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Apps for Cognition
Apps for Cognition
Name |
Description |
Price |
Device |
Helps With |
Easy to use, affordable way for you to communicate with those around you if you are nonverbal. The app has two, large, color-coordinated buttons--one for yes, and one for no. Press either, and a voice will read you selection. |
$1.99 |
Communication |
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Aida |
Aida Reminder lets you create reminders very easily and quickly. Recurring reminders are fully supported, you can set hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly reminders, or even days of the week or month. It also has a wake-up alarm with custom snooze time. Don't miss those important events ever again! |
Free |
iOS |
Memory |
Listen to books on your mobile device. Great for people who have trouble reading or who retain information more effectively by listening. |
Free |
Reading |
Card game to help you improve your memory. All of the cards are laid face down on a surface and players take turns flipping two cards face up. The object of the game is to reveal pairs of matching cards. Similar to the traditional game of "concentration." * Paid version available that includes advanced levels and functionality. |
Free* |
Memory |
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Application that allows caregivers, behavioral therapists, aides, or teachers to track behaviors and automatically graph them. Option to record video of behaviors or interventions to later review with doctors, parents, teachers or therapists. |
$29.99 |
Behavior |
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Hands-on stress management tool with diaphragmatic breathing exercises. Designed to help you with mood stabilization, anger control, and anxiety management. |
Free |
PTSD, Anxiety, Stress |
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Audio recording app that suppresses ambient, background noise allowing the user to record conversations in noisy environments while maintaining clear voices. Control play-speed without modifying pitch-quality. Slow down conversations to a manageable pace for the user. |
$0.99 |
Speech, Communication |
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Helps coaches and parents recognize whether an individual is exhibiting/reporting the signs and symptoms of a suspected concussion. In less than 5 minutes, the app allows a coach or parent to respond quickly to determine whether to remove the child from play and the need for further medical examination. |
Free |
Concussion Screening |
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Collect, organize, and share ideas on virtual cork boards. "Pin" notes, labels, photos, contacts, and tasks. Group ideas visually on one board or spread ideas out across multiple boards. |
$4.99 |
Organization |
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Family life organization app that includes a shared calendar, shopping lists, to do lists, family journal. This app allows you to stay in sync with your family. * Paid version available for advanced functionality. |
Free* |
Organization |
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Voice recorder with integrated transcription service* provides you with a comprehensive dictation and transcription solution. Record, edit, and upload a digital recording then have the file transcribed to text. HIPAA compliant. * Transcriptions are a paid feature. |
*Free |
Communication |
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Learn proper phone usage and safety with an app that allows for hands-on practice. Learn these critical skills through the use of animated lessons, skill building games, practice sessions, and a realistic phone simulator. |
Free |
Life-Skills |
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Voice recognition app that allows users to easily speak and instantly see their words on the screen. Send short text messages, longer email messages, and update your Facebook and Twitter statuses without typing a word. |
Free |
Communication |
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Help remembers everything across all of the devices you use. Stay organized, save your ideas and improve productivity. Take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders, and make notes completely searchable. |
Free |
Organization |
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Immediately find the closest pharmacies to your location based on your device's location or address. |
Free |
Locating Services |
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Location app for iOS that tracks wireless devices and enables you to track where the devices are, where they have been, and enables you to send warning messages or tones to those devices. |
Free |
Memory, Location Monitoring |
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Flashcard app which can be used to study just about anything you want. Built in a dictionary, a capacity to include pictures and sounds, zoom into pictures, and auto-repeat sounds on the cards. |
$3.99 |
Memory |
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Functional Planning System |
The Conover Functional Planning System allows for creating a daily planner with video modeling. Reminders can be set to go off until the user responds to them for reinforcement. |
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Use your fingers to write or draw your own personalized "hello my name is" name tag. Good for conferences or situations where a digital name tag may help you stand out. |
Free |
Social Situations |
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Search and instantly download thousands of popular book and magazine titles. iBooks works with VoiceOver, which will read the contents of the pages out loud. |
Free |
Hearing, Reading |
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Store all the information you might need in an emergency in one convenient location. Names of doctors, medications you are taking, medical conditions, allergies, and insurance information can be accessed with the tap of a finger. You can also use the app to find hospitals nearby in case of an emergency. |
$1.99 |
Emergency |
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Skill--based maze game where you must find your way through a challenging maze. Unlimited mazes created for you based on your skill level. |
Free |
Problem Solving |
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iReward
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iReward is an app that will track your activities throughout the day and you can check off each task when completed. At the end of the day, or week, look at the progress chart to see the person’s performance. |
Free |
iOS |
Task Manager |
Non-linear writing tool that helps capture your ideas and store notes as they come to you. Organize the flow of your thoughts by using a familiar corkboard interface and compile your work into a single document. |
$4.99 |
Organization |
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Ireward |
RewardChart is an app that brings the traditional reward chart onto mobile device, with a customizable, interactive interface. iRewardChart looks to help parents keep track of their child’s good behavior, and reward them appropriately. |
$2.99 |
Android, iOS, |
Planning |
s downloadable DAISY formatted books. Learning Ally members can explore the library of more than 64,000 audiobooks that are designed for people with print and learning disabilities.* To use RFB&D Audio, membership is required. Membership is free for eligible people with visual impairments or dyslexia. |
Free* |
Reading, Vision |
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Brain exercises targeting memory, attention, speed, flexibility, and problem solving. You can design your own personalized training, including "courses" with TBI- and/or PTSD-specific content. *Paid subscription available for advanced features. |
Free* |
Brain Training |
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This app will show you the best way to count change so that you use the least number of coins. Slide and stack coins until you have the amount shown on the register display and check your answer. |
$1.99 |
Life-Skills |
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Helps you develop visual perception skills such as visual discrimination. It can also help you to develop attentionand concentration, spatial orientation and principles of classification and categorization. * Paid version available for advanced levels and more functionality. |
Free* |
Problem Solving |
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n-Back is designed to improve your working memory through actively memorizing and recalling information. |
Free |
Memory |
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Word-finding app to help people with aphasia and children with special needs practice important naming and description skills. Allows users to add their own images. |
$24.99 |
Communication, Speech |
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Handwriting app that helps you get the fast, tactile gratification of writing on paper, with digital power and flexibility. Take notes, keep sketches, or share your next breakthrough idea — in the office, on the go, or at home.*Advanced functionality and features are paid. |
Free* |
Memory, Organization |
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Nametag application that lets you identify yourself to others at a conference, business meeting, or any social gathering. |
$0.99 |
Social Situations |
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Create visual stories and talking books. Each page in a story can contain a picture, a short video, up to ten lines of text, and a recorded sound or text-to-speech using natural sounding voices. |
$18.99 |
Communication |
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This application is a shortened version of the SCAT2 test and is designed to be used in a field setting by coaches or parents to help identify possible concussions. |
Free |
Concussion Screening |
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Text‑based communication app that gives a voice to people who cannot speak. It offers a customizable single screen layout for easy conversation, free natural-sounding voices in 15 languages, word and sentence prediction and social media. |
$64.99 |
Communication |
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An alternative communication solution to help you if you have difficulty speaking. Natural sounding text-to-speech voices, high-resolution, up-to-date symbols, powerful automatic conjugations, a vocabulary of more than 7,000 items, and advanced word prediction. |
$219.99 |
Communication |
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Designed for veterans and service members who have or may have, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Education about PTSD, information about care, a self-assessment for PTSD, help to find support, and tools that can help you manage the stresses of daily life with PTSD. |
Free |
PTSD |
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This app gives a voice to those who cannot speak for themselves. Quick and flexible app designed to help you talk as quickly as possible. |
$0.99 |
Communication |
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Assistive app that turns the iPhone into an interactive hearing device. Using the microphone or a headset with a microphone, it amplifies nearby sound making it easier for you to hear. |
$4.99 |
Hearing |
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Facilitates recalling an answer over expanding intervals of time (1 minute, 2 minutes, 4 minutes, 8 minutes...) helps to cement the information in memory, even for those with impaired memory. |
$3.99 |
Memory |
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Voice recorder that turns your phone into a fully functional dictation system. Record, edit and send your audio. The app integrates with SpeakWrite's 24/7 paid transcription service. Compile your dictation, upload, and within a few hours receive your transcribed document. |
Free |
Speech, Communication |
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Designed for service members and veterans, this app helps you self-monitor, track, and reference emotional experiences associated with common deployment-related behavioral health issues like post-traumatic stress, brain injury, depression, and anxiety. |
Free |
PTSD, Behavior |
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Alternative means of communication app. Push pictures of items to have a voice speak them for you. |
Free |
Speech, Communication |
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Time timer |
Enjoy stress-free time management with the new & improved Time TIMER for iPhone (iOS 8 upgrade) – an award-winning visual timer. |
Free |
Android, iOS |
Time management |
Word game app where you try to find the word that uses all of the letters on the screen as fast as you can. Crossword mode lets you complete a crossword puzzle using a limited number of letters. Word of the Day mode offers a daily puzzle. |
$0.99 |
Problem Solving |
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One-stop app for quickly viewing your upcoming agenda, tasks due, and your local weather forecast. Tasks and events are intuitively highlighted based on date and time so that what you need to look at right now stands out clearly. |
$2.99 |
Reminders |
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Touch Calendar makes viewing your calendars easy. See your whole calendar at a glance. No more flipping between different calendar views. Touch Calendar does it all from one zoomable and scrollable view. This app is especially useful for people with attention problems who do better with fewer steps. |
$3.95 |
Organization |
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Developed to assist people of all ages with mild cognitive and/or motor deficits by allowing you to have an easy to use a cell phone, with a simple set up. It utilizes a one--touch photo dialing system to generate phone calls using phone numbers from your existing contacts or those that you import directly. |
$9.99 |
Communication |
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Comprehensive Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) app for the iPad. This app enables real conversation for those who have challenges speaking. Just tap in what you want to say and Verbally speaks for you. *Premium features available with an in-app purchase. |
Free* |
Communication, Speech |
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Customizable visual schedule iPad app that is designed to give you an audio/visual representation of the events in your day. In addition, events that require more support can be linked to an activity schedule or video clip. |
$14.99 |
Organization |
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Create voice flashcards with an autoplay and shake option. Create sets of flashcards just as you would with paper flashcards, except you create a voice recording of your questions and answers in sets of Voice Cards. You can “flip” between questions and answers by swiping or shaking the phone.* Two versions exist including the lite with limited functionality, $0.99 for full version. |
Free* |
Memory |
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Picture-based, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) application that helps you express your feelings, thoughts, actions, and needs. |
$59.99 |
Communication, Speech |
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View and share your location, including your city, zip code, telephone area code, and approximate street address as well as the times of sunrise and sunset and GPS latitude and longitude. |
Free |
Location |
Comment
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Comment by Kara Ayers on July 18, 2017 at 11:34am
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This is a really helpful list! Thanks for sharing.
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