Apps for Autism
Model Me Kids® leverages iPhone app technology as a tool for teaching children on the Autism spectrum. Extend the lessons in the Model Me Faces & Emotions™ and Model Me Going Places™ videos with a free portable visual teaching tool.
Emotions App Going Places App
Autism Emotion
iPhone App Autism
Autism Emotion™ is a visual teaching tool for helping children learn about different emotions through photos, text, narration, and music. Each emotion contains a photo slide show of a child experiencing a specific emotion.The app includes four of the emotions featured in the Model Me Faces & Emotions™ video.
4 Emotions
– Happy
– Sad
– Calm
– Proud
Fully responsive
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 emotion.
Multisensory
The app includes audio narration (English), descriptive text of each photo, and songs by Music Therapist Rachel Rambach.
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Model Me Going Places
iPhone App Autism
Model Me Going Places™ is a visual teaching tool for helping children learn to navigate challenging locations in the community. The app includes six of the locations featured in the Model Me Going Places™ video. Each location contains a photo slide show of children modeling appropriate behavior.
4 Locations
– Hairdresser
– Mall
– Doctor
– Playground
– Grocery Store
– Restaurant
Fully responsive
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 location.
Multisensory
The app includes audio narration (English), descriptive text of each photo, and songs by Music Therapist Rachel Rambach.
Get the App
Apps for Autism
Leslie Clark and her husband have been trying to communicate with their autistic 7-year-old son, JW, for years, but until last month, the closest they got was rudimentary sign language. He’s “a little bit of a mini-genius,” Clark says, but like many autistic children, JW doesn’t speak at all. Desperate to communicate with him, she considered buying a specialized device like the ones at his elementary school in Lincoln, Neb. But the text-to-speech machines are huge, heavy and expensive; a few go for $8,000 to $10,000. Then a teacher told her about a new application [autism app] that a researcher had developed for, of all things, the iPhone and iPod Touch. Clark drove to the local Best Buy and picked up a Touch, then downloaded the “app” from iTunes. Total cost: about $500.
– USA Today