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8 of the Most Comprehensive Social Skills Apps

social skills apps

Social communication apps for speech therapy!

There are tons of social skills apps available. I narrowed it down to more comprehensive and in-depth apps that target a variety of social skills. Here are my favorites and ones most recommended when asking hundreds of educators!

Social Story Creator and Library

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Ages 4+
$9.99
This app contains 20+ social stories. You can create your own, share, receive, or print stories as well. You have the option to purchase social stories individually.

Autism and PDD Picture Stories and Language Activities

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Ages 4+
$19.99
There are 5 different themed apps: Friends, School, Community, Home, Family. They contain functional stories depicting children behaving in various situations. At the end of the story select WH questions, yes/no questions, or text match language activities.  Answers are automatically scored and the student receives immediate feedback!

Choiceworks

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Ages 4+
$6.99
Create visual schedules with this app! Make schedule, task, waiting, feeling, or coping boards. The app comes preloaded with 180 visuals with prerecorded audio. Upload your own pictures or videos and print!

Between the Lines Advanced HD

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Ages 4+
$15.99
There are 3 apps for different levels. The main focuses are: listening skills, body language, and expressions. The app uses real videos, pictures, and voices for a variety of social situations.

Social Detective

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Ages 7-12
$9.99 or $23.99 for all 3 levels
This app is a companion to the “You are a Social Detective” book in Michelle Garcia Winner’s Social Thinking curriculum. It covers expected and unexpected behavior, understanding others’ comfortable and uncomfortable thoughts, social toolbox items, and smart guesses.

Conversation Builder

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Ages 6-10
Teen Conversation Builder ages: 10-17
$19.99 or $31.00 for both
A great app for conversation skills: turn taking, initiating conversation, and staying on topic. Use in one-on-one sessions or in group therapy. There are 160 conversations to choose from and the student can either initiate or respond to conversations.

Let’s Be Social

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Ages 4+
FREE – $9.99 upgrade
Includes 20 social skills lessons with the ability to create your own lessons as well. The topics include personal interactions, navigating the community, school behavior, handling change, and social relationships.

Emotions: Flashcards to Learn to Recognize Feelings and Emotions


Ages 4+
$1.99
This app has over 500 real emotions photos grouped by babies, kids, and adults. A great variety of feelings are included to work on expressively and receptively. A great feature is everything in the app is customizable. You can hide certain emotions or add your own photos and voice recordings.

I CREATED A FREE DOWNLOAD WITH ALL THE ABOVE APPS AND MORE!
FREE SOCIAL LANGUAGE RESOURCE LIST

What is your favorite social skills app? Tell me in the comments!

You may also be interested in:
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8 of the Most Comprehensive Social Skills Apps

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Hi, I'm Allison! A speech & language resource author who loves the creative process of making therapy materials and clipart, as well as connecting with educators world wide. Learn more about me here! Read More…

Effective communication comes in all shapes and si Effective communication comes in all shapes and sizes! Verbal, written, gestures, sign language, an AAC device...

As educators we understand this but it’s also our responsibly to relay and explain this to caregivers!
“Children gesture before they begin to speak and “Children gesture before they begin to speak and continue gesturing throughout the language learning process...children’s early gestures not only precede, but also predict, the onset of a number of linguistic milestones–nouns, nominal constituents, simple and complex sentences. Gesturing may thus play a causal role in language learning, and could do so in two ways: (1) Gesturing gives children the opportunity to practice expressing ideas in a preverbal form. (2) A child’s gestures offer parents and other communication partners insight into the child’s linguistic level, thus giving the partners the opportunity to provide input tailored to that level.”

Goldin-Meadow, S. How gesture helps children learn language. (2014)

Some caregivers worry that we are giving up on verbal language when we begin using gestures or other non-verbal forms of communication.But gestures can be an amazing stepping stone to words. They seem to help the concept of communication click for a child...If I do this, then I get what I want/need! Have you found this to be the true?
SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY • I updated this graphic SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY • I updated this graphic with the newest research!

Note: These numbers are based on unfamiliar listeners in an unknown context. You will notice the dark blue is the milestone (when 95% of children at this intelligible) and the light blue is the average (when 50% of children are this intelligible.)

The snapshot on the left is a summary given by the researchers (Hustad, et al.) as a quick way to remember and recite this new information.

Find these updated intelligibility levels in the Free SLP Handouts!

The paid handouts were updated a while back with this new information and have a more detailed summary, including word-level intelligibility. If you own them, be sure to redownload!

Free Speech Therapy Handouts: bit.ly/FreeSLPHandouts
Speech-Language Development Handouts: bit.ly/SLPHandouts
Save this post! 📚 Some favorite books for soc Save this post! 📚 

Some favorite books for social emotional learning >> inferencing >> verbs >> negation

You can find more book round-ups by categories at: allisonfors.com/?=books
📣📣📣 Phoneme awareness is the ability to b 📣📣📣 Phoneme awareness is the ability to break down a word into the smallest unit or sound. This includes phoneme isolation, blending, segmenting, addition, deletion, and substitution.

It’s ESSENTIAL to work on these skills starting in Preschool and continuing to focus on them in Kindergarten and First Grade!

The Speech-Language Development Handouts break down what to target at each grade level + the phonological awareness steps with definitions and examples!

bit.ly/SLPHandouts
What can we expect from toddler attention span? ⏰ It’s easy to over-expect the amount of time a child can sit and attend to a structured activity. Do these numbers surprise you or are they what you’d expect?

Memory trick 💡 You can remember the number of minutes a child can attend is approximately twice the child’s age.

Note: Don’t forget to use developmental age.

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Gaertner et al. (2008) Focused Attention in Toddlers

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