Visual Supports

Visual Supports

Visual supports provide students with increased structure and organization in their school day and provide an opportunity to develop students ability to use time more efficiently. Visual supports also increase a students' independence, sense of responsibility, and may increase on-task behavior and productivity.

When?

• Students who have difficulty with organization

• Students who have difficulty with time management

• Students who wander off task

• Students who exhibit poor executive and decision making skills

• Students who have difficulty with unstructured time

• Students who have difficulty transitioning

How?

• Visual schedules can vary a great deal and may be more or less complex

• Use pictures, words, or objects to represent periods of the day, subjects, tasks and transitions

• The schedule may be placed in a central location for the entire class or for individual schedules, on the student’s desk/bookshelf/binder

• Some schedules may have movable images and graphic or visual elements that can be moved from a “start” side to a “finish” side

• Other schedules may be more static without moving visual elements, but instead be laminated so a dry erase marker can be used on them to check each task, or a page that is copied with a new schedule to write on each day

Visual Supports

Note: You need the BoardMaker disc in the CD/DVD Rom Drive to use the BoardMaker files below.

Apps

• This For That Visual Scheduler: Allows user to customize all steps to the schedule and rewards by taking pictures - free

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