Workshop: Learn how to use Talk With Me - a fully customisable app to build social skills in autism
Talk With Me (www.talkwithmeapp.com) is a collaborative learning tool. Learners with autism sit alongside and share the app with people in their lives, to have social conversations. Teachers, therapist, parents and caregivers work WITH the kids and customize the app as per the needs learner's needs.
Talk With Me is a fully customisable learning tool. You can personalise all content according to the learner's needs. You can also create your conversations from scratch.
Talk With Me enables learners with autism to have reciprocal conversations with a partner. Each sentence in a conversation is represented by a series of images, allowing learners to experience the conversation in image, text and sound. It is suitable for learners with all verbal abilities
Talk With Me aids learning of a variety of:
* topics like greeting people, discussing likes and dislikes, and learning routines.
* social skills like turn-taking, joint attention, cooperation and verbalisation.
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Talk With Me comes with expert created content. There are three difficulty levels: beginner, intermediate and advanced, and a variety of conversation topics to choose from.
Therapists, educators and parents download conversations that are appropriate for the learners.
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Talk With Me is a fully customisable learning tool. Therapists, parents and educators can edit all conversations; add/remove sentences, change images, use their own photos, and edit sentence text.
There are personalisation settings like choosing drag vs tap gesture on tablets and mobiles, choosing the spoken voice and accent, and other settings.
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Talk With Me provides you with an easy to use interface to create your own conversations from scratch. All you need to do is type in the conversation, and Talk With Me does the rest: split the sentence into meaningful chunks and attach an appropriate image to represent that chunk.
This allows you to have conversations about your personal life; e.g. talking about your pet, planning for a trip, or preparing to receive a guest.
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Learn how to use Talk With Me. Check out our detailed tutorials on how to use the app and it's features here https://www.talkwithmeapp.com/features
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If this generates some interest, and you want to know more about how the app can help your child, refer to https://www.talkwithmeapp.com/research
Here you will see 11 "Key results" the app has achieved by continuos usage:
* Over 20 minutes of continuous and independent conversation
* Minimal therapist intervention
* Excellent joint attention and cooperation
* Attempts to verbalise
* Expressions of joy
* Understanding of turn taking
* Minimal training and good memory retention of the tool’s use
* Their teacher commented that positive interactions are transferred to real-life skills (e.g. children now greeting each other in the class) which continue after the study.
* One teacher told us that it resulted in an “enduring friendship” between 2 children.
* One mother told someone known to us that “my daughter started talking overnight!” (this statement shows the mother’s enthusiasm).
* A father in India said that “my daughter asked me for the first time ‘Dad, I want to play, let’s go outside and play”
Their speech and language therapist commented that this was an astounding result for these children who normally have attention spans of up to 3 minutes at best, and very limited social interaction. They usually require high intervention and persuasion for any activity. They rarely work together independently and, previously, if left alone, they wouldn't communicate at all.
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Still, if you have questions like - How is Talk With Me different?, or Does Talk With Me work with verbal or non-verbal children?, or I want to use Talk With Me to help my child talk more in real life, can it help with this? - refer to our FAQs here https://www.talkwithmeapp.com/faq
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Now, want to give Talk With Me app a try, the download links are below:
* App store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1409518458
* Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inclusys.twmapp3
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Any queries, or to book a demo, please email contact@inclusys.com, or Whatsapp at +64 28 436 0701.