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Our easy to use interface will have you creating and saving your own social stories or visual schedules (for free!) in no time. From the "home" screen tap the "new social story button." You can then choose a photo for your cover and a title for your story. Press "add" at the bottom of the page to add a page to the story. Add as many pages as you'd like with your photos, words and audio. You can always save a story and come back to edit it later as well. Your unique social stories will be saved on the home screen to be played back again and again! You can have up to 2 stories saved on the device for free. This should let you know if you enjoy the interface, and the way the stories look and if you are interested in upgrading for more storage, or other features.

Receiving & Sharing Social Stories & Visual Schedules With Other Users

The "pro" version of the app makes it easy for parents, teachers, therapists and anyone to easily share social stories with other users. Simply choose the story you'd like to share and tap the "share" button from the cover page of the story. After passing the parent gate (sorry for all of those math problems, we just want to make sure that kiddos aren't sharing or erasing stories!) tap the "Upload Story" button. The story will be uploaded to the server and then you can either e-mail the link or copy the link to your clipboard. If you choose the "e-mail link" option, your e-mail app will automatically open with the link pasted into the body. Choose the recipient (who must also have the pro version of the app), press send and they will receive the story immediately. You can also copy the link to your clipboard and send it in a text or via another method if you choose.

Receiving a social story that has been shared with you is even simpler. You will receive an e-mail with the subject "You've been sent a social story!" Click on the link in the e-mail that says "download social story" and the app will open and the story will start immediately downloading. You do have to be on a wifi network to share and receive social stories.

Download Social Stories From the App

This app is also a library of some of the social stories that we have created for common behavioral skills and social situations. We give you one story "Taking Care of My Device" for free so that you can be familiar with our audio, graphics and story style before committing to any in-app purchases. Each of our pre-made stories have an intro page that tell you more about the social story and it's content before you purchase. We have pre-made social stories for common behavior skills such as asking other children to play, running safety skills, good store behavior when shopping with adults and more!

Social Story Library & Creator - Perfect For Families & Professionals!

Social stories and visual schedules are a great way to break down tasks, or social skills, into smaller, easy to follow steps. Visual schedules can help children gain independence in performing daily routines or skills. Social stories can help diffuse anxiety about social situations as they let people know what to expect, and how to behave in a variety of social settings. Creating and sharing these schedules and stories is easier than ever with this free social story app!

Many apps on the market cost $15, $20 or even more, to do the same thing that we offer for free. Our simple, intuitive design means that you can create the visual supports you need quickly and efficiently. Parents and professionals can now easily create social stories, visual schedules, or even fun memory books or speech tools right from their iPhones, iPads or iPod Touches.

Great app for autism - Wonderful app!! I am able to upload my own photos, record my own voice, and design however The story for my child! I can also upload pre-made stories. Other apps cost $30-50 for this same awesome app! Thank you so much!!
*family games*

J'adore - Excellent travail - Avec les options d'édition, j'ai pu produire une version française d'un scénario. C'est très bien fait. Bravo.rWith the editing options, I have been able to prepare a French version of a story. The application is very well done. Congratulations.

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Lesson Planning for an Autism Classroom - The Autism Helper

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Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism

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If you would like to view the entire interview, it shows an important parent perspective on the early intervention process, the role of families in supporting children with autism, and advocacy.

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I have been CRAZY excited to share my classroom with ya’ll this year. This is my third year in this classroom, and I’m in love with how it turned out it this school year. I kept a lot of the same centers from last year, and added a few new fun ones (Magnet Center, Bulletin Board, Assessment, and Teacher Time Center). All summer, I worked on creating and finding the perfect resources to use daily that would meet ALL of my students needs. I always want to create a safe and nurturing classroom atmosphere where my students can feel at ease. Tons of organization and the LEAST amount of clutter as possible. Oh, and lots and lots of visuals!

Grab a cup of coffee or a glass of red juice (hehe) because this is a looong puppy of a post…

Schedule/Cubby Area

I assign a “color” to each student in my class every year. This has helped me in SO many ways with material organization, especially all those pesky schedule cards. I use 2 cubbies for each student in the class. One cubby is used for their picture schedule, and the other holds their data binders, math and reading folders, and their book bags. In the bottom cubbies, I store all their academic binders (math binder, handwriting without tears, etc.) I will have to do a later post on how I keep up with all the different levels/IEP goals with these folders and binders. 🙂

Unpacking bin visuals and steps from here.

Tape on the floor to help with lining up boundaries at the beginning of the year. 🙂

Table Time

Table Time is where students complete clothespin tasks from these packs. I change the activities out monthly so they go along with our classroom theme!

Art Area

We love doing crafts in our classroom! I use a mixture of my Easy Art Activities (shown below) and other fun crafts that go with our theme that I find on Pinterest. We prep everything ahead of time in the bins for the week so we don’t even have to think about it each day.

We are also big fans of hallway displays!

Below is a picture of how I show the directions for our easy art activities so students can follow along with the steps in the pictures. So far, we have been able to compete these activities after story time in the afternoon. I give students the supplies needed and we complete the activity one step at a time following the picture directions. This has really increased independence during art time!

Workshop

The workshop center is a standing task center that I switch up monthly. We usually have a sorting task, assembly task, and then a few other non-specific tasks.

I got this sort from Erin from You-Aut-a-Know and love how it helps students practice sorting by different sizes.

Magnet Center

I am so excited about this area! I got the GIANT magnet sheet from Walmart (It’s a drip-pan and costs around $11 – you can find it in the automotive dept). We secured it to the back of a shelf. I got the giant ten frames from Lakeshore on Amazon and the link is below. At this center, I also use these monthly Cookie Tray tasks from Erin at Creating and Teaching, and also some cookie tray activities from Make Take Teach on TpT.

Similar drip pan:

This number/counting sorting activity has been such a hit in our class this year. Lucky for you, it’s FREE until this Sunday (September 13th, 2015). Grab it here!

A pic of our cookie tray tasks. I keep them in sheet protectors and just switch the activities out weekly from Erin’s packs. One pack will get me through a month, and then I switch all of them out for the next month’s theme.

Bulletin Board Center

All the task pieces go in the chart to the right and students just go to town matching the items. There are different levels for built in differentiation (i.e. matching either uppercase to uppercase OR matching lowercase to uppercase letters).

Teacher Time

This is the area where all the magic happens.

I have tons and tons of tasks and activities in this center, and this is where I really focus on IEP goals and skills the students need to master. Most of the activities are separated by skill in the white bins (from Dollar Tree); however, for some students that are working on higher level skills, they complete activities from their reading and math skill folders as well.

Lucky for you, these labels are TOTALLY FREE!

I pull tasks from several different packs, here’s a list of links for Back to School:

Reading Center

Oh la la I love our little reading oasis. I inherited this rainbow beauty from a teacher that left the school and I am forever grateful. My students LOVE chilling out on this thing to read a book! I change out my books monthly and keep all the our reading adapted books here so students can always have assess. I like to keep adapted books in either a large ziploc baggie or one of those more durable bags so the pieces don’t get lost.  I get most of our adapted books from Jenna from Speech Room News. She has them for EVERYTHING, and I like to keep our materials consistent each month.

Workboxes

Nothing fancy to see in our workbox area, just lots of tasks!

I got the plastic shelves from Lowe’s for about $14 a piece and they’ve lasted years! Our finished baskets are just big plastic tubs.

For our workbox system labels, I used this pack from Erin at You-Aut-a-Know. It saved me so much time to just print it out and use it immediately versus making my own! Sorry, I took the picture before I had all the labels completed. 🙁

Students find their color schedule and simply match the pictures to go through their work systems. Some students are able to take the tasks right off the main shelves, and others we set up for them and they match. Read about my color-coding system here or click the picture below.

The “stand up” sorting colors task shown below is from this pack. It’s great transition activity for early finishers that come to the workbox center ready for their next center only to have students still working.

Group Time Area

We use the group time area for our morning circle time, literacy groups, story time, science/SS, and some whole group art activities.

I keep all the supplies/program used in this area at this area in the bins (which STILL need to be labeled) so I don’t have to waste time running around the room in between activities.

I will be doing a blog post about all the different reading materials I use SOON (pinky promise).

Calendar Area

For our calendar/weather area, I got the calendar from the Dollar Tree and the other visuals are from my Circle Time Visuals Pack found here.

During our morning meeting time, we also use activities and visuals from Autism Classroom News found here.

Writing Center

Our writing center has tons of different activities since our students are on such different levels when it comes to handwriting. All students complete sentence builder activities. Each student has a writing folder with the work that meets his level. I prep weeks at a time, so whoever is monitoring that zone will know to just have the student complete the next sheet on the left in the folder.

Here is a list of the different resources I have at this station:

Handwriting Without Tears Workbooks and additional materials

Literacy Story Board

Every afternoon after recess, we have story time. We complete a story map and answer comprehension questions about the story we are reading on the promethean board.

I pre-plan what books we will be reading weeks ahead of time, along with the visuals needed to complete the story map. We also complete comprehension questions about each story on the Promethean board, so I can just pull them up from my dropbox account and go!

1:1 Work Area

For students that need a little bit of their own space and have trouble with transitioning throughout the room all day, we have 1:1 work areas. All of the tasks for the specific student here are in the containers to the left and their is always a finished bin to the right of the desk. This area is highly structured to help the student learn boundaries and stay in the area during work times.

Assessment/Fluency Area

This is quite possibly my favorite area (I think I already said that).

I’m clearly obsessed with organization and data, so having all my assessments, student data binders, and colorful data cart in one area is a dream come true. I used to run around the room pulling odds and ends to assess students each quarter. Now, I just pull them to this area during morning or afternoon “leisure” time and get right to work. This has been HUGE for me this year, and so helpful in collecting tons of B.O.Y. baseline data.

In the binders on the shelf are some of the assessments I use.

The boxes pictured below hold each student’s fluency flashcards and fluency data binders.

Heavy Work

Sensory Room

We are so fortunate to have a separate sensory room too meet our kiddos’ needs.

I made the therapy ball hold from PVC pipe. Super easy and our custodian helped put it up for us! Clears a ton of room on the floor for activities. 🙂

I like to create a “Circuit” for students to complete while in the sensory room that they go through at least once a day. Of course, if they choose this room as a reward, they don’t have to do the circuit. 🙂

Monthly Bin Organization

Play Area

Not a lot to see, but obviously every student’s favorite area!! I keep all the toys organized in bins (Mr. Potato Head, food, cars, blocks, etc.). Those bins live on the shelf you can barely see on the left of the picture below.

First/Then Behavior Charts

These are essential for some students that struggle with behavior at the beginning of the year. If any of the top pictures get an X through them, the students do not get to choose a “reward” when they are finished with the center and will have to either sit and wait, continue working, or go to the calm down area. Thankfully, the chart helps and they usually get their reward. 🙂

Interactive Alphabet Board

My pride and joy this year.

It’s just sooooo pretty!!

The shapes and color visuals can be download for FREEEEE:

Hand Washing Station

Necessary.

Data Clipboards

Alas, another use for color coding. Keeps everything confidential and in REACH.

WHOA – that’s overwhelming! I’ll be going into detail about each center within the next week or two, but wanted to show off the room first and let you enjoy and hopefully pick up a few freebies!

Let me know if you have any questions. 🙂

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Here’s to Another Year: Autism Classroom Tour! - Teaching Special Thinkers

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Need set-up ideas for your elementary special education classroom? This classroom tour is packed with photos and ideas for how to set up a space dedicated to your students needs. Lots of structure, visuals, and centers in this space. #backtoschool #classroomtour

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Modifications for Students with Autism

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