Working4 app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Pyramid Educational Consultants, Inc
First release : 11 Mar 2011
App size: 51.04 Mb
Everybody likes a visual reinforcement system. Using this app, you can let someone know what he’s working for, how much work he needs to do, and how close he is to earning a reward for that work. You can use this for lessons in school, chores at home, getting your children to eat their vegetables, and much more! Start the app by selecting the number of tokens (1-5) your student must earn. Then set up your students reinforcer choice board by selecting 1-6 items from our pre-loaded symbol library or your own photo library. To delete a picture from the teacher choice screen just press down on an image for 5 seconds. Show the choice board to your student to select what to work for and then begin your lesson. Each time a student earns a token, slide a token to the empty dot. Once the student has earned all of his tokens, push the "cash in" button to show your student what hes earned! The token board resets to start the next deal or you can create a new choice board for your student to select a new reinforcer.
This app is now available in American English and Brazilian Portuguese. To enable Brazilian Portuguese please make sure your Apple device is set to use Portuguese as its main language via Settings->General->International.
Visit www.pecs.com for more information on using visual reinforcement systems.
Feature Summary
•Select number of tokens for each deal (1-5)
•Customize student choice board to include up to 6 images selected from preloaded images or images in your photo library
•Bright token board to contrast with materials on students desktop
•Token board shows student what hes working for, how many tokens he needs, his progress in the deal.
•Student "cashes in" at end of deal by pushing button. Earned item is highlighted and tokens return to start
Latest reviews of Working4 app for iPhone and iPad
This is an excellent basic token board. You can use a photo to illustrate what the student is working for, or use one of the preloaded PCS symbols. The selection of PCS is very good; it includes a nice selection of common items used as reinforcers. I also like that you can select the number of tokens (1-5).
This is a great app. Quick set up and easy to use. Very motivating for students. Suggestion for future versions- have a section to save certain boards for specific student use along with a data collection tool running in the background that would give a report of how many times the student did earn the reward/how many opportunities, which reward each student preferred, etc.
This app has completely turned around one of my student behaviors!! He has autism and would disrupt sessions on a regular basis. Introduced this app one session and WOW! Now, before we leave his class, he is in line, hands to himself, facing forward, and quietly waiting for his friends to follow suit. He tells: "I want work for stars". Such a breathe of fresh air. He is able to have my phone during sessions so that he may "get a star" for goal progression, positive behavior, social interAction, etc. He LOVES it, and because he does, so do I!!!
Waste of time and money. Keeps crashing.
This is a really nice app. Simple but gets the job done. Please increase the stars quantity up to 20. Nicely done.