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Injini on their website you can take a look at the app and they even have some printables.
Monkey Pre School Lunchbox
Monday, July 16, 2012
Ipad apps for Autism Part 1
Today I'm talking about apps for Autism the ones I have been using, there is a lot to talk about in this topic so this is the first part more to come and also I will talk about resources.
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Apps that I talked about in this podcast :
Injini on their website you can take a look at the app and they even have some printables.
Monkey Pre School Lunchbox
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Apps that I talked about in this podcast :
Injini on their website you can take a look at the app and they even have some printables.
Monkey Pre School Lunchbox
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Book Review - Step Ahead of Autism
After a long break without buying any new books after reading a lot and being frustrated sometimes with some books we find out there, I was at Barnes & Nobles and pick up this book after seeing the table of contents. I just wish I read this book a long long time ago and I highly recommend if you are new or old in this journey. This book definitely tell you things straight forward very fast reading (just over 100 pages) and it's divided by the steps we need to take in our journey. I totally agree and now like her will be putting these over my house so I won't forget, maybe some we already been dealt with others maybe we will. She has a very positive encounter and tell some stories but outline things in detail for you.
Here are the steps detailed in this book:
Trust
Observe
Accept
Ascertain
Adapt
Advocate
Assess your Attitute
Assert your Authority
Delegate
Aspire
Also a nice chapter putting steps in practice . The Author is the fouder of Alleviate Autism.
in my opinion a must read.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Sensory Processing Disorder podcast part 1
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Good Books part 1
I will do a tab later for all the books in this reviews so everyone can find all the books in one place.
Constantly I go to bookstores to see what's new or search on Amazon, one thing is for sure now the Autism community has many books to choose from but also there is a lot of bad stuff emerging, people writing stuff without no research or any thing to back up what they are saying.
As I read more I will always do more reviews but so far these are the ones I like the best so far.
The Out-of-sync child is one of the best, it was recommended by me when we have our diagnoses. And as I started to read I started all the time yes he does that and that. Very good information and great tips.
Most of kids with Autism has Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) and this book is the best so far out there, a lot of good information and you started to understand why your child does the things that he/she does. A amazing book.
After you understand what SPD is , it's great to know how you can play with your child but at the same address the problems they are having and help them.
These kind of books have so many good ideas when you start to read books like this, you start to learn what activities help and create your own and know also what activities aren't good.
And this one is huge and you will learn a lot I still browse here and there to refresh my mind.
If you are new to Autism I think if you want to buy books I would suggest more reference books that explain the disorders and not give their opinions ..
I'll be back with more ..
Jana
Constantly I go to bookstores to see what's new or search on Amazon, one thing is for sure now the Autism community has many books to choose from but also there is a lot of bad stuff emerging, people writing stuff without no research or any thing to back up what they are saying.
As I read more I will always do more reviews but so far these are the ones I like the best so far.
The Out-of-sync child is one of the best, it was recommended by me when we have our diagnoses. And as I started to read I started all the time yes he does that and that. Very good information and great tips.
Most of kids with Autism has Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) and this book is the best so far out there, a lot of good information and you started to understand why your child does the things that he/she does. A amazing book.
After you understand what SPD is , it's great to know how you can play with your child but at the same address the problems they are having and help them.
These kind of books have so many good ideas when you start to read books like this, you start to learn what activities help and create your own and know also what activities aren't good.
And this one is huge and you will learn a lot I still browse here and there to refresh my mind.
If you are new to Autism I think if you want to buy books I would suggest more reference books that explain the disorders and not give their opinions ..
I'll be back with more ..
Jana
Sunday, June 10, 2012
The Blog on Kindle Store
Now if you have a Kindle you can subscribe to the blogs feed !
Search on your kindle going to the store and blogs or just searching Helping my Boy or subscribing here on Amazon .
Search on your kindle going to the store and blogs or just searching Helping my Boy or subscribing here on Amazon .
Thursday, May 31, 2012
New great iPad apps
I have found some great new apps for the iPad great educational apps for kids with Autism or not.
ABC house
What is nice about this app is that is not the regular boring pictures for ABC it opens a full board with the alphabet and each letter has many videos that letter or sometimes some kind of interaction life F has Fireplace and you have to light up the fireplace. Sometimes it has video like the refrigerator has pictures and has a video showing a refrigerator. So it makes really a surprise to each letter and the child doesn't know what to expect and makes it fun. For S has a video with a song for washing our hands with soap and also the kid can swipe the sofa to show a dog on the sofa. Really fun.
Another great and Free one is
It has the Mickey Mouse clubshouse song and Mickey interact with the user you have to answer it has a mic that waits for your answer than after the songs and after the intro many activities and each activity starts with nice songs or interactions for the inpatients like my son the introductions can be long but for free just the fact that he gets so happy with the songs is enough but again it's free and it's worth the try.
And for the Thomas lovers Thomas activities is a favorite so far here, specially because my son loves puzzles, the app is free and comes with a free package of activities but than if you want more you have to buy other packages.
Every package comes with puzzles each have 2 levels and coloring sheets and matching games.
The puzzles have 2 levels easy and hard. And they show a video after completion which my son enjoys a lot. I just wish we could print the coloring sheets as well. But it's a great one for Thomas' lovers.
ABC house
What is nice about this app is that is not the regular boring pictures for ABC it opens a full board with the alphabet and each letter has many videos that letter or sometimes some kind of interaction life F has Fireplace and you have to light up the fireplace. Sometimes it has video like the refrigerator has pictures and has a video showing a refrigerator. So it makes really a surprise to each letter and the child doesn't know what to expect and makes it fun. For S has a video with a song for washing our hands with soap and also the kid can swipe the sofa to show a dog on the sofa. Really fun.
Another great and Free one is
It has the Mickey Mouse clubshouse song and Mickey interact with the user you have to answer it has a mic that waits for your answer than after the songs and after the intro many activities and each activity starts with nice songs or interactions for the inpatients like my son the introductions can be long but for free just the fact that he gets so happy with the songs is enough but again it's free and it's worth the try.
And for the Thomas lovers Thomas activities is a favorite so far here, specially because my son loves puzzles, the app is free and comes with a free package of activities but than if you want more you have to buy other packages.
Every package comes with puzzles each have 2 levels and coloring sheets and matching games.
The puzzles have 2 levels easy and hard. And they show a video after completion which my son enjoys a lot. I just wish we could print the coloring sheets as well. But it's a great one for Thomas' lovers.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Podcast 2 Catalogs
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Today I'm talking about how we can help our kids and learn more about what toy is educational and good for our kids with Catalogs as a research tool.
Links:
Beyond Play
Pocket Full Of Therapy
Lakeshore
Learning Resources
Guide Craft
Beckers School Supplies
Abilitations & Integrations
Thanks
Jana
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