Learn social skills with Give Me 5!

For some children, especially many on the autism spectrum, learning how to behave appropriately can be rather challenging.  Individuals at The Developmental Garden acknowledge this fact and aspire to help children succeed by developing helpful resources, such as the Give Me 5 app. Give Me 5 is a social skills learning app available on both Android and iOS platforms. […]

Camp Discovery: Autism Learning Games

Searching for an Android app to benefit your early learner with autism?  Look no further!  Camp Discovery was developed by the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD), “one of the world’s largest organizations using applied behavior analysis (ABA) in the treatment of autism spectrum disorder.”  Although Camp Discovery is designed for children with autism, all children can […]

iSEQUENCES: educational app teaches social habits and emotions

For individuals on the autism spectrum, learning social habits and emotions may be rather challenging.  Over the past few years, several apps have been developed to help teach these skills to said individuals.  One of these apps is iSEQUENCES, which is available for both iOS and Android devices. iSEQUENCES allows children to practice 100 different sequences about daily situations, […]

Stimtastic: Affordable toys for stimming behavior

Have you ever tapped your pencil, bitten your nails, twirled your hair, or paced back and forth?  If you have, then you’ve engaged in stimming, an action that is often part of most individuals’ behavior patterns.  So what exactly is stimming?  According to this article on Autism Spectrum Disorders, stimming is short for “self-stimulatory behavior, sometimes also […]

b-Calm GP and PRO: Headphones for autism

Children with autism are often sensitive to noise, and noise-canceling headphones are a great resource (or absolute necessity!) for these children.  One of our most popular blogs is the Headphones for Children with Autism post.  While browsing the internet today, I came across a company called b-Calm LLC, a company with a passion to help […]

Adventures in Camping for All

Writer: Tiffany Whisner, Coles Marketing It’s a yearly tradition — summer camp. Pack the kids up and get them ready for a week at basketball camp or martial arts camp. Or let their inner artist emerge at a youth art camp or songwriter’s workshop. Summer camp offers the opportunity for kids to excel at hobbies […]