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POsitive Behavior apps:
Daily Vroom (FREE) helps parents and caregivers nurture their children’s growing minds during the earliest years. Daily Vroom turns everyday moments into brain building moments! Daily Vroom delivers a personalized brain building activity for your child every day. Each tip is paired with a science-based Brainy Background explaining how the activity supports your child’s brain development.
iRewardChart ($2.99 and iRewardChart Lite FREE) reinforces and rewards positive behaviors. It provides a customizable reward chart that can track an unlimited number of behaviors and rewards for multiple children. iRewardChart Lite (free version) allows only one child with a maximum of four behaviors without all of the main features.
Behavior Counter ($0.99 app) is a very simple, no-frills offering that’s easy to use if you’re in need of nothing more complicated than a bare-bones tally system. There is some statistical support for data collection, which will allow you to determine triggers for bad behavior and their underlying causes.
BehaviorSnap ($4.99): BehaviorSnap is a multimodal behavior observation tool created by school psychologists to identify the frequency, duration and function of behaviors of interest.
Behavior Breakthroughs (FREE) The game-based technology of the free Behavior Breakthroughs app allows you to model your child’s behavior back to him through a digitized avatar on your iPhone. Seeing his own behavior reflected through the avatar can help him understand why certain choices are unhealthy, encouraging him to choose more wisely next time.
Social and Emotional Apps for Children:
Breathe, Think, Do, Sesame Street (FREE) is a resource app for you to share with your child to help teach skills such as problem solving, self-control, planning and task persistence.
Touch and Learn ($1.99) is focused on helping kids read body language and understand emotions by looking at pictures and figuring out which person is expressing a given emotion.
AvoKiddo Emotions ($2.99) gives your children a serious case of the giggles when you introduce them to a zany zebra, shy sheep, jolly giraffe and modest moose! Discover these emotions and more by dressing up, feeding, sharing toys and interacting with them using over 110 uniquely themed props in this endless play funhouse.
GoNoodle (FREE): Discover hundreds of videos that get your kids active at school and at home.
The Social Express ($5.99/mo and Social Express II (Select “try it”) FREE) The curriculum is designed to teach users how to think about and manage social situations, helping them to develop meaningful social relationships and succeed in life.
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