Friday, March 20, 2009

Learning Websites for Children with Autism

The following websites are wonderful resources for your children, especially the ZACbrowser, the first web browser developed specifically for children with autism.
Special thanks to Suzanne Prestigiacomo, a parent who helped me put list this together.


www.zacbrowser.com - ZAC is the first web browser developed specifically for children with autism, and autism spectrum disorders such as Asperger syndrome, pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), and PDD-NOS. We have made this browser for the children - for their enjoyment, enrichment, and freedom. Children touch it, use it, play it, interact with it, and experience independence through ZAC.
www.sensoryworld.org – Interactive place learning that is fun, stimulating, relevant, appropriate and responsive.
www.videoplaylist.org - Perfect for parents and caregivers of autistic children as it allows you to create your own playlist from available youtube videos that launches from your own webpage supplied by them - adfree webpage! Then you can simply click on the link on the left and the video plays.
www.babybumblebee.com/company/freebies.cfm - Many free printables including number and alphabet posters and cards. Handwriting sheets, color flash cards, vocabulary builder flash cards, printable books.
www.do2learn.com – Games, songs, communication cards, print visuals, Make a schedule, activities and more resources.
www.avenscorner.com – Games for children with special needs, but can be enjoyed for children of all ages.
www.starfall.com – Where children have fun learing to read. ABC, picture stories, fun reading learning games.
www.treehousetv.com – Games and video.
www.funbrain.com – Games, math, reading, playground, web books, comics, videos.
www.usevisualstrategies.com/pictures - visual pictures.
www.pecsplace.com - PECS PLACE is a game, it is meant to be fun and rewarding, and yet at the same time… can be used by parents, habilitators, and therapists alike, to be another tool to help teach your child!
www.trainland.tripod.com/pecs - Beyond Autism Pecs Pictures,
www.mousetrial.com - Fun animated online exercises to help kids with autism.
www.earobics.com/gamegoo/gooeyhome - Fun educaltional games that help develop
early reading skills.
www.visualaidsforlearning.com - Visual Aids for Learning has created downloadable visuals to help people learn everyday activities. The images are ideal for children, particularly those with learning difficulties. Where appropriate, the images are gender specific.
www.pics4learning.com - Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers.
www.elearning.autism.net/visuals - Visual images and visual boards for everyday. Demonstration videos to explain how to use the images with the boards.
www.abclearningtime.com – ABC, tell time, learning numbers and more.
www.kinderwebgames.com – Educational childrens games.
www.gamequarium.com – The site that swims with learning fun.
www.learninggamesforkids.com -These learning games and songs are fun, teach important skills for preschool and elementary school kids and they're free. Want educational games that help build skills? You've come to the right place!
Schooltimegames.com
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2 comments:

FieldingHurst said...

Here's a great one. My daughter loves this site ... http://www.poissonrouge.com/

FJH
http://autismretort.blogspot.com

xyz said...

“Since the implementation of the "Back to Sleep" campaign, therapists are seeing increasing numbers of kindergarten-aged children who are unable to hold a pencil.”
Susan Syron, Pediatric Physical Therapist

“There are indications of a rapidly growing population of infants who show developmental abnormalities as a result of prolonged exposure to the supine position.”
Dr. Ralph Pelligra regarding the impact of the Back to Sleep Campaign

The Back to Sleep Program causes the following in infants who sleep supine compared to infants who sleep in the prone position:
- Social skills delays at 6 months (Dewey, Fleming, et al, 1998)
- Motor skills delays at 6 months (Dewey, Fleming, et al, 1998)
- Supine Sleep causes increased rates of gastroesophageal reflux (GER) (Corvaglia, 2007)
- Milestone delays (Davis, Moon, et al., 1998)
- 1 in 12 infants now have plagiocephaly compared to 1 in 300 in 1974 (Siatkowski, Fortney, et al., 2005)
- 10% of children with deformational plagiocephaly have mild to severe mental delay (Kordestani, Patel, et al., 2006)
- 26% of infants with deformational plagiocephaly have mild to severe psychomotor delay (Kordestani, Patel, et al., 2006)