Critiquing and Highlighting Key Apps in Action Webinar to Enhance Performance with Students with Various Disabilities:
My group of 4; ( Tarah, Nancy, Gary and I) chose the following 4 apps from the Executive Functioning Webinar to present to the larger group: Irewards, Pictello, Work System and Sock Puppets.
I chose sock puppets, a free awesome interactive app, where kids design and can present scripts for guidance on how to be flexible, deal appropriately with new information without losing your cool, or responding to errors. These can be used alone, in a group setting, or as a role play for just about any situation. You can just choose the background and characters, and drag them to move them and when you say something, their mouths move! Kids of all ages will love this app as the possibilities are only limited by your imagination.
I would use these apps especially with my students on the spectrum for social stories that they can develop and create themselves. I am sure they would love how they could pick their own sock puppets and scenarios. This app could help with turn taking, conversation starters, initiation and sustaining conversations, as well as role playing different social situations that arise ( ie: bathroom etiquette). You could encompass reading, writing, conversation turn taking, and social situations role playing as tasks to be utilize with this app. Kids with problems with behaviour regulation, as well as difficulties focusing, sustaining and modulating conversations with others would greatly benefit from this fun and interactive practice.
Tutorial on how to use Sock Puppets & Puppet Pals HD: just over 5 minutes long.
Here is another one that shows how to choose background and characters: 30 seconds long.
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