Visual Supports
This visual support tool can be made up of images or words to help a student know what is happening during a school day.
What is a visual schedule?
I have trouble following directions and understanding words.
What are receptive language skills needs?
This app allows me to create a digital schedule, but also has SEL support such social stories.
What is choiceworks?
This feature lets you type words as you say them.
What is speech to text?
The main board on a no-tech tool and a high tech tool consists of high-frequency words that make up most of of the words used in our everyday communication.
What is core vocabulary?
This visual support helps a learner know how to do something from start to finish, like washing hands.
What is a task strip or task analysis?
I have trouble using my words to express my wants and needs.
What is expressive language skill?
A virtual dollhouse-style app that supports pretend play and language.
What is my play home?
This feature reads digital text out loud for students who struggle with reading.
What is text to speech?
This is what AAC stands for.
What is Augmentative and Alternative Communication?
This visual support is used often to help a child complete a work task before doing a preferred task.
What is a first-then board?
I have difficulty knowing how to label my feelings before hurting and also how to interpret the feelings of others.
What is social-emotional learning?
An app that can also be played on the web helps learns understand the sound-letter connection with fun monsters.
What is teach your monster to read?
This program is an example of speech to text and text to speech that is often used in schools as part of SEA laptops or chromebooks to support students with a learning disability or fine motor deficits impacting writing.
What is read and write for google (Can also be a microsoft talk and type)?
This essential AAC strategy involves speaking and pointing to symbols at the same time to show how communication works.
What is modeling (also called aided language stimulation)?
This visual support is created to either learn a new event or to extinguish a socially inappropriate behaviour.
What is a social narrative?
I have trouble using the small muscles in my hands to do precise tasks like using a zipper and writing with a pencil.
What are fine motor needs?
An app that builds vocabulary. It can have learners do a variety of tasks like flashcards, quizzes, match up and more.
What is bitsboard?
These colored tools help students find and organize information by category or topic. It can teach learners to pay attention to important details in text.
What are the highlighter tools?
This picture-based system teaches communication through exchanging images to make requests. These requesets primarily consist of objects or actions that the student wants.
What is PECs?
This visual support tool can often be seen on the lanyard of an EA. It is a series of images that are used to help learners know what is expected in the classroom setting.
What is a behaviour support ring.
I have difficulty focusing my attention, keeping my body calm and thinking through my choices with being impulsive.
What are self-regulation needs? (can be diagnosed ADHD)
These high tech apps used to augment communication skills.
What is TD Snap and GoTalkNow? Proloquo2go, Touchchat
This feature suggests words as you type to help with spelling and sentence building.
What is word prediction?
Graphic organizers help support students who struggle with planning and organizing their thoughts, in other words they struggle with this skill.
What is executive functioning?