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bjbjz Jennifer Andersen: Well, today, we're going to talk about this app called AutisMate.
And, as long as this keeps up with me, we'll be using the iPad to show you everything.
But, if it's not working, I will give you as good an overview as I can, and we will
probably make another recording with pictures for you to view again at a later date. So
we'll see how this goes. So what AutisMate is, is it's a really nice app for students
with autism that require a little bit of extra help to figure out their, well, in this case,
the classroom mostly likely, but this is useable across a lot of different settings. And it's
an app that can go around with the student, using GPS, and help the student look at scenes
and routines and things that will happen in those situations, access them in that location,
on a really simply interface, and use it to help them communicate and also function in
that environment. So what you would do is, initially, you would create a user profile,
and it would prompt you to do that right away. You can create multiple users and switch between
them in the edit component part of it. So you can, with this app, take pictures of scenes
to teach the students about those scenes. You can make visual schedules to kind of help
break down tasks for students and help them work toward a goal upon finishing that task,
a very behavioral kind of thing to it. You can use a component called Sentence Builder,
which is kind of that smiley face down there and, also, make videos for video modeling,
visual stories, kind of those how-to pictures that help kids learn how to deal with social
situations in a positive way. And, also, the AutisMate company that created this has a
store that you can go to and purchase more things, like voices, like audio-recording
voices, images. There's already embedded into the program a plethora of symbols called symbol
sticks, but you can add more. You can also purchase videos premade, so that you don't
have to do them yourself. But, typically, what you do is start kind of with a blank
slate and make everything in this app tailored towards that student and what that student
is experiencing. So, right now, we have opened a demo so that it can give you a good idea.
So, right off the bat, we're kind of at you can see we're at "My House." You can also
go to different places. You can choose the location that you're at. The GPS component
can help pull up what is relevant to the student, wherever they are. So you could have one for
school; you could have one for Wal Mart. I'm going to stick to this home one, just because
I know it best yet and can navigate. And it has some really good ways to show you how
to use this app. So I'll click on the bedroom scene. So, right here, you can see that there
are a lot of different hotspots on here, the stars this keeps popping up on me, so you'll
just have to pardon that but, in the bedroom, you can see popups of looks like a little
iPad on the bed, a blue square, a green circle, and a couple of stars. So, when you click
on them, they do different various things. So what you would go in and do is create a
hotspot for something that you need your student to understand. So the desk on the left side,
that is helpful. You could maybe put, "This is where you do your homework," as a hotspot.
But some of these are set in here already. And let me see if this'll work for you guys,
if you can hear it, if it's I'll describe it to you if it doesn't work very well. So,
when you click one of the hotspots the center star is what I picked up pops a coloring book
picture and a puzzle picture, and the student can then select one of these, and a voice
will set out what the student selected. Recorded Voice: A puzzle would be fun. Jennifer Andersen:
What you can do is go in and record your voice, create that picture, and put that within that
hotspot, so the student can pick out of the things that the student can do in that area
of the room. So another thing that you can do is the iPad-looking one on the bed I'm
going to let that refresh for you is actually this hotspot is a video. So what would pop
up is a movie. Let's see actually. Recorded Voice: [Inaudible]. Jennifer Andersen: This
is actually kind of a visual story. It tells you what this pops up, and it tells you what
you would do for your bedtime routine. So the first thing that popped up is the first
page, and then the student could select the green arrow and go to the next page. Recorded Voice: I get my pajamas.
Jennifer Andersen: losed out of that because what you can see right there is the little
boy brushing his teeth. That's actually a video, so when you turn the page, you can
embed a simple video on that page. And I'm going to show you guys how to add things like
that in a minute. So the hotspots can have videos in them. You can make folders for them
to help them select things. So you can have a folder, say, in the refrigerator with different
types of food, and they can select a button to pick what kind of food they want with a
picture of that food, things like that. So the way you would go and create one of these
scenes is you would select there's, up at the top, a shaded kind of pencil-looking thing.
You would select that, and it prompts you to enter your passcode. We just have a real
simple one. It starts with 1-1-1-1. And you can set it to whatever you want it to be.
So, once you're in the edit mode, you can select on something to edit. Let's see. We
can go into the kitchen. So, first, if you single-tap, you're prompted to rename it or
delete it. But we're not going to do that, so I'm going to double-tap and go inside the
room. And it gives you really good feedback on what you can do, what you should do, different
types of ideas. But one thing that you can do up at the top is a slider bar and make
your icons really small in the room or really large in the room for the visual ability of
the student. So one of the hotspots in here is you can see the hand with the bubbles.
That one is let's see if we can get it to work. But this was a video of somebody washing
their hands, so it was just a video of hands under the sink, using soap, washing their
hands. But when you're in edit mode, what comes up is a customized hotspot. So what
you can do is record a phrase to play as soon as the student hits that hotspot. You can
set a video to it. You can add a link. You can copy that hotspot. You can delete it.
You can change the image. You can remove the video, and you can rename the video. So let's
see what else you can do. Oh, I'm going to give you an example of kind of I'm going to
get out of edit mode so I can show you. But, once you go you click the star into the refrigerator.
This is what kind of pops up. It'll show you different flavors of the things that you can
pick. So you can pick from breakfast foods, and that looks like it would open up into
another folder where more selective foods would be; a fruit folder way for the student
to communicate that they want the item. Also, let's see. We can go back into edit mode here.
This pencil down at the bottom, this large pencil, that's also where you can add a hotspot.
So, once you've added a hotspot, you are prompted with all those different items I showed you
before of what you can do with that hotspot. So you can add a story hotspot, a schedule
hotspot, a voice hotspot, a choice board, a video, a link, and an empty one. There's
all these different types of ways that you can make a hotspot. And I'm just going to
show you the different types. So we can go into the bathroom here. Recorded Voice: I
want to take a bath. Jennifer Andersen: They are a little punchy, so I've already spoken
to you about I'm going to let that refresh for a second. So, in this scene, you can see
that there are empty hotspots right there. They're at the borders around the tub and
the toilet. That's just another way to show a hotspot. There's just multiple different
symbols that you can use that the student can recognize and click on. So there you go.
Recorded Voice: I need to go to the bathroom. Jennifer Andersen: I just clicked on the toilet,
and that's what happened. The student can prompt to the teacher or his parents that
he needs to go by clicking on the hotspot. And this is all dependent on what you decide
to put in it. That's what I really like about this. You start pretty much with a blank slate.
You can start with this general just this kind of a reference to help you get started,
but really, this is supposed to be tailored to that student. Secondly, you can use this
icon, this little happy face down at the bottom. This is the Sentence Builder. And this reminds
me a lot of Proloquo2Go where you create folders and words and things like that to help the
student communicate. So they can click on different buttons to express their needs and
things that they want to say. So you could select "More" Recorded Voice: More. Jennifer
Andersen: ng with demo makes sense just because you can really just get a good feel for what
you want to create yourself, and it's just helpful to use. But, again, you really want
to tailor it to that student. So you can go back. And then the last of my favorite components
is this visual schedule piece to this app. You can create different types of visual schedules
that the student will follow in order to reach their own goal, which could be a break from
work, a snack, things like that. So you can have what o there so you can see. When you're
creating one of these routines, you're prompted to add a picture. You can add a picture from
the app, those symbol sticks, or you can take your own picture. So I can take, with my iPad,
very clear, crisp pictures of what I want the student to be doing, just kind of like
those visual schedules that teachers usually use, just nice and on the iPad. At the bottom,
you can put a picture in that says the goal that you want the student to remember upon
finishing this routine or task. So, when the student finishes hanging up their jacket,
the first item, they would tap on it whoops, we're still in edit mode; time to get out.
The student would tap on it, and they get a nice Recorded Voice: [Inaudible]. Jennifer
Andersen: t should be doing that task for a specified amount of time. And then they
can click again that they finished it. Recorded Voice: [Inaudible]. Jennifer Andersen: And
then they can finish it that way. And, at the end, the screen turns green, and cheering
happens, and it shows the goal. And the student can show that to the teacher that they've
completed their task. And I really like that about the visual schedule. My personal opinion,
in making some of these, h(R, hb7= h8l2 hb7= h6P, is to take pictures using your iPad's
camera, simply because it's really hard to take the pictures out if you wanted to have
them in another setting or give them to somebody else. It's just nicer to pull them from your
photo library on your actual iPad than to just take the pictures in here. It's just
personal preference actually. And I think that's really the gist of this app. I think
it's a really, really nice app. It's a little bit expensive, $149.00 in the App Store. But,
like I said before, I really like this app. I'm using it in school with a student right
now to help them learn some functional job routines; right now, actually, cleaning bathrooms,
taking out recycling, things like that in the school. And it's really working well.
And I think this is a fantastic app, especially for those students who really like those iPads
or have them already. So I don't see any questions in the chat box, so if there are any questions,
you can email me at Jennifer-Andersen J-E-N-N-I-F-E-R, hyphen, A-N-D-E-R-S-E-N @ UIowa.edu. And always,
again, Jim is always available for questions as well. And feel free to email us if you
have any questions. And have a good day. I hope you're not getting snowed in, like we
are. And we look forward to the next week's webinar, which should take place on Tuesday
at 3:00 again, and we hope to see you there. Thanks. Bye. [End of Audio] Duration: 18 minutes
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