In this video, Gina from The Autism Helper demonstrates the WH Question Boom Card bundle, which includes two sets of digital flashcards designed to teach who, what, and where questions to autistic learners. She first shows the set that pairs a sentence with a question prompt and visual answer choices, explaining how the built‑in hint (the sentence) can be used to scaffold student responses and how teachers can prompt, correct, and repeat the answer until the student says the target word. Next, she presents the set that contains only a question prompt with visual answer options, illustrating how to use multiple‑choice cards (e.g., “Who helps people when they are sick?”) and how to hide or skip choices to match a student’s level. Throughout, Gina offers practical instructional strategies—repeating prompts, using corrective feedback, and gradually moving from receptive labeling to expressive WH questioning—while emphasizing the need to differentiate the cards based on each learner’s skill level.
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Hi everyone, this is Gina from The Autism Helper. As promised, I'm on my WH soapbox right now, and I love that The Autism Helper has Who, What, and Where Boom Cards. Obviously you can get these separate too, but I figured I would just show you the bundle. Definitely worth it. Um, I love that it comes with 2 different sets. There's one set that has a sentence and a question prompt with visual responses, and then there's one that just has a question prompt with visual responses. So I'll show you the difference. Very, very cool. So here's the one with a prompt and a question in it and the kind of like a hint.
The chef made pasta. Who made pasta?
So it gives you a hint of who made the pasta. And then of course if you're working with a student and they give the incorrect answer or they just repeat you, you just say— so for example, the chef made pasta. Who made pasta? And say they they repeat "who made pasta" or "pasta" or give an answer that's not correct, you say "say chef" and then you can reiterate and they say "chef" and you say "who made the pasta?" They say "chef." If they say it incorrectly wrong again, just prompt them again to repeat the correct answer and then you can go through it. So there's the chef.
The construction worker built a road.
"Who built a road?" So same thing with that. Now the other one has no prompt and it's just a question. So, "Who helps people when they are sick?" So a doctor, a basketball player, or a king, and you can help them with the choices and then obviously they would say the doctor. So it doesn't have the prompt up here. "Who helps animals when they are sick?" And you could always cover up one of the choices. You can skip it. You can hide a card if it's too advanced for your student where they're at and so on. So just a little preview of these Boom Cards to help go along with. They are a little bit harder, you know, just in general. So just making sure that your student can label things either receptively or expressively first, and then think about those WH task cards that I showed you with the pictures and the categories. And then these can come a little bit later, but of course you want to always continue working and exposing kids to these skills. So enjoy!
