Circles Social Skills Utility vs Between the Lines Advanced HD Usage & Stats
RATED 5 STARS BY BRIDGINGAPPS.COM – The most trusted Special Education app review site on the web. Proven effective by Harvard University, Circles™ is a comprehensive special education tool, teaching about personal space, relationships and safety.
*** "This app is perfect for individuals that struggle with appropriate personal space. It teaches about relationships, social boundaries, and safety." - TOUCHAUTISM.COM
Keeping our children safe and protecting them from abuse is a major concern for parents and educators. To do this, it’s important to teach children to recognize social boundaries and understand what is appropriate and what isn’t.
The Circles App is an effective way to educate children and help develop their everyday social skills. It teaches children that the degree of closeness and physical contact they have with other people depends on the relationship they have with them.
For example, “It’s OK to hug your mother; it’s not OK to hug the mail carrier.”
The Circles App is designed to make these distinctions crystal clear while at the same time teaching children that these interactions are unique to each person’s situation. Maybe your mother is the mail carrier, in which case it’s OK to hug her!
The Circles App is a comprehensive tool for developing social skills, especially for children, teenagers and young adults with special needs, learning difficulties and individuals with autism.
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- Appropriate social interactions in relation to TOUCH – who gets a hug, who gets high-fives, who gets fist bumps, and more!
- Intimacy boundaries to help prevent abuse and exploitation
- Recognize, understand and practice boundary limits for healthy relationships
IN A COLORFUL, FRIENDLY & FUN ENVIRONMENT!
FOR SCHOOL USE
The Circles App is an excellent instructional and practice supplement for students who are familiar with the best-selling, Harvard-acclaimed Circles® social boundaries curriculum.
FOR HOME USE
The Circles App is a basic introduction and tutorial to familiarise children with the Circles® rules of appropriate physical contact. The Circles App is designed to incorporate parent or caregiver guidance in place of teachers.
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The Circles® Curriculum
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The Circles App can be used as a powerful standalone tool, as well as a truly effective companion app for our best-selling social boundaries curriculum, Circles®. Proven effective in a Harvard University study, the Circles® curriculum is used in over 12,000 schools nationwide.
The Circles® curriculum is a comprehensive video-based course designed for use in classrooms. It teaches children everything about social and relationship boundaries, as well as relationship specific social skills to students with special needs.
In addition to covering physical contact, the Circles® curriculum goes more in-depth into social skills development. It further explains and illustrates, in detail, the levels of talk and trust which are appropriate in each relationship and social situation.
To learn more, visit www.stanfield.com
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Hamaguchi Apps for Speech, Language & Auditory Development's groundbreaking app for the iPad is designed for adolescents and adults who would benefit from practice interpreting vocal intonation, facial expressions, body language, and idiomatic or slang expressions. Using real photographs, voices and short mini-video clips of a variety of social situations and expressions, this app provides a dynamic way to help learn and understand the messages that are “between the lines” and simply can’t be replicated with worksheets and static flashcards. American language and body language is used.
For more information, watch a demo of this app on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7uV5kMSjko&feature=plcp
For easier tasks, geared towards a slightly younger audience, check out Between the Lines Level 1 and Level 2 apps, also in the App store!
This app includes 65-75 tasks within each of the three activities. There are three distinct activities in this app:
1. Listening: The user hears a voice speak a sentence, e.g., “What did you DO?!” (Often the same phrase is heard spoken in several different ways throughout the activity, but with different emotion and inflection) The narrator asks, “Who said it?” The user is shown a series of photographs. The user touches the correct facial expression that matches the voice.
2. Body Language: A very short video-clip is shown that depicts an interaction or situation. For example, one teacher makes small talk then asks her colleague, “How is your day going so far?” The other teacher responds with body language only, suggesting “Eh…not bad, not good, just so-so.” The camera closes in this actor and says, “What is she thinking?” The user’s task is to look at the choices of responses and select the one that matches the facial expression/body language.
3. Expressions: A very short video-clip is shown that depicts an actor speaking a sentence that contains an idiomatic or slang expression, e.g., “I want to convince my dad to let me go, but I think I have my word ‘cut out for me’.” The user is then asked, “What does that mean?”A list of slightly cruder slang terms (e.g., "This is BS", "He's not the sharpest tool in the shed") are no longer in the default settings but can be specifically added within the Activity setting.
The game can be played by up to 75 users or as a group. The percentage correct is reported for each user’s performance on each of the three activities. Individual users can select their own settings; the group must have the same setting selections for the entire group.
Options included: Tracking progress (can be displayed or not) automatic advance or manual advance, choices can be automatically shown or manually displayed. Reward animations are provided at selected intervals for a welcome fun and break including Dunk Tank, Bull’s Eye (darts), and Shoot the Basket.These are not games of skill-just a fun diversion.
*Please contact our tech support if you are experiencing any technical issues with our apps at info@hamaguchiapps.com
PRIVACY POLICY: We do NOT collect personal data from our users and have no ads. Personal data regarding user performance on the tasks on this app are self-contained and not transmitted in any way, unless the user chooses to email them to someone else. There are no in-app purchases in this app. A demo link will allow a user with internet access to view a video on YouTube to learn about the features of this app, as well as a link to our other apps in the iTunes store.
***Please check out the extension activities at the end of the Information Page, which is on the home page. It is also available on our website.
Developed by licensed speech-language pathologist and author, Patti Hamaguchi, M.A., CCC-SLP. Visit our website: www.hamaguchiapps.com
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Circles Social Skills Utility VS. 
Between the Lines Advanced HDDecember 13, 2024