Make easy customized puzzles for kids with special needs – Puzzlfy – Jigsaw Puzzles Review

Puzzlfy is a fabulous app to make easy customized puzzles for high interest areas for kids with special needs! I use this app every week in OMazing Kids speech-language therapy. Many of my patients have very specific interests. This is especially true of kids with Autism. I use the Puzzlfy app to provide an opportunity for a patient to request what type of puzzle they would like to make. Some are able to tell me verbally. Others use sign language, picture symbols or an AAC device or iPad with an AAC app to "tell" me what picture they want. Then I go search for it via Google on Safari on my iPad, save it to my Camera Roll & then import it into Puzzlfy. I use the "super easy" & "easy" levels most frequently & occasionally the "medium" level. I often purposefully set it at a slightly harder level than I anticipate the child being able to do independently to create a reason for them to request "help". As we complete the puzzle we "talk" about things in the picture to work on vocabulary. The faded picture in the background & outline of the pieces all help my patients complete the puzzle. I love that there is no adversive "no try again" feedback if a piece doesn't fit where they attempted to put it. The piece just snaps back to the left side. Because the patient picked the specific picture to use in the puzzle, they are almost always highly motivated to finish it. Angela Moorad, MS, CCC-SLP
Review by OMazing Kids on Puzzlfy – Jigsaw Puzzles.