Visual Supports for People with Autismhelps parents and educators incorporate visual aids that help make abstract concepts concrete.
Improve academic performance, behavior, interaction with others and self-help skills- from fostering social interaction by using a graphic organizer of conversational talking points to learning to put away toys from video modeling.
Presents strategies for using visual supports to address language, memory, temporal sequential skills, attention, motivation and social skills.
Features visual supports that are low-tech and easy-to-use, making it simple for parents and professionals to create their own supports.
Includes an abundance of examples, illustrated by dozens of black-and-white and color photos:
- Activity schedules
- Calendars
- Charts
- Checklists
- Color coding
- Flip books
- Graphic organizers
- Mnemonics
- Nametags
- Photo boards
- Power Cards
- Scripts
- Social Stories
- To-do lists
- Video modeling
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 The Features of a Good Visual Support
Chapter 2 Some Commonly Used Visual Supports: A Primer
Chapter 3 How Visual Supports Can Help with the Development of Language
Chapter 4 Using Visual Supports to Increase Memory: The Who, What, Where, Why and How
Chapter 5 Temporal Sequential Skills
Chapter 6 Using Visual Supports to Increase Attending
Chapter 7 Using Visual Supports to Increase Motivation
Chapter 8 Using Visual Supports to Increase Social Skills
Chapter 9 Strategies for Fading Visual Supports
Chapter 10 An Example of the Use of Visual Supports to Increase Opportunities
Includes 226 pages, success stories, more than 140 visual supports and makes recommendations for the best materials and design concepts for use when making visual supports.
