Visual Schedule

This semester I've had a severely autistic client and he needed a visual schedule to not only keep on task, but to see how much longer we had in therapy. The wall in our therapy rooms in the college are covered in carpet, so I just backed the visual schedule cards with Velcro, and took them off when the task was completed.

His reward was to play on his iPod for two minutes, and that particular incentive worked for him. Some kids might work hard for a piece of candy or for a sticker. I think the reason this system works so well is because the child has a visual to see what needs to get done and what is already done. Also a visual does not go away like words do, therefore is harder to forget!