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Skill Level: adult Operating System: Windows, Mac, iOS (Apple), Android, Chrome Designed to help professionals better identify ASD, DiagnoseFirst.com has over 3,000 high quality videos showing ASD and typical behaviors for individuals 6 months to 55 years of age. It includes quizzes, print resources, parent feedback guidance and support, analysis of complex cases, and ready to use handouts and treatment aids. It is free to professionals and access can be obtained by emailing do2learn@do2learn.com.

Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool, elementary Operating System: Windows Connect the dots and colorful animated dinosaurs appear before your eyes. Num- ber concepts, counting, sequencing skills and special perception are involved in play. Games can be selected using patterns of three, six, nine or 12 dots. Mode of play, difficulty level, auditory feedback and scan speed can be controlled manually.

switch, speech output Disability: cognitive, speech Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool, elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: Windows, Mac, iOS (Apple), Android, Chrome, Other CoughDrop is a modern, cross-platform, cloud-based, team-focused AAC app. In addition to being accessible on almost any device and providing lots of customiza- tions for the communicator, CoughDrop allows linked supervisor accounts so therapists, parents, and teachers can view reports and collaborate on vocabulary from their own devices. Sign up for a free 2-month trial at mycoughdrop.com. Create a Series - Arrange items in a sequence STEP BY STEP Price: $0.00 - $2.99 Special Skill: cognitive redevelopment, early childhood, eye-hand coordination, adapted keyboard/switch access, single switch, multi switch, diagnostic Disability: cognitive, learning, physical Skill Level: preschool Children learn to arrange related items in a sequence. App helps develop visual per- ception skills, and primary math concepts. CrossScanner RJ Cooper and Associates Price: $119.00 Special Skill: , adapted keyboard/switch access, scanning, single switch Disability: physical Skill Level: elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: Windows, Mac CrossScanner is an easy way to run any software by single switch.The user is able to perform mouse moves and clicks, double clicks, drags, text entry and operate menus.The user interface is incredibly intuitive. Options for fine tuning operation are available. Step-Scan now available also. Developing Critical Thinking Skills for Effective Reading Merit Software Price: $79.00 Special Skill: basic living skills, cognitive redevelopment, communication, language development, vocational, Disability: cognitive, learning Skill Level: elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: Windows, Mac Hands-on practice that improves students reading comprehension. Step-by-step tu- torials offer immediate instructional feed- back. A convenient record management system tracks scores and allows teachers to view detailed reports. Designed for students in grades five through eight. Can be used with older students as well.

used to enhance pattern matching skills. Can be controlled manually.

Dino-MAZE Academic Software, Inc. Price: $20.00

Special Skill: cognitive redevelopment, early childhood, eye-hand coordination, adapted keyboard/switch access, scanning, single switch Disability: cognitive, learning, physical Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool, elementary Operating System: Windows Colorful, motivating exercises where dinosaur characters move through mazes to reach goals with reinforcement through music and animation. Single switch users choose between cause and effect activities or games involving decisions about which directions the animated characters should go to get from start to finish. Can be con- trolled manually. Discrete Trial Trainer - US Version Accelerations Educational Software Price: $99.00 - $499.00 Special Skill: basic living skills, communication, early childhood, eye-hand coordination, language development, vocational, single switch, multi switch Disability: cognitive, learning Skill Level: preschool, elementary Operating System: Windows The Discrete Trial Trainer is an automated teaching tool for independent learning by individuals developmentally 2 to 9 years old.The Discrete Trial Trainer is a robust and affordable virtual teaching assistant. The DT Trainer was created based on methods developed to educate our most difficult to educate individuals: children with moderate to severe autism. However, the DT Trainer’s configurability also makes it beneficial for children with other learn- ing disabilities, and even with typically developing young children. Behavioral methods have been proven to be effective for teaching a wide range of individuals including those with autism.The software motivates individuals to perform tasks which they may not want to learn or may find difficult to learn.There are hundreds of colorful, interesting, and fun reinforcers to pick from which engage even difficult to motivate individuals.

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Dino-FIND Academic Software, Inc. Price: $20.00

Special Skill: cognitive redevelopment, early childhood, eye-hand coordination, adapted keyboard/switch access, scanning, single switch Disability: cognitive, learning, physical Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool, elementary Operating System: Windows Dino-Find is a game of concentration stimulating memory and pattern recogni- tion and providing scanning practice. Dinosaurs are selected randomly. One to six matching pairs can be displayed. Switch users make selections using row/column or linear scanning. Mode of play, difficulty level, auditory feedback and scan rate can be controlled manually.

Differ By Kind - Find the visually odd one out STEP BY STEP Price: $0.00 - $2.99

Special Skill: cognitive redevelopment, early childhood, eye-hand coordination, language development, adapted keyboard/switch access, single switch, multi switch, diagnostic Disability: cognitive, learning, physical Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool Children learn to differentiate among items according to visual characteristics. App helps develop visual differentiation skills, visual perception skills, and cognitive skills. Differ By Nature - Find the logically odd one out STEP BY STEP Price: $0.00 - $2.99 Special Skill: cognitive redevelopment, early childhood, eye-hand coordination, language development, adapted keyboard/switch access, single switch, multi switch, diagnostic Disability: cognitive, learning, physical Skill Level: preschool Children learn to differentiate among items according to logical characteristics. App helps develop visual differentiation skills, visual perception skills, and cognitive skills. Digital Accessibility Services The Viscardi Center Price: $4 - $50 The Viscardi Center’s Digital Accessibil- ity suite of services, Website Accessibil- ity, Document Accessibility, and Closed Captioning and Audio Description ensures existing, or newly created, websites, electronic documents, and video files are fully accessible to people with visual and physical disabilities, and aging individuals, using assistive technologies and screen reading software.

Dino-GAMES Academic Software, Inc. Price: $60.00

Special Skill: cognitive redevelopment, early childhood, eye-hand coordination, adapted keyboard/switch access, scanning, single switch Disability: cognitive, physical Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool, elementary Operating System: Windows All 4 early-childhood educational games: DinoDOT (spatial-perception, counting & sequencing skills); DinoFIND and DinoLIKE (memory and pattern-recognition); and Di- noMAZE (cause & effect and directionality learning). Adjust difficulty level and other settings for each game independently. DinoGAMES work with keyboard, mouse, or external single-switch and provide early scanning practice opportunities.

Dino-LIKE Academic Software, Inc. Price: $20.00

Special Skill: cognitive redevelopment, early childhood, eye-hand coordination, adapted keyboard/switch access, scanning, single switch Disability: cognitive, learning, physical Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool, elementary Operating System: Windows Single switch users select dinosaurs identi- cal to a target dinosaur.The discrimination level can be set manually, choosing a match and two distracters, a match and one distracter, or the match alone. Color, shape and orientation of dinosaurs are

DocsPlus Crick Software, Inc. Price: $660.00 - $5940.00 Special Skill: basic living skills,

communication, language development, vocational, adapted keyboard/switch access, optical character recognition, scanning, single switch, multi switch, speech output, authoring system Disability: cognitive, hearing, learning, physical, speech, vision Skill Level: secondary Operating System: Windows, Mac

Dino-DOT Academic Software, Inc. Price: $20.00

DiagnoseFirst Virtual Reality Aids, Inc Price: $0.00 Special Skill: , , diagnostic, IEP/IPP Disability: cognitive

Special Skill: cognitive redevelopment, early childhood, eye-hand coordination, adapted keyboard/switch access, scanning, single switch Disability: cognitive, learning, physical

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