[vorik]

Hi,

I'm the (Dutch) parent of an 8 year old boy with Asperger's syndrome.

Every day, we created a planner for him on a whiteboard, which was very time-consuming. Not only did we have to draw (poorly made) pictograms, but we had to figure out what we were going to do each day all over agian.
I was very surprised when I found out that there was nothing on the computer that we could use to make this reoccurring time-consuming task easier.

So, we decided to create online planner software, with help from several people. Because we want as many people as possible to benefit, we made the basic version free for private use. In only a few months time, we have got over 4300 users from the Netherlands and Belgium.

AutiPlan is very easy to use and you can create a daily planner with clocks and pictograms in mere seconds when you make use of the templates. There are over 3000 pictograms available. To make AutiPlan even more accessible, there is step-by-step documentation and several demo videos. (screencasts) Everything is available in English and Dutch.

So, please check it out and let us know what you think about it!
If you want to create planners for more than one person in your family, just drop us a line at support@autiplan.com. Then we can give you extra (also free) licenses.

http://www.autiplan.com

Greetings,
Ger Apeldoorn

[johnvb]

Hi Ger

What a good idea. I will definitely give it a go as we also regularly do picture charts for Michael, especially if we need to prep him for something out of the norm.

I'll let you know once I find a free moment to try it out.

Best Wishes

John

[Speeds]

Fantastic

I will go and have a look but I am sure i can say you are a star already

And welcome to the forum too btw

[vorik]

Thanks!

I hope that many people can benefit from the English speaking countries as well.

Greetings,
Ger.

[Speeds]

I have just forwarded it to my son's school for their review.  It is not something we need now (although my son could have benefitted from something like this 2-3 years ago) but I know there are other children in the school who will benefit.

My son is also aged 8.

[vorik]

Thanks, I welcome any forwarding!

If you have got ideas how I can inform people about AutiPlan in the English speaking countries, I'm open to suggestions.

In the Netherlands, I contacted the organizations that assist families with members with Autism. Also, we were on national tv with a short interview on autism awareness day which really helped.

Greetings,
Ger.

[Speeds]

Just so you know in the UK I have forwarded on to my local council who will forward out and another local council via a friend who runs a SN forum.

If you want me too I will try and forward to other areas but hopefully people on this and other forums will forward and spread the word too.

John - I am going to forward now to Pixie's forum.

[vorik]

If you want to try to forward it to others that would be great!

Thanks again,
Ger.

PS: What is Pixie's forum?

[Speeds]

If you want to try to forward it to others that would be great!

Thanks again,
Ger.

PS: What is Pixie's forum?

http://www.carersforum.co.uk/forum/index.php