Baby Sleeping Habits http://babysleepinghabits.net Learn more on baby sleeping habits Mon, 21 May 2012 05:34:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 Asperger’s Syndrome Apps: Useful Technology Helps Social Interaction Development http://babysleepinghabits.net/aspergers-syndrome-apps-useful-technology-helps-social-interaction-development/ http://babysleepinghabits.net/aspergers-syndrome-apps-useful-technology-helps-social-interaction-development/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 05:34:21 +0000 Babies http://babysleepinghabits.net/aspergers-syndrome-apps-useful-technology-helps-social-interaction-development/ Technology is making the work of teaching social skill abilities to kids with Aspergers a load more fun than before the dawn of the iPhone. Special needs mobile device applications for Asperger’s Syndrome for the iPad are showing the way in terms of simplicity of use and superior graphics, and it is becoming a brilliant source of social skills activities for kids coping with a range of special needs issues, from autism to Asperger’s. Here are eight great mobile apps for Aspergers children:

Model Me Going Places Free (Model Me Kids)

This mobile app offers 6 icons that involve social stories related to places kids will regularly encounter in everyday life. The visual cues and images are professionally done. The six social stories include Hair Stylist Mall, Doctor, Playground, Grocery Store and Restaurant.

iCommunicate $49.99 (Grembe, Inc.)

With this mobile device app your youngster can create footage, visual schedules, routines, and storyboards. You may create custom audio in any language. This mobile app lets you include footage from your camera or Google photographs.

GarageBand $4.99 (Apple)

This application helps youngsters to learn to play a musical instrument. There are several instruments to choose from and learning is interactive. Children can record themselves playing the instrument and then play it back. The app also provides instruction on writing music and composing an original piece.

Pictello $18.99 (AssistiveWare)

This mobile app comprises a storybook for activities of day-to-day living. Your child can incorporate favorite photographs in order to help share verbally with others.

ABA Flashcards-Emotion Free (Kindergarten.com)

This app offers a classic social skills development tool with a twist. The emotion cards show pictures of children essentially engaging emotional responses in natural settings. The lifelike images and realistic settings should make transfer of training more all-encompassing.

Social Stories $6.00 (MDR)

This social skills activity for children uses real to life photos and stories that youngsters will encounter each and every day. Examples include school room rules, reciprocal play and taking turns. There and 6 stories total.

Tom the Talking Cat $.99 (Outfit7)

The pussy cat in this mobile app repeats what’s asserted and even imitates the pitch and the tone. Great communication tool and practice for speech.

Loopz $1.99 (Mattel)

This app inspires your child to follow the music played and copy it from memory. It is great tool for building memory and listening comprehension. You may even purchase the board game to play together with the app.

Jo Ann Broquie a Texas Licensed Specialist in School Psychology and a Licensed Professional Counselor at Achieve Balance in The Woodlands, Texas. Here she identifies 1 or 2 social skills activities for kids available as mobile apps, particularly apps for Aspergers Syndrome children, that their parents might find particularly helpful.

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