Based on the top-selling autism curriculum tool, Language Builder® Picture Cards. SIX core autism education activities -- infinitely customizable presentations. Professionally designed, used by Therapists, Teachers & Parents to teach children with autism, speech-language delay or special needs. You design the lessons: customize speech or text commands, card positions, prompts and prompt fading, target and distractor words, reinforcers, and more. The Pro version lets you upload your own images & customize labels, associated instructions & categories. And you can now create unlimited student users, with stored word lists, settings & reports.

“I'm so excited!! I use the stages/language builder flashcards religiously in my classroom, they are by far the best language flashcards I've found, and I've been pining for an app with the pictures from the cards!!!!!” –Nicole Mays, Teacher

Comes complete with 600+ Language Builder® images including Animals, Foods, Transportation, Furniture, Clothing, Toys, Everyday Objects, Insects, Sea Life, Musical Instruments, Tools, Body Parts, Safety Sign, Shapes and Colors. Save $$ hundreds on traditional flash cards.

“The photos are exactly what you would expect from Language Builder – colorful, realistic and varied.” – Joyce Olson, SLP

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Activities included:

+ Identical Matching: teaches students to match identical pictures of familiar objects. Generally one of the first drills taught in an ABA or DTT program.

+ Similar Matching: teaches students to match pictures which portray the same word, but with a different image. Helps students generalize from the therapeutic setting to a realistic environment.

+ Receptive Labeling: students hear a word spoken by the iPad, then touch one of the displayed pictures to show they recognize the word and can find the corresponding picture.

+ Expressive Labeling: presents the picture on the screen and asks students “what is it.” Therapists gauge response and deliver reinforcement to allow for shaping of pronunciation.

+ Picture Identification: allows students to scroll independently through pictures and hear a spoken word paired with the picture on the screen. Great review of pictures and their labels!

+ Sorting: allows students to sort pictures into categories with like objects.

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Benefits and features of the Language Builder from Stages App:

+ Therapists lighten your load by carrying all of your flash cards electronically
+ Parents work with your child at home to increase learning time!
+ You choose the words and the distractors
+ Customize the presentation of the cards
+ Choose from 1 to 6 cards in the selection field
+ Select from multiple prompts, and methods of prompt fading
+ Realistic voice commands and reinforcers (no robotic tone!)
+ Choose visual, music and voice reward for finishing a drill
+ Save $$ hundreds on traditional flash cards
+ Appeal to students who are drawn to the iPad
+ Your cards won’t get torn, worn out or lost!


Stages Learning Materials has been creating quality teaching tools since 1996. We were one of the first companies to create products specifically designed to meet the unique needs of students with autism, and we have dedicated our lives to quality autism education.

We all know that learning happens in stages. Learn to crawl before you walk, learn to walk before you run.

Language development also happens in stages. Children learn to match objects first ("put apple with apple"), then to identify objects receptively ("give me the apple"), and finally to identify objects expressively ("what is it?" "it is an apple"). Our products are created to stimulate learning at each stage of language development.

The stages of your child's development are precious and wonderful. Stages Learning Materials will partner with you to make the most of every stage.

The Social Skills Edition of the Autism Behavior Toolbox consists of strategies necessary in getting along with others. They help children become more comfortable and competent in social situations. Detailed strategies are presented in 18 areas including making friends, dealing with bullying and teasing, getting a hair cut, riding in a school bus, travelling and going on vacation, using leisure time and play, going shopping, eating in a restaurant, going to the dentist and visiting their physicians as examples. Strategies are classified according to age level ranging from age 3-12. The app not only includes strategies but reading lists associated with each topic area. Users can create a note to attach to their strategies that can be exported in an attractive book format as a pdf file into iBooks, sent as a text message, attached to an email, or saved to iCloud Drive, Dropbox, or Google Drive. Parents and teachers can send copies of strategies to one another to assist in program planning and maintain good communication.

Teach your children everyday kids activities through a fun drag & drop sequence game designed for children with autism and developed by specialized therapists.

Features

• Create your sequences. You can create unlimited stories using your own pictures and voice making it a unique experience.
• Quick Playlists. Create quick playlists to practice a series of sequences.
• Built-in sequences. Includes 50 built-in sequences in categories like: Self-Help Skills, School Activities, Social Skills and many more.
• Personalized Players. Sequences adapts to every child's needs by using in-game clues, puzzle frames, guide numbers and more.

Benefits

• Improved communication skills with peers
• Spatial depth orientation
• Improved ability to structure thoughts and ideas
• Focus on self-help skills
• Children will be able to break down everyday activities into a systematic process, improving their social skills.

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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.

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The app opens up to table of contents to choose which of the four stories to read. Some of the stories have buttons that play examples of things to say when each one is pressed. The stories focus on important conversational skills including greetings, asking someone to play, tips on where to stand, how to end a conversation and many more!

Starting or maintaining a conversation can be difficult for any child, and may be especially difficult for children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome or other special need.

Children with special needs often need more direct instruction of social skills like conversations.
Teaching conversational skills to any child may be easier and less stressful when visual supports, like social stories are used. This social story explains accurate social information and ensures that your child will know what to expect when having a conversation.

Social stories are an important type of visual support often used with children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome or other special need. This social story uses simple text and descriptive pictures to explain why and how to initiate, maintain and end a conversation.
Social interactions, such as conversations may be especially difficult for children with an autism spectrum disorder. Many children, especially those diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome and other special need, often fail to pick up on social cues, making learning a social skill especially difficult. Social stories may increase awareness of how to initiate and maintain a conversation.

Social stories were first defined by Carol Gray in 1991 and are commonly used to break down a task or social situation into small and easy to understand steps, often accompanied by descriptive pictures. Social stories are incredibly easy to implement and are used by many professionals for a wide range of behaviors.

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.

The app opens up to a menu that lets the user choose to either read the story or go to the “compliments” page. The social story describes why it’s good to give compliments, and what types of things you can compliment someone on. The “compliments” page has six buttons with different compliments from the story that play an audio clip of the compliment when pushed.

Compliments are often used to create, maintain and strengthen interpersonal relationships between people. From early childhood the giving and receiving of compliments are fundamental tools of personal interactions and conversations.

Typical children usually develop an understanding of compliments without direct instruction from adults. This makes it is easy to forget that this may not be the case for everyone. Certain individuals, particularly those with social or communication delays, like someone diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, may need more direct instruction in this important skill.

Teaching social skills such as giving and receiving compliments to any child may be easier and less stressful when visual supports, like social stories are used.

Social stories are an important type of visual support often used with children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome or other special need. This social story uses simple text and descriptive pictures to how to compliment someone, and how to react when you are complimented.

Social stories were first defined by Carol Gray in 1991 and are commonly used to break down a task or social situation into small and easy to understand steps, often accompanied by descriptive pictures. Social stories are easy to implement and are used by many professionals for a wide range of behaviors and skills.