1. Innovative and Fun
Visual Supports
Tammy Anderson
Aqua Pros Swim School

2. Visuals
• Things that you see
• I hear and I forget
I see and I remember
• Visuals help individuals understand
better to participate more successfully
• Studies have shown we all do better
with visual information vs auditory

3. Specifically who will benefit?
• Anyone with a developmental disorder
• Anyone with a attention disorder
• Anyone with a language based
difficulty
• Visual learners and thinkers

4. Types of Visuals
• Visual Strategies
• Visual Tools
• Visual Supports

5. Visual
Strategies
• We use visual strategies to help us
communicate information to individuals.
• Visual strategies help students learn
effective communication, appropriate social
interaction, and positive behavior
• One of the most important uses for visual
strategies is to give information such as
what is happening, what is not happening,
what is changing, etc
• Social stories and comic strips

6. Tools
• Visual tools help students organize
their thinking. (Schedules)
• You can create visual tools to give
students the information they need to
anticipate activities and manage
transitions.
• What is going to happen
• Manage time

7. Visual Supports
• Visual supports are used to give
choices or communicate rules.
• Provides structure
• Gives student control
• What is or is not available
• Encourages appropriate behavior
• Token economy systems

8. Strategies, Tools & Supports
Help to…
• Gain your students attention
• Understand what is being said
• Clarify communication
• Organize thinking
• Keeps your student engaged
• Reduce behaviors
• Reduce social challenges
• Helps students express themselves
• The more you can move an activity from
verbal to visual, you will have more success

9. Remember
• Communication break downs are a
major component of social and
behavior difficulties
• Improve communication will promote
positive behavior and your student will
participate appropriately

10. Tammy’s Toolbox
• Thinking that only one visual will fix
everything is like thinking a hammer is
the only tool a handyman needs in his
tool box

11. Visual Tools
• Schedule or Check list
• Choice Boards
• First-Then Boards
• Photo Sequence Boards
• Ipad
• Choice Rings

12. Schedules
First-Then & Choice Boards

13. Photo Sequence Boards

14. IPAD

15. Choice Rings

16. Token Economy System
• A token economy system rewards the
student after each correct response
• Using a token economy system will…
• Delay gratification
• Extend the students attention span
• Increase the amount of work

17. Token Economy
Visual Supports
• Poker chips
• Peg boards
• Treasure chest
• Gobble Guppies

18. Poker Chips

19. Peg Boards

20. Treasure Chest

21. Gobble Guppies

22. Other Fun Visuals
• Dice
• Plastic mirrors
• Chalk
• Underwater video

23. Dice

24. Plastic Mirror

25. Chalk

26. Underwater Video

27. Now For A Little Fun!!
10 lucky audience
members will win a prize
from
Tammy’s Toolbox
Including an underwater
video camera!