Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH)
When we loan equipment to children and young people, we often include apps which also support the assistive technology and access.
These fun and relaxing apps support visual development, stimulation, touch, switch or motor skills, and can be used for fun and relaxation.
Create beautiful symmetrical and freeform digital paint creations for your entertainment and relaxation. This easy to use app spans the age groups, and provides a wide range of digital painting effects, including animation.
Watch, download and discover the best of CBeebies and CBBC.
A simple touch and two switch accessible game featuring a range of vehicles including trucks, fire engine, diggers etc.
A simple calming and relaxing visual app for people with special/complex needs of all ages.
Magma generates lava style slow moving effects, which when combined with music from the iPhone or iPad Music player can be relaxing and also stimulating.
A simple artistic medium for everyone from serious artists to someone just starting out. Use your finger to draw on dozens of backgrounds or your own pictures. Many effects, stamps and stencils are included.
A finger painting app offering a fun way to help children with special needs and others to practice their first interactions with a touch screen. Explore touch with colour, sounds or music.
Sensory Fun Painting allows you to create beautiful symmetrical and freeform digital paint creations for your entertainment and relaxation.
A relaxing, colorful drawing app that will help you calm down and relieve stress, or be creative and make aesthetic digital art.
Engages motor and cognitive skills through assistive matching, drawing, choosing, ordering and sound games. Includes free AAC for those who struggle with speech and language.
Uses abstract animation and sound to introduce basic touch skills and awareness. Light Box also provides automatic (touch free) play to enable switch control for basic cause and effect.
A calm, visual experience, with slow emerging shapes. Sensory Abstract is a passive experience with no touch input.
A fully switch accessible fun photo effects app for all with 30 cinema style effects.
Sensory Coloco – Symmetry Painting and Visual Effects
A touch painting app that lets anyone make attractive but unusual patterned paintings and drawings.
A simple stimulating app for people with special/complex needs of ALL ages. It is visually stimulating and suitable for a range of abilities.
A switch accessible photo editor with over 200 run effects. Transform the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad into a Hall of Mirrors, add funky psychedelic colours and effects, pixel lenses or kaleidoscope view. Fotofrez yourself, your pet or your friends and rivals.
A simple to use, touch painting app that lets anyone make attractive but unusual patterned paintings and drawings.
A developmental touch skills app for teenagers with complex learning needs including autism and visual impairment.
Each of the twenty-four scenes plays a continuous sound which changes it’s pitch or intensity as one or two fingers move around the screen.
A visually stimulating app that responds to sounds and can be used to encourage children to vocalise and make sounds.
Designed to assist with speech therapy, the louder the voice sound, the bigger the shape or pattern becomes.
Create splodge and splatter paint effects, fish, butterflies and balloons on different backgrounds. Complete with funny sound effects. Splodge is also switch accessible
An accessible and inclusive game designed to encourage and develop hand-eye coordination and switch timing skills. Auditory prompts and a clear background with bright objects make this an ideal game for children with visual and perceptual difficulties.
A simple, visually stimulating app with switch access options for people with special/complex needs of all ages and a range of abilities.
Tap buttons or press a switch to change effect.
A fully switch accessible fun effects app for all with 30+ incredible touch effects.
Experience incredible visual, kaleidoscopic, entrancing patterns that respond to touch or the press of switch.
A simple inclusive game for all ages with switch access options for single and two switch users. Choose a train and then build a track for it to go around.
A visual storytelling tool. Each page in a Pictello story consists of a photo or video and some text, which can be read aloud by a Text to Speech voice or your own recorded audio.
Create beautiful patterns at your fingertips. Particlescape is an interactive particle and gravity simulator designed to be as beautiful as possible and to create an organic link between fingertips and screen.
A flexible solution that includes both an app and a web interface. Through the web platform, you can customize the app’s content to fit each user’s unique needs.
Developed by Autistica and King’s College London to help autistic people understand and self-manage their anxiety.
Your daily planner for stress-free time management and focus.
Designed for ADHD, Autism, or anyone who thrives with visual schedules.
A framework for thinking as well as a curriculum geared toward helping students gain skills in consciously regulating their behaviors, including the management of their emotions and level of alertness.
Screening, assessment and training
A screening tool to assess a child’s level of understanding as a guide to further intervention. Designed to be used by professionals and parents who are concerned with a child’s learning development.
A screening tool that provides useful assessment information around the child’s ability to use spoken (expressive) language skills.