Exercise is shown to reduce problem behaviors and increase on-task behavior. For those with autism to understand and succeed with exercise they need they visual supports, videos, and technology. ExerciseBuddy incorporates the same evidence-based practices that create success for individuals in the classroom: technology aided instruction and intervention, visual supports, video modeling, social narratives, and positive reinforcement.

ExerciseBuddy successfully works with all individuals no matter their age, motor skills, or cognitive ability. A professional, therapist, or parent has everything they need to instruct, assess performance, and collect data.

Exercise Buddy is easy-to-use and equipped with over 125 exercises and matching peer-led videos to help individuals achieve success. It can help you to interactively teach the systems of the human body and has a Teaching Tools section which can help parents give their child activities to do at home and give teachers the ability to teach exercise across the curriculum.

Features:

• Teaching Structures – First-Then and Start-Finish Board
• Exercise Library - Over 125 exercise visuals with matching Video-Model
• Verbal Praise (after exercises and workouts are completed)
• Teaching Tools - Print over 50 classroom and at home worksheets
• Create user profiles to manage multiple users
• Save unlimited amount of workouts
• Save and monitor Health History (Height, Weight, BMI, Waist/Hip Ratio)
• Turn on/off audio feedback

Visual Exercise Categories:

• Yoga, Sport Skills, Dynamic Flexibility
• Fitness Room
• Muscular Fitness, Cardiovascular Fitness
• Posture, Abdominal Strength
• Motor Coordination, Body Image

Built by multidisciplinary special education professionals and supported in multiple research studies.

Please note: this is a download. Compatible with iPad (iPadOS 9.0 or later), Mac (OS 11 or later and Apple M1 chip), Android tablet (Android OS 4.1 and up), Chromebook (Android OS 4.1 and up).