Sasha from TheAutismHelpers.com shows teachers and therapists how to send printable visual supports home so parents can use the same strategies that work in school. First-Then boards, chore lists, labeled drawers, and routine schedules help children with autism manage daily tasks and reduce anxiety.
Hi, this is Sasha from TheAutismHelpers.com, and this is a quick product preview of visuals and schedules for the home. So we use visuals and different schedule interventions in school all the time and are really successful with kids with autism and special needs. We should be using those same strategies in the home, and as teachers and therapists, it's our job to be supporting parents and giving them these options. So if you're a teacher or a therapist, these are great things for you to be sending home with your kids, to be having in-services including your parents, and showing them how to use these very successful strategies in the home environment as well. The more we are all on the same page and using consistent strategies, the better it's going to be for everyone involved. So included in this is a very lengthy description on how to set each of the, each of the resources up and how to use them. So I'll scroll through quickly the different options. So one thing we use in schools a lot are First Then. This is a great thing for the home environment as well. So there's 4 options for different chore type things and then 4 general reinforcers. So you can teach parents how to use first homework, then TV. Um, next is a home chore list. This is one I send home with my parents that they laminate on the fridge. They can either point out the things they want their kids to do or even letting their kids choose the chore they want to do. Another great resource is labeling students' dressers and closets so they know where everything goes. They can be putting away their own clothes when they see the visual and they can match it. We work on matching at school and we can work on matching at home too. This is a great one that has been really successful for some of my parents for students students that have anxiety about where their mom and their dad is, they can laminate this thing and put Velcro in each box and move the star to where each person is. So if mom's at home, you can put the star on home, but if dad's at work, you can put the work on— star on the work. So they can move the star around to show where each parent is. It can be really, really helpful. Schedules. We use schedules all the time in our classrooms, and we should be using them in the home environment too, especially in the morning when morning is crazy and everyone needs to be getting getting out the house really quickly. We want our kids to be as independent as possible. So here's a simple schedule of how to have all of our morning activities on the same type of schedule you would use in school. And then of course we need some behavior visuals at home. So maybe timeout, how to escape timeout, how to get out of timeout, you know, first be quiet, then timeout is finished. And a set of like mini behavior cards that could be put on a ring or posted throughout the house as needed. So this is a quick set that's a great ready-to-go resource. Print, laminate, and send home. That will really help your parents out and continue to support them in ways just beyond the classroom. This is a product preview of Visuals and Schedules for the Home by TheAutismHelper.com.
