Welcome To Bluebee Pals App Reviews
Here you can find current reviews on educational apps and resource for learning disabilities
Step into Learning with the Mother Goose Club!
Mother Goose Club by StoryToys is a subscription-based all-inclusive app that includes familiar games, puzzles, and stories for beginning learners. The variety and appeal of the activities are amazing, and sure to be a hit! StoryToys will be continuing to update the...
Learning Animal and Vehicle Sounds with Bluebee Pal
For a young child, learning animal and vehicle sounds can be fun and interactive. This free app, I Hear Ewe by Claireware Software is a simple and user-friendly game including 24 different animal sounds and 12 different vehicle sounds. When the child taps on the...
An App for Earth Day: Care for Our World
Care for Our World by Sunbreak Games is a beautifully illustrated interactive storybook which seems more like a beloved poem from a time when you were very young. Based on the award-winning book by Karen Robbins and illustrated by Alexandra Ball, it takes kids to...
Teach Social-Emotional Skills with Daniel Tigers Grr-ific-Feelings
Daniel Tiger’s Grr-ific Feelings by PBS Kids is awesome when paired with Bluebee Pals. The app is centered on emotional well-being and helps kids learn to identify feelings, a chance to practice and express emotions in a safe environment, and provides coping skills to...
Flying High with AlphaTots by Spinlight Studios
AlphaTots by Spinlight is one of my go-to apps for letter recognition and beginning awareness of phonemes. This app not only teaches but has the child be an active participant in learning. The layout of the app makes it simple to navigate, but in addition, teaches...
How to Choose a IOS or Android Tablet for your Child
Choosing a tablet for your child can be a challenging experience. Do you go with iOS or an Android tablet? What about a case and a screen saver? Here are a few tips and pointers to consider when selecting a tablet that will grow with your child. Apple’s iPad, an...
Category Therapy Lite App with Bluebee Pals
Category Therapy Lite gives the individual the ability to trial different features of the app before purchasing it. Category Therapy Lite is a professional speech therapy app that helps individuals with language disorders due to stroke, brain injury, or developmental...
Bluebee Pal and Language Therapy App 4 in 1
Language Therapy App 4 in 1 was created for stroke victims but can be useful for many different populations such as children with speech and language disorders and delays and other varying disabilities. This free app contains nearly full functionality for a...
I Love You Too – Ziggy Marley by Oceanhouse Media
I love you-Ziggy Marley by Oceanhouse Media is a marvelous book for all preschoolers. The story and the accompanied song speaks of the depth of love within a family. Choices are Autoplay, Read to Me, Read to Myself, or Sing-a-long. Bluebee can read this upbeat and...
Let’s have Tea with Toca Tea Party!
Who hasn’t experienced having a Tea Party with their favorite friends? Using Toca Tea Party by Toca Boca AB it’s as simple as ABC! Toca Tea Party is a classic app that presents plenty of opportunities for open-ended play based on practical life skills. The beauty of...
Bizzy Bear on the Farm App by Nosy Crow
Bizzy Bear on the Farm by Nosy Crow is an original offering based on the popular series of board books. The app is based on the routines performed on a farm, and kids just love helping Bizzy Bear with his chores for the day as he visits the farm. Every child wants to...
An Irish Folktale App-Oisín in Tír na nÓg,
“Oisín in Tír na nÓg” is a beautiful retelling of an Irish folktale by Celtana. This interactive storybook app is currently on GooglePlay and is not available in the American iOS store. Hopefully, it will return there soon as these stories need not only to be told but...
Playing Bingo with CommunicAide
Playing Bingo with CommunicAide App CommunicAide is a communication app originally created for individuals with Aphasia and other language disorders. CommunicAide combines real photographs with frequent sentence starters to help individuals communicate more...
Narrating your own story with Imagistory app and the Bluebee Pal
Imagistory is an inventive and creative app that brings wordless books to life. After recording the book, attach your Bluebee Pal for a fun and inventive way of storytelling. Imagistory is created for children ages 3 and up and gives children the opportunity to be...
Building Social Communication with StorySmart Stories and Bluebee Pal
Ruby Cube is a company that has developed StorySmart, which are stories developed for children with Autism to help improve social communication. Ruby Cube offers StorySmart includes six individualized stories that have been developed by Jennifer and Pete Minneli. Each...
The PECS Phase III APP and Bluebee Pal
The PECS Phase III app is an excellent and valuable AAC tool that allows an individual to implement the teaching of Phase III of PECS™ with the added bonus of using a dynamic screen. This app is ideal for individuals who are using a PECS book and are using this app to...
Using YouTube Kids with your Bluebee Pal
Sometimes in the busy day of a toddler, you need to take a break from all the many events over the course of a day. YouTube Kids by Google, Inc. is a great medium to keep the sense of discovery fresh while giving a child a chance to just chill. It's an invaluable...
Clicker Books Apps and Bluebee Pals
Clicker Books is a book making app that helps supports students with varying abilities. The app includes speech support which helps students to review and self monitor what they have written within the Clicker Book app. You have the option of creating your own book,...
Bluebee Pal and The Big Green Monster
Go Away Big Green Monster is an interactive and engaging book about A Big Green Monster. Reading this book can help a child learn body parts, numbers, attributes, colors and additional basic concepts. It can also facilitate the concept of commenting and improving of...
Learning Adjectives with Bluebee Pal
Comparative adjectives by Grasshopper Apps can be an excellent tool with Bluebee Pals to use during therapy activities or at home to reinforce descriptive concepts. This app includes clear and familiar photographs that can help children learn adjectives such as...
Bluebee Pals & Bo’s Dinnertime by Heppi App
Bo’s Dinnertime by Heppi Apps is the perfect antidote for picky eaters or kids needing to establish a mealtime routine. Skills include: following direction, improving visual-motor skills, and learning about the customs and rituals of mealtimes. In the app, we follow...
One Giggly Gorilla App and Bluebee Pals
One Giggly Gorilla produced by Wasabi and written by Graham Nunn, is an absolute delight! Follow these primates in the sequel to Ten Giggly Gorillas which was also recommended for use with Bluebee Pals. Gameplay revolves around helping the gorillas (by counting 1-10)...
Bluebee Pal reads Elmo Loves You
Elmo Loves You! by StoryToys Jr. is one sweet treat for Valentine’s Day. Based on one of Sesame Street’s most popular books, this 3D storybook is written and read to YOU by everyone’s favorite little monster, Elmo. Of course, parents or children have the option to...
Lipa Bear & Bluebee Pals
Lipa Bear by Lipa Learning is an endearing early learning app for 2-3-year-olds who are in the midst of a language burst and want to learn about EVERYTHING and learn it NOW! This little app gives them the opportunity to strut their stuff and show you all that they...
Green Eggs and Ham-Read & Learn-Dr. Seuss
Green Eggs and Ham-Read & Learn – Dr. Seuss by Oceanhouse Media includes interactive learning pages to this classic tale of refusal. This is a relevant topic to all preschoolers as they are beginning to learn and discover their own sense of things they like and...
Into the Snow We Go: A Stella and Sam Adventure by zinc Roe
Into the Snow: A Stella and Sam Adventure, is part of an exceptional series by zinc Roe. It’s based on the adventures of a brother and sister, along with their dog Fred. The series covers a variety of topics that directly relate to a preschoolers' world of...
123 Kids Fun Make a Snowman App
RosMedia has a suite of apps that are a wonderful addition to any preschooler’s tablet for fun and learning. Apps vary from an introduction to music or other creative arts to auditory discrimination and the ability to follow directions. Included in their suite are a...
Photo Album with Avaz App and Bluebee Pal
Avaz is a communication app that was developed in collaboration with 25 schools and 500 children, to help children with autism achieve improved communication. This app is available as a Lite app or can be purchased for $199.99. It is also available on the Apple App...
Speakaboos Reading App: Stories and Songs for Kids
Speakaboos is a wonderful collection of books and music for your 2-6 year old and when paired with Bluebee – it’s an unstoppable force in instilling the love of stories and facilitating pre-reading skills such as attention, comprehension, and learning new vocabulary....
Domi Domi Listen and Guess
Domi Domi Listen and Guess by Yellow Dot is an awesome app for building vocabulary and pairing listening skills with making choices and taking action. On opening, kids can choose to listen to different sounds or play a game identifying sounds. The selection is clearly...
Explore Paris with Bluebee Pro & Suzette App
Take a virtual trip to Paris with Suzette, the crepe maker with this language rich story app that includes a children’s book, videos, photos of Paris and an interactive map with the unique opportunity to explore target words in different languages. Five other...
Make AAC Assessment Interactive with Bluebee Pal Pro
AAC Evaluation Genie is an informal diagnostic tool developed by Hump Software. It can be a valuable and comprehensive assessment tool during AAC assessment for both children and adults with complex communication needs. This app can help a clinician gather important...
Using Spotify and other Music Services with Bluebee
Music streaming devices with Bluebee Pals! There are many to choose from: iTunes, Amazon Music, Google Play Music, and Spotify. If you currently have any of these, they are well worth a closer look if your child...
Grandma’s Great Gourd by Literary Safari
Grandma’s Great Gourd by Literary Safari is an enchanting story about courage and the ability to stay calm when the world spins out of control around you. We first meet Grandma in a little village in Bengal with her two dogs. She has a happy life there and has the...
Ten Giggly Gorillas by Wasabi Productions
Ten Giggly Gorillas by Wasabipro and written by Graham Nunn, is more fun than a barrelful of monkeys – although in this case, it’s gorillas hanging from a tree. This storybook app opens to a tree filled with colorfully outfitted gorillas, and it is YOUR job to find...
Cubic Frog’s Preschool EduKitty
Cubic Frog’s Preschool EduKitty is a fun app for learning to listen and then follow directions. It teaches kids how to not only to look to others for information but also based on their ability to process and recall, follow through with sequencing directives and then...
Answering “Why” Questions with Bluebee Pals
Wh Questions: Why? Speech and Education Cards is an app that was created by speech language pathologists and contains professional illustrations and scenes with educational content. The app includes 30 scenes which gives you at least 30 different opportunities for...
Bluebee Pals with Lipa Pirates and Lipa Race!
Avast ye maties, I think there’s some coffer for the wee ones in Lipa Pirates and their companion game app, Lipa Race. Lipa Pirates reinforces and rehearses spatial orientation concepts brought forth in a variety of games and activities. Having a variety of challenges...
Zoo Animals ~ Touch, Look Listen
Zoo Animals ~ Touch, Look, Listen, by one of my favorite developers, StoryToys Entertainment Limited, is a winner for using with a Bluebee Pal. This early-learning pop-up picture book allows kids to explore at their own pace either alone, or with an adult or sibling...
Learning How to Request Comfort with Total Talk and the Bluebee Pal
Total Talk is a comprehensive AAC app developed by Panther Technology. This app combines core vocabulary, quick communication and other various features that make it an integrative AAC tool for individuals with complex communication needs. Total Talk has a user...
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine meets Bluebee!
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine has 2 books to help your children develop healthier sleep habits. I See the Animals Sleeping – A Bedtime Story and The Animals Sleep-A Bedtime Book of Biomes. Both are rich in portraying the sleep habits of the Wild Kingdom, and...
Learning Actions with Bluebee Pals using Actions in Video
Actions in Video is a functional app that was created by Geraldine Moran, speech language pathologist to help individuals with complex communication needs build sentences for communication. This app can be used successfully with both individuals with speech and...
The Monster at the End of this Book…starring Grover!
The Monster at the End of this Book…starring Grover! by Sesame Street is an absolutely fabulous book for immersing your child in sequential activity. With each reading, kids begin to anticipate what comes next with all the squeals and giggles included in the best of a...
The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin
The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin by OceanHouse Media is about a little pumpkin that just doesn’t quite fit in with the other “rounder” pumpkins. He is taunted and teased and left out of many of the pumpkin games because he couldn’t roll like the others. But...
Bubble Activity with LAMP Words for Life and the Bluebee Pal
LAMP Words For Life™ is a comprehensive augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) language app that combines the PRC Unity® language system with Language Acquisition through Motor Planning (LAMP™) principles and strategies. LAMP™ provides a consistent motor...
StartDOT Handwriting
StartDOT Handwriting by TrishCO LLC is the perfect app for kids needing both visual and auditory cues to reinforce proper letter formation. So many kids that we see in the clinic, have learned maladaptive patterns for letter formation. Visual, fine motor skills, and...
A Parcel of Courage
Moona Apps' A Parcel of Courage by Mariya Stavinskayais an uplifting interactive storybook about empathy and demonstrates how to give others the love and support they need to overcome obstacles. A family separated over many miles from their beloved Granny wish to help...
Moonlight Hide and Seek
Weily Apps' Moonlight Hide and Seek by Betsy Franco and illustrated by Tom Franco is a rare find in the app store. Combining Early Learning Math Concepts within a storybook, this book gives way to endless possibilities for choice making. AND that translates to repeat...
Social Stories with LinguiSystems and Bluebee Pal
Autism & PDD Picture Stories & Language Activities are speech and language therapy materials that are available in book, online and app formats. This app features the likable characters from the series,...
5 Excellent Storytelling Apps for Kids with Special Needs
Are you looking for motivating ways to help develop your child’s narrative skills? Helping to facilitate narrative development can foster improvement of language skills such as recalling information, sequencing, expanding vocabulary and improving expressive language....
How I Became a Pirate
How I Became a Pirate, the award-winning book by Melinda Long and David Hannon, and brought to life by OceanHouse Media is a must have for the swashbuckling set! In this interactive storybook, Jeremy Jacobs - a young boy with time on his hands boards Captain Braid...
Baking a Cake with Clicker Connect and Bluebee Pal
Clicker Connect developed by Crick Software helps students who are emerging readers and writers to help take beginning steps to independent writing by using words and phrases to build coherent text. Students have the opportunity to explore texts in a variety of...
Five Sharks Swimming and Bluebee Pal Pro
Five Sharks Swimming by Inclusive Technology Inc. is a fun and interactive game that can help teach a child the concept of cause effect, counting, rhyming and taking turns. The game includes counting songs, counting up activities, number line activities,...
Guessing Game with Clicker Communicator
Clicker communicator is an AAC app developed by Crick Software. It includes three comprehensive vocabulary page sets with core and fringe vocabulary. All of these page sets include the same topics to optimize motor learning. The consistent topics and color...
Calendar Time with the Compass App and Bluebee Pal Pro
Compass App is a versatile comprehensive app created by Tobii DynaVox Technologies. The app includes a variety of page sets including Word Power, Gateway, PODD and a variety of DynaVox communication pages. Compass provides a research-based communication solution for...
The Little Gym Sing and Move-Along Series
The Little Gym has 2 musical collections available on both iOS and Android platforms. 20 Sing-Along Fun Songs and 20 Move-Along Fun Songs are a fantastic way to build up listening and motor skills. All the songs are filled with action or dancing moves that help...
Vincent the Anteater’s Space Voyage by El Pudu
Vincent the Anteater’s Space Voyage by El Pudu Studios is an enchanting and gentle story that sends a positive message to kids to care for our planet’s resources and to trust in their own inherent abilities. In the story, Vincent, who is a very curious anteater,...
12 Huia Birds
12 Huia Birds by Yoozoo Limited is an amazing interactive storybook that centers on the Huia Bird and its gradual extinction from New Zealand. It is rich in the culture and history of the land of New Zealand, and can even be listened to in the lyrical Maori native...
Letter School App and Bluebee Pals
Letter school is an app that can help your child write the letters of the alphabet. This app can make handwriting easier by providing the child with motivating and supportive stimuli with appropriate cues. For each letter, your child will learn the letter name, sound...
Endless Alphabet App and Bluebee Pals
Kids will have a blast learning their ABC's and building vocabulary with the adorable monsters in Endless Alphabet. Each word features an interactive puzzle game with talking letters and a short animation illustrating the definition. Before you know it, your child...
Learn Core Words with Language Lab and Bluebee Pals
Language Lab: Core Words was created by Prentke Romich Company to help emergent communicators learn to use core word more functionally and fluently. The app includes the opportunity for users to learn, practice and then review important core words essential for...
Teaching Emote with Predictable and Bluebee Pals
Predictable is a text based AAC app that gives an individual access to a text to speech feature of a keyboard, with quick phrases, emote and access to communication with the app with regards to email, social media and text messaging. With Predictable, an individual...
Create a Social Story with Pictello and Bluebee Pal
Create a social story with Pictello and make Bluebee Pal the reader of the story! Pictello is a versatile app that can be used to create stories with using photos, short video clips and text. This app has the ability to use both synthesized and digitized speech. The...
Read, Learn Explore and Sing with Dirty Duds and Bluebee Pal
The adapted play book Dirty Duds is an app created by speech language pathologist, Pati King DeBaun. Pati is an AAC specialist for over 25 years that has created a series of apps that are ideal for children with cognitive and physical disabilities. Dirty Duds is a...
All About You? All about Me? Asking Questions with Bluebee Pal
This colorful, educational social skills App for the iPhone®, iPad®, and iPod touch® has all 56 illustrated picture flash cards (plus audio of each card text) from the All About You, All About Me Fun Deck® by Super Duper® Publications. Select the cards you want...
Writing a Story with Symbol Support App and Bluebee Pal
SymbolSupport App is an editing program that allows you to add symbols to your text, while SymbolReader is a free app that displays these symbolized documents. Both apps read the documents with a high-quality text-to-speech voice and word-by-word highlighting. The...
Sounding Board APP and your Bluebee Pal
Sounding Board is a free AAC app with preloaded boards for communication. SoundingBoard is a mobile augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) app from AbleNet designed for teachers, parents, and caregivers of non-verbal students and persons with speech...
Telling Jokes with Touch Chat App and your Bluebee Pal
Touch Chat is a versatile AAC app that includes a variety of page sets with both core and fringe vocabulary for effective and efficient communication. The Touch Chat communication app can be purchased with or without Word Power and this activity can be done with...
Fun with Directions Lite and Bluebee Pal
Fun with Directions Lite by Hamaguchi Apps is an app that helps target following directions, improving auditory comprehension and understand specific concepts (e.g. function of objects, actions). The app was developed to be used for children ages 4-6 and can be used...
One More Story and Bluebee Pal
One More Story is an app that I have used with students for years in order to help improve cause and effect, vocabulary, literacy and auditory comprehension. With this subscription based app, you can access over 76 books including Pete’s a Pizza, Bear books (Barefoot...
Cough Drop App and Bluebee Pal
CoughDrop is a simple, modern AAC communication and support tool that empowers individuals and the teams around them. It is a full-featured communication app built for individuals with autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, Angelman syndrome, Rett syndrome, or other...
Who is the Bluebee Pal appropriate for ?
Who is the Bluebee Pal appropriate for? I think any child would enjoy this interactive learning tool. Children with special needs (e.g. Autism, ADHD, Social Communication Disorder, etc) could benefit from this interactive tool because of the various goals that I...
Speak for Yourself and Bluebee Pals
Speak for Yourself is an AAC app developed by speech language pathologists that gives an individual access to a variety of core vocabulary with the addition of various features that makes communication quick and efficient.This AAC app turns the iPad into a...
Sono Flex Lite and Bluebee Pals
Sono Flex Lite is an excellent AAC app for communication and that empowers individuals and the teams around them. It that can be downloaded for free and can give you access to an extensive vocabulary for those individuals that have complex communication needs. The...
Dream Reader App and Bluebee Pals
Voice Dream Reader App is a convenient and accessible reading tool that can be downloaded at an affordable rate. With advanced text-to-speech and a highly configurable screen layout, it can be tailored to a variety of reading styles from completely auditory...
The Verbally App and Bluebee Pals
Verbally is a free AAC app that can give an individual access to a text to speech keyboard, key words and key phrases. Verbally is excellent in teaching text to speech communication for those that can spell for communication with the added features of rate enhancement...
Free Augmentative & Alternative Communication Apps for iPad®
What is an Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC)? People with speech or language problems rely on AAC to supplement spoken language or completely replace speech. Special aug-mentative aids, such as picture communica-tion boards and apps on mobile devices,...
Cooking with The Bluebee Pals and GoTalk Now App!
GoTalk Now is an AAC app that can help give an individual the ability to communicate via aided communication. GoTalk Now and GoTalk Now Plus by Attainment Company is flexible by nature and gives the user the ability to create various t communication pages such as...
Pair your Bluebee Pals with AAC vocabulary app LAMP Words for Life
Julie Fox and her students at Soldier Creek Elementary School are currently using their Bluebee Pals and paring them with The LAMP Words for Life app, a full vocabulary AAC language app. LAMP Words for Life is designed to meet the communication needs of...
The Proloquo2Go App and Bluebee Pals
Proloquo2Go is a communication app that is used by individuals who have a limited ability to use speech for communication and need an augmentative and/or alternative way to communicate. I have used this communication app with all ages from young children to adults...
Apps to Help Kids Meet Their Goals in the New Year
Have you helped your kiddos set goals? Merriam-Webster shows the simple definition of goal to be “something that you are trying to do or achieve.” Remember goals can be adjusted, but the key is to set them and begin! Here are some apps that will help your kiddos...
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