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What They're Saying
"I have never seen a more intuitive, easier interface for a communication board software."
Teaching Learners with Multiple Special Needs
"Super simple, easy and quick online program to make picture pages, stories, communication boards, etc. Watch the little video, and make your own page in about 2 minutes flat!"
"...a great picture building resource."
Teaching Students with Learning Difficulties
"Check it out, it is well worth your time!"
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About Mrs. Riley
Mrs. Riley was created so professionals, teachers, and parents could collaboratively make educational materials, starting with picture cards. If you've ever made a picture card with a custom image yourself, you know that it can be tedious. We understand and after going through it ourselves for so long, we decided to wrap the entire process into a single online application with these goals:
- Easier - Designed to make simple tasks simple.
- Faster - Sharing is built right in so it's often a matter of search and print.
- Cheaper - Pay for only what you need.
We also built Mrs. Riley to tap into people's work automatically. For instance, as you find images for cards, we make them accessable to all users. When you save a page, each of the cards on the page become individually searchable, and a deck of cards is created from the page. So as more people use Mrs. Riley, there is more to search through and work with, which saves everyone time.
About Emergent Behavior LLC
Mrs. Riley first became possible after Ben Throop and Kristin McCole met at the top of the John Hancock Building in 2006. Somewhere in between getting married and moving to Nashville, TN for Kristin's graduate work, Kristin showed Ben how people in her field made communication materials. He had ideas for a new web application and John and Dan came forward with an amazing opportunity to start what is now Emergent Behavior LLC.
So Ben left his job in the video game industry and began work on what is now PageBuilder. Once Kristin graduated from Vanderbilt University with her M.Ed in Special Education, the two relocated to Rochester, NY. Nick Garofalo came on board shortly after to help bring the site to where it is today.
We're starting small, but we are passionate about making Mrs. Riley a great resource for professionals, teachers, and parents.
Developers
Ben Throop
Founder/CEO/Lead Designer & Developer
Kristin McCole M.Ed.
Co-Designer/Resident Autism Specialist
Business Development Team
John Rodenhouse
Partner
Dan Throop
Partner
Marc Krens
CFO
Folks who helped
- Nick Garofalo - Web Development/Drupal Programming
- Graham Sher - Symbol Illustrations
- Andrew MacFarland - Symbol Exporting and Tools
- Erin Elfers - Alpha Testing
- Theresa MacFarland - Alpha Testing
- Justin Lane - Alpha Testing
- Matthew Wallace, Ben Stucki, and Scot Clausing of 615Flex - Advice and Guidance
- Jon Walker - PHP Programming
- Mike Orth - Flex Programming
- Lionburger.net - Prototype Drupal Programming
Features
Here's a few things you can do.
- Upload your own Photos
- Search the ever growing library of user made cards
- Find pictures on the web
- Use our library of 3000+ symbols
- Print straight from your browser
- Work from any online computer
Users
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- Teachers
- Parents
- Autism Specialists
- Occupational Therapists
- ESL Teachers
- Montessori Teachers
- Homeschoolers
- Professors
- Researchers
- Social Workers
About Mrs. Riley
Mrs. Riley was created so professionals, teachers, and parents could collaboratively make educational materials, starting with picture cards. If you've ever made a picture card with a custom image yourself, you know that it can be tedious. We understand and after going through it ourselves for so long, we decided to wrap the entire process into a single online application.
