For Autism

Model Me Going Places 2
By Model Me Kids, LLC
description
Model Me Going Places™ is a great visual teaching tool for helping your child learn to navigate challenging locations in the community. Each location contains a photo slideshow of children modeling appropriate behavior.

LOCATIONS:
- Hairdresser
- Mall
- Doctor
- Playground
- Grocery Store
- Restaurant

EASY TO USE:
Touch the forward and back buttons to move through the photos one by one. Or simply press the slide show button to advance photos automatically. A home button brings you back to the navigation menu where you may choose your next destination.

ABOUT:
This app is based on the Model Me Going Places™ DVD, part of the Model Me Kids® social skills training series for children and teenagers with Autism and Asperger Syndrome.

FEATURES:
The app includes audio narration (English) and descriptive text of each photo.

To learn more, visit www.modelmekids.com
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Expressions for Autism
By Club LIA
Expressions is an educational and engaging game that helps children with autism train and improve emotion and feelings recognition by recreating facial expressions according to day to day life events.

An amazing tool to work with in therapy sessions, children are able to learn at their own pace and improve their social skills as well as they develop empathy.

Features:

• Includes 2 difficulties: apprentice and master.
• Hints and clues to avoiding frustration and loss of interest
• Set a time limit for each exercise.
• Create multiple profiles for your students.
• English and Spanish supported.

Autism iHelp – Play
Description
Autism iHelp is a vocabulary teaching aid developed by parents of a child with Autism and a speech-language pathologist. Autism iHelp was inspired by the need for specific language intervention tools for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder focusing on their unique strengths and difficulty with expressive vocabulary.
Autism iHelp is an invaluable tool for your child with Autism when those first words just don’t come. The colorful real-life photos are presented in an easy-to-label format.
This app includes several features:
24 real world photos; it has been proven that children with Autism respond best to photos as opposed to illustrations and are very visual learners.
- 24 photos chosen based on established expressive language milestones are divided into three sub groups of eight. With 24 photos, over-stimulation is less likely which increases the child’s ability to grasp the concepts at an appropriate rate.

- Labels of all photos with the option to turn off the label as some children with Autism may be more drawn to the written word. At the end of eight images there will be an option to try again, aiding in repetition and drill required for learning new words.

- Option to have images presented at random or not, to additionally aid in generalization and concrete learning.
When audio is selected, two voice options are available—male and female. This provides the most realistic experience for your child. There will also be an option to turn the audio off, which would prompt your child to use his or her own voice and spontaneously label the learned words.

- This app also includes two Learning Enhancement activities. These learning activities are presented in a game-like format, and require the child to either match a picture to word given multiple word choices or choose the word that goes with the picture in a field of 4 pictures. These games check retention of the learned vocabulary and integrate auditory and visual memory. Additionally, you are able to track your child's gains through progress reports that average the last 3 performances of each learning enhancement activity.

Autism iHelp - Play app offers engaging pictures of toys, outdoor activities, and arts and crafts often used in therapy or school.

Autism Apps By Touch Autism
Description
Autism Apps is simply a comprehensive list of apps that are being used with and by people diagnosed with autism, Down syndrome and other special needs. It also includes links to any available information that can be found for each app. The Apps are also separated into over 30 categories, and the descriptions are all searchable, so any type of app is easy to find and download.

Autism Apps was created as a resource for anyone looking for apps for people diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome or other special need. Many people are discovering the many uses that iPads, iPhones and iPod touches can have as tools and resources for people diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome or other disability. Though there are a multitude of apps in the app store that many people diagnosed with autism, Down syndrome or another special need use and enjoy, they can be difficult to find.

Autism Apps links to extensive reviews of the apps written by parents, specialists, and other users usually from first-hand experience. Autism Apps also has links to video demonstrations or video reviews of the apps when they are available.

الاستراتيجيات البصرية ( (Visual Strategies
هي مجموعة من الوسائل والأفكار التي تحول التوجه نحو تعزيز قدرة التلقي لدى الطالب، ودعم محاولاته للفهم وتفسير المعلومات. مما يؤدي إلى استيعاب أفضل وبالتالي يعزز اهتمام الطالب ويؤدي في النهاية إلى تحسين القدرة على التعبير.
• تقول الدراسات أن 90% من الأطفال التوحديين متعلمين بصرياً(Visual Learners)
• لدى معظم الأطفال التوحديين صعوبة في معالجة المعلومات السمعية.
• كما لديهم صعوبة بفصل وفلترة الشكل عن الخلفية في البيئة.

التواصل من خلال تبادل الصور
Picture Exchange Communication System
(PECS)
طور أندي بوندي (Andy Bondy) ولوري فروست (Lori Frost) نظام التواصل من خلال تبادل الصور (PECS) في عام 1994. يستخدم هذا البرنامج مع الأطفال والبالغين الذين يعانون من اضطراب في التواصل ومنهم الأشخاص التوحدين، حيث تركز هذه الطريقة على نقاط قوة للطفل التوحدي والمتمثلة في فهمه للمعلومات البصرية.