The UDL Educational Technology Guide 2019-2020: Technology for Special Education

John F. O'Sullivan

Section 4 Social Skills Apps 


There are apps that allow you to create social skills content. It takes time to create content. As a professional teacher, I understand the amount of work that people do and creating all your lessons from scratch is a hard task. 


There are apps that teach social skills. Even with many schools moving towards Chrome, the iPad is still king with special education. There are still a number of apps about social skills that are moderately priced and follow a theme or social skills curriculum. 


Social Skills have grown as a big part of the curriculum often taught by speech and language pathologists. If you want to be a success, it is necessary to have good social skills to get along with others. The need to have friends is important for the young. As adults, there is a need to work with coworkers and others in the community; therefore, social skills are needed. Being part of a larger group is important to achieve higher social status. 


Social Detective Honorable Mention 

This app teaches social skills with videos.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/social-detective/id975189305?mt=8 

There is also a book of the same name:

https://www.socialthinking.com/Products/You%20are%20a%20Social%20Detective 

Website: http://www.socialskillbuilder.com/ 


Social Detective Intermediate

This is a very popular social skills curriculum and a highly rated app.

https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id1079442478?mt=8


Social Detective Advance 

If you like the series of apps, this is the next one to buy for students that have made progress. The app gets good ratings. 

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/social-detective-advance/id1322321565


Let's be Social PRO: Social Skills Development

The app was made with input from SLPs. The app allows you to make original stories regarding social skills.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lets-be-social!/id772244049?ls=1&mt=8 

Website: http://www.myeverydayspeech.com/ 


10 Ways - a Social Skills Game

This is a social skills app and game. 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/10-ways-a-social-skills-game/id1116372204?mt=8


Let's Learn Emotions PRO - Emotion Recognition for Speech Pathology & Special Education

This app helps to teach emotions. 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lets-learn-emotions-pro-emotion/id908762349?mt=8


Social Quest
This is a social skills app that gets some good ratings. 

ConversationBuilder

The app teaches basic conversation skills.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/conversationbuilder/id413939366?mt=8 

 

ConversationBuilderTeen

This app teaches conversation social skills to teens. I like this app because we often think of social skills for younger children and not teens.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/conversationbuilderteen/id551522479?mt=8 

 

All About You All About Me Fun Deck

This app is designed to get a student to talk about different situations. This app is good at teaching social skills or starting a conversation app.  

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/all-about-you-all-about-me/id449154858?mt=8 

Website: http://www.superduperinc.com/products/view.aspx?pid=MXAFD80#.Ud_zIG3ODIU 


Social Stories Creator and Library for Preschool, Autism and Special Needs

This app helps you create a story very quickly. This app is used to teach social skills and basic conversations.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/social-stories-creator-library/id588180598?mt=8&ls=1


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