Apps by Touch Autism

YouTube Timer

Is your child too busy using YouTube™ on their device to take advantages of the many educational opportunities devices can offer? Now you can easily control how long your child has access to YouTube.com. You set a code and only that code will open YouTube.com and will allow you to set how long the site will remain open. Once the allotted time has passed the app will automatically shut down YouTube.com Only entering the code again will allow YouTube.com to be re-launched. - Great for classroom management, or home programs - Allows teachers or parents to easily control time spent on YouTube - Easy to use and customize

Puzzle Spelling Words for Toddlers, Autism and Special Needs

Designed by a BCBA (board certified behavior analyst) Puzzle Spelling Words is not only a powerful educational tool, but also provides hours of fun! This app is built especially for early learners and anyone working towards letter recognition, spelling and reading with an easy to navigate interface to encourage independent learning. The app has the option to allow users to match letters in any order, or ensures that the user is matching letters in left to right correct spelling order. This lets you adjust the game for different ability levels. Fun music plays in the background while users explore different illustrated scenes and learn: - Letter Recognition - Names of Letters - How to Spell Words - Fine Motor Skills - Matching - Contact Touch Autism! - We love feedback and respond to every e-mail personally! Visit us: http://touchautism.com Email us: [email protected] Like us: http://www.facebook.com/touchautism

BuzzBack Cause and Effect with Vibrations and Sound

A simple cause and effect app created for a teacher of a student with auditory and visual impairments. This app is built to be run on iPhones as it uses vibration as the primary reinforcer. A teacher of students with visual and auditory impairments wrote to us here at touchautism.com to ask if we knew of an app like our app "Touch Trainer" that uses vibrations instead of images and music as a reinforcer. Her student was interested in the vibrations of the phone, but there was no app out there that taught cause and effect using vibration. We created BuzzBack to be a simple and free tool to teach cause and effect using a phone's vibration as a reinforcer. The app has three simple settings to teach students different finger commands on the iPhone. Thank you all teachers for all of the incredible work that you do!

Wait Timer Social Story and Visual Timer Tool

Wait Timer is a visual and audio tool to help people with waiting. The app includes a social story about waiting, and an audio/visual tool for waiting that can be set to different times.

Running Social Story and Visual Tool About When and Where to Run

This app is a simple visual tool or cue to help parents teach their children where it is safe, and where it is not safe to run. The app includes a social story that goes over why it is OK to run sometimes and not other times. The app teaches children to recognize the visual cue that can be used to signal to them when it’s OK to run and when it is not.

Manners Social Story and Speech Tool

This app includes a 10 page social story about why it is important to be polite, and how to have good manners. The app also includes a simple visual support for using the polite phrases from the story.

Taking Care of My Device Social Story

This app includes a nine page social story about proper care and handling of a device. The story focuses on why it’s important to take care of your device and specific rules for properly caring for and handling a device.

Using My Words to Ask For What I Want Social Story

This app includes a 13 page social story about using words to ask for what you want, and a simple visual support for manding, or asking for different objects or activities. The story focuses on why it’s important to tell people what you need or want, and the visual tool helps people who are non-verbal to ask for 9 specific things.

Autism Assessment

The test is made up of 72 questions written by a board certified behavior analyst for the caregiver of the person (called client) in question. Each question represents part of the definition and diagnostic criteria for a diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder. Results of the assessment can be easily e-mailed from the app.

Using Money and Saving Money Social Story About Basic Money Concepts

This app includes two social stories about basic money concepts. The first story focuses on what money is and how you use it. The second story is about saving and earning money.

Emotions and Feelings Autism Social Story

This app includes a social story about different emotions and feelings you may have throughout the day, and a simple visual support for asking how someone is feeling, or identifying feelings or emotions. The story focuses on why or when a person may feel something, and what may cause different feelings or emotions.

Joke Telling Social Story and Speech Tool on How to Tell Jokes

This app includes a social story about how and why people tell jokes, and a simple visual/audio support for telling knock knock jokes. The story focuses on why it’s important to tell people jokes, why a joke is funny, and how you tell a joke.

Compliments Social Story and Speech Tool

This app includes a social story about how and why people give compliments, and a simple visual support for giving compliments. The story focuses on why it’s important to give people compliments, and how you should react when a compliment is given to you.

Going Shopping Social Story About Good Store Behavior

Many children have problem behaviors in stores caused by always wanting to pick out a toy or treat for themselves to buy. This app is a tool to help reduce these behaviors.

Staying Safe and Safer Strangers Social Story

This app is made up of two community safety social stories. One story focuses on safer strangers and buildings, and the other focuses on what to do if you are lost.

Divorce Social Story

This app is a simple and short social story about divorce and what it means for a child. The app uses simple language and graphics to explain that divorce means parents living in separate houses, and that it’s ok.

My Day With WH Words Social Story and Speech Tool

My Day with WH words includes a social story about talking about one’s day, and a simple visual support that asks different “WH” questions (Who, What, When, Where, Why, How). The story focuses on why it’s important to tell people about your day and on what each different WH question means.

Conversation Social Stories and Simple PECS Communication Tool

Conversation social stories is made up of four social stories about different conversational skills and simple communication tools to go with them. The stories focus on greetings, asking someone to play, what to talk about in a conversation and tips for great conversations. Some of the stories include square buttons with images that play whatever part of the conversation the the story is about. The buttons are similar to PECS in that they have a picture that represents the idea, and then play a message when tapped.

Potty Training Social Story

This app is an interactive social story about potty training that is customizable for boys or girls. The app also includes a visual schedule for using the potty and an extensive FAQ page that lists answers written by a board certified behavior analyst to common potty training questions. To turn the page of the story simply tap to the next page. Some pages show a fun animation with sound effects when tapped!

Calm Counter - Social Story and Anger Management Tool

Calm Counter is a visual and audio tool to help people calm down when they are angry or anxious. The app includes a social story about anger, and audio/visual tools for calming down.

Knock Knock Numbers - Joke Telling and Conversations Tool

KNOCK KNOCK! Who’s there? One! One who? One-derful to meet you!! Get ready to laugh (and groan!) as you practice numbers and humor with 20 classic knock knock jokes. Knock Knock Numbers was designed by a BCBA as a fun way to teach kids how to tell knock knock jokes, while working on number recognition. The app teaches 20 different jokes and each one prompts the user to identify a number between one and ten. Settings allow the user to choose how many numbers are presented each trial.

Autism Apps

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. Autism Apps was created as a resource for anyone looking for apps for people diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome or other special need. Many people are discovering the many uses that iPads, iPhones and iPod touches can have as tools and resources for people diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome or other disability. Though there are a multitude of apps in the app store that many people diagnosed with autism, Down syndrome or another special need use and enjoy, they can be difficult to find. Autism Apps links to extensive reviews of the apps written by parents, specialists, and other users usually from first-hand experience. Autism Apps also has links to video demonstrations or video reviews of the apps when they are available.

Preference and Reinforcer Assessment

This Preference (Reinforcer) Assessment app was designed by a BCBA (board certified behavior analyst) to make running a preference (reinforcer) assessment amazingly easy to do, so that anyone can effectively and scientifically determine their child’s or client’s preferences. This app includes such features as descriptions of all of the types of preference assessments, a timer to determine the end of a trial, a timer to indicate how long each item is engaged with, the ability to assign a color to each item, the ability to customize each assessment type and specific instructions and visuals to help you set up and run the assessment. Once the assessment is finished the app will automatically calculate the percentage of times each item was selected in which it was available, and will present this info in an easy to read bar graph. The data and graph from each client will be saved on the app, so that the user can easily review results from past assessments. Reinforcement (Preference) Assessments are an incredibly important procedure in any behavior change program. They are not conducted nearly as often as they should be because they can be difficult to run, or because many parents, caregivers or practitioners have not been sufficiently trained to run them.

Touch Trainer

Touch Trainer is a simple cause and effect app designed for an individual diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, down syndrome, or other special need, or a young child just learning about touch screen technology. Touch Trainer plays music and shows a simple animation whenever a button is tapped. The button gets progressively smaller as the app moves through the levels to easily teach individuals how to use a touch screen. In the settings menu the caregiver can decide if the app will "react" to any touch or if it only recognizes distinct taps.

Turn Taker Sharing Tool and Social Story

AutismEpicenter.com writes “Turn Taker is a valuable audio and visual cue for helping children learn how to take turns and to share; simple, yet fills a good niche in the world of autism”.-Shane from autismepicenter.com The Turn Taker uses visual and/or audio cues to facilitate turn taking and/or sharing in children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome or other special need. The app also now includes a simple social story that discusses appropriate game play. This app has also been used successfully with young typical children, children diagnosed with ADHD, and with any child that finds it difficult to share!

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