Happy November, Different Roads family! We’re incredibly excited to announce our newest product, the Structured Ecological Assessment tool (SEAT) by J. Tyler Fovel, M.A., BCBA. The SEAT is a structured protocol and manual that guides you through the process of conducting an Ecological Assesme…

If you watched Apple’s “Hello Again” event last week, you would have noticed that the keynote event opened with this video: There was emphasis on accessibility right from the get go. Tim Cook announced the new Apple accessibility website, which puts emphasis on how people with dis…

Did you know that October is National Bullying Prevention Month? In an effort to raise awareness around issues of bullying for students with autism, we’re honored to feature this article on preventing bullying of students with ASD by Lori Ernsperger, PhD, BCBA-D, Executive Director of Behavior…

Happy last Tuesday of October! This week only, save 20% on your purchase of select executive functioning tools by using promo code EXECFUN20 at checkout! These products are great for problem solving and ideal for individual and classroom settings. Pictured are two of our featured curriculum books, …

Go is a 3D printed wheelchair. Customized to user’s body dimensions for comfort, safety, and flexibility. Allows users to participate in design process. Customer gets it in 3 weeks.  Just like crutches, wheelchairs haven’t seen much of a design overhaul over a long period of time. Many …

We’re so excited to present the SupervisorABA, one of my favorite new resources available to both supervisors and individuals pursuing Board Certification in Behavior Analysis. I was very excited to have the opportunity to ask its creators, Dana Reinecke and Cheryl Davis, about their process i…

Reading comprehension is important for children of all ages, but especially young learners, as they learn to develop and process words and text.  Pictured to the right is our featured product, the Sentence Building Dominoes, a game you can build a variety of sentences with. With 228 color-coded domi…

Wouldn’t it be great if there was something that would describe everything to a blind person? Could read text to them? Identify objects in the grocery store? Faces of family and friends? Tell them when the red light turns green? Orcam, a tech company from Israel has been around for six years. …

Several years ago, I was working with a 6-year-old boy we’ll call Terrence. Terrence was diagnosed with autism. He was a very playful child who was generally good-tempered, enjoyed playing with trains and watching TV, and posed few difficult behavior issues for his parents…until the day there was co…

ASDetect, an app launched in February this year, helps parents detect early signs of Autism in their children – when they are as young as 11 to 30 months old. The app, which consists of an assessment , takes around 20 minutes to complete. Through the assessment, parents answer a series of ques…

Social skills are important for any developing child as they teach and reinforce important skills children need as they interact with their peers, family members and community helpers. Be sure to check out our featured game, a value set of six visually stimulating board games targets good social ski…

In the recent years, we have seen the use of beacons to help people with vision impairment navigate their immediate surroundings. Some prominent examples can be seen at London’s busy Euston station, and city of Strasbourg in France. Beacons are placed everywhere at a physical location like an …

Surprisingly, something as necessary as crutches have barely evolved over time. Beyond the inclusion of bandages or padded handgrips, no significant changes have been made since ancient Egyptians. KMINA has developed a new crutch concept in order to improve the mobility and quality of life of users.…

Often when we’re working with children with autism there are two areas we focus on: communication and play. However, due to the nature of your day or a specific activity, you may unintentionally punish spontaneous communication or play. So before we learn how to prepare to reinforce appropriate beha…