Oct 03 2009
Visual Schedules Why Use Them and How?
photo by woodleywonderworks on flickr
Visual schedules. I know I talk about them a lot, don’t I? There is a very good reason for that, and that is that they work. B has been using a visual schedule in her speech therapy. Her therapy time always starts with circle time and it’s not really B’s thing, so she’ll try to point to the play time picutre first. Her therapist will show her again that first it’s circle time, then story time, then table time, then playtime and finally one more circle time. It helps B to sit through circle time because she knows that play time will come and that she really likes it. After each activity, B gets to take that picture off and put it in the all done envelope.
We haven’t actually gotten to making our schedule for home. I’ve made some attempts, but haven’t gotten it right yet. The good news is that in speaking with our resource teacher, she told me she can make us one. She has all the supplies at the office and from the sounds of it, she’s a pro at making these since so many of her clients use them. When we receive ours, I’ll let you know how it’s working for us.
In the meantime, I found this great website which gives a lot of good detailied information on why to use a visual schedule and how it works. You can find it here. The information is in pdf form, so it’s very easy to print out.
As for the picture I’ve used here, it’s just an example of how visual schedules can be used. This is not the kind of schedule we are currently using at speech therapy.
