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About HandHold Adaptive® and iPrompts PRO®

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About HandHold Adaptive®

•  A family business and leading developer of research-based apps for autism and special education

•  Flagship app, iPrompts®, was among the first special education apps on iTunes in 2008. Today it has tens of thousands of users, and is backed by peer-reviewed research

•  Research of apps is funded by the U.S. Department of Education (IES SBIR program) and conducted by Yale and other universities


Our Suite of Apps for iOS

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Visual Supports Social Stories Speech Therapy Full Suite


!  Suite of visual support tools used by caregivers of those with ASDs

!  Patented (U.S. No. 8,296,686)

!  Multiple-time #1-grossing app (iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone)

!  Benefits supported by several research studies:

! To Teachers: Ease of use and time savings compared to creating standard practice visual support tools

! To Students: Highly engaged with product, smoothing transitions and improving attention to task. Also helps teach social skills.

iPrompts® The Original “App for Autism” (Released in May, 2009)

!  Schedules !  Timer !  Choices !  Library !  VideoPrompts

Transitions and sequences

Attention to task and transitions

Expression of preference

Demonstrate skills

Use our media or add your own

iPrompts® Teachers customize and present visual supports based on ASD student needs


•  Creator of Social Stories methodology

•  Designed StoryMaker’s built-in “Academy”

•  Contributes story templates to app

StoryMaker™ The Premier iOS App for Social Stories™

!  Create !  Present !  Learn

Tested and re-tested in the field,

our process for creating stories is streamlined and

user-friendly

Share stories on the screen with optional voice recordings, or

share offline via email and print

With Carol Gray’s Academy, learning to write effective Social Stories is a breeze!

FEATURED PARTNER: CAROL GRAY


SpeechPrompts™ Speech therapy exercises provide visual feedback on volume, stress, and rate

•  Home of world-renowned autism researchers

•  Collaborate to help design SpeechPrompts

•  Research app in field

!  VoiceMatch !  VoiceChart Compare a model phrase

to the student’s, then show rate and stress differences on screen

Provides real-time, customizable visual

feedback on voice volume

FEATURED PARTNER: YALE CHILD STUDY


Benefits of the iPrompts® PRO Suite

!  Save time compared to standard practice tools (BoardMaker, Time Timer, etc.)

!  Tested and re-tested for ease of use !  Share what you create with other

caregivers via email or printing !  Training included with volume license

!  Ease transitions !  Improve attention to task !  Teach social skills !  Learn organization and scheduling !  Break down tasks

TO EDUCATORS TO STUDENTS


There’s a New Trend in Education Apps We’ve gone from “There’s An App for That” to...

… “Have any of these apps have been researched?”

•  1,000,000+ apps on iTunes store

•  1,000+ claim to support autism community

•  60 Minutes special on “Apps for Autism”


Our Apps Are Independently Researched Studies demonstrate student engagement, teacher ease of use

•  29 educators and 88 students with ASDs aged 5-16

•  31 teachers, divided into treatment and control groups

•  10 SLPs and 40 students with ASD or other prosodic deficits

•  In 87% of observations, students showed keen interest in the technology

•  82% of observations identified a positive impact on student behavior (on-task, attentiveness)

•  100% of teachers felt iPrompts was not too complex to set up

•  StoryMaker as effective as standard practice, but easier to use

•  In 80% of observations, teachers had no difficulty using the app

•  In 73% of observations, students showed keen interest in the technology

•  Pre/post scores showed remediation in elements of prosody (intonation, volume, rate, stress in sentences)

•  Strong engagement ratings in >88% sessions (n=188)

SAMPLE FINDINGS PARTNERS

•  Zamfir, B. R., Tedesco, R., & Reichow, B. (2012). Handheld “app” offering visual support to students with autism spectrum disorders. In K. Miesenberger et al. (Eds.), Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Part II, LNCS 7383, pp. 105–112). •  Newton, D., Eren, R., Ben-Avie, M., & Reichow, B. (2013). "Handheld technology for visual supports". Journal of Special Education Technology, 28(2), 53-56.


Retail Pricing and Custom License Program

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Visual Supports Social Stories Speech Therapy

$50 $40 $20 $100

Full Suite

!  Built-in savings with PRO suite pricing at retail !  Now offering Custom License program for iPrompts® PRO

!  Orders of 10+ licenses get free training and implementation support (2+ private webinar training sessions)

!  Site License Partners receive discounts at volume, plus free training!


Custom Licenses: How It Works

•  Your district gets its own “custom version” of iPrompts® PRO •  The number of licenses and price is negotiated in advance •  You receive a spreadsheet which contains your licenses •  Downloads can then be sent to educators as URLs or as codes typed into iTunes App Store •  Users activate download on any device running iOS 5.0 or later (iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone) •  Includes training/implementation support from developer and/or clinical staff

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Rob Tedesco, Co-Founder and CEO | 203.526.6313 | [email protected]

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