Giveaway - TOBY Playpad! ($95 App)

OH MY SQUID! I have a code for TOBY Playpad,an early-intervention app for kids with ASD.

I've been hearing great things about this app. The app was designed for kids that need help with early play and social activities and would benefit from evidence based early intervention techniques. It encourages both on iPad and off iPad tasks and parents/caregivers choose a curriculum they feel would be the most appropriate for the child.

There is a comprehensive tutorial explaining how best to use the app and personal recommendations of which activities to use. Tasks focus on language, social skills, cognitive development and sensory discrimination.

If you have a child with ASD or teach one, this app would be an incredible addition to your app collection.

You can buy TOBY Playpad (iPad only) for $94.99 by using this download button,

Or cross your fingers and toes and enter using the Rafflecopter below. Good luck everyone!

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From iTunes

TOBY Playpad is a unique, therapist-designed Early Intervention application for parents and carers of children with Autism. TOBY’s utilizes both on-iPad tasks and off-iPad tasks to help a child with ASD to learn skills in their real world.
TOBY aims to empower parents to commence early intervention to maximize their child's development using evidence-based techniques.
 
Therapy Outcomes By You (TOBY) produces a program of tasks for you and your child to do. Tasks are drawn from a curriculum tree and become dynamically available as your child completes pre-requisite tasks. By having a dynamic curriculum, TOBY is able to adapt to your child's learning and developmental needs by choosing goals and adjusting the difficulty of tasks to maximize your child's ability to progress with confidence and ease.  All tasks and teaching strategies are based on evidence-based intervention techniques and have been designed by a qualified team, including a speech pathologist, clinical psychologist and occupational therapist.
 
TOBY’s syllabus targets your child's development in key areas:
✔ Social Skills,
✔ Language,
✔ Sensory Discrimination, and
✔ Cognitive Skills.
 
In a number of ways:
✔ On-iPad tasks for your child alone,
✔ On-iPad tasks for you and your child to complete,
✔ Games and rewards, and
✔ Real-world activities, including play activities and daily tasks.

Based on TOBY’s recommendations you choose what tasks you want to complete each day, and based on your child’s results, TOBY will generate suggestions for the following day’s activities.

A typical day with TOBY might include time on the iPad totaling 20 minutes, and a similar amount of time doing other TOBY-directed tasks that weave into your daily routines and your child’s play interests.  Each day you may choose to do, for example, up to two or three activities to complete in total.  The amount of activities you do is guided by you and your child.  
 
TOBY is designed for children:
• With a diagnosis of Autism or Pervasive Developmental Disorder – Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS).
• Who may or may not have an Intellectual Disability or Developmental Delay.
• Communicating mostly through gestures, behaviours (such as hand leading, bringing items), sounds, single words or early two-word phrases.
• Able to sit at a table for a short period of time (up to 10 minutes at a time) and/or has some familiarity with a computer.
• Needing help with early social and play activities.
Children without an autism spectrum disorder and who are in the early phases of learning may also benefit from TOBY’s program.  This includes children with a developmental delay or language disorder.

TOBY’s activities can be easily transferred into your child’s everyday life and can be used in a range of settings:
• Learning can easily occur, for example, within the home, at the park, at grandparent’s houses, or in the car – any settings where your child is able to engage in either on-iPad or off-iPad activities.  The only limit is your imagination.
• Therapists may like to use TOBY to complement current intervention goals.  It is especially helpful in guiding parents with home-based and community-based activities to help generalize a range of important learning skills.  
• Teachers may like to use TOBY within the classroom and playground settings to help individual and / or groups of students achieve learning success.

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Comments

[Teresa]

Would love to have this for my kid!

[Valerie]

I'd like to win this to use with my speech and language students.

[Brenda]

want to win for my daughter who has autism and still has many many struggles

[Rachel]

I work with a lot of ASD clients as a a grad student Speech Pathologist in the clinic setting and in home behavior therapy. This would be great!

[Julie Ahern]

My daughters have autism and this would be wonderful!

[Cari (Mrs.Tempered Sunshine)]

I would LOVE this for my autistic son!

[Mary Costello]

My son with Down Syndrome could benefit from this app.

[J]

Looks wonderful! This would be very helpful to have

[Fides]

I want to win this for my son who is in the spectrum.

[Rebecca Kasdon]

I work in Early Intwrvention and this would be a great addition to my therapy tools!

[Britney]

This would be great for our son

[Heather]

What a great app!

[Karen]

I heard about this app at a PD and have been waiting for it to come out, would luv the chance to use it.

[mandy nite]

would love this :)

[mandy nite]

for my children with autism. :)

[Laura]

I would love to gift this app to friend that has a child with autism.

[Vardit Kindler]

I teach other ot׳s to use the IPad for children wiith
Special needs.would like to experience this one .

[Carrie W.]

This looks like an amazing app! I have watched videos on you tube about it and I think it would benefit many of my clients.

[Laurie DeLaurentis]

This looks like an amazing app. As an SLP I would love to use this with the children I work with who have autism. Thanks so much for this opportunity!!!

[Julie-Anne McCarthy]

Would love to win this for my friend's son

[Rebecca Aman]

I have two sons with autism and would really love this app for them.

[Lisa]

Great app for therapists

[Jenny M-S]

I would love to try this with my little boy!

[Lisa N.]

OH MY SQUID!!! (said in a spongebob squarepants wannabe voice)... Because this is an awesome app and I can guarantee you my son will use this EVERYDAY! This would truly allow my son to learn skills in a data controlled hierachy! I could go on and on. It is on my wishlist and would be so jacked if he won this. Thank you to Toby playpad and SAFK for offering a great giveaway like this!

[Mark N.]

I would like to win this for my son and my wife is making me enter. It's either enter to win this or dinner is 'fend for yourself night". I'm choosing a pot of spaghetti.