The Circles App is noted to be an “essential tool for social skills learning, especially for kids, teens, and young adults with special needs, intellectual disabilities, and individuals on the autism spectrum.” The app uses a colorful, interactive relationship graph to teach many areas of social skills.
The ultimate goal of the app is to keep children and students safe. “Fundamental to this effort is teaching children to understand social boundaries and helping them to learn what level of intimacy and touch is appropriate AND inappropriate within these boundaries.”
The Circles app’s colorful, interactive graph teaches:
- Appropriate social interactions in relation to touch: who gets a hug, who gets high-fives, who gets fist bumps, etc.
- Intimacy boundaries to help prevent abuse and exploitation
- How to recognize and practice boundary limits for healthy mutual relationships
Features of Circles App:
- Autosave progress
- Wi-Fi not required
- Beautiful touch interface allows for a new, interactive, never-before-seen teaching experience
- Ability to create customizable icons:
- Choose from icons of all ages and customize skin tone and hair color
- The app also features different community helper icons for individuals to personalize
- Ability to take and upload photos of real people in the individual’s life
- Practice with multiple users
- With the Circles paradigm, the entire classroom can enjoy the Circles App and obtain benefits of practicing social boundaries together
To learn more about the app, check it out on the App Store!