Innovations in Visual Supports Interventions

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Sponsored by NTACT, Kathleen Zimmerman, KU, will explain and provide examples of innovations in visual support interventions to promote engagement in school, employment, and community settings for youth with disabilities. Find out how to select and create visual support interventions tailored to the needs of the individuals and settings in which you work. Come prepared with questions about how to implement and flexibly use visual supports in meaningful ways to promote engagement and independence for a variety of youth with disabilities!

LIVE EVENT: October 10, 2019 Recording available
ONLINE CHAT: October 10-October 24, 2019

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8 Comments on "Innovations in Visual Supports Interventions"

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Allison Unruh

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I just added a Decision Diagram for selecting Visual Supports. Try to use this in the next week and come back and tell us how it went!

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“How can we best support community partners to use visual supports more consistently?”
Katie, I thought this was a really interesting question from registration. Any thoughts?

Kathleen Zimmerman

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In my personal experience, lack of fidelity in implementing visual supports typically occurs for three reasons: (1) the partner does not know how to create visual supports the individual would need, (2) the partner does not know how to teach or prompt visual support use with the individual, or (3) the frequency or intensity of visual support use isn’t clear to the partner (e.g., we’ve made a statement that visual supports are helpful, but perhaps didn’t clarify they are needed any time an individual is asked to complete a task OR an individual needs a schedule each time you meet… Read more »

Allison Unruh

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“Are there Chromebook extensions that can be used for visual impairments?”

Kathleen Zimmerman

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I do not have specific expertise in working with students with visual impairments. However, after a brief google search, I found a magazine article about Google and Chromebook features to support students with visual impairments from the American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults in partnership with the National Organization of Parents of Blind Children. The blog can be accessed using the link provided here: https://www.nfb.org/sites/www.nfb.org/files/images/nfb/publications/fr/fr36/3/fr360308.htm Note: I do not have the content knowledge to evaluate the rigor or effectiveness of suggestions in the linked blog post, so I’d encourage you to reach out to individuals with whom you… Read more »

Allison Unruh

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“Best accommodations and supports to include in IEP’s to support visual supports?”

Kathleen Zimmerman

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Visual supports can include a large array of options (e.g., first/then boards, image to cue a student to a location, schedules within activities, schedules across activities, daily schedules, work boxes, task checklists, visuals to cue a task analysis like meal preparation). I personally ALWAYS put independently using a visual that will be accessed frequently (e.g., daily schedule) as an IEP goal to ensure explicit instruction in using the intervention as well as progress monitoring are included when first introducing the visual support. Once the student has mastered the independent use of the visual support, I move it to the accommodations… Read more »

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https://www.cdd.unm.edu/autism/pdfs/Visual%20Supports%20PHT%20Parent%20Handout.pdf
Handout for Visual Supports for Children with ASD!