Category: Friendship

Creating Memories With Scene Speak

8/12/2013

Summer is almost at an end! For those of you not in year round school or day programs, it's likely been a VERY long couple of months - full of the usual day-to-day activities, and maybe some fun day trips and vacations thrown into the mix.

For a fun and interactive way to create a digital "scrapbook," take all of those pictures you've been snapping all summer long and upload them into our SceneSpeak app. From there, you can add text for a more book-like retelling of your summertime adventures, or take it to an interactive level by adding hotspots to your images that come alive when your loved one or client taps them.

Adding details about the trip to the images can bring them to life in the individual's memory.

Hotspots can be added (with colored popup text, audio, or both) that can create an interactive and fun experience when recalling trips.

Don't forget large family events! Include visiting friends and family to show the individual how many people care about them.

Once you've created all of your summertime VSDs, you can then add them to a Book, creating your very own personalized digital scrapbook.

This way, the individual can look back upon all of the amazing things they did this summer and recall all of the fun they had. Who knows? It may even become one of their favorite leisure time activities.

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Remembering Important Dates Using Visual Schedule Planner

8/9/2013

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Our Visual Schedule Planner app is great for helping loved ones/clients remember important dates like birthdays and anniversaries. In addition to therapies, doctor appointments, school/day program schedules, routines, etc., it can be used as a tool to mark and remind the user of these dates, so they do not get overlooked.

When you create the event, you can choose to set up a reminder, make the event for the entire day, and add images/video.

In Day View, you can see the event clearly and make any edits/changes to the details.

In Week View, you can view the event along with all of the usual recurring events in your schedule. This can help the individual plan around pay periods to purchase a gift, plan a party, etc.

To view special events in Month View, simply click the star that corrsponds to the date you wish to view, and a list of that day's events (including the special event) will be displayed to the right.

It might also help us remember too!

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Is This Person OK, Or Should I Stay Away? - Teaching "Stranger Danger" Using Scene Speak

8/8/2013

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Do you have a love one/client that fails to recognize the difference between "stranger" and "friend?"

Everything from inappropriate touching (i.e., hugging strangers, talking to people in public they do not know, etc.) can lead to misunderstandings - and sometimes worse.

To help with this, you can create flashcards/books using our Scene Speak app that address and reiterate who is safe to approach and who should be kept at a safe distance. Mix in familiar people (doctors, teachers, aides, therapists, family members, and friends) with randomized pictures of people the individual has never met before, and pair them with questions (or use language of your choice to describe "stranger danger") in order to establish familiarity with those who are all right to approach while separating them from people who are unknown.

Use pictures of familiar people paired with "stranger danger" language of your choice.

Use diverse and random images of unfamiliar people to teach the individual how to distinguish between "safe" and "stranger."

Using an image of the individual's household members is a great way to provide a concrete example of who is "safe" to touch.

Use images of places/people that the individual may gravitate toward during public outings. This will help them learn more quickly how to interact with strangers in public.

This can also be used for young children, who can benefit from learning the difference between "familiar person" and "stranger."

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Levels of Friendship & Bullying

7/22/2013

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Discussing Levels of Friendship and Bullying:

Scene Speak can be used to create social stories and other exercises that address the issue of bullying. This is an important issue for many of our younger individuals (and adults too, in some situations).

The concept of "levels of friendship" is hard for many individuals to understand. Sometimes the most damaging bullying occurs in less obvious scenarios. Teaching these individuals how to advocate for themselves, when to report a situation to adults/higher authorities, and the difference between "acquaintance," "friend," and "toxic person" can help protect the individual from emotional and/or physical harm in the future.