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Visual Supports for Students with Learning Challenges

3.0 Hours
99
Video

Course Description

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This course inspires us to use more and different visual supports. Visual supports are things we see that enhance our organizational skills, self-regulation, expressive and receptive communication, and ability to understand activity demands in the dynamic environments of school, home and community. Visual supports can be objects, printed words, pictures, body language, or environmental clues. Through concrete examples and lecture this practical course will share ideas about printed words, pictures, and objects that you can use with your students to support their learning and participation in all environments. Explore over 75 do it tomorrow ideas for incorporating the use of objects, pictures, icons, graphic organizers, visual bridges, task checklists, transition supports and schedules in a variety of settings to meet a variety of student needs. Walk away with a list of free resources to expand your visual supports.


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Objective

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

1
Identify visual supports to use for seven areas that challenge students with deficits in communication, social, self-regulation and behavioral skills.
2
Discuss how to adapt visual supports for varied school and home environments.
3
List the steps to determining appropriate visual supports matched to student ability.

About Presenters

Lorraine Maida

MA, CCC-SLP

Lorraine Maida has worked in the educational field for over 30 years. Her experience spans a broad range of roles including Speech Pathologist, special education teacher, administrator, university instructor and educational consultant. She has worked with students and developed programming for all ages and abilities. Lorraine has been invited to provide hundreds of training opportunities at local, state and national venues related to provision of educational services in schools. She is currently working as a public school SLP, a seminar provider and education consultant. She is also adjunct faculty for Central Washington University and a guest lecturer in the Department of Communication Disorders at the University of Washington.

Additional Information

Speechtherapypd.com
Intermediate Level
0.30 ASHA CEUs

ASHA CE Provider approval and use of the Brand Block does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products or clinical procedures.

Course Timeline

Timeline
Course Timeline
10 min: Introduction: What are Visual Supports? Who are they? What do they do?
30 min: Designing Schedules and Mini-schedules  and avoiding the Pitfalls
10 min: Functional use of Calendars as a Communication Tool
15 min: Choice Board Use across the Day
15 min: Creating portability when needed
10 min: Creating flexible/dynamic supports and easy access storage
20 min: Transition Supports for self-regulating movement between locations
10 min: People Locator supports for home and school Templates and work systems
10 min: Templates and work systems
10 min: Visually supporting behavioral skills and classroom rules
10 min: Visually supporting social skill instruction
30 min: Closing Summary/ Questions and Answers

Course Disclosure

The content of this course is based on the research and experience of the presenter. You are responsible to do your own research to determine if the information and skills taught are appropriate for your clients/students/patients.
Disclosure Statement for Lorraine Maida
Financial Lorraine Maida received compensation for this presentation from SpeechTherapyPD.com.
Nonfinancial No relevant non-financial relationships exist.

Lorraine Maida

MA, CCC-SLP

Included In:
Audio Basic Professional

Purchase this course for $69.99