BridgingApps just published the following BridgingApps Reviewed App on the site: Courageous Kids helps prepare children for common anxiety-provoking situations in a positive and engaging way. The children’s storybook app offers a growing collection of unique stories, with an exclusive personalization…
Tag: Autism
AAC Awareness Month | Featured AAC App CoughDrop
CoughDrop is a robust augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) app that gives a voice to those who cannot speak vocally for themselves. The program can be used with a switch or with eye tracking for those with mobility concerns. The…
AAC Awareness Month October 2022
October is AAC Awareness Month. The goal is to raise awareness of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and to inform the public about the many different ways in which people communicate using communication devices. BridgingApps has created a new list…
Autumn Is on Its Way: Preparing for Cooler Weather 🍂
Read Time 3 Minutes The brains behind this blog are all Gulf Coast residents, so we empathize if you’ve had more than enough of summer. In some places, summer is the most beautiful season: in the southeastern U.S., it’s mostly…
Special Needs and Unwanted Surprises: Dealing with Last-Minute Disruptions in an Uncertain World
Read Time 5 Minutes If there’s anything worse than having your plans spoiled, it’s having plans spoiled when they include someone who has autism or Down syndrome, who never heard the unspoken “circumstances permitting” behind “we’ll go to the beach…
BridgingApps Reviewed App | If I Need Help
BridgingApps just published the following BridgingApps Reviewed App on the site: If I Need Help is a free web-based app (and mobile friendly) that allows family members and caregivers, to create a customized wearable QR code linked to an individual…
BridgingApps For Autism | Todoist: To-Do List & Tasks
BridgingApps just published the following BridgingApps Reviewed App on the site: Great for executive functioning, Todoist: To-Do List & Tasks is an app to organize, plan and collaborate on projects, both big and small. Use Todoist to: • Capture and…
Autism Awareness Month 2022 | Apps for Autism List
April is Autism Awareness Month! National Autism Awareness Month represents an excellent opportunity to promote autism awareness, autism acceptance and to draw attention to the tens of thousands facing an autism diagnosis each year. In recent years, there have been…
Autism Awareness Month | Traditional and Digital Play as Tools for Learning Featuring Toca Boca Apps
Toca Boca apps are great for children on the autism spectrum. With these apps, kids (along with a peer, parent, teacher or therapist) can have fun practicing: social interaction oral language taking turns engaging in pretend play reading facial expressions…
Communication App For Autism | Speech Blubs: Language Therapy
BridgingApps just published the following BridgingApps Reviewed App on the site: Speech Blubs: Language Therapy is a voice controlled app designed to help users learn new words and sounds. The app presents with videos of children repeating words or sounds.…