SoBe Stories

The finding of this week is called SOBE STORIES, an app designed to  train social skills for the smaller kids.

Though it is an app in english, is designed in a  understandable way to any other language because  to visualize the situations that happen is the only requirement needed.

It allows user to choose the protagonist of the story, a boy or a girl, depending on the person who is using  the App. After choosing personage, app presents 4 situations (be kind, be responsible, be helpful and be safe) in which the protagonist will have to choose how to behave in each of them. In case of choosing the incorrect one, there will appear a negative feedback (the child or the girl will feel sad and will cry). In case of choosing the correct one, the same thing will happen, but with the positive feedback, child will appear very satisfied.

It is an application designed to improve children social skills  and specially for children with a diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorder.

It is totally free and it is available in Apple Store.

Download Ios: https://itunes.apple.com/es/app/sobe-stories/id1045707211?mt=8

See you next week!

The social express

Good morning everyone!

This week we show you an app that will not leave anyone indifferent, especially if you work with autistic children, Asperger or people with emotional or social problems. It is called «The social express» (here is the link to the website: http://thesocialexpress.com/ )

This is an aplication with excelent graphics, very usefull to maximize social skills. It contains 16 lessons and 30 different scenes.  Each lesson presents daily interactive social situations using video modeling, «hidden rules,» and suggestions for problem solving into daily life. You can improve aspects such as eye contact, understanding others emotions, managing angry situations using different strategies, problem solvin…, with basical instructions for beginners to more complex intruction for intermediate users.

It is an app designed to work in the classroom with autistic children. Thus, multidisciplinary work of different professionals in the center ( Professor of Special Education and the student tutor) is required.

Here you have a video where you can see how it really works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSeOFvn9I1Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYpZydjh8-I

The app is recommended from 8 years.

Disadvantages: It is only available in IOS operating system and the application is only in English. But it also offers the possibility to download it to your PC.

The app is priced at $ 4.99 per month or $ 53.89 a year.

Download IOS: https://itunes.apple.com/es/app/the-social-express-ii/id886896435?mt=8

Have a great great week! See you soon!