GoAnimate for Schools Gives Autistic Students a Voice

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At Danny Jones Middle School I believe we have just begun to scratch the surface of what we can do with GoAnimate for Schools. I work with students whose disability is within the autism spectrum and GoAnimate has so far been a great way not only to communicate to my students, but additionally for them to communicate back.

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Autism And Expression Through Avatars

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As a teacher and administrator of a school for students on the Autism Spectrum, I am always trying to find ways to teach about social stories. If I could only walk around with a camera in my hand to film the unexpected behaviors we come across with our students and then show them, it would make it so much easier. But since that is not likely to happen, I was lucky to come across an amazing website that allowed me to recreate these scenarios with my students.

GoAnimate for Schools is such a GREAT website that even the students love. We can reenact events that occur between students and watch them as a group. We then take the time to process the situation and come up with some ideas and thoughts on how to handle that situation if it came up again.

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