Visual Schedules and Autism Ranking:

Audience

Visual schedules were originally developed for use with autistic children. According to Banda and Grimmett (2008), there are several reasons why visual schedules may be especially helpful to autistic people.

“Individuals with autism may have difficulty processing auditory information, instead responding to visual input as their primary source of information. Also, they often prefer objects over people, and when observing another person they tend to focus on physical features rather than attending to the person as a whole. Visual support systems may prompt students with autism to perform a specific action, anything from the next step in a sequenced activity to transitioning to the next class in their schedule. In addition, visual systems may provide predictability and concrete steps that need to be completed within a daily schedule (e.g., classroom transitions) or within a single activity (e.g., brushing).”

Updated

17 Jun 2022

Last Review

01 Nov 2017

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