Visuals BankFREE USE OF VISUALS
Please feel free to print them, alter them, share them, and use them with your children. If you have visuals you are using that you would like to share, please email me a copy to be posted here. Categories (click to select) Communication Planning and Organizing Sensory Social Skills |
Fading Visual Prompts
When should we fade the use of visual prompts? When the child decides he no longer needs them. What would you do if someone told you you could no longer use sticky notes, your calendar, or your Blackberry? Could you make it through your day successfully? |
Why Do We Use Visuals?
* to enhance the child's understanding of what we are saying
* to provide an alternate means of processing the instruction / expectation
* to provide a message that remains there to be reviewed, unlike the passing nature of oral language
* to stand as a reminder of previously given instructions
* to fade our need to prompt verbally (as verbal prompts create the most dependence
Verbal prompts (repetitive instructions) are the hardest ones to fade, and the ones that children come to depend on most in order to comply with your instruction. Give an instruction once. If it isn't followed, help out with a gesture, a picture, or physical prompting (a nudge or hand-over-hand guidance through the response). Pair your instructions with a verbal prompt from the get-go, and fade your verbal prompt away in order to gain the most independent responding as quickly as possible.
* to enhance the child's understanding of what we are saying
* to provide an alternate means of processing the instruction / expectation
* to provide a message that remains there to be reviewed, unlike the passing nature of oral language
* to stand as a reminder of previously given instructions
* to fade our need to prompt verbally (as verbal prompts create the most dependence
Verbal prompts (repetitive instructions) are the hardest ones to fade, and the ones that children come to depend on most in order to comply with your instruction. Give an instruction once. If it isn't followed, help out with a gesture, a picture, or physical prompting (a nudge or hand-over-hand guidance through the response). Pair your instructions with a verbal prompt from the get-go, and fade your verbal prompt away in order to gain the most independent responding as quickly as possible.