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Three of the six ways to incorporate visual supports
What are:
• organize the student’s activity—daily schedules, mini-schedules,
activity checklists, calendars, choice boards
• provide directions or instructions for the student—visual display
of classroom assignments, file cards with directions for specific
tasks and activities, pictographs and written instructions for
learning new information
• assist the student in understanding the organization of the environment—
labelling of objects, containers, signs, lists, charts,
and messages
• support appropriate behaviour—posted rules and
representations to signal steps of routines
• teach social skills—pictorial representations of social stories
depicting a social situation with the social cues and appropriate
responses, developed for a specific situation for the individual
student (for further information on social stories, see the section
in this chapter on strategies for teaching social skills)
• teach self-control—pictographs, which provide a cue for
behaviour expectations