Proloquo2go: This application, referred to as an Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) app, allows children who have difficulty communicating to create sentences using pictures, words, and their own voice. A bit pricey ($189), but it is well worth the cost for enabled communication. ABA Flash Cards: This helpful app quizzes children with autism on different… Continue reading 20 Best iPad Apps for Children with Autism
Category: Kids With Autism
Best Software Programs, IPad Apps For Children With Autism
Some of the best options for high-technology software and hardware for children with autism: Communication Aids Boardmaker – This is a software program that communicates commonly used words through symbols are universally understood. You can also add text to any of the pictures. This can help teachers and students communicate. This falls into the category… Continue reading Best Software Programs, IPad Apps For Children With Autism
20 Best Social Games for Children With Autism, Aspergers, ADHD
Teaching social skills through games can be a fun way to relate to your student or relative with autism and impart important emotional skills. Be sure that you adjust the rules of the games to fit with your child’s needs and current skill level. Ryuu – This game is inspired by the hit children’s games… Continue reading 20 Best Social Games for Children With Autism, Aspergers, ADHD
Establishing Joint Attention with your Autistic Child
Joint attention refers to a person’s ability to engage in focusing on an object or activity with another person. Most often it is first noticed when an infant follows the gaze of his parent or caregiver and participates in giving attention to an object with the adult. For example, when a parent is holding their… Continue reading Establishing Joint Attention with your Autistic Child
Activities For Children With Autism
Parents who first find out that they have a child with autism wonder just what kind of fun they can have with their child. They worry that they might not be able to share their likes, interests and hobbies with their child. While those are completely natural concerns, the answer really boils down to the… Continue reading Activities For Children With Autism
Teaching and Working With Kids With Autism
To work with and teach children with autism not only requires a great deal of patience, but also a degree in special education. Since the majority of kids with autism are mainstreamed in regular classrooms unless they are nonverbal, most of the verbal kids with autism work with a paraprofessional in the classroom when the head teacher is… Continue reading Teaching and Working With Kids With Autism
Toys For Children With Autism
As it should be, children with autism need special toys to help them play and learn like their peers. The difference between the toys for children with autism and the toys for average children is that the special toys for ASD kids work with their strengths while challenging them to strengthen their weaknesses. This close to… Continue reading Toys For Children With Autism
Babysitters And Your Special Needs Child
Shopping for a babysitter when you have special needs children What’s more extraordinary than the mind of a child with autism is the parent who loves and cares for him or her. However, that child can still press your buttons, and adult company and some time away helps you be a better parent when you… Continue reading Babysitters And Your Special Needs Child
How to Manage Behavior in Children With Autism
Out of the norm behaviors come with the territory of autism, but how can a parent manage them? First, it is necessary to understand the behavior; what causes it, what prompts it to continue, and how to safely decrease its occurrence if not eliminate it altogether. You don’t need a degree in psychology to navigate… Continue reading How to Manage Behavior in Children With Autism
Behavioral Problems in Children With Autism
Behaviors To Expect When Your Child Has Autism The difficulties that lay with diagnosing a child with autism depends a lot on a parent’s visual record of their child. The majority of this visual record is about the behaviors the parent has encountered with their child, and the types of responses received versus the types… Continue reading Behavioral Problems in Children With Autism