I was introduced to a new visual support resource this week for special education teachers I just have to share it with you all! Meet Ella, an AI powered learning platform for social narratives and visuals! Ella saves hours each week by generating kid-centric visual supports in seconds, allowing you to save time and money! If you know me, I am ALL about saving time, and getting teachers home before dark. Ella helps with just that. Let’s learn about how Ella, an AI powered platform, can help special education teachers and service providers.
Create personalized Narratives and Visuals
Ella allows you to personalize your stories, visuals, and schedules with real and engaging images! You enter information about the child you are creating for such as skin color, hair color, eye color, glasses, or wheelchair, and Ella makes your character in seconds!
These characters (or students!) can be stored in the Ella app, allowing you to make your social narratives and visuals more quickly each time you log in. Other visual websites don’t have the ability to use this level or personalization, and taking real pictures is time consuming, making Ella the best time saving option for customization.
Create Social Narratives in Seconds!
Ella allows you to create personalized social narratives featuring the characters you created. You can enter in the theme of the social narrative, details relating to the problem and replacement behaviors and your story is developed with high quality images in seconds. There is even a digital way to view your story for free with read aloud abilities. You can print your stories and visuals with a paid plan!
Check out this social narrative to see how they work!
Create Visual Schedules in Seconds!
Ella allows you to enter a theme and steps to create a highly engaging visual schedule for your personalized student. I created this visual scheduling for a morning routine in less than one minute with Ella!
Try Ella for Free!
AI Saves Special Ed Teachers Time!
Using this AI powered platform takes away some of the struggles of special education teachers.
Save Time:
Ella can quickly generate visuals, social narratives, and other resources, reducing the time teachers spend manually creating materials. This allows teachers to focus more on direct student lessons and planning individualized instruction.
Personalize:
Ella can tailor visuals and multilingual social narratives to specific student needs, preferences, and IEP goals, ensuring materials are personalized and meet diverse requirements. Ella is also able to translate materials making it easy to use with ESL students and share with home!
Enhanced Visual Quality:
Ella can produce high-quality images and graphics that are visually appealing and easy for students to understand, supporting visual learners effectively. Ella also offers options for different image “looks” making it easy to customize based on student interests.
Instant Adaptability:
Need a visual or social narrative on the fly? Ella can quickly adapt existing materials or generate new ones in real-time, making it easier to address unexpected situations or behaviors.
Reduce Burnout:
By automating repetitive tasks and storing student profiles, Ella reduces the workload and stress on teachers, preventing burnout and allowing them to maintain a better work-life balance.
Ella in the Classroom
Save your time and use Ella in the classroom to do the following:
- Create Visual Schedules: Quickly generate personalized daily schedules for students to follow routines and transitions more smoothly.
- Develop Social Narratives: Use Ella to create social stories that help students understand new situations and manage behavioral expectations. Project these on the smartboard for whole group lessons or use in therapy sessions for 1:1 learning.
- Design Picture Cards: Craft visual aids for communication, lesson reinforcement, or introducing new vocabulary.
- Behavior Management: Create visual cues and choice boards to support positive behavior and decision-making.
- Consistency Across Settings: Share resources between teachers, parents, and therapists to ensure consistency from school to home.
Ella is Free!
Ella is free to use digitally, the free plan includes three resources for free per month and has some limitations like printing. Users of the free plan can also earn free stories for referring others.
Creating your characters and developing your schedules and social narratives is free! Try it today!
My favorite Features:
- Generates personalized social stories, visual schedules, and picture cards in under a minute, in a student’s likeness
- All materials are fully editable, you also can even go back and add things later as students progress
- Materials can be translated to several languages
- Materials can be printed or used digitally
- Materials can be shared and viewed without sign in making sharing with your team or families easier
- Ella reads stories aloud in multiple languages
- Works on any device with a Web browser
Ella creates tailored visual supports for neurodiverse kids.
Using Ella would decrease your time spent on creating personalized visuals on each child on your caseload. I highly recommend this tool for busy special education teachers who want to provide personalized materials!
Disclosure: This post was created in partnership with Ella. I was compensated for this content, but all views and opinions are entirely my own.
