June 8th, 2011 in Uncategorized »
Social Entrepreneurs Ireland are a charitable organisation that aims to encourage and support the development of a new generation of social entrepreneurs. They directly support the early stage development of these social entrepreneurs by providing a range of supports that include financial investment, technical training, peer networking, mentoring and links to other social entrepreneur networks.
They also work actively with the business, third level, public and voluntary sectors to support the development of a new social entrepreneurship movement in Ireland. [read more…]
May 5th, 2011 in Uncategorized »
How does your child communicate? A lot of people will refer to children with autism as “non-verbal” meaning they can’t talk in recognisable words.They might then explain that they use signs, or pictures or other augmentative means. Someone just sent me an article about a girl who had supposedly just ‘started” communicating via a keyboard – “She had Found Her Inner Voice” [read more…]
March 11th, 2011 in Uncategorized »
Its just around the corner folks…. Grace App Version 2.0, watch this video below to get a preview of the new features. [read more…]
January 27th, 2011 in Uncategorized »
Below is a short video on some of the features of Grace App. [read more…]
December 28th, 2010 in Uncategorized »
Article about Grace App at the World Summit Awards, taken from the Excellent Prosperity.ie Blog, originally Published as an Ezine on 8/12/2010 and written By Elaine Larkin. [read more…]
December 23rd, 2010 in Uncategorized »
When I developed Grace App it was to be an extension of an already successful and highly effective method of prompting and supporting communication using printed and laminated pictures.
However, it seems that some of you have skipped the printers, laminators and velcro books and come straight to Grace App, without the basic training in introducing the Power of the Picture.
So here is an easy guide to follow on from your Six Steps to Success. [read more…]
December 10th, 2010 in Uncategorized »
Below is a video created by Stanislav Miller, for World Summit Awards about Grace App. [read more…]
December 6th, 2010 in Uncategorized »
Illustrating the big difference Grace App has made to Gracie herself. [read more…]
November 30th, 2010 in Uncategorized »
I have been kind of busy lately, traveling around to spread the word about Grace App in schools and centres for Autism.
Grace App was developed in partnership with O2 Telefonica’s “Business Diversity” program and before they moved on from Autism Ireland they donated a set of iPhones to be loaned out to schools and groups for people to try out Grace App. When the group or school gets in touch, I come out to the venue with the loan phone and do bit of a hands on workshop with staff and parents to ensure everyone understands how it works. [read more…]
November 7th, 2010 in Uncategorized »
How many parents fall into the trap of giving their kids independent access to everything they need, and miss out on the opportunities to create and increase the frequency of demands and requests.
In Behavioural Science there is a made up word to describe requests, demands or commands made by a speaker by whatever means. B.F. Skinner called these “Mands”.
And we must ensure that our language or learning delayed children have the ability to make a lot of Mands appropriately – as it is the most motivating way to teach language, for someone who isn’t naturally socially motivated. And you can prompt it. [read more…]
