SLPs & therapists
Home practice between sessions, a talker for literate clients, and a self-report journal clients can bring in. Limits first, always.
For schools, SLPs & families
Assistive technology, on the iPads your school already owns.
Five classroom-ready app routes — App Privacy labels included — need no student accounts and deploy through Apple School Manager. Try one with one student this week — no demo call, no pilot agreement, no theatre.
Start from the need
Five routes for students, one for the professional — limits included.
A student needs a voice
Folio AAC
A private text-based talker: type or tap a phrase and it speaks; communication content stays on-device.
Honest limit: for students who read and type; not a symbol AAC system, never a substitute for an AAC evaluation.
A practice corner between sessions
SpeechSeed
Whole-word speech practice on a shared iPad, with an adult — never an algorithm — judging each try.
Honest limit: one free session a day per device; practice support, not a curriculum or IEP service delivery.
A student can’t read the figures
PicExplainer
Photograph any textbook diagram, chart or map and hear it explained aloud — built VoiceOver-first.
Honest limit: AI can make mistakes and says so; complements tactile graphics, never replaces them.
Adult students who can’t start
Sidle
Unlimited silent body-doubling sessions — a choice of styles, a lock-screen timer, and no login.
Honest limit: adults 18+ only under Sidle’s terms; Apple’s current public page still shows an older 9+ classification; the silent timer works locally; body-doubling evidence is anecdotal and emerging.
Adult students · disability services
AuDHD Loop
A private self-regulation journal for AuDHD adults — sensory load, energy, stims, task momentum.
Honest limit: adults only; a journal that records what’s written and monitors nothing.
You are the one writing it up
GoalDraft
Draft measurable IEP goals from a real baseline, log data in ten seconds across eight collectors, and turn a term of points into progress notes, present levels and a meeting PDF.
Honest limit: a documentation tool, not a system of record or a compliance guarantee; iPhone only, no shared collection with a para yet, and every AI draft is yours to correct and sign.
Three doors
Pick the one that sounds like your week.
Teachers & classrooms
An implementation guide: the talker on a classroom iPad, the practice corner, figure access — and the adult setup each one honestly needs.
Families working with schools
How assistive technology fits an IEP conversation, what to ask the team, and what a practice-support app can honestly contribute.
Procurement, without the theatre
Getting our apps is the easy part.
Every live KindAbilities app is free to download and automatically available through Apple School Manager Apps and Books, with device-based assignment that needs no student accounts. Each fact, cited to Apple’s own documentation: how schools get our apps.
Sequenced, not sprawled
Start here.
- Pick the need — one student, one card above.
- Try it with one student — the free tiers are genuinely usable; no demo call required.
- Deploy through Apple School Manager — when one iPad’s worth of evidence says it helps.
What we don’t do
The credibility section, by omission.
No student logins — and no blanket privacy claim either, because the App Privacy labels differ and you can check them yourself: SpeechSeed, Folio AAC and AuDHD Loop carry Apple’s “Data Not Collected” label; PicExplainer’s reads “Data Linked to You” (purchases, user content, identifiers and usage data, used for app functionality); Sidle’s App Privacy label reads “Data Linked to You” (purchases, user content, identifiers and usage data for app functionality); and Hangar’s reads “Data Not Linked to You” (diagnostics, identifiers and user content). We name these where we recommend an app. No efficacy claims — our apps are practice and support tools, and we say so on every page. No demo calls, no procurement theatre, no “book a meeting to see pricing”: download it and try it with one intended user today. No continuing-education credits — we aren’t a registered CEU provider and won’t pretend otherwise. And special education teachers will notice what’s absent from our copy: we describe programs and roles by their proper names, and people as people.
Background reading: assistive technology in the classroom · 504 accommodations for ADHD · core words in AAC · executive-functioning skills
A person answers this address.
Questions, a caseload we should think about, accessibility feedback — write to robin@kindabilities.com and Robin will read it.