Sasha from theautismhelper.com shows a Teachers Pay Teachers packet of classroom visuals for autistic students: laminated request cards, area labels, rule sheets, and behavior cues that attach with Velcro. The visuals help non-verbal learners navigate routines independently and reduce anxiety during transitions.
Hi, this is Sasha from theautismhelper.com, and this is a product preview of Visuals for an Autism Classroom. So this packet kind of contains all different kinds of visuals that I use around my classroom and is the main— are the main things I go back to every day. So there's a list of everything that I have in here. So this is in the product preview when you download it on Teachers Pay Teachers, so you can see exactly what's in here and if these are visuals that would be useful for your classroom. Um, These bathroom and water visuals and the "I want help" ones are ones that I actually keep on the back of my door Velcroed. The water and bathroom ones are so key, 'cause for those kids that can't talk, when they're walking out the door, they might not be able to explain where they're going, but they can easily hand this picture of "I want the bathroom" or "I want a drink of water." This can help solve a lot of behavior problems and ease some anxiety about those types of transitions. These are some common, visuals that I keep around the room that I— you— I like to keep these Velcroed also so I can pull them off to use with kids who have lower receptive language that might not understand what I'm explaining to them, so I can show them exactly what to be doing. These visuals are labels that I label in my break area for all the different toys, and this is so kids can clean up by themselves, which is super important. And I have the same ones for art supplies, so I label all the different bins with exactly what's in them. So when I ask kids to go get markers or pencils, even if they don't exactly understand which bin it is in, they know the visual on there and they can also clean up by themselves too. So it's just kind of making everyone more independent. These are all other common visuals that you might want to label around your classroom: kitchen items, backpacks, coats, library, things like that. So this is just to increase vocabulary. Be seeing those words paired with the picture is really important for our students. I keep these rules by the computer and I have them on a base. So I laminate this whole page, put two pieces of hard Velcro in these boxes, and then put these rules Velcroed on here. So that way they're posted by the computer area, but I could also pull them off when I need to use them with a student. Also, the students can pull these off when they need to speak to me. If they want headphones, instead of rummaging around my desk, they can pull off this visual of "I want headphones" and hand it right to me. So there's no behavior problems regarding the computer as well. These are some labels to label different areas of your classroom. Sensory area, break area, kitchen, library, play area, computer, teacher desk, closet. And then here are some big visuals that I like to have velcroed and laminated and velcroed around the classroom that I can use with groups of students at a time. So, be quiet, do not leave room. I put this on the back of my door because I've had some runners. Sit and wait, another sit and wait, stand and wait, stop, and then two different timeout ones. If you are going to be using a timeout system, these are great to have. By the doorway or by whichever area of the room you're having. The small one you can use to hand to a student when they've received a timeout. So yeah, these are all the different visuals. If there's something that's a little bit off or you have a different verbiage, I'm— I'd be happy to make that for you. Once you buy this, you can just shoot me an email of switching something up a little bit. And this was a product preview of visuals for an autism classroom by theautismhelper.com.
