The Story Land app allows children with special needs to
build stories by selecting a background and adding in various characters and
objects. It is extremely interactive: users can choose from over 320 fully
animated characters and create over 300,000 different combinations in a scene. Even
the weather and the music can be easily manipulated by kids using the app.
Story Land is helpful for children with special needs who
have trouble with abstract thought. This app can build imagination and
encourages understanding of cause and effect with the use of so many visual elements.
Language concepts such as location, size, sequencing, categories, and sentence
development can also be targeted with Story Land. For some children, it is an
effective app for practicing turn taking, as one person can choose a character
and say a sentence about it, then give it to another person to do the same and
slowly build a story together. Scenes can be saved and printed out to make a
book.
This app is available for download on the iPad for $0.99.
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