The Activity Trainer is a powerful software program that makes the research-based, effective Video Modeling teaching method practical for the classroom and home. The Activity Trainer is a versatile teaching tool that enables teachers to use videos to teach almost any targeted activity or skill - from simple to complex - and includes a library of activities with options to customize, modify, and create new activities.

Video modeling has been shown in numerous studies to improve acquisition rates across a wide variety of tasks for individuals with autism and other learning disabilities. Unfortunately, because video modeling is a difficult process, few of our students are benefiting from this powerful teaching method. The Activity Trainer in the first tool designed specifically to make video modeling easy.

• Research Based - Extensive research shows video modeling increases acquisition rates across a wide variety of tasks
• Activity Library – Ready to use activities covering categories: Academic, Communication, Social, Speech, Non Verbal Imitation, Self Help, and More.  Most of the currently available activities are preschool and early elementary level.
• User Library - Create your own activities
• Data Collection - Data is automatically collected on each run of an activity
• Supports - Task Analysis, Transitions from Video to Images, Transition from Images to Text, Sequences, Forward and Back Chaining, and Schedules
• Robust and Affordable
  • $149 Standard Home Bundle or Single Student Bundle
  • $349 Standard Institutional Bundle… Single Computer, Unlimited Students

Bundles come with one year of updates and support

Activity Trainer Download

Free online training sessions are currently available for the Activity Trainer. These training sessions are a great way to familiarize youself with the program before using the software. At the end of a training session you will receive instructions on downloading a free trial. Click here to register for an online webinar.

More Activity Trainer Information

Powerful Environment to Teach Skills  

You use the videos to teach new skills, and then transition the student to less supportive prompts like images or text.  Prompts include Video, Images, Text, and Audio and can be tailored to meet individual learning needs and levels.  The activity trainer allows you to play portions of the video, view snapshots from the video, view related text, and associate alternate audio instructions.  The video, images, text, and audio can be changed or tailored to accommodate individual student’s needs.

Next Generation Video Modeling  

By allowing integration of video, audio, images, and text into predefined presentations, the Activity Trainer takes Video Modeling to a new level of capability.

Simple Enough for a Teaching Assistant, Parent, or Even a Student Mentor  

Once students are created on the AT, and activities are selected for the students, teaching skills is simply a few clicks away.  No more scanning through videos to find the portion to play.  The task analysis is already done so even a person not trained in task analysis (breaking down an activity into steps) can easily perform systematic teaching of complex tasks for the student. 

Data Collection  

Data collection features allow the user to track student performance.  The AT automatically collects the activity name, the prompt, when played, and how long it took.  You can add the result and any associated notes while the trial is going on or afterward.

Visual Schedules  

You can set up computer based schedules for the student to use learned activities.  The Schedules can be set to allow the student to self-select activities or to follow a set schedule.  Student photo image, icon, or symbol can easily be incorporated into the visual schedule.  With the computerized schedule system, you can easily control how many times the student gets access to an activity and how many times the student can cycle through the entire schedule.  You can also print off the images to do off computer visual schedules.

Activities Library  

• Academic:  Coloring Activities, Copying Lines and Shapes, Activities with Clay, Connecting Links, Stringing Beads, Tracing Lines and Shapes, Sorting Blocks
• Communication:  Identifying Left and Right Hand
• Daily Living:  Folding Towel and Washcloth, Wiping off surface, Wringing out Sponge and Towel, Washing Dishes, Opening and Closing Binder Rings, Putting Paper in Folder, Folding Paper in Half and Thirds, Straightening Papers, Stapling Papers, Removing Staple, Getting Piece of Tape, Taping Rip, Open Reclosable Bag, Open Bottle, Buckle Belt, Button and Unbutton Pants, Snap and Unsnap Pants, Zip and Unzip Pants, Tying Shoes with Single and Two Loop Methods, Brushing Long Hair, Identifying Clean and Dirty Hands, Setting Time Timer from 1 to 30 Minutes
• Nonverbal Imitations:  Bouncing Ping Pong and Rubber Ball, Arms Up, Clap Hands, Touching (Head, Knees, Nose, Shoulders, and Toes), Sit Down, Stand Up, Turn Around, Oral Motor (Bite, Blow Air Through Lips, Kiss, Lips Together, Open Mouth, Pucker, Smile, Stick Tongue Out, Tongue Side to Side, Tongue Up and Down, Top Teeth over Lower Lip, Touch Top Teeth with Tongue)
• Recreation:  Positioning Bike Pedal, Stack Blocks, Finding Straight Edge, Separating Straight Edge Pieces, Playing with Toy Car
• Social:  Initiate Hello-Hello Standing and Walking, Respond to Hello-Hello Standing and Walking, Initiating Hi-Hi Standing and Walking, Responding to Hi-Hi Standing, Initiating and Responding to How Are You – 3 Part Exchanges
• Vocational:  Bag Parts

User Library – Build Your Own Activities

The Activity Trainer has a User Library area for customers to create their own activities.  Create from simple video activities that are just played in full, to activities that include predefined task analysis and transitions from videos to images and text.  Activities can also contain one or more versions of printable worksheets. 

Affordably Priced  

The Activity Trainer is priced affordably so that it is a cost effective solution for a wide range of students, and not just the most expensive to educate.  This is a large and robust package with one year of updates at a very modest price point.  Our pricing is intended to help make the Activity Trainer a standard package in appropriate classrooms and home settings.

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