This Center for Autism Starter Materials Kit contains the essential picture cards and manipulatives you need for early autism education -- perfect for parents doing an in-home program but suitable for use a clinic setting as well. Features everything needed to jumpstart the learning journey.

The Starter Kit includes The following 11 critical teaching tools to support your program.

Four 3D-2D Matching Kits

The 3D-2D Matching Kits contain all the manipulative and photo materials you need for the most common introductory ABA and Autism Education lesson - matching. Each Matching Kit contains 16 foods and 16 photo cards for a total of 64 manipulatives and 64 cards. The 4 kits include:

• Language Builder: 3D-2D Animals Matching Kit
• Language Builder: 3D-2D Foods Matching Kit
• Language Builder: 3D-2D Everyday Objects Matching Kit
• Language Builder: 3D-2D Vehicles Matching Kit

Language Builder: Picture Nouns

The Language Builder: Picture Noun Card set is a crucial asset for early ABA therapy programs, offering vital vocabulary through 350 striking, photographic cards in nine key categories including animals, food, vehicles, and more. Each card is carefully selected for its role in cognitive development, guiding students from matching to labeling and categorization. Robust and easy to handle with a hi-gloss finish, the set is meticulously organized with divider cards and customizable stickers, making it an essential and engaging tool for fostering language development.

Language Builder: Blocks

Language Builder® Blocks, designed for one-on-one autism or ABA therapy programs, include 40 solid wood, vibrantly colored blocks, and 120 picture cards featuring various structures and pretend play designs. This set aids in developing cognitive and motor skills, enhances problem-solving abilities, and lays a foundation for mathematics. 

Language Builder: Stringing Beads

The Language Builder: Beads set, with 144 custom-designed wooden beads in six colors and four shapes, promotes color and shape recognition and enhances pre-math patterning skills, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor development. This unique set includes twelve strings for bead threading and 40 flashcards featuring patterns that range from one to twelve beads, encouraging children to imitate and learn. Each bead's shape is specifically designed to develop different grasping techniques, making it an ideal resource for fostering creativity and skill development in young learners.

Language Builder: Verbs & Action Words

The Language Builder Verbs & Action Words flash card set includes 230 cards that vividly depict a variety of action words. These cards, consistent with the Language Builder series, display current, familiar images in natural settings, with context clues for easy identification and lively discussion, showing people from various ages, genders and ethnicities engaging in a range of common activities. This variation in actors also allows for practice learning gender, pronouns and full sentences. The card set is an excellent resource for expanding vocabulary and teaching verb recognition.

Language Builder: Emotions

This 80-card set from the Language Builder Program is an effective tool for helping students identify and discuss a wide array of feelings and emotions. The cards feature actors aged 1 to 70 from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, depicting both clear facial expressions of basic emotions (happy, sad, angry, surprised, disgusted) and realistic, emotion-provoking scenarios in natural settings. The back of each card is a resource for instructors, offering labels, numbered references, and suggested activities and conversation starters to enhance emotional awareness and social skills. 

Language Builder: Occupation Cards

This set of 115 cards depicts common jobs with both male and female representations, avoiding stereotypes and encouraging discussions on different careers. Each card is presented in a natural setting with context clues for easy identification and engaging discussions on community roles, future aspirations, and everyday encounters with professionals. Designed to aid in vocabulary expansion, gender identification, and pronoun usage, these cards also serve as excellent prompts for conversation, storytelling, or writing. 

Language Builder: Sequencing 

Introduce your students to the concept of sequencing and logical event order with this engaging set of 116 full-color photographic cards. These cards, with a strong focus on self-help skills, depict common, everyday activities through various sequences ranging from three to ten cards. Starting with simpler 3-card sequences, students can progressively advance to more complex 10-card sequences. Ideal for teaching storytelling, understanding future actions, learning verbs and tenses, and as prompts for self-help skills, this set is a versatile tool for enhancing cognitive development and narrative skills.