The wide-scale availability of low cost, intuitive-to-use touchscreen devices and apps for audiences with learning disabilities has created a massive opportunity to enhance their use in special needs education. However, there is a lack of resources for parents and education professionals and collective thinking around which are the best apps, how to use them and for whom. Currently, this knowledge is isolated within individual families, schools and small communities. When combined with continuing developments in special education and exciting progress in understanding brain development, there is a significant opportunity for us all to share knowledge, best practices and the creation and use of results data to help the SEND education community to improve its use of these devices.