In this product preview, Sasha from TheAutismHelper.com introduces an editable visual toolkit designed to teach social interaction skills—specifically compliments and greetings—to children with special needs, especially non‑verbal or low‑verbal students. The kit consists of removable cards that can be customized with each student’s photo and name. During a morning circle or meeting, a student selects a peer’s picture, chooses a specific compliment (e.g., “Nice haircut,” “Cool new shoes,” “Nice new clothes”) or a greeting, and hands the completed card to the peer, reinforcing language around positive social exchanges. Sasha walks through detailed, step‑by‑step instructions for editing the materials, aiming to make the process easy for teachers and to encourage daily use of the visuals to develop more advanced social responses.
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Hi, this is Sasha from TheAutismHelper.com, and this is a product preview of my Complementing and Greeting Visuals for Children with Special Needs. So this product is completely editable because you'll have to be adding in your students' photos and your students' names, which is really, really fun. So a lot of times with our students who are nonverbal, who have low verbal abilities, we're really only working on requesting with pictures. We're asking them to request their food items or things around the classroom, but we really want them to engage in more advanced social social responses. Complimenting and greetings are perfect ways to do that, and this incorporates really well into a morning circle time or a morning meeting. There's very detailed instructions on how to set this up. If you're nervous about the editable portion, it really goes through every single step on how to edit this and then how to set it up. Basically, you're going to have the removable pieces here, and you're gonna have the actual— this is what the finished product will look like. So there'll be a piece that says, "You look nice today." The student will select a peer which has a photo picture on it, and then they will also answer some questions based on what color their clothing are. So you're gonna work on a lot of skills here. And then they'll hand this whole piece that says, "You look nice today, Jenny," to the person they're identifying, and the photos really help ease in that. So here's all the different pieces, and here's the base part component. So again, this is great for morning meeting, morning circle time. They can pick a different person every day to give a compliment to. Next are a few different specific compliments because when we give compliments to our peers and our friends, we give specific compliments. We say, "Cool haircut," or, "Nice new shoes." So when someone has a haircut, you can prompt your students to use this one. So real simple, there's gonna say, you know, "Nice new shoes" or "Nice haircut" on the visual, and they'll put the student's picture there and hand it to them. So, "Nice haircut, John," and they'll move the picture that says John. And give them a compliment about their haircut. The next one is about new shoes. The next one's about new clothes. And the next are the greetings. So I put all these compliment, uh, visuals into one binder, and then as the new clothes, new shoes, new haircut situations come about, we use those. And then we use this other complimenting general one on a daily basis. Next are our greeting visuals. So again, we want our kids to be saying hi to their friends. And greeting them. And some of our students who are nonverbal or low verbal might need visuals to help them. So here's an editable task that you can make. You can add in the student's name and their photos, and they can hand these to their friends to greet them each morning. So again, this was a product preview of Complementing and Greeting Visuals for Children with Special Needs by TheAutismHelper.com.
