WHO WE ARE

The Social Skills for Autism App has been developed by the Shine Centre for Autism, a Not for Profit, Registered Charity based in County Cork in Ireland. The Shine Centre has been working with children, adolescents and teenagers with autism and their families since 2001. In 2010 the Shine Centre developed an in-house programme called Personal and Life Skills (PALS) to help our children and teenagers learn and understand about the often confusing social world that surrounds them.

The PALS programme has consistently shown very encouraging results for those who attended the programme both through the data collected and anecdotal evidence from their parents and carers. The problem with the PALS programme was that it was classroom based and limited in the number of children who could attend. Over time the Shine Centre was inundated with requests to join the programme. In 2013 work began on bringing PALS to an app platform, the Social Skills App (Mission Rescue Kloog) is a result of this work and we hope that we have created a fun and engaging app with all of the proven elements of the PALS programme to assist our children, adolescents and teenagers with autism to better understand and operate in the social world.

To learn more about the Shine Centre please visit www.shineireland.com