Types of Visual Supports
This visual support combines text and images to represent the child's routines throughout the day.
a. What are visual schedules?
b. what are core boards?
Answer: What are visual schedules?
Using visual aids can help reduce this type of behavior, often seen when students feel frustrated or misunderstood.
a. What is tantruming/outbursts/disruptive behavior
b. what stimming
Answer: What is tantruming/outbursts/disruptive behavior
When introducing a new visual support, it's important to show or refer to it consistently in a natural context. This is called ____.
a. What is modeling?
b. What is hand over hand?
Answer: What is modeling?
Teachers can use this type of visual that counts down time to help students manage transitions between activities.
a. What is a song?
b. What is a timer?
Answer: What is a timer?
This type of visual support helps students to expand their sentences during activities (e.g., I feel __, I see __, I want ___)
a. What are sentence strips?
b. What are timers?
Answer: What are sentence strips
Visual schedules help students transition smoothly by reducing this common feeling associated with unexpected changes.
a. What is anxiety?
b. What is laughing?
Answer: What is anxiety?
When using visual cues and supports, it’s important to pair the visuals with this type of input to reinforce understanding.
a. What are verbal cues?
b. a. What are visual cues?
Answer: What is verbal cues?
Using a color-coded chart with visuals to signal different volume levels teaches students this classroom skill.
a. What is compliance?
b.What is volume control?
Answer: What is volume control?
This type of visual support is a physical piece of paper and displays symbols for frequently used words like "want," "go," and "stop."
a. What is a high tech AAC?
b. What is a core vocabulary board?
Answer: What is a core vocabulary board?
Visual supports are particularly beneficial in promoting this type of language skill, related to expressing wants and needs.
a. What is expressive language?
b. What is receptive language?
Answer: What is expressive language?
It’s helpful to integrate visual supports in these types of routines, which typically happen daily and have repeated steps, so students can practice consistently.
a. What are daily routines?
b. What is lunch time?
Answer: What are daily routines?
What is a symbol-based teaching tool that Norwin bought us as a resource for our staff?
Boardmaker
This type of visual support is used to help students understand and predict what activity they are doing and what they will do next. This support helps to support students routines.
a. What are first-then boards?
b. what are sentence strips?
Answer: What are first-then boards?
Visual supports improve a students understanding of language.
a. What is expressive language?
b. What is receptive language?
Answer: What is receptive language?
Should visual aids be introduced before, during or after a student is dysregulated?
What is before?
Using a “_____” with break/reward options can help students choose a desired activity to work towards or earn.
a. What is choice board?
b. What is a high tech AAC?
Answer: What is choice board?
This type of visual support uses picture symbols to help students with limited verbal abilities exchange a visual picture for an item they're requesting.
a. What is a picture exchange communication system (PECS)?
b. What is a core board?
Answer: What is a picture exchange communication system (PECS)?
Visual supports can boost student engagement and make them achieve more success in the work they're doing. Feeling ______ during an activity can increase a child's ability to complete an activity.
a. What is confident or motivated or desire?
b. What is dysregulated?
answer: What is confident or motivated or desire?
When should an AAC device be used with and accessible to a child?
a. What is everyday and throughout the day?
b. What is when a child is dysregulated and can't communicate verbally?
What is everyday and throughout the day?
Having visuals for common phrases like “raise your hand”, "Please/Thank you", or “Play Center” helps reinforce these skills.
a. What are social skills?
b. What is compliance?
Answer: What are social skills?