Post by kellyds on Jun 30, 2009 10:48:06 GMT -5
If you don't have one of these for your child, you should! An iPod Touch is basically an iPhone without the phone and there are some terrific communication aids and educational apps.
The one Joshie likes best right now just shows a photograph of an animal. When he touches the screen, he hears the animal's sound. These are real photos, and the sounds are actual recordings of an animal making that sound. It's not "woof-woof" or "oink-oink". The app was 99 cents.
There's a communication app that Joshua is just getting acquainted with. You take a photo to use as an icon and then record your own message to go along with the photo. The person using this can just touch the photo and the message is played to whoever he is wanting to communicate with. It's very, very easy for the parent to set up, and it was only 2.99.
Another game has a cartoon animal hiding behind one of several trees on the screen. There's just a little bit of the animal showing, and the child needs to find the animal behind the tree. He just touches it on the screen when he finds it and all sorts of congratulatory messages play. It's another 99 cent app.
Then there are apps that display two pictures; for instance, a shoe and a car. It will say, "Touch the shoe" and the child needs to touch the right object. You can make this progressively harder by displaying more objects to choose from. Some get more advanced, such as "touch the letter B", "touch the RED shirt", or "touch the number nine".
Joshua has a huge attention span when it comes to these games. I moved up to an iPhone, but I kept my iPod touch specifically for Joshua.
The one Joshie likes best right now just shows a photograph of an animal. When he touches the screen, he hears the animal's sound. These are real photos, and the sounds are actual recordings of an animal making that sound. It's not "woof-woof" or "oink-oink". The app was 99 cents.
There's a communication app that Joshua is just getting acquainted with. You take a photo to use as an icon and then record your own message to go along with the photo. The person using this can just touch the photo and the message is played to whoever he is wanting to communicate with. It's very, very easy for the parent to set up, and it was only 2.99.
Another game has a cartoon animal hiding behind one of several trees on the screen. There's just a little bit of the animal showing, and the child needs to find the animal behind the tree. He just touches it on the screen when he finds it and all sorts of congratulatory messages play. It's another 99 cent app.
Then there are apps that display two pictures; for instance, a shoe and a car. It will say, "Touch the shoe" and the child needs to touch the right object. You can make this progressively harder by displaying more objects to choose from. Some get more advanced, such as "touch the letter B", "touch the RED shirt", or "touch the number nine".
Joshua has a huge attention span when it comes to these games. I moved up to an iPhone, but I kept my iPod touch specifically for Joshua.
I'm going to see if he can help me with this. Brook loves learning game. Thx for the tip 
I installed them so I could plan when to introduce them to him. So far, he's just working with the animal sounds game and poking at the communication app to hear the phrase associated with each picture. It's neat to be able to use an actual picture of HIS dad for the "dad" phrase, HIS favorite ball for the "play ball" phrase, and so forth.
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