Special Needs iPad apps

Kayli has several impairments, including (DD) developmental delays, (CVI) Cortical Visual Impairment, Hearing impaired, as well as some motor delays.  Kayli was granted an iPad through IL's Project Reach, and donated to Kayli from Save R Sight.  We have found many apps that have helped guide Kayli in her healing and learning.  In order to pass the wealth of information along, we are sharing with you, the following list of iPad apps that we have found helpful/useful.  Please feel free to share with us, your favorites, and/or share Kayli's compiled list with others!

UPDATE:  Kayli was granted another iPad, this time through I Can Connect.  They also provided her with a head switch, an app that allows her to connect with others via her iPad (kind of like skype, but for the visually/hearing impaired), a magic arm to hold the ipad, as well as an arm to hold the head switch.  I Can Connect is a Nationwide (USA) program, that helps those who are hearing/visually impaired, connect with others.  They will come out to your house to evaluate which communicative device and software best matches your child's needs.  I highly recommend this program!  

• 3D Shape Shifter 2 HD (by Xanist Software)
• 100's of Buttons and Sounds (by Toneaphone, LLC)
• ABA Flash Cards & Games-Emotions (by Innovative Mobile Apps)
• Alexicom AAC (by Alexicom Tech LLC)
• Animal Fun (by Brian Pfeil)
• Animal Sounds - Fun Toddler (by Innovative Mobile Apps)
• Answers: YesNo (by SimplifiedTouch)
• Art of Glow (by Natenai Ariyatrakool)
• Baby Aquarium Colors
• Baby Charmer and Eye Tracking Simulation (by SABER DESIGN) 
• Baby finger HD (by DJ International)
• Baby Look Tickle (by Me and the Giants)
• Baby's Musical Hands (by Streaming Colour Studios) 
• Baby Phone- Free Musical...(by Mobileroo Pty Ltd)
• Baby Rattle Plus (by Kids Place)
• Baby Rattle Toy Free (by SelenaSoft, Inc.)
• Baby Screen (by Planet Sloth)
• Baby Symbolizer: High-Contrast Infant Stimulation (iPod only, by HuggaMind, Inc.)
• Baby View (by Wayne Smith)
• Baby-Vision (by Spotty Bear Ltd.)
• Baby Visual Stimulation (by Ye Wang)
• Bloom HD (by Opal Limited)
• Blow Fish! Free Fish Popping (iPod only, by salim sazzad)
• Boogie Bugs (by Twiny Vine)
• Bright Start Baby - A Bright Start for Smart Babies (iPod only, by Eieio Software)
• Bubble Popper (by Mob Touch Inc)
• Bubbles (by Hog Bay Software)
• Captain Lazy Eye (by Ideabus)
• Captain Lazy Eye Full (by Ideabus)
• Cause and Effect Sensory Light Box (by Cognable)
• Cause and Effect Sensory Sound Box (by Cognable)
• Chase the Dot (by Microlemon)
• ChoiceBoard-Creator (by Techno Chipmunk)
• Color Dots - Infant Baby (by Ellie's Games, LLC)
• Color Squares
• CommunicAide Free: AAC/Speech Therapy (by Object Graph LLC)
• Chromatic Vision Stimulator (by Kazunori Asada)
• Disney Fish Hooks (by Disney)
• Dot Connector:Learn ABC's and 123's with dot to dot (by Ellie's Games)
• Dot to Dot (Low Vision) by Ebenezer School
• EDA Play (by Rana pece EDA)
• Endless Alphabet (by Originator Inc.)
• Eye Exercises (by Ambroise CHARRON)
• Eye Exerciser Lite (by Craftsman Apps iOS)
• Eye Movement Training (Free) by Ebenezer School
• Find the Same (Free) by Ebenezer School 
• Fireworks Arcade (by Big Duck Games LLC)
• Fish Fingers! 3D Interactive Aquarium (by Useless Creations Pty Ltd)
• Five Sharks Swimming (by Inclusive Technology Ltd)
• fluidity HD (by nebulus design)
• Focus Builder (by Cedrick Noel)
• Forge of Neon 3D (by Volutopia)
• Fun Sounds (by Ozan)
• Fun Bubbles (by Lewis Johnson)
• Fun Shooting Stars (by Lewis Johnson)
• Glow Coloring (by MobiTech 3000 LLC)
• Go Away, Big Green Monster! (by Night & Day Studios, Inc)
• Go Paint Pro (basically an Etch a sketch)
• GoTalk Now Free (by Attainment Company) 
• Guided Video (make a video of yourself)
• I Hear Ewe - Animal Sounds for Toddlers (by Claireware Software)
• iFluids HD or Free (by Pixelspace Media Ltd)
• Inclusive Smarty Pants (by Inclusive Technology Ltd)
• Infant Stimulation Card-HD (by Joyee Jonee)
• Infant Visual Stimulation (by Think Design Studio LLP)
• Infant Visual Stimulation (by IntelleQuest Education Company
• Infant  Zoo Lite: High Contrast Visual Stimulation for Babies (by treebetty)
• Injini:Child Development Game Suite (by injini)
• Kiddy Imagine (by Waclaw Rosicki) 
• Kids Can Match-Animals, vocal memory game for children HD (by Kids place)
• Language TherAppy (by Tactus Therapy Solutions Ltd.)
• Learn with WordFriends (Word World)
• Magic Fingers (by Sweet Action games) 
• Music Sparkles-All in One Musical Instruments Collection HD (by Kid Games Club)
• My Choice Board (iPhone only, by Good Karma Applications, Inc)
• My First ACC (by injini)
• My Talk Tools Mobile (2nd Half Enterprises LLC)
• My Talking Picture Board (by Little Bear Sees)
• My Talking Tom (by Out Fit 7 Ltd.)
• Niki Talk (by Alessandro La Rocca)
• Old McDonald
• Peekaboo HD 
• P.O.V.- Spatial Reasoning Game and Left Right Discrimination (by BinaryLabs, Inc)
• Piano Pals (by BigStack Studios)
• PBS Kids 
• Peekaboo:Ladybird Baby Touch (by Penguin Books)
• Peekaboo Barn (by Night and Day Studios, Inc)
• Peekaboo HD (by Gotclues, Inc)
• Piano Pals (by BigStack Studios)
• Pictello (by AssistiveWare)
• PlayButton (by Aardustry LLC)
• Pocket Pond HD (Triggerwave LLC)
• Pocket Pond 2 (Triggerwave LLC)
• Pogo Boards-AAC (by Talk to Me Technologies)
• Proloque2go (AssitiveWare)
• Put Me in the Story-Personalized Books (by Sourcebooks, Inc.)
• Rockin Fairy (by Twiny Vine)
• Sago Mini Sound Box (by Sago Sago)
• Scan-A-Word (by RJ Cooper & Associates)
• Scene&Heard (by Therapy Box Limited) 
• See Me Talk (Kevin Hanasyk)
• Sensory Speak Up (by Sensory Apps Ltd)
• Shape Builder- the Preschool Learning Puzzle Game (by Darren Murtha Design)
• Shapes in Complex Free by Ebenezer School
• Sight Recover 3D (by koikoi.biz)
• Sights and Sounds: Fireworks (by Marblesoft)
• Small Talk Common Phrases (by Lingraphica) 
• Small Talk Daily Activities (by Lingraphica)
• Small Talk Pain Scale (by Lingraphica)
• Smart Tot Rattle-Cause and Effect sensory stimulation (by Moxi Mobile) 
• Sound Touch (by Sound Touch)
• Sound Uncovered (by Exploratorium)
• SoundingBoard (by AbleNet)
• Spark Art! (Big Duck Games LLC)
• Plasma Globe (by Infinite Dreams Inc)
• Sparkabilities Babies 1 HD (by Sparkabilities)
• Speech Sounds on Cue (by Mulitmedia Speech Pathology)
• Statlex Shapes Learning for Kids (by Pavel S)
• Talk Tablet US (by Gus Communications, Inc.)
• Talk To Me 100 Free (by Sydspeak, Inc)
• Talk Tommy 
• Talking Pierre the Parrot (by Out Fit 7 Ltd.)
• Talking Tom Cat or Talking Tom Cat 2 (by Out Fit 7 Ltd)
• Tap-N-See Now (by Little Bear Sees)
• Tap-N-See Zoo (by Little Bear Sees)
• Tap to Talk (by Assistyx LLC)
• Tap ATune (by Mindshapes Limited)
• Tap Speak (by Ted Conley)
• Tap Speak Button (by Ted Conley)
• Tap Speak Sequence (by Ted Conley)
• Thicket (by Interval Studios)
• Tom Taps Speak (by Seer Technologies, Inc)
• Touch Switch (by Goatella)
• Touch the Sound (by Innovative Mobile Apps)
• Trippin II (by PDJ Apps)
• urTalker Pro (by Nolan Technology LLC)
• Verbal Victor (by Apps for the Greater Good, LLC)
• VisionSim (by Braille Institute)
• Visual Cue Lite (by Sanghoon Lee)
• Visual Training for Babies (by Sergio Diaz Marco)
• Voice4u Text-to-speak (tts) (by Spectrum Visions)
• VST (Vertical Sleeve Talk) 
• Wheels on the Bus (by Duck, Duck, Moose, Inc.)
• Zoo Sounds (by Tantrum Apps)

I'm with her

For those who don't know us yet, this is my daughter, Kayli, and I. 

Kayli is 4.5 years old, and has Trisomy 18. In God's plan and timing, she has had 8 miracles of life, including; (1) Surviving T18 and the worthless "incompatible with life" medical label attached to it, (2) 32 minutes of anoxia (she passed away and came back to life), (3) 7 weeks of Endocarditis and Sepsis without antibiotics (it took us 7 weeks to convince physicians that our daughter deserve antibiotics to treat the infections), (4) a pinhole sized airway for 3 weeks (caused by a home care nursing accident, physicians refused to evaluate her because she has T18..eventually an ENT scoped her, found the anaphylaxis damage, and trached her), (5) a surgically perforated bowel, (6) a surgically misplaced gtube (surgeon caused a fistula, placed the gtube in her colon instead of her stomach...and left Kayli like that for 3 weeks, refusing to fix her mistake, nor explain herself), (7) a hospital induced medication overdose for the length of the hospital stay (10 times the amount of a heart medication), (8) a physician ordered Potassium overdose (after 1/2 hour of diarrhea to get rid of the Potassium, her level was still at 8.2...levels are critical if outside the 3.5-5 range). 

Despite all that has been thrown at her, she has gracefully forgiven all those who have harmed her, and taught her family to do the same. Kayli is an active member of our family, and contributor to our society. In her young life, she has established new policies and rights for special needs community members, given to others in need, and done almost everything on her bucket list (which is more than most adults can say!)! I've been told that when in public, she gets stared at. My love goggles tell me the stares are of admiration. You see, when some have mistakenly implied, she's with me, (which I understand because she is a minor)...my reality is that I'm with her. She is far more worthy of a follower than I am. We are Blessed to have Kayli in our minds, lives, hearts, and arms. When it is God's Will that she goes to heaven, I only hope that I can live up to being her Mom, even when I'm standing on my own, and no longer "with her". Not only is Kayli compatible with our lives, she has made my life compatible too!