Visual Supports Object Schedules.mov

In this video Scott Fox and Teri Messerschmidt demonstrate the use of object schedules.

You would use an object schedule when that child

does not yet understand that a picture represents

a specific item in his environment.

Here is an example of an object schedule,

where you use actual objects from the environment

for the child's scheduling of daily activities.

If you look through this, a child's day

might look like first blowing bubbles.

and blowing bubbles with a peer or with a therapist or teacher...

progressing to a puzzle. And here we have a farm puzzle.

Following the puzzle, it would be a book.

If you look under the book, you will see a roll of toilet paper.

That represents the bathroom. We obviously can't bring the bathroom into the schedule

but we need to have something from the environment.

Below that we have a horn, and the last thing on our schedule a shoe representing it's time

to put our shoes on and leave this environment.

Once you have determined that a child is able

to follow an objects schedule, you can then move

to a more sophisticated type of schedule

which would be using miniatures of the objects

to represent the actual concrete object.

This is an example of a miniature object schedule.

The child would take off the first item which is the bubbles

and match it to the area with the bubbles in the

classroom or whatever environment they're in.

Then the child might go to the schedule

and there's the bathroom icon. So again,

they are going to take that icon and match it

to the bathroom. And then the last in the

sequence would be the miniature book, which the

child would then take off the small book

and match it to the book area.