YouTube videos as reinforcers and as a leisure time activity

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Hello all,

Does anyone else use YouTube videos with their ASD kids?

We use YouTube videos with my son both as reinforcers and as a

self-guided leisure activity. The actual YouTube website was too

difficult for him to use so I made him a little web page with links to

his favorite videos. He watches various short Disney and Dr. Seuss

videos, etc.

It worked so well that I created a little website where anyone could

create their own YouTube playlist. I thought it would be

useful for the general SPED community (and for anyone else who wants

to make their own video playlist).

The web site is called http://www.videoplaylist.org

You can see my son's playlist here: http://www.videoplaylist.org/pkf

The website is very plain and simple for now. I'll probably make it

more fancy over time. In addition to building a list of videos, you

can do things like create categories, set a background image, etc. if

you want to.

For now it's all free. I may ask for donations someday, but only if it

develops into something very useful for people.

Please feel free to try this out and let me know if you like it (or if

it doesn't work). It has been a very good tool for us. I showed it

to the inclusion facilitator at my son's school and she began to use

it with other kids in the school as well, which was neat to see.

Best regards,

Jeff