Voices from the field
For two decades, clinicians, researchers, and educators have shaped, studied, and championed this work. These are some of the voices, with links to what they are building today.
Dr. Christopher Willard
Psychologist, Harvard Medical School faculty, and author of Child's Mind and a shelf of books that have taught a generation of families, including this one, how children breathe their way back to calm. We found him the way we hope families find us: one good book, read cover to cover, at exactly the right moment. A trusted friend of this work.
Betsy Walling Furler
Speech pathologist, founder of For All Abilities and now AI Skill Studio, built with her son Sam, supporting neurodiverse people in the workplace, SXSW and TEDx speaker, host of the For All Abilities podcast, and a contributor to the W3C's cognitive accessibility task force. A friend of this work since we shared the SXSWedu stage.
Cristen Carson Reat, BridgingApps
Co-founder of Easterseals Greater Houston's BridgingApps, which helps families and clinicians find the right apps for their children, and the person who first brought us to the SXSWedu stage, presenting apps through the lens of accessibility. BridgingApps has featured Choiceworks many times over the years, including Role Reversal: Viewing Apps Through Disability, written by Matt at fifteen. Visit bridgingapps.org.
Angela Moorad, MS, CCC-SLP
Speech-language pathologist with more than 36 years in AAC and the force behind OMazing Kids AAC Consulting, where tens of thousands of families and therapists find app guidance and her renowned AAC feature-matching resources. Angela helped test both Choiceworks and Choiceworks Calendar on Android before they shipped, an invaluable resource and colleague. Thank you, Angela.
Beth Poss
Special education leader and co-author of the ISTE book Inclusive Learning 365, which features Choiceworks among its classroom strategies.
Jennifer Twachtman-Bassett, MS, CCC-SLP
Wrote about Choiceworks and the waiting board in Autism Spectrum Quarterly. Today she is an autism clinical specialist and research coordinator at Connecticut Children's, and serves on the Autism Society of America's Panel of Professional Advisors.
Barry Prizant, PhD, CCC-SLP
One of the field's most respected voices, author of Uniquely Human, praised the original Choiceworks Visual Support System, the patented method today's apps are built on. Visit barryprizant.com.
Carol Gray
The creator of Social Stories™ partnered with Bee Visual and Children's Hospital Boston on the Blood Draw Learning Kit in 2011, the clinically tested kit whose story lives on our For Schools page. Visit carolgraysocialstories.com.
Dr. Ellen Hanson, Children's Hospital Boston
The researcher whose team put the Blood Draw Learning Kit to the clinical test in the hospital's Division of Developmental Medicine, and reported blood-draw success rising from about 86 percent to 96 percent with the kit program in place. The hospital tells the story in its own words in its 2011 Technology & Innovation Development Office annual report.
Diane Twachtman-Cullen, PhD, CCC-SLP
Editor-in-Chief of Autism Spectrum Quarterly, which covered this work in its earliest app days, author of The IEP from A to Z and How to Be a Para Pro, and a mentor whose advice still runs this company: do the thing before you announce it.
Brenda Smith Myles, PhD
One of the most published researchers in the autism field, with more than 300 books and articles and over 3,000 presentations worldwide, and a believer from the very beginning: Brenda and her late husband Keith were the first investors in the Choiceworks Visual Support System, and AAPC Publishing gave the earliest products their first warehouse. This work stood up because they stood behind it. Her books, including Asperger Syndrome and Difficult Moments and The Hidden Curriculum, live on her author page.
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