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Special Words: Autism & Down Syndrome Education

Achieve educational milestones with our award-winning app designed for speech and language development. An inv...

$ 12.99

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Achieve educational milestones with our award-winning app designed for speech and language development. An invaluable app for visual learners that is adaptable to children’s individual needs and abilities.

Children, parents, teachers and professionals in 100+ countries and 27+ languages are using Special Words to turn screen time into an active and engaging learning experience.


Areas of Development
Enhance communication, language and literacy skills
Increase sight-word vocabulary
Encourage listening and speaking skills
Develop hand-eye coordination
Improve fine motor skills


Personalize to Suit Abilities
Use your own text and photos to harness interests and personalize activities
Include your voice or audio to bring the learning experience to life
Create word lists tailored to children’s learning needs
Adjustable animation speed to suit abilities and concentration levels
Activities adaptable to any developmental stage and for adults with learning difficulties and memory impairment
Can be fully customized to grow with a child as they develop


Share Your Words
Copy content to and from the app on another device
Exchange word lists using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Dropbox, Google Drive or email
Transfer content to and from our Special Stories app to extend the learning process

Accessible For All
Choice of fonts, plus a large text option to support those with visual impairments and dyslexia
Use at home, school, in speech or occupational therapy sessions, and for home schooling to follow the curriculum and enhance learning
Proven to be accessible and hold the attention of children with a variety of abilities and skill sets


Speak Your Language
Special Words includes 96 pictures, spoken words and written text in 27 languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Dutch, English (American, British and Australian), Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Welsh
All languages use audio provided from native speakers
Replace words and re-record audio in any other language your child uses


Why Our Apps Are Different
Visually clear and simple, with no distracting backgrounds or noises
Tested and recommended by Down syndrome and ASD experts and organisations around the world
• No in-app purchases, pop-up ads or user tracking
Developed in collaboration with parents, professionals and teachers of children with special educational needs


Part of the Special iApps Family
Special iApps is a multi-award-winning non-profit social enterprise with a worldwide reputation for creating educational apps for those with learning disabilities and additional needs, as well as in early years education. They initially created apps to teach their youngest son William, who has Down syndrome and autism, now they support children internationally.

Discover more of our apps on Google Play or visit www.specialiapps.org.

Last update

July 25, 2019

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