Choiceworks vs Social Story Creator Educators

Choiceworks is a visual support app that helps make the day easier to understand. It is designed for children, teens, adults, and families who benefit from visual structure, clear routines, and support with transitions, waiting, choices, and feelings. Families, caregivers, educators, and therapists can create customized visual boards using pictures, text, video, and recorded audio. Boards can be used at home, in therapy, during appointments, while traveling, or anywhere a visual plan helps. Choiceworks includes four board types: • Schedule boards show what is happening now and what comes next • Waiting boards make waiting more concrete with a visual timer and activity choices • Feelings boards support communication about emotions, choices, and next steps • Feelings Scale boards help show how big a feeling is and what can help at each level Features include: • Visual schedule, waiting, feelings, and Feelings Scale boards • Visual timers for schedules and waiting • Custom pictures, video, text, and recorded audio • Multiple profiles • Import and export of Choiceworks board files • Send a copy of a board by AirDrop, Files, or email • Optional iCloud Sync & Backup across your own devices signed into the same Apple ID • App menus, included board labels, included card text, and spoken card words in English, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, French, and Portuguese • VoiceOver support Choiceworks has no ads, no tracking, and no accounts to create. Your boards, photos, videos, and recordings stay on your device and in your own iCloud. One purchase includes everything. No subscriptions.

This app is the fully unlocked pro version of our "Social Stories Creator and Library" app. To try out the app for free check out "Social Stories Creator and Library." An amazing app for easily creating, sharing and printing educational social stories, visual schedules, and beautiful memories. The app also comes with over 20 pre-made social stories that cover a variety of social and behavioral skills. This is a very valuable tool for any teacher, SLP, OT, direct care staff or parent! Children with special needs often need more direct instruction of social skills. Teaching social skills to any child may be easier and less stressful when visual supports, like social stories are used. The social stories found in this app explain accurate social information and ensures that your child will know what to expect in different situations. Features: • Easily create stories with pictures, recordings and text. • Share and receive created stories with other users. • Print PDFs of stories to have paper copies. • Stories can be made in any language. • Ability to purchase an entire library of over 20 pre-made social stories at one discounted price. • Organize stories into categories for particular skills, students or classrooms. • Lock students into categories or apps to limit access. • Create and play stories offline (with no internet connection). • Easy to use, intuitive format. • Can be used to make visual schedules or other types of visual prompts. Social stories are an important type of visual support often used with children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome or other special need. This social stories found in this app use simple text and descriptive pictures to explain the why and how of different social skills. Social interactions may be especially difficult for children with an autism spectrum disorder, adhd, or other social delay. Many children, especially those diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome and other special need, often fail to pick up on social cues, making learning a social skill especially difficult. Social stories may increase awareness and maintenance of social skills. Social stories were first defined by Carol Gray in 1991 and are commonly used to break down a task or social situation into small and easy to understand steps, often accompanied by descriptive pictures. Social stories are incredibly easy to implement and are used by many professionals for a wide range of behaviors. See what our reviews are saying about us! “Wonderful app!! I am able to upload my own photos, record my own voice, and design however the story for my child! I can also upload pre-made stories. Other apps cast $30-50 for the same awesome app! Thank you so much!!” –family games “This was a great story app for my child” – Kennedml “This app is great for my nephew who has autism, thank you!” – ImaniZG “This app is really awesome” – yoursakar “This app gives an excellent opportunity for a low price” –Sean Quigg “I love the fact that you can customize this app to target a specific social skill.” – VPEslp25