Young Athletes vs Visual Choices AAC

Support your child’s developmental needs with Young Athletes by Special Olympics! Young Athletes provides activities, resources, and connections to support families of young children with and without intellectual disabilities. After completing your child’s profile, you will receive suggested activities based on your child’s individual skills that you can complete at home and on your schedule. In addition to activities for your child, the community section allows you to connect directly with other families to discuss shared experiences, exchange information and build a network. Features: - Personalize your experience – Access resources to support your child’s developmental needs. - Activities appropriate for all children -- Grow your child’s skills through healthy developmental play. - Track your child’s activities – Discover activities and resources based on your child’s individual skills. - Connect with your community – engage virtually or in-person with other families.

Visual Choices provides an easy way to communicate, and develops natural speech. It is made for early communicators with autism. Developed with early intervention experts and trusted by speech therapists, special education teachers, clinical directors, parents, and grandparents. The app: • Helps you discover what your child wants by making it easy to present choices; • Uses photos your child will respond to; • Promotes speech with lip animations and visual phonics; • Builds language with integrated AAC and signing videos; • Provides access to over 50,000 SymbolStix pictures; • Lets you type and dictate into the AAC sentence bar; • Enables easy modeling with voice-to-highlight; • Lets you convert your voice to instant choices for on-the-fly use; • Lets you print out boards as a no-tech option; • Lets you make choices with eye gaze for hands-free use; • Can be used offline; • Supports English, Spanish, and Russian; • Works on its own or alongside an existing AAC system. Terms of use: https://skieslearn.com/visualchoices_terms_of_service