1) Sosh Lite - FREE 7 day trial, $39.99 full
A no-frills app that is appropriate for teens and adults, modeled for self-study of various social skills. Categories of topics include: Relax, Reason, Regulate, Recognize, and Relate. Under each category, there are subtopics (e.g. under Relate: What did that mean?, First impressions, Common ground, Out and About, Talking strategies.) It is interactive and encourages the user to practice skills, whether recording voice and listening for rate of speech, or matching an emotion in a given picture by taking a picture of himself. This one is a bit pricey, but worth it for those who would benefit.
2) Odd Face Out - FREE
Another straightforward app aimed at teens/adults, to work on recognition of facial expressions. Faces are presented in a grid, and the user must identify which is the "odd face out" by a chosen criteria (mood or age) - by the way, even the age mode is beneficial in learning to discriminate between different faces. Then within each category of mood or age, there are multiple levels of difficulty. The first selection is whether the faces presented are all the same person (easier) or different people (harder), and the second selection is a level of difficulty from 1-6 on how many faces are presented in the grid. Level 6 is hard even for me when I'm racing against the clock (the app times you so you can compare yourself). I like that the mistakes are reviewed at the end of 10 trials, and that the faces presented are not always in obvious opposite pairs e.g. happy vs. sad - they are often difficult such as distinguishing the worried face in a sea of angry ones.
3) Middle School Confidential: Be Confident in Who you Are - FREE (Real Friends edition is $2.99)
This e-book is cool for teens for several reasons: it deals with real issues in a believable way, it has 1-liner lesson summaries after each chapter, it includes self-quizzes (Real Friends only) .. and it's a graphic novel (comic-book style) so it's a super-easy read. This app isn't something I've used in therapy, but I would recommend it for home to learn about social dynamics and those issues every teen has to face at school.
4) DialSafe - FREE
This app to learn about phone skills definitely has a kid-friendly slant, but would be appropriate for some teens/adults as well. It includes introductory lessons (911, stranger skills), memory game for remembering phone numbers, phone simulators for calling 911 or other numbers that you can program in. There are some pre-recorded lessons, e.g. 911 but it would be good to also practice everyday conversations in the context of this app (i.e. practice dialing the number and pretending to carry on a chat).
5) Feel Electric! - FREE
I love this app for emotion skills - it is very teen-friendly and so entertaining that it almost feels like watching a TV show. It is highly interactive, personalized, and has interesting activities that both teach and practice skills. Each activity requires the user to reflect on his/her own feelings, and includes repetitions of the vocabulary (including higher-level: stressed, thrilled, petrified etc) with accompanying faces and definitions. It even has fun extras like a music player.. I could go on and on about this one but it's free so just go check it out!
A no-frills app that is appropriate for teens and adults, modeled for self-study of various social skills. Categories of topics include: Relax, Reason, Regulate, Recognize, and Relate. Under each category, there are subtopics (e.g. under Relate: What did that mean?, First impressions, Common ground, Out and About, Talking strategies.) It is interactive and encourages the user to practice skills, whether recording voice and listening for rate of speech, or matching an emotion in a given picture by taking a picture of himself. This one is a bit pricey, but worth it for those who would benefit.
2) Odd Face Out - FREE
Another straightforward app aimed at teens/adults, to work on recognition of facial expressions. Faces are presented in a grid, and the user must identify which is the "odd face out" by a chosen criteria (mood or age) - by the way, even the age mode is beneficial in learning to discriminate between different faces. Then within each category of mood or age, there are multiple levels of difficulty. The first selection is whether the faces presented are all the same person (easier) or different people (harder), and the second selection is a level of difficulty from 1-6 on how many faces are presented in the grid. Level 6 is hard even for me when I'm racing against the clock (the app times you so you can compare yourself). I like that the mistakes are reviewed at the end of 10 trials, and that the faces presented are not always in obvious opposite pairs e.g. happy vs. sad - they are often difficult such as distinguishing the worried face in a sea of angry ones.
3) Middle School Confidential: Be Confident in Who you Are - FREE (Real Friends edition is $2.99)
This e-book is cool for teens for several reasons: it deals with real issues in a believable way, it has 1-liner lesson summaries after each chapter, it includes self-quizzes (Real Friends only) .. and it's a graphic novel (comic-book style) so it's a super-easy read. This app isn't something I've used in therapy, but I would recommend it for home to learn about social dynamics and those issues every teen has to face at school.
4) DialSafe - FREE
This app to learn about phone skills definitely has a kid-friendly slant, but would be appropriate for some teens/adults as well. It includes introductory lessons (911, stranger skills), memory game for remembering phone numbers, phone simulators for calling 911 or other numbers that you can program in. There are some pre-recorded lessons, e.g. 911 but it would be good to also practice everyday conversations in the context of this app (i.e. practice dialing the number and pretending to carry on a chat).
5) Feel Electric! - FREE
I love this app for emotion skills - it is very teen-friendly and so entertaining that it almost feels like watching a TV show. It is highly interactive, personalized, and has interesting activities that both teach and practice skills. Each activity requires the user to reflect on his/her own feelings, and includes repetitions of the vocabulary (including higher-level: stressed, thrilled, petrified etc) with accompanying faces and definitions. It even has fun extras like a music player.. I could go on and on about this one but it's free so just go check it out!
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