visual supports and literacy strategies for people with disabilities in employment
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Visual supports and literacy strategies to
support people with disabilities in employment
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It all depends…
on what the
individual needs!
Barriers to employment• Learning new tasks and
processes• Problem solving• Understanding others and
expressing themselves• Concept or understanding
of time and time management
• Travelling to and from work independently
Improving transition to work
Engage interests, skills and potential
Provide structure and
support to individual and employer
Workplace adjustments• Learning small steps through repetition
• Develop a 'work buddy' system
• Use pictures and other prompts
• Provide disability awareness training
Response time
RephraseCheck
understanding
Visual supports
Explain changes in
advanceSpeak clearly
Allow time
Short questions
Things that we SEE to enhancethe communication process
Visual supports
• Sometimes verbal instructions are not enough
• Information presented visually helps some people to learn
• More concrete and stable
Why use visual supports?
• Calendars• Schedules or Checklists• Timers• Social stories• Video modelling
Types of Visual Supports
Calendars
• Remind us what is happeningShow • regular events• new activities• changes to routine
Calendars
• Software: MS Publisher, Boardmaker Studio, Boardmaker Plus, Matrix Maker
• Online: Google Calendar, Outlook, Boardmaker Online
• Apps: MemoCal plus, Activity Planner
Calendars
MemoCal Plus
Activity Planner
Schedules
• Increase understanding
• Decrease surprises, reduce anxiety and distress
• Improve behaviour
• Allow people to function more independently and feel confident
Schedules
• Software: Boardmaker Studio, Boardmaker Plus, Matrix Maker
• Online: Boardmaker Online, Visuals Engine
• Apps: FTVS HD, 30Hands, Tools2Talk
Schedules
• Cover only one activity
• Map out the steps• Allow the person
to become more independent
Mini Schedules
FTVS HD
30Hands
Go low tech
Visual Timers
• Give a visual reminder about time left for an activity
• Help with transition to a new activity• Reduce frustration• Improve independence through self
monitoring and time management• Help keep individuals focused
Visual Timers
Software: Boardmaker, Time Timer
Online: www.online-stopwatch.com, 1-click timer
Settings: In built Clock on iPad
Apps: Wait4it, Time Timer, Bang Boom BuzzerVisual Timer HD
Visual Timers
Low tech
Social Stories
Visual, video, photo stories created for specific learning of
specific behaviours
Originally developed by Carol Gray www.thegraycentre.org
Social Stories
Teaching a required social skill
Prepare for new events and experiences
Teach a positive behaviour
Teach a new skill
Let's be socialApps by Touch Autism - shopping- compliments- turn taker- using money and saving- manners
Apps with readymade stories
PictelloBook CreatorStrip Designer
Sonic PicsPixnTell30Hands
Apps for creating stories
Book Creator
Video Modelling
Models target skills
Desirable behaviours are learned by watching a
video & imitating
Videos of others
Video self-monitoringPoint of view modelling
Online: WeVideo App (edit), Screencastify(recording)
Apps: iMovie, Aurasma, Capture
Video Modelling
iMovie
Aurasma
Settings: Speak SelectionSymbol Support
Widget GO
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