At NeuronUP, we’re expanding our children’s catalog with four activities for children with autism, designed specifically for autism intervention.
These children’s activities for autism stand out for their high ecological value, since they make it possible to work on key skills in contexts very close to daily life, promoting the generalization of learning outside the therapy setting.
The activities allow you to work on areas such as cognitive flexibility, social cognition, inhibition, and selective attention, always within a structured, safe, and functional environment.
Activities for children with autism
1. Switching hats
What does it involve?
Switching hats is a game-type activity included among NeuronUP’s activities for children with autism. It involves identifying and selecting stimuli that meet a specific instruction (for example, things from nature), while a figure wearing a hat changes color from time to time, indicating a new selection rule.
The child has to adjust their response dynamically, paying attention to the category changes and staying focused throughout the process.
What does this activity work on?
This children’s activity for autism mainly works on cognitive flexibility and adapting to unpredictable changes. It also stimulates inhibition and selective attention, key skills in intervention with children on the autism spectrum.
Ecological value
The activity recreates, in a controlled way, everyday situations in which the rules change without warning, promoting cognitive and emotional adaptation to uncertainty.
This type of training is useful for improving responses to the unexpected in real-life contexts, such as changes in the school routine, changes to daily activities, or changes in the people they rely on. Practicing these situations in a safe environment makes direct transfer to daily life easier.
Which children is it recommended for?
Children on the autism spectrum and other children with difficulties in cognitive flexibility, behavioral rigidity, or adapting to changes in routine.
Available languages
Spanish, English, French, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, and Catalan.
2. Scramble of basic emotions
What does it involve?
Scramble of basic emotions is a worksheet focused on emotional intervention in children with autism. It involves identifying and matching basic emotions shown in different visual formats, such as photos, pictograms, drawings, and emojis.
What does this activity work on?
This children’s activity for autism works on social cognition and vocabulary. It also reinforces social perception, social norms, and emotional processing and recognition, helping children tell basic emotions apart in a gradual, structured way.
Ecological value
It helps children identify facial expressions, gestures, and emotional cues in daily life. By learning to associate emotions with words and images, they expand their emotional vocabulary and improve their ability to express how they feel.
Using real visual stimuli and a predictable environment helps generalize emotion recognition to natural contexts such as the classroom, home, or everyday interactions.
Which children is it recommended for?
Autistic children and other neurocognitive profiles who need a visual, clear, and structured approach to recognize and classify basic emotions, regardless of their level of support.
Available languages
Spanish, English, French, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, and Catalan.
💬 What would you say?
What does it involve?
What would you say? is a game designed for social cognition intervention in children with autism. It involves observing a social situation accompanied by a dialogue and choosing the most appropriate verbal response from several possible options.
What does this activity work on?
This activity for children with autism works on social cognition, interpreting context, understanding other people’s intentions, and cognitive flexibility, encouraging responses that fit social and emotional norms.
Ecological value
The activity recreates real communication situations such as saying hello, asking for help, apologizing, responding to a mistake, or expressing emotions. Practicing these situations in a safe environment makes it easier to transfer them to everyday life and improves communicative independence and social competence.
Which children is it recommended for?
Children on the autism spectrum and other children who have difficulties with social cognition, social interaction, pragmatic communication, or adapting to conversational norms.
Available languages
Spanish, English, French, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, and Catalan.
✔️ Is it right or wrong?
What does it involve?
Is it right or wrong? is a worksheet that involves recognizing whether a behavior is appropriate or inappropriate in everyday situations, based on realistic visual scenes.
What does this activity work on?
This children’s activity for autism works on social perception, understanding basic social norms, emotion recognition, and social-emotional regulation, encouraging socially adaptive responses.
Ecological value
It’s based on scenes from school, family, and community settings. The norms covered apply directly to everyday life, which promotes the generalization of learning and improves the child’s social independence.
Which children is it recommended for?
Autistic children and other neurocognitive profiles who need structured, visual support to interpret social interactions and tell appropriate behaviors from inappropriate ones.
Available languages
Spanish, English, French, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, and Catalan.
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