Visual Supports for People with Autism: A Guide for Parents and Professionals
by Marlene J. Cohen, Donna L. Sloan and Woodbine House
Create valuable visual supports in no time!
2008 IPPY Award Winner: Bronze Medallist, Education/Academic/Teaching
Most of us use visual supports in our daily lives – for example, a shopping list, calendar, or a roadmap. Visual supports are particularly beneficial to people with autism because they help make abstract concepts concrete and capitalise on the user’s inherent visual learning strengths.
Visual Supports for People with Autism shows parents and educators how incorporating these aids while teaching can improve academic performance, behaviour, interaction with others, and self-help skills. In a friendly, conversational-style, the authors, both certified behaviour analysts, describe the deficits typical of autism – language, memory, temporal sequential skills, attention, motivation, and social skills – and present strategies to use visual supports to address those issues at school and home. This guide presents an abundance of examples, illustrated by dozens of black & white and colour photos, including:
- activity schedules
- calendars
- charts
- checklists
- colour coding
- flip books
- graphic organisers
- mnemonics
- nametags
- photo boards
- Power Cards
- scripts
- Social Stories
- to-do lists
- video modelling
Visual Supports also explains considerations such as portability, durability, preferences, age appropriateness, and effectiveness. While visual supports can enhance learning, they should, however, eventually be eliminated to avoid over-dependence on them. An entire chapter describes different ways to fade visual supports.
With this book, there’s no limit to what can be taught, from fostering social interaction by using a graphic organiser of conversational talking points to learning to put away toys from video modelling. Most of the visual supports presented in this book are low-tech and easy-to-use, making it simple for parents and professionals to create their own, suited to the needs of their students. Inspiring success stories will further motivate parents and professionals to get started.
Includes success stories, more than 140 visual supports and makes recommendations for the best materials and design concepts for use when making visual supports.
2007, 225 pages
ISBN: 978-1-890627-47-8
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Table of ContentsexpandClick to collapse
Acknowledgments
Foreword
By Jan S. Handleman
Introduction
Unlocking the Door: How Visual Supports Can Help
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
References
Resource Guide
Index
Visual Supports for People with Autism: A Guide for Parents and Professionals is designed to foster development in the areas of:
- Communication
- Resource preparation
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