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New Product :: Social Superstar Game

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If you’re anything like me, you want to like a lot of the social skills games on the market, but you just can’t. Either the kids hate it, it’s way too deep and “therapy-y,” the board game looks like something out of the 70’s, or there’s no possible way you can finish it within 30 minutes, etc. etc. Yeah, you know those games. In fact, I have an entire office full of them that I never use!

On the other hand, social skills games could be really awesome! They don’t take a whole lot of planning, and the kids could have fun WHILE learning skills they need! Win-win, right?

Which is why I can’t tell you how unbelievably excited I am to finish this project!  I’ve been working on it for the last several weeks and am SO happy with how it turned out! First of all, it’s not made by some educational company who “thinks” they know our kids. I made it (and tested it with my kids), so I know they’ll enjoy it!

The music-themed (no singing required-don’t worry) game contains 150 cards (including some blank ones and decorative card backs) of the following types to teach social and pragmatic language skills in students with Autism, Cognitive Impairments, or other social skill deficits:

– Home Social Skills Questions

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– School Social Skills QuestionsScreen Shot 2013-04-13 at 9.55.57 AMScreen Shot 2013-04-13 at 9.56.13 AM

– Community Social Skills Questions

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– Communication Skills Questions

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– Conversation Acting Topic Cards

The game also includes a cute printable board game in color or black and white, 8 colored “record scorecards” for each player, and reward stars for the student’s scorecard. You can even download a preview before to see if it’ll work for your needs!

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It’s normally $9 at my TpT store, but for this week, it’ll be on sale! Grab it while you can 🙂

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Fun Freebie :: Encouraging Class Poster Set

Screen Shot 2013-04-07 at 8.53.25 PMLately, I’ve seen a lot of really colorful posters on Pinterest! Unfortunately, a lot of them are more “teacher-focused,” and not so counselor-y social worker-y psychologist-y special ed-y, so I made my own. Click the images above and pick them up for free!

Enjoy!

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Review :: Creative iPad Case

71nckx5SQBL._SL1500_I was recently lucky enough to get an iPad Mini funded through DonorsChoose for my students! I’m super excited because there are all kinds of awesome apps to teach social skills, communication, and problem-solving. Unfortunately, I had to way to use the apps without an iPad!

It’s supposed to arrive sometime in the next couple weeks, but in the mean time I’ve bean searching for a good case for it. There’s tons of cute ones out there, but so many don’t provide the “military-grade” protection I know I’ll need…haha!

Luckily I came across this one! Not only is it very cute looking, but I also love the handles and that it appears to be very durable! It’s also made for all different models of iPads. Some of the reviews mention that it doesn’t stand up well, but that’s not really why I’m buying the case to begin with! I ordered one in purple and I’ll post an update after I get it to let you know how it holds up 🙂

Anyone know of any must-have apps while I’m waiting!?

Happy Sunday!

Update 4/11/13: I definitely REALLY love this case!  It’s a bit tight to get the iPad mini into, but it looks fantastic and I know it will hold up to the abuse my students will put it through. It even stands up on the desk. I’ve already gotten tons of compliments from my coworkers 🙂