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Visual Routine

Process Management for Special Needs Children

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Overview

★A4CWSN: "I like that I can make text only schedules, or picture only schedules, or combine both."

About:

Visual Routine is a simple, easy to program visual schedule that helps your autistic or special needs child keep a routine.  Routines can be tailored to their needs with audio feedback, and customizable pictures, audio, and text.  Up to 4 choices can be embedded within each routine item, enabling someone to pick between options.  (i.e. eggs, pancakes, or cereal for breakfast.)

Instead of carrying around PECS or a laminated schedule, this app will let you have routines preset and then run them to show the child in an easy way what they have to do.

This app serves as a visualization tool for routines, providing portability, audio support, and excellent easy to understand graphics.  By using this app special needs individuals and children will be able to understand what needs to be done easier then with PECS or simple description.


Customization:

Customization is a big emphasis in this app; every autistic and special needs child requires specific and centered care, and the ability to create your own routines with pictures of your child and house settings in them places the emphasis on your child. Take pictures of them doing things in their environment, and they will understand the routine better then a generic, preset choice. The images can be set by you, the user, as well as audio.

Features

Check Mark: check mark system for completed steps, with audio feedback

Length: Routines can be as long as needed

Customization: Full customization routine creator - customize text, images, choices, and audio within each routine.  Create text only, picture only, or audio only choices, or any mix!

Non-Readers: Picture only option for non-readers (with written Routine title)

Storage: Permanent storage of many routines on your device

Readers: Text only option for readers (with Monkey image for each written step or task)

Choices:  “Choices” feature for tasks in a routine step. Up to 4 choices can be embedded within each routine item, enabling someone to pick between options. (i.e. eggs, pancakes, or cereal for breakfast.)

Setup: Fast and easy setup right from the main screen

Audio: "The auditory feedback when a step in the routine is checked off is great as well." In addition to optional feedback when completing a step, you can customize audio for each step in a routine.

Review on A4cwsn

There is a website called Apps for children with special needs, or A4cwsn.com that does reviews of apps for special needs children. They provide an article on how to use an app, a wish list, review and video of the app in use. There is an article of how to use this app and a review of Visual Routine up on their website, and it can be found at this link: http://a4cwsn.com/2012/04/visual-routine/ If you want to know more about this app, reading this article is recommended.

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