During my second class, I had the opportunity to watch a Webinar on social skills and Autism. It was presented by Barbara Welsford and Lindsey Welsford.
As discussed in the webinar, social skills development
(cooperation, relating, conversations) are usually acquired naturally by
children through play and daily interactions.
Children who are on the spectrum have difficulty learning these social development
skills such as perspective taking, showing interests, and creating shared
experiences.
Applications
for the ipad were demonstrated which addressed one or more of four social skills
areas:
1.
Conversations
2. Creating Shared experiences
3. Emotional Awareness and Regulation
4.
Social Cognitive
skills
It was recommended that teachers should
structure the use of ipad apps. This can
be done by scheduling ipad use into students’ schedules as either general ipad
use or specific application use. They
also recommended that teachers set limits to the amount of time students use
the ipad and to use an alarm to signal the end of that time. It was further recommended that a preferred
activity be scheduled right after ipad use to make the transition easier for
students.
Listed
below, in the four social skills areas, are the apps that were demonstrated in
the webinar and their approximate cost.
1. Conversations
LanguageSocial Adventures 24.99
Conversation Builder 7.99 or 24.99 (Conversation stimulator)
Practising Pragmatics Fun Deck 5.99 - Social skills questions and verbal answers on:
Phone skills
Problem Solving
Politeness
Feelings
Making requests
Staying on Topic
WH Questions at school and WH Questions
at Home 5.99
Perspective taking
Webber Photo Cards What are they
thinking 3.99WH Fun Deck If…Then… 5.99
Idiom in Use- Advanced Idiom Dictionary – Free
In Action
Sosh Voice Meter .99 (focuses on high functioning children with Asperger’s)Strip Designer 2.99
Talking Tom Cat for iPad- Free
Sock Puppets- Free
What If?- Free
2. Creating
Shared experiences
Instruction
·
Turn Taker 4.99
Collaborative writing
·
Toontaskic 1.99
·
Story Builder 5.99
·
Rory’s Story
Cubes 1.99
Games
·
Fantastic Four
.99
·
Checkers- Free
·
Bugs to Buttons
2.99 (highly recommended)
Collaborative Creating
·
Whiteboard Lite –
Free (collaborative Drawing)
·
Crazy Photo Booth
– Free
3. Emotional Awareness and Regulation
Instruction
·
Faces iMake
- Right Brain Creativity 2.99
·
Emotionx - .99
·
Sosh 39.99 (full
app) Relate, relax, Reason, Regulate and Recognise (focuses on high functioning
children with Asperger’s)
EBooks
·
Thomas &
Friends: Calling All Engines 1.99
·
Monster at the
End of this book 3.99
In Action
·
Anger .99
·
Autism 5 Point
Scale - Free
·
Sosh- The
Shredder - .99
4. Social Cognitive
skills
·
Louder than Words
9.99 (non-verbal cues- business related)
·
Hidden Curriculum
for Kids 1.99
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