VOISS is an evidence-based tool that helps students build social skills in simulated environments that are specifically designed to help educators support their students' progress toward IEP goals related to social skills development. Because students can play VOISS independently, you can spend more time monitoring and guiding their progress while VOISS does the work of modeling these critical social skills and allowing students to learn them through practice.
Our research-backed platform can be used independently by your students or side-by-side with your direct instruction to help your students build confidence for applying these skills to their real-world interactions.
Scale Your Capacity To Support Students.
A Tool You Can Trust
VOISS was developed through more than a decade of research at the #1-ranked public special education program at the University of Kansas, and has been tested with more than 3,000 students and 300 teachers in real-world settings.
The platform provides a fun, interactive digital environment with built-in reporting and assessment tools that show you real data about how your students are progressing and where they have opportunities for improvement.
VOISS is a closed, structured environment, which can be used without any kind of wifi connection. There are no chat features and no social media access, which allows your students to focus their attention in our safe, distraction-free learning environment that has been specifically designed to help them learn.
Support Your Students' Goals Without Adding to Your Workload
VOISS requires no training for your students to use, which means they can get started using it right away. It can be downloaded and used right away on your existing devices, with no additional setup required. Students can explore our huge library of scenarios or work toward learning goals you set for them.
The VOISS Admin Module is where you log in and use simple tools to assess each student's social skills in order to determine their unique learning paths, while you monitor their progress, guide their development and explore the research-backed content our researchers have created for you to help your students generalize the skills they learn so they can apply them to their lives.
Building Sustainable Social Communication Programs in Schools
Increasingly, educators and special education departments are being asked to support more students without increasing the number of qualified staff members. By using research-backed tools that allow educators to guide and supervise student play without requiring educator availability during every minute of play, special education departments can utilize human-centered technology to provide personalized social communication learning support for all students, despite these constraints.
Hear From Co-Founder Amber Rowland
Amber Rowland explains why traditional social skills instruction can be difficult to scale and how VOISS was designed to address those constraints. Drawing on 13 years of research, she shares how extended reality, 180 targeted social skills, and coordinated progress tracking can help students practice independently while giving educators more capacity to support them.
Hear From Co-Founder Sean Smith, Ph.D.
Sean Smith explores how technology can better support struggling learners and students with disabilities, particularly in developing the social skills that shape success in school and beyond. Drawing on decades of research, he shares how VOISS uses realistic virtual environments, independent practice, and built-in progress reporting to personalize learning while giving educators more capacity to respond to individual student needs.
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Hear From Co-Principal Investigator
Dr. Maggie Mosher
Dr. Maggie Mosher explains what qualifies social skills instruction as evidence-based, why that standard matters for students with disabilities, and how VOISS combines research-backed practices with extended reality and AI to deliver effective instruction at scale.