Special Needs My Communication Cards 27 PECS Flashcards For SEN, Special Ed, Speech Delay Non Verbal Children and adults with Autism for visual aid or cue cards

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You can help your child to understand their emotions by encouraging them to talk about how they are feeling as well as showing them how to deal with different emotions. Autism emotion cards are a helpful tool in providing a visual representation of the different emotions. Like any other educational medium, flashcards have advantages and disadvantages. Parents are the critical thinkers in the best position to judge whether this medium is appropriate for their child. A free digital memory card app can be a convenient way to test it out. For best results, parents should adapt flashcards (digital or traditional) to appeal to their child’s particular interests because, when a child is fully engaged, flashcards can be a great educational tool.

Autism affects between 1 and 2 out of every 1000 people globally. This means that approximately 25 million people in the world have autism. Help children communicate their feelings with these handy traffic lights cards. They fix together with a simple tag.When it comes to digital flashcards, there seems to be a distinct advantage in technology. Research (Zaffke et al., 2014) mentions how flashcard apps can be used to create social stories for children with autism. The authors describe how a specific flashcard app allows users to create personalized content incorporating pictures, text, and audio on mobile devices. This may seem almost robotic; instructing a child to use set responses to social questions may bring up questions of social spontaneity and comprehension. The argument for flashcards in a reading context may be equally applicable to social settings: if a child feels comfortable in how they will respond to social questions they may use this level of comfort as scaffolding to build social skills. For many individuals on the spectrum it may be stressful to answer social questions appropriately, so the support of such cards could serve as encouragement to pursue social situations, and practice makes perfect! Teacher’s best friend

Children who understand their emotional feelings have a better ability to cope and deal with them. Children with autism struggle more than others to understand emotions, so these emotion cards can be a great help for them Fancy educational tools can be nice, but my son loved these cards and he didn't seem to care that they weren't professionally made.Examples of autism symptoms linked to the imbalance of specific Neurotransmitters include: Dysregulated Neurotransmitters identified in ASD Train themed flashcards could also be incorporated to teach social skills. Appropriate responses to social questions, for example between a conductor and passenger, could be prompted by flashcards. This may later help build more general conversation. This not only makes learning fun, but according to research (Winter-Messiers, 2007) special skills could help to develop skills which may be difficult for children with autism to learn otherwise. Critical thinking Action language. To help a child learn the concept of action verbs, such as jumping, swimming, painting, etc., photo action flashcards come in handy. If using pictures, once you choose a type or style (for example, line drawings), use it consistently. Ask family members, friends, teachers or support workers to use the same visual supports consistently. There’s a principle here to apply: make use of what your child likes to help her learn important skills