Sosh is a mobile app designed to help ‘tweens, teens, and young adults improve social skills. It is especially designed to be used by individuals with Asperger’s Syndrome. Sosh focuses on five essential abilities for social skills development: Relate, Relax, Reason, Regulate, and Recognize. These “5R’s” serve as a road map for individuals who want to be social, but may have faced obstacles in the past, and also serve as a guide for parents, teachers, and therapists hoping to encourage and assist individuals with their social goals.
Sosh contains over 60 screens presenting exercises, strategies, and practical information to work through social situations in a step-by-step manner. And, most importantly, the app encourages you to work on these skills during everyday interactions, when learning is most likely to occur.
Features include: Get Out and Explore Companion; Feelings Identifier and Perspective Meter; Transition Timer; Relaxation Strategies; Problem Solver; Behavior Tracking and Monitoring; Individualized Education Program (IEP) Recommendations; Feedback Form for Teachers, Parents, and Therapists, and much more……
For a series of feature demonstrations on the Sosh app, watch the videos below:
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
Model Me Going Places 2 is a visual teaching tool for helping your child learn to navigate challenging locations on the community. Each location contains a photo slideshow of children modeling appropriate behavior. This app is as easy to use as touching the forward and back buttons to move through the photos one by one or pressing the slide show button to advance photos automatically. A home button brings you back to the navigation menu where you may choose your next destination. This app includes audio narration (English) and descriptive text of each photo.
For a tutorial on Model Me Going Places, watch the video below.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
Everyday Social Skills app covers basic social skills needed for everyday activities in your community. It contains 6 categories with a total of 75 videos. This app includes common daily activities such as walking down the street, using a restroom, waiting in line, asking for directions, asking for information, and joining in a group. The program is simple and direct. The Everyday Social Skills app is a complement to the Functional Skills System software. The Conover Company website has more information on their software products.
Watch the video below to see a tutorial on Everyday Social Skills.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.
Hidden Curriculum for Kids contains a group of real-life entries that will spur conversations about the countless “unwritten social rules” that we encounter every day and that can cause confusion and anxiety. Some people seem to learn the hidden curriculum almost automatically, others learn it only by direct instruction. This includes children with autism spectrum disorders.
For a tutorial on Hidden Curriculum for Kids, watch the video below.
QuickCues is a social script app that helps teens and young adults on the autism spectrum to handle new situations and learn new skills. Social scripts have been used successfully for years, but QuickCues makes these tools mobile and easy to use in everyday situation. Five QuickCues modules are available: Communication, Life Skills, Socialization, Coping, and On The Job.
Social Skills (S2L) offers parents and educators the ability to interact with six social narratives (broken into 2 levels which give a total possible of 12 social narratives) designed to help individuals improve their social ability. With S2L, the stories contain targeted instruction in the following core areas: Joint Attention; Non-Verbal Communication; Greetings; Structured Game Play; Turn Taking; Classroom Rules; and Imitation. In addition to using the specific content, users can modify the stories by adding different photos, text, as well as audio.