aids” and “Leo Gets a Roger System.” In these engaging stories, Leo learns how using his hearing assistive technology can help him have more fun and do better at school.

Free

Recreation Device Type

Description Price

GoNoodle – Kids Videos

Google Play and iOS

Get moving in the GoNoodle app and participate in videos that include dance, yoga exercises, and mindful activities. Increase bilateral coordination, balance, and gross motor movement by imitation of choreography with popular music favorites.

Free

Super Stretch Yoga - HD

Google Play and iOS

The Adventures of Super Stretch is a fun interactive yoga app created for kids. Super Stretch is a superhero guide who takes users on journeys with friends to engage in movement, play, and yoga poses.

Free

Speech Communication

Device Description Price

Avaz AAC Amazon, Google Play and iOS

Avaz is an augmentative and alternative communication app (AAC) fully featuring pictures and text. Avaz includes a training module for new users and caregivers. Avaz has a wide range of customizable features to program the AAC device for a specific user.

$199.99

Cough Drop

Amazon, Google Play, iOSWeb Browser, and Windows

Cough Drop is an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) app and support tool that users can install on most devices to access communication. The app includes starter boards for different communication levels, customizable button size, pre-recorded audio, and personalized photos.

$200.00

LAMP iOS Language Acquisition through Motor Planning (LAMP) is a therapeutic approach, using motor learning principles and a voice output communication aid, to give non-verbal individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities a method to develop independent and spontaneous communication. Individuals using the LAMP approach learn to use words and build sentences to communicate wants, needs, and ideas by pressing buttons on this speech-generating app.

$299.99

Proloquo2Go iOS Proloquo2Go is an augmentative and alternative communication) (AAC) tool that is a symbol-supported app designed to promote the growth of communication skills and foster language development through research-based vocabularies.

$249.99

Snap Core First iOS and Windows

Snap Core First is an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) app designed to let users start communicating quickly. Snap Core First users stay engaged by customizable paths built for the individual. Snap Core First allows for edits and changes of grid sizes, drag and drop access with standard functions, link pages, and has a search tool.

$49.99

Snap Scene iOS and Windows

Snap Scene is an instant scene-based communication and language learning app for children. On the fly, users can take a photo, tag the photo with voice recordings, and turn real environmental scenes into natural communication avenues.

$49.99

SpeechBuddy Google Play and iOS

SpeechBuddy is an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) tool that allows a person with a verbal disability to communicate by translating pictures into speaking words. Tap a word bubble or image, and SpeechBuddy will speak the words. Add unique phrases or words to customize the

$2.99

app for specific needs, wants, or desires.

Tippy Talk Google Play and iOS

Tippy Talk is an augmentative and -alternative communication (AAC) tool that allows a person with a verbal disability to communicate by translating pictures into text messages. The images can then be sent to a family member or a caregiver's phone. Tippy Talk allows a non-verbal person to communicate and express desires, wants, needs, and feelings.

$99.00 One Year Subscription

Vision Device Types

Descriptions Price

Big Bang Bundle Google Play and iOS

Big Bang Bundle app was developed in conjunction with Teachers of the Visually Impaired and was designed explicitly for children with low vision. There are twenty-one high contrast animated images and great sound effects designed to provide visual stimulation and develop hand-eye coordination skills for users with low vision and perceptual difficulties. Both apps offer similar comprehensive options for access using touch or switches, color preference and reward time allowing one to identify the students’ preferences and adapt the apps accordingly.

$34.99

Big Trucks Google Play and iOS

The Big Trucks app is excellent for language development, turn-taking, early touch skills, targeting skills, and two-switch access skills. This app uses large targets and plain backgrounds for clearer visual discrimination and motor control. Touch or select either of the two large clear images to see the truck work; each one has two different animations and sometimes goes away to be replaced by another vehicle.

$2.99

Color Dots iOS Color Dots is a colorful, visual tracking game app that improves finger dexterity, hand-eye coordination, and sensory stimulation. Color Dots start with one bright bouncing dot. Pop the bubble, and more dots appear to replace the popped bubble.

$2.99

EDA PLAY TOBY iOS EDA PLAY TOBY is a helpful app to increase the skills of single touch, cause/effect, and visual perception. The app features bold colors with white frames. It allows the user to record the child's work for skill observation and includes a simulator of visual disorders. The app is a simple one-touch cause/effect method to find out what is hidden in the dark.

Free

Fisher-Price Story Rhymes Volumes 1-3

iOS Fisher-Price Story Rhymes has created three sing along nursery rhyme volume books. The apps are carefully designed for little ones with sharp contrast simple images, one hit cause and effect, and orderly backgrounds. Tap or swipe anywhere on the screen to turn the page to enjoy the fun songs and sounds.

Free

Sago Mini Sound Box

Amazon, Google Play and iOS

Sago Mini Sound Box is a musical box of sound surprises that is perfect for toddlers! Introduce children to sound and music with this magical app – shake, rattle, and tap! Listen for cheerful chimes, horns, drums, animals, and more.

$3.99

Touch the Sound iOS Touch the Sound is a fun new game app that allows kids to explore the world of sounds one touch at a time. This app focuses on helping kids learn to recognize familiar sounds and match the sounds to the picture.

$0.99

Tozzle iOS Tozzle is a fun, interactive jigsaw puzzle app with 40 designs. Tozzle keeps toddlers entertained while working on early literacy skills, fine motor skills, and hand-eye coordination. Pick one of the puzzles and solve by drag and drop action. If a child cannot find the proper placement for the puzzle piece, Tozzle will direct the way with helpful arrow guides.

$3.99