Visual schedules are a great way to help students manage their school day and see what is coming next. Free flip schedule template only at Mrs. D's Corner.

Token boards and visuals are MUST-HAVES when working with kids with autism. This free download will help you get started.

Visual schedules promote independence by allowing students to know the sequence of the day’s events. Here are 5 types of visual schedules commonly found in a special education classroom.

Want to give your students some tech time? Try these six must-have apps for special ed to help teach as they have fun!

I have gotten SO many emails and questions about Smarty Symbols lately! I am so excited to share with you all my new love! Smarty symbols is a web based program much like Boardmaker, except I feel as though they are more up with the times. Depending what CD you have, Boardmaker can be tedious, […]

A visual schedule uses pictures to communicate upcoming activities and task for students. Many students benefit from the use of a visual schedule, because it provides structure. Visual schedules are easy to use and modify to meet the needs of many children. They are helpful with preparing students for transitions, upcoming activities, and changes to ... Read More about Using a Visual Schedule

Let’s talk about creating and using tactile schedules in the classroom. If you have a Teacher of the Visually Impaired that works with you, they may provide you with a kit or schedule pieces from the library of the blind. Here is a link to my local library. Check with your state and see if you […]

Visual schedules are a great way to help students manage their school day and see what is coming next. Free flip schedule template only at Mrs. D's Corner.

The amount of visual supports some of our students need to be successful both academically and socially can be overwhelming. Just imagine, if it’s overwhelming to us as teachers, it has to be way too much for our students who struggle with executive functioning skills, like organization, to handle! I’ve found that once we’ve introduced ... Read More about Setting Up a Student Success Binder

First then visuals are great for helping students understand what needs to be done and what they can receive for doing it. Get a free board in this post.

We live on visuals in the special ed world. You want to use them all the time, but how?Here are 5 steps to becoming a master at using visuals daily!

Are you using visual schedules in your special education classroom? Choosing the right type of visual can make or break a student.

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Social stories can be a very visual and concrete way to teach students social skills. Some students naturally understand social expectations and ways to behave, and others need more explicit teaching. In my opinion, social stories do the explicit teaching when done correctly. Students need to be able to easily understand the social skill that ... Read More about Using Social Stories to Teach Social Skills and Appropriate Ways to Behave

Specials are a challenging time for students in special education where they may breakdown. Let's talk about how to support students during specials!

I teach a 1st through 4th self-contained, mod/severe, special day class. I am going to highlight some of the key elements in my classroom.

If a student is unable to play with toys during structured leisure time independently, play supports are a great strategy.

This visual choice board is a simple social emotional learning resource for your special education or inclusion classroom. Providing a student with this file folder visual support may allow him to express his needs without having to find the words. While this visual was designed for students with autism, it can be beneficial for any struggling students. Even verbal students can have trouble retrieving the words or articulating what they need. Offering this simple visual can aid a student in saying "I feel confused. I need help" or "I feel frustrated. I need a break." Contents: 6 pages of feelings cards 15 feelings in a variety of image options 1 page of needs Sentence starters File folder labels Prep instructions Suggestions for use This is not meant to be a choice board for 'wants' which is why toys, computer, iPad etc is not provided. Rather this is a support to use when a student is struggling, overstimulated, frustrated, overwhelmed, sick, upset, tired, confused etc. Teachers, paras, aides and therapists who have built a relationship with a student can often guess what the student feels and needs in these moments. However, responding to an outburst, problem behavior or refusal with what they are likely looking for reinforces an improper way to request those things. This visual support can help students learn to ask appropriately! ⭐ Teachers like you love this resource ⭐ This resource was a great addition to the communication support I use for my students. I was able to choose a few options at a time for them to choose from and the product comes with many pictures for wants/needs. I love this resource! This has been super helpful with SEL learning and helping kiddos identify what they need and avoiding meltdown. It was easy to put together and it has been a great addition to my classroom! This has been great for my non-verbal and limited verbal to express their needs! The choices are great and it makes a perfect connection between feelings and needs. As we move toward more and more SEL practices, this resource is great at helping students identify how they are feeling and what they can do to help themselves. Other Visual Supports to transform your classroom Behavior Management Flip Book Behavior Management: Self-Calming Book and Choice Board Visual Schedules Bundle Art Visuals and Schedules Music Visuals and Schedules PE Visuals and Schedules Stay up to date! Click here to follow my store and be the first to know about new product releases. Thanks for stopping by!

The amount of visual supports some of our students need to be successful both academically and socially can be overwhelming. Just imagine, if it’s overwhelming to us as teachers, it has to be way too much for our students who struggle with executive functioning skills, like organization, to handle! I’ve found that once we’ve introduced ... Read More about Setting Up a Student Success Binder

This is a simple visual that shows students how to get a teacher's attention appropriately. It gives options since depending on the classroom scenario different ways can be appropriate. This activity was created with special education students in mind who are working on pragmatics (social language s...

First then visuals are great for helping students understand what needs to be done and what they can receive for doing it. Get a free board in this post.

Do your students struggle to show that they are able to comprehend what they have read? Being able to demonstrate comprehension is a vital life skill. Here is how we target reading comprehension in my self-contained special education classroom. Many of my students have language based disabilities. The more words (spoken or written), the more ... Read More about Functional Reading Comprehension Instruction In Special Ed.

This post will be great for anyone looking for ideas for including students with autism in their classroom. Students with autism and other disabilities need support to be successful in general education classrooms. Lot of visual supports and ideas with some freebies as well.

Reducing Problem Behaviour using a function based intervention. Here I combined the first and then with the three star reward token boards and came up with this Behaviour Management Tool. Everythin…

Great FREE Printables for AAC/PECS to use with students with Autism and PMLD. Awesome free printable communication boards for special ed.

Using texture with my students is a very important step in their learning. Texture makes work interesting and helps with sensory needs.

Use visuals and schedules to support your special education students during art class. Set expectations and provide communication supports with art visuals!

Looking for a way to streamline your classroom management and keep you and your students on task throughout the day? A class visual schedule is a simple and very effective tool for teachers to use to support all the students in an elementary school classroom. Posting a daily visual schedule in your classroom can go […]

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I love to come up with simple, hands on crafts to meet student goals. For May- all of these crafts would make perfect for Mother's Day gifts!

Classroom schedules are one of the most difficult things a special educator has to do. See how I use schedules in my elementary AS classroom!

Episode 66 is all about how to help those students with ASD who meltdown at the tiniest change or minor event with strategies that work.

Teachers are you looking for a way to take one subject or one theme and see success with all your students? Using visual aids is a great way to personalize learning to each student. Take a look at our new blog 3 Helpful Visual Aids for Students with Learning Disabilities and make a huge difference in your students' success this year.

Behavior Management can become challenging on a daily basis, especially when you have a class full of busy little learners. So here I’ve listed a couple of strategies and decided to share the…

Want to give your students some tech time? Try these six must-have apps for special ed to help teach as they have fun!

I have been CRAZY excited to share my classroom with ya'll this year. This is my third year in this classroom, and I'm in love with how it turne ...

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Are you tired of the boring boardmaker symbols on your visual schedules? If you are like me, you want something brighter, cuter, and more accurate! This visual schedule resource for special education and autism won't disappoint. It will help you stay organized and develop a consistent routine and system that will help your students become more independent in the classroom. This huge set of visuals is full of adorable images, along with easy-to-follow directions for setting up visual schedules in the classroom. This comprehensive set includes the following: ► 103 1.5 inch pictures for visual schedules ► 103 2.0 inch pictures for visual schedules ► 103 half sheet size pictures to place at locations in the classroom and building (these are used to match the smaller pictures to, and this concept is explained in the resource) ► 103 7.5 x 2.25 images to use for a larger class visual schedule ► change cards to go on the visual schedule, with instructions for use ► "checkmark" pictures to use to prompt children to check their schedule ► first-then boards & first-then-next boards (with information about how to use them) ► blank horizontal & vertical visual schedule templates ► photos of portable visual schedules to use in the general ed classroom ► list of supplies (with links) needed to assemble your own visual schedules Pictures included in this resource: Adapted Phy-ed, After School Care, Art, Assembly, Backpack, Ball Pit, Bathroom, Blue Table, Book Area, Break, Breakfast, Brown Table, Brush Teeth, Bus, Cafeteria, Calendar, Car, Carpet Time, Change, Choice, Circle Time, Class Party, Classroom, Clean Up, Coloring, Computer Lab, Cooking, Craft, Desk Work, Earthquake Drill, Fidget Toys, Field Trip, Fire Drill, Games, Green Table, Group Time, Gym, Hallway, Hang Up, Home, Independent Work, Library, Line Up, Listening Center, Literacy Stations, Lunch, Math, Medicine, Message, Morning Meeting, Morning Work, Music, Nurse’s Office, OT, Office, Orange Table, PECS Book, PT, Partner Work, Pink Table, Play, Play Area, Playdough, Playground, Purple Table, Puzzle, Reading, Red Table, Resource Room, Rest Time, School, Science, Sensory Bin, Sensory Room, Sensory Table, Sharing Time, Small Group, Snack, Social Studies, Speech Therapy, Spelling, Story, Swing, Table Work, Tablet, Task Boxes, Teacher Time, Tornado Drill, Trampoline, Walk, Wash Hands, Weather, Whiteboard, Writing, Yellow Table, Yoga Also, this free guide can help you determine which language skills to target with your child or students. Check it out! If you like this visual schedule resource for special education and autism, check out these other activities geared toward little learners with autism: ⭐ Visual Communication Book - Nonverbal Autism ⭐️ Preschool Self Regulation Activities ⭐️ Autism & Toilet Training ⭐️ One Step Directions ⭐️ Common Toddler Vocabulary ⭐️ Preschool Language Concepts © Autism Little Learners 2021 Connect with me on: Autism Little Learners Website Facebook Pinterest Instagram

We can use switches for communication (like recordable switches) and we can use them to access items with wired or wireless switches.

Great FREE Printables for AAC/PECS to use with students with Autism and PMLD. Awesome free printable communication boards for special ed.