crosspost: FYI: New online program for ASD kids---TeachTown

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I haven't used TeachTown (yet), but it looks like something interesting and

useful that you might want to check out.

Regina F.

SEATTLE, March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- TeachTown, a Seattle research firm, has

announced the release of their first product, TeachTown: Basics, a computer-

assisted treatment service for children with autism. With five years of

research and development, the company brings together experts from the video

game industry and autism researchers led by Whalen, PhD., BCBA.

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The program was developed with input from an advisory board with expertise

in applied behavior analysis, special education, developmental and clinical

psychology, and speech pathology, including Dr. Frea from Autism

Spectrum Therapies in Los Angeles, Dr. Geraldine Dawson, and Dr. Ilene

Schwartz, of the University of Washington in Seattle.

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The curriculum teaches a broad range of skills across several domains,

including emotion identification, matching feelings to events, face matching,

following eye gaze, friendship, safety awareness, personal needs, sequencing,

phonics and early reading, vocabulary, mathematics, time, money plus off-

computer generalization activities. The subscription is designed for children

with a developmental age of 2 to 7 years.

(Full press release)

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104 & STORY=/www/story/03-01-200\

6/0004311404 & EDATE=

or

http://biz./prnews/060301/sfw091.html?.v=35

TeachTown website:

http://web.teachtown.com/