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Visual Supports in the Classroom VIDEO
Jennifer Savner

$30.00

Learn how effective use of visual supports can help make children with autism and related pervasive developmental disorders function independently and make more sense of the sometimes confusing world around them.

The best way for most children with autism and related pervasive developmental disorders to learn is through pictures. Effective use of visual supports gives children more control over their invironment with the result that they tend to be less frustrated and therefore resort less to problem behaviors. This well-researched video, Visual Supports in the Classroom, introduces the major types of visual supports and visually based environmental supports and show their practical application in the classroom, including:

• visual schedules
• choice boards
• boundary setting
• labels
• task organizers
• activity-completion signals
  

About the Author....
Jennifer Savner, M.S., is a behavioral consultant for Shawnee Mission Public Schools, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, and has extensive teaching experience with children and youth with autism and Asperger Syndrome. Savner's clear and practical examples of the use of visual supports in the classroom setting, both with individual students and with groups, can easily be adapted by parents and families for use in the home, as well. Considering the lifelong implications of effective use of visual strategies for individuals with autism and related pervasive developmental disorders, their importance cannot be overstated.