Lesson Plan using Pixar’s “For the Birds” You’ve got to love YouTube on the iPad! There are so many ways to utilize this tool and I’ve got one of my favorite lesson plans to share with you today. The write-up is a bit formal, but I’m trying out the same format we use in my district to share lesson plans. Content Objectives 1. Students
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Videos, videos and more videos! All the ways to use the iPad camera in therapy. I work in an elementary school that houses 2 classrooms devoted to teaching students with high functioning autism. What this means for me is that at any given time a third to a half of my caseload is on the autism spectrum. And as many of you know, as
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Check out the article, iPad gives voice to kids with autism, on CNN today. iPads are far from the perfect augmentative communication device, but the longer they are around and the more experience developers have with creating targeted apps, the better they get. I have been extremely impressed with the improvements made in only 1 year to existing articulation and language apps. App developers
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As my “iPad as a Teaching Tool for Students with Speech, Language and Social Communication Disorders” grant comes to an end, I have started to examine the results and have been very excited! Thought I’d share some specifics… In the area of language I have noted the following in summarizing my grant findings. Overall results: Students were noted to demonstrate a higher degree of
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I first wanted to pass along that ClickySticky will be donating 100% of its November earnings to Autism Speaks to help fund research, treatment and prevention of Autism. In the spirit of raising awareness, I figured this would be the perfect time to review the app. I have used ClickySticky primarily with my students with language delays to target things like vocabulary by category,
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I watched the 60 Minutes segment on Apps for Autism last night and found it highly inspirational. In particular, the discussion on how motivating the iPad is for students with autism really resonated with my own experience in using the iPad with students with autism. During the 60 Minute interview with the teachers involved with the Apps for Autism study, it was noted that there’s something
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Conversation Builder has made my list of top autism apps for sure. I am currently using the Basic Conversation Builder with my students with autism ranging in age from kindergarten to 5th grade. When using this app a picture of a social situation is presented followed by a verbal prompt, “How would you start this conversation?” The user is then either asked to record
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Toontastic ($1.99) (The following skills and many more can be targeted using this app: Turn taking, cooperation/group work, sharing ideas/compromising, perspective taking, identifying the intentions and motives of others, making predictions and providing appropriate background knowledge.) Stories 2 Learn ($13.99) (Easy to use app for developing social stories with real life photos, written text and audio presentation of social story) Conversation Builder ($5.99) (Teaches conversational skills and pragmatics,
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I purchased Stories2Learn and Look! for my students with autism. Stories2Learn is compatible with the iPod, iPhone and iPad. It’s an app that allows you to create personalized social stories that include photos, text, and audio messages. I still can’t get over how easy it is to create personalized social stories using Stories2Learn. I made a personalized social story about appropriate touching that included
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Now that my new iPad 2 has nearly arrived it’s time to decide what apps I will purchase for it. I have discovered a few things on my mission to spend my precious $100 in the best possible way. First, pickings are scarce! iPad apps for students with special needs definitely feels like uncharted territory. There are several enticing apps available for the iPhone
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