Earlier this month, World Autism Awareness Day was celebrated, and today we want to tell you about an application related to this disorder. Happy Geese is an application for children with autism which includes adapted versions of some classic games for the iPad.
Happy Geese, which in Spanish is translated by "Ocas Felices", is an application for electronic tablets launched by the Spanish company Appically, which is aimed at children with autism and special needs, and that helps them learn and integrate into activities leisure at school or family.
This app offers Simplified versions of the classic Game of the Goose and Stairs and Snakes (its American variant), incorporating boards with clean designs and of increasing difficulty, visual aids, dice without numbers and other elements that allow parents and educators to adapt the game to the abilities of each child.
Happy Geese allows young children in general and children with autism or autism spectrum disorders, hyperactivity and other special needs, to learn the classic board games step by step thanks to simplified versions of each game.
Thanks to its structure, parents or educators can gradually introduce each advanced feature of the game to the extent that the child is prepared. In its most educational aspect, Happy Geese helps to learn the vowels, colors, numbers and shapes and favors the child's concentration.
Some of the educational benefits of these games, together with the playful side, they are: helping children develop the ability to wait for their turn and concentration, learn basic concepts with different boards and dice (colors, shapes, vowels and numbers), improve the capacity for abstraction with children. different files (photos, people and animals)…
The app for children with autism Happy Geese It is available in the Apple Store in a free reduced version (with four basic boards; the complete board pack costs € 1.79). Its creators announce other games available in the future, so we will be attentive.
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