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About Special Words

Award-winning app for speech and language designed for SEN & Early Years

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

• Support for switch users

• 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

• Compatible with Android tablets and phones, and Chromebooks

Differences between Special Words and Special Words Pro

For teachers and speech & language professionals, the professional edition (Special Words Pro) includes extra features not in the standard edition (Special Words):

• Printable PDF assessment sheets

• Printable cards to use in paper-based activities

• Free access to curriculum-related content

• Dual control using external keyboard

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.

What's New in the Latest Version 3.8.1

Last updated on Sep 17, 2020

Minor bug fixes and improvements. Install or update to the newest version to check it out!

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Additional APP Information

Latest Version

Request Special Words Update 3.8.1

Requires Android

4.1

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