Appropriate Diet – A Social Story for Autism

Appropriate Diet – A Social Story for Autism

I have uploaded a new video on youtube. This video is something that I made to try and stop my 16 year old autistic son from eating too much of the same food. I didn’t make necessarily warn him about eating a healthy and balanced diet, , but I explained to him through...
Teaching My Autistic Son How to Use the Vacuum

Teaching My Autistic Son How to Use the Vacuum

We decided to teach our son how to use the vacuum using visual aids. In part 2, we will be handing him the vacuum and seeing if he can use it without any verbal cues. Will my son be able to vacuum with only visual aids to help him?     I handed him the...
Voice4u Behind the Stage (4) – The Audio

Voice4u Behind the Stage (4) – The Audio

The audio on Voice4u is of a fairly low pitch. Many autistic kids have very sensitive hearing, and are therefore made uncomfortable by high voices. In consideration of this problem, we carefully chose an individual with a clear and low voice to provide audio for our...
Voice4u Behind the Stage (3) – The Graphics

Voice4u Behind the Stage (3) – The Graphics

The specialists were very helpful and gave me lots of advice about how I should go about creatingVoice4u. The teachers and speech therapists recommended that the icons don’t wear clothes and don’t have hair. The reason behind this suggestion was that...
Voice4u Behind the Stage (3) – The Graphics

Voice4u Behind the Stage (2) – The Professionals

When I was informed that Wataru may have autism, I was sent to another specialized hospital. It wasn’t until several months later that he was diagnosed with autism. Because his mental development was recognized as being slower than normal, he was put into...