Autism and more...
By: Bridget McCracken
and Dan Hoffman
Please note: Not All of the lessons on this page will require that the user utilizes Smart Board Software. Look for the NSB for "No Smart Board" needed
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Hits as
of Mar. 2012
UPDATED AS OF August , 2021
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FOOTPRINTS CENTER FOR AUTISM Erin Bolyard
Executive Director |
Word Wall Lessons Listed Below
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APPS THAT YOU MAY WISH TO LOOK AT FOR YOUR IPAD |
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DescriptionTalkRocket Go is the world’s easiest to use communication aid for people with speech and language disabilities. COST $99.99 |
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Free
app for learning seeing touch and learn
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Free Tap the picture to hear what or where you wish to go | ||
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Free Talk Assist is an alternative speech aid that provides a voice for people who cannot speak for themselves. | ||
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Free The ‘Autism Xpress’has been created to help promote greater awareness about autism spectrum disorders. It is designed to encourage people with autism to recognizes and express their emotions through its fun and easy to use interface | ||
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Free 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. | ||
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Free A working understanding of analogies is an important tool for students of any age to develop, as they help children understand relationships between pairs of concepts | ||
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Free Autism Apps Behavior Scripts describe social situations that can provide various obstacles and challenges for kids with autism. | ||
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Free Autism Apps-Concept Development is a series of Apps that apply the principles of ABA programs to teaching new concepts. | ||
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Autism Emotion uses music and a photo slideshow to help teach about
different emotions. |
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Free 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. | ||
 Cost $ 5.99 |
Question
Builder is designed to help elementary aged children learn to answer
abstract questions and create responses based on inference. Extensive
use of audio clips promotes improved auditory processing for special
needs children with autism spectrum disorders or sensory processing
disorders. Audio clip reinforcement can be turned on or off for
non-special needs children. Question Builder offers a rich and fun environment for improving the ability to abstract. |
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 Cost $ 7.99 |
Story
Builder is designed to help children accomplish the following
educational goals: 1) Improve paragraph formation; 2) Improve
integration of ideas; and 3) Improve higher level abstractions by
inference. Extensive use of audio clips promotes improved auditory
processing for special needs children with autism spectrum disorders or
sensory processing disorders. Story Builder offers a rich and fun environment for improving the ability to create a narrative. |
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 Cost $ 9.99 |
Language
Builder is designed to help children accomplish the following
educational goals: 1) Improve sentence ideation ; 2) Improve sentence
formation; and 3) Improve receptive and expressive language. Extensive
use of audio clips promotes improved auditory processing for special
needs children with autism spectrum disorders or sensory processing
disorders. Auditory playback of child's voice offers reinforcement for
language development. Language Builder offers a rich and fun environment for improving the ability to create grammatically correct sentences. |
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Sentence Builder™ is designed to help elementary aged children learn how to build grammatically correct sentences. Explicit attention is paid to the connector words that make up over 80% of the english language. Sentence Builder offers a rich and fun environment for improving the grammar of all children. | ||
 Cost $1.99 Autism iHelp |
Autism iHelp is a vocabulary teaching aid developed by parents of a child with Autism and a speech-language pathologist |
 AutismXpress Free |
Autism Xpress’has been created to help promote greater awareness about autism spectrum disorders. It is designed to encourage people with autism to recognizes and express their emotions through its fun and easy to use interface. |
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NLconcepts Autism: Sort &
Categorize Natural Learning Concepts (nlconcepts.com) is known for top quality products for autism, speech & language and special education. |
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Autism Tracker can be life changing for families with an autistic child. Explore Autism. Track what matters to your child and your family. |
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| Great website for research on autism and ipads | |||
| Describes the difference between accommodations and modifications. The guide also details classroom alterations based upon the specific student need. | |||
| Checklist can be used to communicate resource room accommodations for individual assignments to the general education teacher. | |||
| Matrix provides information regarding the type of accommodations that can be used for different disability areas. | |||
| Presentation from the Fall 2009 EUPISD Teachers' Conference that describes accommodations and modifications. Provide information regarding the legal obligations of school districts as well as a list of references for accommodations to use in the classroom. | |||
| This site will be updated as time goes on Please check our other Apps site | |||
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Positively Autism |
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Theme
Lessons and Activities |
Early Learning Activities |
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File
Folder Games (Visual, structured learning activities) |
Work
Tasks (Structured learning activities for school or home) |
Quick
Tips |
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Apps (for Android devices including Kindle Fire) |
Workbooks | Data Sheets |
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Fine
Motor Skills (cutting, tracing, etc.) |
Reinforcement/ Behavior |
Visual Aids |
| Flash Cards | Worksheets | Assessments |
| Games and Game Play |
Toolkits
Resource kits for hair cuts, dentist visits, sleep, family support and more. |
Can you make the Expression |
| Guess the Expression | ||
Table below is new as of March 26 2012
Links below were placed on the website May 2010
| Learning About Autism | Autistic Traits in Adults | ||
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| This video explains using the smart board to assist the student |
What is Autism |
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Websites to help Students, Teachers and Parents |
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Zone for Autistic Children
Scroll down on the web page listed above and you will discover on the left side an Icon that says download. It takes only 30 seconds to install this browser. Once installed click on programs and you will find it listed under the last item installed. |
SMART Boards and a Browsing Breakthrough The first Internet Browser developed specifically for children living with variants of autism spectrum disorders ZAC Browser provides children with an extensive collection of online applications including Games, Video Clips (TV), Music, and Stories. The great thing about ZAC Browser is that it is an extremely safe and controlled environment for children. While children are able to browse and select various Internet resources, they are unable to navigate outside of the approved list of resources. It is so effective that my 2 year old son can use the browser and never get "lost" by clicking on the wrong link. ZAC Browser keeps him safe and allows him to explore on his own.
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| Train Tracker will be a
big hit in the early primary grades and for older special needs
children. It's also one of those great websites to bookmark at home and
have your young children learn how to use a mouse while building their
own little adventure world. Teachers could also utilize this site as a fun "memory helper" by drawing out a train track layout on the Smart Board and then see how well the students can recreate the layout using Train Tracker.
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Social skills |
Emotions | In this lesson the students will put a face with a name. |
| Morning activity | In this lesson the students will arrange pictures to show what they do first when they wake up in the morning. | |
| How would you feel | Children choose a word that describes how they would feel in a situation. | |
| Room create | Students can design their own home by placing the appropriate materials in the right room. | |
| Working with others | This lesson will allow students to understand social skills using many different methods | |
| Season Sort | This lesson will allow the student to evaluate what they find other people wearing dependent on the expected weather. | |
| What belongs at the playground | A lesson to better identify what maybe found in a playground. Allowing students to know what to expect. | |
| I need help with something | You will find a lesson that will coordinate words with pictures. | |
| Ordering in a restaurant | A simple but affective method of becoming comfortable in ordering from a restaurant | |
| pledge of allegiance | This lesson will allow the student to understand and have a better understanding for our allegiance to our country. | |
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Stories
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This website will allow the student to visually see and hear common learning skills with animation NSB | |
| Social Stories | This website will allow the student to read different Social Stories. NSB | |
| Facial Expressions | This website allows the user to view different facial expressions with controlled movement. NSB | |
| Feelings game | This is another website allowing the student to visually determine who feelings they are reading or looking at. NSB | |
Success Stories |
This website will allow the student to create pictures of social work. You must create a login and password. NSB | |
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Math |
Dice Roll | Roll the dice 20 times then ask the students a series of questions that relate to which number came up the most? the least? |
| Calendar | The students can create their own personal calendar. Have them put what days they have art, music, or gym class. Print it out and enjoy! | |
| Pattern | Still in working progress.... | |
| Many ideas for math | This lesson will allow the student and teacher to explore many new and wonderful ideas using smart board technology. | |
| Math Trail A | This is a simple yet fun math project that will allow the student to add and subtract. | |
| Math Trail B | This is a simple yet fun math project that will allow the student to add and subtract a little harder than 1. | |
| Math Trail C | This is a simple yet fun math project that will allow the student to add and subtract larger numbers. | |
| Math Trail D | This is a simple yet fun math project that will allow the student to add and subtract larger numbers. Larger numbers | |
| Math Trail E | This is a simple yet fun math project that will allow the student to add and subtract larger numbers. using 10's | |
| How Much Money | This is truly a fun and exciting way to learn counting money | |
| Weather Chart | A fun way to learn about charts. A must do lesson. | |
| Sort the Shapes | Just what it says, this lesson will allow students to place shapes in the proper designated area. | |
| Addition a Sensory approach | This lesson will allow a student to see the number, color in the dots while learning to add. | |
| Correct time | This lesson will allow the student to bubble in the correct time | |
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Resources |
Picture cards |
Looking for Ideas... |
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Science |
water vs. land | Still in working progress...... |
| weather | ||
| Life Cycle of a frog | You will find a fun and yet in-depth study of a frog. | |
| Many Ideas for Science | You will be given some ideas that will help you teach and create your own lessons for science. | |
| Sort the Food | Your lesson will illustrate what maybe food and what are objects that cannot be eaten. | |
| Today's weather | This lesson will allow a student to very simply look outside and determine the weather with pictures. | |
| What does not belong 1 | A lesson allowing student to grasp differences. | |
| What does not belong 2 | A lesson allowing student to grasp differences. | |
| What does not belong 3 | A lesson allowing student to grasp differences. | |
| What is Hard | Lesson to allow a student to determine hard and soft items | |
| Land or Sky | Lesson to determine what is objects are on land or sky | |
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Social Studies |
Label continents and oceans | Still in working progress.... |
| room sort | Still in working progress.... | |
