Pinderfields Hospital

Useful Apps, Websites and Links

The majority of our children love technology and this can be hugely beneficial as well as a hindrance!

If you have an Apple device, there is a ‘Guided Access’ feature which means you can lock your device onto one App to prevent your child from changing what you want then to access. See https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202612 on how to enable this. Something similar may well exist for other tablets.

Apps (free but may include in app purchases)

• CBeebies – Playtime Island, Get Creative, Go Explore
• Duplo
• Paint Sparkles Draw
• Baby Bubble Pop
• Sensory Magma (variations on this are available)
• Musical Fireworks 3
• Thomas and Friends – various
• Chuggington - various
• Meet the Alphablocks
• Meet the Numberblocks

Apps (have to be purchased)

• Teach Your Monster To Read (for those accessing phonics)
• Cause and Effect Sensory Light Box
• Jolly Phonics Songs

(This list is by no means exhaustive but is a starting point. If you come across Apps your child really likes, please let us know so we can share with other families.)

Facebook pages/groups

• Forest Wood
• Wakefield Parent Carer Forum
• Wesail Wakefield
• Singing Hands
• Wakefield Local Offer
• PECS User Support - for those families using PECS
• Gina Davies Autism Centre
• SEN Magazine
• The Makaton Charity
• Middletown Centre for Autism

Websites for parents

http://wakefield.mylocaloffer.org/Home

https://www.wakefield.gov.uk/health-care-and-advice/autism

https://www.autism.org.uk/

https://www.ipsea.org.uk/

https://www.wakefield.gov.uk/schools-and-children/free-school-meals

https://www.wakefield.gov.uk/schools-and-children/schools/going-to-school/travel-transport/school-transport  (forms available to download on right hand side of page)

Websites for children

https://topmarks.co.uk/maths-games

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/