MagnusCards - Autism App

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About this app

MagnusCards provides collectible how-to's designed to support autistic and neurodiverse people in activities of daily living, including money management, personal care, cooking, and travel. Each collectible Card Deck is created in partnership with companies, venues, and non-profit organizations to assist and encourage community participation and life skill development.

Features:
• Content specifically designed for those with autism, Asperger's, Down syndrome, dementia, and other neurodiversity.
• How-to Card Decks created in partnership with companies, venues, and brands like Trader Joe's, Kraft Heinz, M&T Bank, New York City Transit, and many more make learning fun.
• Twelve categories for collecting how-to's, including social, travel, personal care, and shopping.
• Multiple languages available: Select the language of choice in your personal device settings.
• No Wi-Fi required: Downloaded Card Decks are available for offline use.

Ratings and reviews

Good app but could be a lot better. Children and younger teens are clearly the target audience, but it would benefit many to have more guides for older teens and adults, and guides that are less specific to locations. Autistic 18 year old and I found some guides to be helpful but many are not.

We used the travel deck for Pearson this summer with my son. He is 4 yrs old and has ASD. He doesn’t fully understand the concept of waiting yet! But we showed him the stories of going through security and boarding the plane and it helped him to understand what the next steps were. He’s very good with visual schedules so I find these social stories just as great!

I'm a 24 yr old that has ASD. I'm not sure why this is labelled as for teens & young adults when many of the cards are clearly made for young kids. Some of them are helpful but many are weirdly specific, even the ones that aren't sponsored by a specific brand. And it isn't helpful specificity its things like "make friends by asking people if they would like to play with your dinosaur toys". This app could be good & I hope the devs take input from disabled adults when designing future cards.

What's new

Bugfixes