Self management and personal organization skills can be difficult for all individuals, specifically for students with disabilities. Visual supports and picture schedules can help accommodate and spur desired behavior of students with these issues in a nonthreatening manner.
Visual schedules and supports are essentially visual to-do list. By providing students with this it gives them the expectations for what will happen during their day, and give them the ability to understand what will come later. This is comforting Research shows that through these visual prompts acting out behaviors usually decrease. Additionally, through repetition and sequence students can begin to self determine and advocate because they understand what their day will be like or how it will "flow".
The gradual release of
responsibility and these forms of AT (picture schedules and activity
sequences) can help students acquire independence and be able to advocate, which is of course what we all want for our students.
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