What visual instructions or reminder cues should be accessible to support performance of this social communication skill?
Since many of the sub-skills related to this topic are based on social communication skills, consider effective visual supports you have used when targeting other intervention topics (e.g. Greetings and Goodbye; Interrupting Others; Asking for Help; etc.).
Small visual signs can be used during role-plays to help the student practice such skills as waiting and looking before approaching, looking towards the employer when making a request, and saying “thank you” before exiting:
Checklists and other visual instructions might be used to help the student identify employees to approach. Visual cues can also be used to support the student in approaching at the right time under role-play or real conditions:
In my design of each visual support, have I considered whether the student may need visual clarity cues (added to the environmental design, communication script or scenario, to-do list, graphic organizer, social narrative, and/or video model) to highlight (label) or emphasize key features or concepts?
In role-play situations, add visual clarity cues to the environment to support the student in performing expected behaviors. For example, use tape or another physical marker to indicate to the student where he should stand when requesting an application from an employee who is standing behind a podium (e.g. hostess stand). Without this cue, is he likely to position himself on the wrong side of the podium, right next to the employee? As the student demonstrates increasing success during role-plays, fade out these extra visual cues to more closely approximate the natural environment.
In order to align this intervention topic area with the unique needs of the student, do you need to create visual instructions and reminder cues in the View2do program?
