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How to Use Visual Aids to Help Teach Students With Moderate to Severe Disabilities :How to Use Visual Aids to Help Teach Students With Moderate to Severe Disabilities Holly Livingston
SPED 501
Azusa Pacific University
Organize the Student’s Activities :Organize the Student’s Activities Daily schedules
Mini-schedules
Organize the Student’s Activities :Organize the Student’s Activities Activity checklists
Organize the Student’s Activities :Organize the Student’s Activities Calendars
Choice boards
Provide Instructions for the Student :Provide Instructions for the Student Visual display of classroom assignments
File cards
Enhance Daily Lessons :Enhance Daily Lessons Real objects
Photographs
Colored pictures
Enhance Daily Lessons :Enhance Daily Lessons Black and white pictures
Line drawings
Diagrams
Symbols
Labeling Items :Labeling Items Containers with various items
Signs
Labeling Items :Labeling Items Lists
Charts
Messages
Encourage Appropriate Behavior and Social Skills :Encourage Appropriate Behavior and Social Skills Rules and routines
Encourage Appropriate Behavior and Social Skills :Encourage Appropriate Behavior and Social Skills Pictorial representations of social stories
Encourage Appropriate Behavior and Social Skills :Encourage Appropriate Behavior and Social Skills Cues for behavior expectations
Teaching Communication Skills :Teaching Communication Skills Picture communication boards
Making requests using graphic symbols
Teaching Communication Skills :Teaching Communication Skills “Board/Maker for Windows”
(Mayer-Johnson, inc., 1998)
Teaching Communication Skills :Teaching Communication Skills “Writing With Symbols 2000” (Mayer-Johnson, inc., 1999)
Teaching Communication Skills :Teaching Communication Skills “Picture Exchange Communication System” (PECS)
Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) :Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) Students exchange single pictures for items or activities they really want.
Students generalize this new skill by using it in different places, with different people and across distances.
Students select from two or more pictures to ask for their favorite things. These are placed in a communication book.
Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) :Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) 4. Students construct simple sentences on a detachable sentence strip using an “I want” picture followed by a picture of the item being requested.
Picture Reading :Picture Reading Pairing pictures with text
Student associates each word with a picture or symbol
Learns to read
on his/her own
Picture-Word Booklets :Picture-Word Booklets Guides student through daily tasks
Teaches cooking with recipes
Teaches multiple-step housekeeping chores
Other daily living skills
Promotes self-determination
Increases independence in vocational settings
References :References Autism/picture exchange communication system (PECS) for children. Retrieved from http://autism.healingthresholds.com
(2009). Picture Exchange Communication System. Wikipedia. Retrieved (2009, October 16) from http://en.wikipedia.org
Slater, J.M. Increasing literacy skills in students with disabilities: a pictorial approach.
References :References Snell, M.E., & Brown, F. (2006). Instruction of Students with Severe Disabilities. New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc..
(2000). Teaching Students With Autism. A resource guide for schools. Retrieved (2009, October 16)