Social skills are essential for building meaningful relationships and navigating social interactions successfully. We’ve selected a few critical social skills apps that should be in every speech and language pathologist’s arsenal to help their young patients grow these critical skills.
Mastering social communication involves many skills that children need to learn and develop such as :
- role-playing,
- taking turns,
- understanding nonverbal cues,
- perspective-taking, and
- emotional regulation
Social skills learning starts early in life and continue until early adulthood but pre-school and primary school years are foundational to the development.
Here is our list of top social skills apps:
Touch and Learn Emotions Empathy Skills App
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Identifying emotions in one’s self and in others is a critical Social skills for communication.
Touch and Learn is a powerful social skills app and a new gaming platform that allows you to introduce new concepts in a fun and exciting new way.
This Social Skill app focused on helping kids read body language and understand emotions by looking at gorgeous pictures and figuring out which person is expressing a given emotion.
Age Range: 3 to 6 years old
Skills: Body language, Emotions
Price: 1.99 US$
Inference Pictures App by Aptus Health
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Overview: “Inference Pics” is a social skill app designed to teach children, teens, and adults with autism and/or social communication difficulties to make inferences using pictures.
SLPs can choose from over 300 inference pictures in seven different inference activities in this inferencing skill app.
Age Range: 6 to 12 years old
Skills: Body language, Conversation, Inference
Availability: iPad, iPhone, Android
Price: 19.99 US$
Conversation Skills & Conversation Planner Social Pragmatic Skills Apps
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Overview: Conversation social skill apps are designed to help children with autism spectrum disorder practice key steps in conversation. These social skills apps:
- Helps children understand and identify what their friends are interested in.
- Aids children in selecting a suitable topic for conversation.
- Guides children to understand the ongoing topic of a conversation.
Conversation apps is a “Mom’s Choice Award Winner” and are features on FunEducationalApps.com, TeachersWithApps.com
Age Range: 9-11 yrs
Skills: Friendship, Conversation
Availability: Super Social Skills Bundle of 6 apps available on iPhone & iPad.
Price: From 11.99$ per app and bundle of 6 apps at 48.99$
Between the Lines Level 1 HD Social Skills App
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Overview: This social skill app is designed for elementary students and up, who would benefit from practice interpreting vocal intonation, facial expressions, perspective-taking, body language, and idiomatic or slang expressions. The app uses real photographs, voices, and short mini-video clips of a variety of social situations and expressions.
Age Range: 9-11 years old
Skills: Inference, Body language, Tone of voice, Conversation skills, Idioms and figurative language.
Availability: iPad
Price: 19.99 US$
Empathy Social Skills App by Aptus Health
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