Special Thanks to Sean Sweeney of Speech Techie for suggesting this fun interactive website to use in speech (or occupational) therapy. This post is reprinted with the permission of the author as it appeared on the SpeechTechie blog

Editor's Note: Although Sean highlighted this site through a speech-language pathology lens, I think this resource has equal value for school psychologists and pediatric occupational therapists, especially those working with children with autism.

Smyface is a simple interactive website you can use to emphasize feelings vocabulary and the connections between real-world events and internal responses



Use the slider to view a huge variety of facial expressions, match them to emotional vocabulary, and work with students to link feelings to events. Smyface is a great stop to use in conjunction with a storybook or chapter book in order to target story grammar: the relationship between characters, initiating events/problems, responses and even plans! Bonus points to this site for having such an emphasis on causal constructions! Your completed smyface can be shared in a variety of ways, as seen above.

Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for highlighting this site.