AUTISM EMOTION

Model Me Kids, LLC. (2013). Autism Emotion (Version 4.0) [Mobile application software]. Retrieved from https://apps.apple.com/us/app/autism-emotion/id550027186

Price: Free

Rubric Score: 11/22

Age and intended audience: 4+, For children in the Autism family

Review: Part of Model Me Kids (which produces video training skills to children and teenagers with Autism, Asperger’s, Nonverbal Learning Disorders, and development delays), Autism Emotion is a slideshow that visually shows children attributes of different emotions (happy, sad, proud, calm). Each emotion slideshow explains to children why they might be feeling that emotion, as well as provides photographs of what children look like when feeling the respective emotion. The intuitively designed app ends each slideshow with a song specific to each emotion. The songs are not the most well-composed scores and could prove annoying to children or caregivers after multiple uses. This app is inclusionary and features a diverse cast throughout each slideshow. The app does not foster any sort of creativity and does not allow the child to engage but can be a wonderful tool for helping to decipher what a child might be feeling (and how they got there) when words are failing.