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! 

Mom approved, gift ideas for kiddos with special needs

This is an ever expanding list of gift ideas for kiddos with special needs.  If you have any suggestions, please message me or leave a comment so we can add the suggestion to the list.

Vision/Lights

Butterfly in a jar (looks too real to be fake!)

This butterfly has an amazing lifelike affect.  Minutes after taping the lid, the butterfly continues to sporadically flutters around the jar!  

Dancing water speakers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEYw1PjUtp4

These speakers shoot water and light up (LED lighting) to the sound of music.  This is a great item for the hearing impaired, as they "see" the beats to the music! 

Fiber optic color changing burst light

Great item for slow visual processing!  With an on/off switch burst, you can add a battery interceptor and use with a switch! 

Magic jelly fish
https://www.amazon.com/Fascinations-Magic-Jellyfish-LED-Lights/dp/B002L28SU4/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1479488670&sr=8-5&keywords=magical+jelly+fish

Mylar Balloon

Pinwheel (with a fan blowing it, and a flashlight shining on it!)

Sound Sensor lighting wire ball http://www.thegadgetexperience.com/sound-sensor-lighting-wire-ball/

The balls light up with different tones of voice or music. Great for the hearing impaired, to actually "see" the sounds!  You can change to auto also, where the balls light up without sound activation. 

VTech Happy Lights Bear

V-tech record and learn photo album

Rope lights

Great visual item, that doesn't get hot, so you can place on/around child or hang around the room! 

Uncle Milton's Fireworks Light Show                                             

Smartnoggin Noggin Stik

The Smartnoggin has cause/effect changing colors, has texture, and is a rattle! It's worth the $20! 

A cause and effect, light up rattle! 

Doodle Dome 

Wheelchair lights, Underglow http://www.wunderglow.com/

Oggz

Oggz is a rechargeable color-morphing egg! 

The Rotoprism.  You can change the light speed, and colors. 

Infinity Mirror                                                                                   

Bright Start Baby Light and Giggle Drum                                         

    

                                     Aurora Master Ocean Light                                        

This lights up the entire room/ceiling, and makes it look like you are in the ocean (if blue).  The projector also changes colors, as you wish. 

Sensory/touch 

Body sock

Finger paints

A great tool for creative exploration, as well as, sensory touch input! 

Fisher Price Giggle Gang

Great cause and effect toy, that giggles like a baby when ever so slightly touched! 

Moon Sand

Great sensory item, that never dries out! Look for Moon dough too! 

Kinetic Sand

Kinetic sand never dries out, doesn't leave residue on hands, and only sticks to itself! 

oball rattle

Easy to grasp rattles! 

Sensory Balls

Seonsory Balls mega shapes

Site of Senses box~ http://siteofsenses.org/index.html

With resonating boards, the feels and hears every little movement they make! Great cause and effect learning box for visually and hearing impaired! 

Tactile touchable squares

Wall of Senses~ http://siteofsenses.org/WoS.htm

Hearing/Music Therapy

Mozart Magic Cube

Chimalong Deluxe

Touch Magic Ocean Music School

Ocean Wave Drum (Remo version)

B Picoolo Carousel Bells

Musical hand pat bells

Mini Rainmaker

Fisher Price Crawl along drum

Playskool Rocktivity drum

Sensitive touch drum 

Recordable books

Record your voice, reading a story to your loved one! 

Ring around bells

Push the yellow button on the base, and the bells go in a circle to make music against the hanging ball.  This is one of Kayli's Favorite toys! 

Tone Chimes

Another of Kayli's favorites!  Tone chimes make the surrounding area vibrate!  Such a calming affect for all to enjoy! 

Wrist bells

Great cause and effect when a child moves their arm! 

Guiro

Hohner kids 8" plastic Guiro makes different tones, depending on where you rub the stick against it! 

Thunder Tube 

You can control the thunder! Produces deep, vibration sounds. 

Low tone play 

The Original Big Joe Bean Bag (sold at Walmart)

This bag is a less expensive option for a crash pad.  Price is around $40.

Caterpillar musical rocker (with or without back support)

Exercise ball (to sit or bounce on, or stand against)

Great for leaning against, standing upright, or for laying on top of and rolling! 

Peanut Ball

Great for straddling, or leaning over in a crawl position 

Zero Gravity Chair 

Hanging Chaise Lounge Chair                                                         

Swing                                                                                 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0018QEFRO/ref=wl_mb_recs_3_title      $109 

Indoor Hammock C Stand                                                                         

FINE MOTOR PLAY


Fur Friends

Fur Real friends come in an assortment of animals.  The cat is easy to pet (on back) which activates the cat to meow and walk.  It's like a switch toy without a switch!  It has an on/off button, so you could also attached a battery interceptor and use with a switch! 

Lamaze Garden Chime flowers

V-tech Learn and Dance interactive zoo
                                                  

Penguin Race

Fun to watch, and great cause and effect, repetitive play! AND, you can connect it to a switch to activate! 

Lamaze Totem Pole
                                         

Magnetic, easy to stack totem pole for practicing hand/eye coordination! The individual pieces also have different textures and crackle cause/effect. 

ORAL MOTOR PLAY

Z-vibe

Ark's Z-vibe helps is an oral vibrator that gives awareness and sensations for oral stimulation.