Mobile App Monday - Christmas Wooden Puzzles

Puzzles are often a favorite of many children and those with autism are no exception. This free app offers the look of wooden puzzles on your iPhone or iPad. Help those fine motor skills by placing the pieces in their proper places.

To learn more about this app, please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id573536245

Mobile App Monday - Peeping Musicians

Looking for an app to help encourage early looking/observation skills and develop basic touch and targeting skills? Peeping Musicians is a great cause and effect app that will also help develop hand-eye coordination and teach the use of a touch screen.

To learn more about this app, please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id490120210

Mobile App Monday - Swaha

Swaha is a great app for creating social stories using your own voice to narrate! Simply take pictures, then in the app, narrate each one and swipe to the next. Young kids can use it, people with autism spectrum disorders, brain injuries or dementia can use it or anyone who might need a little help remembering how to do something.

For more information about this app, please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id926110666

Mobile App Monday - Dexteria Jr.

Young children, especially between the ages of 2 and 6, need help with pre-writing skills. This app offers hand and finger exercises to begin building the fine motor control that is necessary for writing in school. It's great for both typically developing kids and those who have developmental delays. The sound effects can be adapted for use with kids with different sensory needs.

To learn more about this app, please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id624918435

Mobile App Monday - Rush Hour

Looking for a fun, problem-solving app? Rush Hour is a great sliding puzzle game similar to those old plastic ones you held in your hand as a kid. This version has four levels of difficulty with hints if you get stuck and a solve button for the ultimate hint. Great for all ages with 2,500 different games!

Want to learn more about it? Please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id336542036

Mobile App Monday - Drawing Pad

"Drawing Pad is a mobile art studio for all ages! Create your own art using photo-realistic crayons, markers, paint brushes, colored pencils, stickers, roller pens and more!" -iTunes

The app is a multiple award winner with the ability not only to draw but also to download coloring books. Great for folks of all ages who enjoy the sensory stimulus or want to work on fine motor skills.

To learn more about this app, please visit:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id358207332

Mobile App Monday - Fiete

"This hand-drawn interactive picture book with Fiete is particularly suitable for gently introducing children to the digital world. Your little one’s motor skills and logical thinking will be improved in a playful way, with attention to detail and design competence.

"Fiete dispenses entirely with explanatory text, making it particularly intuitive and thus suitable even for young children. In developing the app, we made sure that children never feel stressed or overwhelmed. Kids can play at their own pace and explore the world in a playful way while having loads of fun." -iTunes

For more information about this app, please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id586669403

Interactive Toy for Therapy

According to an article at makezine.com, one father has designed a tool to work on fine motor skills to use with his son who has autism. The article states that often kids with autism are easily distracted from the repetition of therapy, so adding lights and sounds to tasks helps keep kids focused.

To read the entire article, please visit:
http://makezine.com/2016/03/25/father-creates-an-interactive-toy-that-hones-fine-motor-skills-for-son-with-autism/

Mobile App Monday - Read&Write for iPad

Read&Write for iPad is an easy to use alternative keyboard and Safari toolbar to help with everyday tasks like emailing, working on documents, browsing the web and using online forms. It’s great for students, English Language Learners and people of all ages with dyslexia – or anyone who needs a little help typing with their iPad.

Want to learn more about it? Please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id934749270

Mobile App Monday - Leafapalooza: Catch the Falling Leaves

Looking for a fun fall app to keep kids entertained on these longer evenings? Simply catch the falling leaves! They'll start slow and fall faster and faster. Helps build hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills.

Want to learn more about it? Please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id910045969

Mobile App Monday - Sago Mini Doodle

Want to get your kids with autism communicating while they're being creative? Sago Mini Doodlecast is a unique drawing app that records your voice as you draw. Capture every stroke, word and giggle. Perfect for children ages 2-6. Play back your drawings and share them with friends and family.

Want to learn more about it? Please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id469487373

Mobile App Monday - Injini

"
Inspired by children with special needs, Injini's game developers worked for two years with parents, early childhood educators, and occupational, speech, and cognitive experts to create superior play-based learning experiences that help young children reach developmental milestones. The games were designed for and tested with children with autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome and various developmental delays, as well as typically developing preschoolers - they love it too!
" -iTunes

Want to know more about this app? Please visit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/injini-child-development-game/id452962000?mt=8

Songames for Sensory Processing

From the book description:

Songames for Sensory Processing is a fun and engaging activities book to be used with kids ages 3-8. Songames are musical activities for improving fine-and gross-motor skills, muscle strength, and rhythmicity. These 25 therapist-created Songames offer a world of developmental play activities. Includes a 2 disc CD set.

Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title, or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.