Award-winning app turning screen time into an active learning experience by creating engaging social stories. A perfect tool for visual storytelling designed to break learning down into small steps.
Transforming lives in 100+ countries, Special Stories supports childrens communication and language skills, as well as making progress with their education and personal development.
Areas of Development
Improve sight-reading skills
Promote language acquisition
Improve listening and spoken language
Develop writing skills
Encourage word, pictures and sound recognition
Help with social skills
Endless Possibilities with Special Stories
Explain step-by-step tasks
Create social stories and visual schedules
Share information between home and school, with distant family and friends
Teach academic and social skills
Make photo albums about vacations and special events
Personalize to Suit Abilities
Use your own photographs to create unique books to keep and share
Add your own text to progress from single words to short phrases and longer sentences
Include personalized audio to bring stories to life
Tap or automatically advance stories to the next page
Use at home, school and in speech therapy sessions
Share Your Stories
Copy content to and from the app on another phone or tablet
Exchange stories using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Dropbox, Google Drive or email
Print stories directly or send as PDF
Transfer content to and from our Special Words app to extend the learning process
Accessible For All
Choice of fonts, including OpenDyslexic and our own Special Letters with easy to read characters, plus a large text option
Speak Your Language
User interface provided in 18 languages: Albanian, Catalan, Croatian, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian
Create a story in any language, a great way to support multilingual children, as well as to teach English as an additional language
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 organizations 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 in 100+ countries and 27+ languages.
Discover more of our apps on Google Play or visit www.specialiapps.org.
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