Children with special needs often need extra support to follow routines. Visual support is a powerful tool we can use to provide predictability and prompting in the early childhood classroom.
Share your ideas and resources about how to support with visuals. Add a web link (image, article, video) that demonstrates your type of support.
I recall using visuals in one of the classrooms I was teaching back then it helped the little girl with Autism express what she needed or wanted and it also helped her diminish hitting other children. We were able to support her and helped the mother obtain help through Kidstart.We also sent home visuals and we laminated them and she had a set at home and at school. It was about my motivation to help her develop her skills in the classroom in a consistent environment. Here is a link to the website and all the support and services they offer at Kidstart.
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Visuals helping children with Autism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO6dc7QSQb4
All of us rely on visual supports to get us through our daily routines. They can be as small as a watch, as large as a landmark building or as common as a food-shopping list. They help to keep us focused and stay on task, and they are seen more crucial to children and young adults with disabilities to in helping them to communicate, express themselves, and live their daily lives as independently as possible. Here are some real-life examples of how children with disabilities use visual supports. In early childhood classroom teachers reinforce communication, schedules, choice making, and activities of daily routines. For instance,communication can be used as sign language or facial expression.
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Visuals and objects of reference are great, and can be used in so many ways. They are especially useful with children who have severe learning difficulties, special needs, autism or communication delay. Visuals and objects are often easier to understand for some children than spoken words. For example, pictures can work for many children with disabilities.
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A visual support that I have done with children that have disabilities first I examine their IFSP or IEP go from there and continue the activities the document suggests, it gets their interests when we do puzzles. These are the kind of puzzles I use when the home visit is conducted with the family.
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Visual support have been proven to be a great help and can be used in various ways. Visual support allows students with special needs to access and comprehend the curriculum and it will also help with the inclusion process. Visual support tools helps them to stay focus, allows them to share their thoughts, reduce anxiety, and helps them to assist with transitions. For example, using first and then strips will help the student to know what will they be doing first and what to expect to do next.
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ReplyDeleteA visual support system that I would have in my class would be flash cards. The flash cards would be pictures of are daily routines throughout the day. A visual support is good for everyone and It helps out children with Autism. Autism children have a routine daily and they will memorize their routines depending on how severe they are. I also think that flash cards will be a great help for everyone and no one is outcast by it. works for one child it should work for all.
http://www.do2learn.com/picturecards/images/morningschedule.jpg
I have used visual schedules in the past with downloaded printed cue cards,after some mentoring I replaced them with pictures of the children in my class, so that it was a more meaningful learning experience and support. I have also used pictures of the children for our classroom expectations, and super friend poster. When teaching emotional literacy and problem solving skills I believe cue cards help children make the connection in problem solving. A website I often visit for ideas to support children with special needs is Csefel.vanderbilt.edu/resources/strategies.html
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