Help Autism (Association) launched Help Kit, a learning pack designed to help acquire basic notions. The kit is dedicated to very young children and children with learning difficulties. It consists of 11 different programs, each providing visual support for every learned concept.

Kids will learn by using special exercises created by psychopedagogists. The exercises will develop the following subjects: numbers, letters, seasons, animals, food, clothing, necessary objects and other essential day-by-day notions. For stimulating and developing active thinking, imagination and motricity, the kit also offers 19 puzzles (with 2, 4, 6, 8 or 12 pieces). The kit’s programs are meant for children ages 2 to 7 and they can also be used in kindergartens, for usual kids or for therapy sessions dedicated to children with autism or other learning difficulties.  

The kit was developed by Help Autism’s specialists, professionals in psychology and psychopedagogy, with vast experience in interacting with children with autism spectrum disorders. Each program was created based on applied behaviour analysis principles and on the child’s capacity to accumulate, retain and generalize information easier. By using interactive materials and colourful illustrations, kids will not only learn the notions easier, they will also learn how to access their memory, their speech and their capacity to access day-by-day useful notions.

Help Kit has 11 programs and 19 puzzles (2x2 pieces, 5x4 pieces, 4x6 pieces, 4x8 pieces, 4x12 pieces):

1. ABC… do you know what’s next? - 99 cards - This program is meant to introduce all the letters, helping the child to associate words with the right letters.
2. Counting, playing, learning - 41 cards, representing numbers from 0 to 10 and groups of objects. This program is teaching children the numbers, their names, their neighboring numbers, associating quantity with numbers and vice versa.
3. Linking words - 32 cards - Through this program children will learn how to build coherent sentences by using the 32 diverse exemples.
4. Understanding the plural form - 118 cards - learning how to correctly name objects using the singular and plural forms.
5. Transportation - 52 cards - an ideal learning material for identifying and naming means of transportation, location indications and certain common places.
6. House objects - 62 cards - enriching the child’s knowledge by identifying, categorizing, naming and describing images of day-to-day objects.
7. Locations and objects from the house - 10 boards and 41 cards - by fitting objects in the right rooms, the child learns how to group, identify and describe the utility of that specific object.
8. Clothes - 36 cards with clothes, shoes and accessories. The kids will learn how to identify, name and match items taking into consideration the weather.
9. Food - 54 cards - getting familiar and learning to identify the most frequent types of food items.
10. Living creatures - 56 cards - a wide range of living creatures: aquatic animals, domestic animals, wild animals, birds and insects. Every image provides the opportunity of identifying, naming and characterizing the animal.
11. Seasons - 135 images - each season is represented by an image, completed by cards with specific characteristics of that time period.

The learning kit can be ordered online (as a whole or, taking into consideration the necessities, as individual programs) here : http://ahashop.helpautism.ro/materiale-terapie

The amounts collected from the sale of the materials are directed to support recovery therapy for the 500 children with ASD who benefit from the Help Autism Association.