Author: Amanda Doering Tourville
Description: A delightful story of friendship along with some objective information to help explain autism to children. This book is not typical of the books we usually review, but we wanted to let people know that it is available and written beautifully. As we know, [...]
Title: Do You Want To Be My Friend?
Author: Eric Carle
Description: A lonely mouse is looking for a friend to play with. He has to ask a lot of animals before he finds the right one.
Goals/objectives:
Early Inferencing/Predicting Possession /s/ production (final word position) Animal Vocabulary Why Questions and Reasoning Sequencing [...]
Title: City Dog Country Frog
Author: Mo Willems
Description: A story of friendship between a dog and a frog.
Goals/objectives:
friendship social skills vocabulary (seasons) descriptive language prediction past tense verbs
Why I like this book: Beautiful pictures and message about friendship.
Ideas for use:
great for discussion about friendship in general. [...]
Title: They Didn’t Use Their Heads
Author: Jo Ann Stover
Description: A cute story that has “mini- lessons” that encourages children to think about others.
Goals/ objectives:
Perspective Taking Early inferencing and predicting Why questions social skills/friendship body language
Why I like this story: Simple drawings that are great for prediction, and allow [...]
Author: M. Christina Butler and Tina Macnaughton
Description: A little bear wakes from his winter nap and has no one to enjoy the snow with. He decides to build a snowman to play with and meets some friends along the way.
Goals/ objectives:
Narrative/Retelling
Early inferencing and predicting
Why questions
animal/winter [...]
Title: Rabbit’s Gift
Author: George Shannon / Laura Dronzek
Description: A rabbit has a bit more food than she needs for the winter. Soon she learns that sharing with others leads to a wonderful surprise. This sweet story is based upon a Chinese Fable.
Goals/ objectives:
• Regular past tense
[...]
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Book: little blue and little yellow
Author: Leo Lionni
Age: preschool, elementary school
Description: Best friends, little blue and little yellow, have lots of fun playing together. When they hug each other, their color changes, which creates a problem. This story about friends, family, and fun can be read and played [...]
Author: Julia Cook
Illustrator: Carrie Hartman
Age: preschool, elementary school
Description: Louis is a “blurter” and constantly interrupting others and speaking when he should listen or raise his hand. His mother comes up with a simple strategy to help limit his volcanic eruptions.
Goals/Concepts:
Impulse control Self-regulation [...]
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Book: Being Benny (also an app for iPad and iPhone)
Author: Dan Wetzel
Age: preschool, elementary school
Description: Benny escapes the boredom he is experiencing on a rainy day by using his imagination…
Goals/Concepts:
• Imagination
• Ideation
• Problem solving
• Motor planning
• Creativity
• Categories
[...]
eBook: Bertie and the Big Squeak
Author: Helen J Aitken
Age: preschool, early elementary
Description: Meet Bertie, the guinea pig, and join him as he helps his new friend, Jenny, find her squeak.
Goals/Objectives:
• Early narrative skills,
• Problem-solving
• Friendship concepts
• Interpreting body language
[...]
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We believe apps can bring people together! To that end, we have developed:
The Social Adventures© App!!
Social development activities in your pocket!!
Dr. Lynne Kenney interviewed us on her blog radio program, Dr. Lynne Weighs In because she and many of the families in her practice have been using the Social Adventures app. You can listen to the interview HERE!
We are super excited that Mandy Nite recommended our Social Adventures app on her blog, Welcome to Their World Apps. Mandy reviews apps for kids ages preschool to 6, so please be sure to check out her other reviews!Learn more... watch our Youtube Videos
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The Bag Game©!!
Have you been looking for an app that will get kids playing together?
This app is the ticket. Fun with friends for .99 cents!
Check out these awesome reviews from SLP's:
Aubrey Klingensmith over at Speechie Apps, reviewed our Bag Game app! You can read it, here. While you are there, be sure to check out her other great reviews!!
Sean Sweeney over at Speech Techie also review our Bag Game app! You can read his review, here or on TherapyApp411, a fabulous app review site for educators and therapists.
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These Make Us Really Proud :)
Our Bag Game app has been included in the Kindertown app as a recommended resource for educators! Woo Hoo!!
We are so honored to have been included in Education World's Top 25 Blogs for Educators. Please make sure to check out all of these wonderful blogs!
We are proud to announce that we were mentioned among a number of wonderful blogs written by SLP's in an ASHAsphere article written by Heidi at Pediastaff
Dr Lynne Kenney, the Family Coach, listed the Social Adventures app in her March Newsletter as a helpful resource for children learning to manage their feelings. We are so honored!!
Thank you to all of you who voted us "TOP 5" for the Edublog Best New Blog Award!
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