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visual timers + first-then tools for hard transitions
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items picks pulled from nhs speech therapy + ot visual support guides, the raising children network (which rates visual supports as “established”) and beyondautism. the big ideas are simple: show what's first and what comes next, make time something you ca...
this is the first / then / next setup the leicestershire nhs speech therapy guide walks through, already made: laminated board, hook velcro, 8 cards + a pouch. the cards are real photos, not drawn symbols. handmade by a small shop, this listing has 0...
First Then Next Visual Schedule Board
the cheap way in. a pdf you print at home: 5 first / then boards, 5 now / next boards, a token board and 60 picture icons. now / next boards are one of the tools in the beyondautism guide. you'll need to laminate it and add velcro dots yourself (both...
Printable First Then + Token Board Set
for when one first / then isn't enough. three laminated strips (morning, afternoon, evening) with hook + loop coins and 90 cartoon picture cards, the same kind of strip timetable the oxford health nhs visual supports guide describes. you take each ca...
3 Visual Schedule Boards + 90 Picture Cards
a printable picture-card schedule: a “my daily routine” board plus a big set of cards for home and school (the title says 250+, the listing photos say 150+, so expect somewhere in there). the raising children network describes this kind of picture sc...
Printable Daily Visual Schedule Cards
choice boards are on the raising children network's list of visual supports, and the oxford health nhs guide uses symbols for choices too. this one is a printable “my choices” board with an “i want ___” strip and 192 small labeled picture cards. you ...
Printable Choice Board + 192 Picture Cards
a wooden picture checklist for day and night routines, the kind of thing the raising children network describes where a child ticks each step off. 10 tabs flip over to show a star when a step is done. ages 3 to 6. honest catch from reviewers: the tas...
Melissa & Doug My Daily Day and Night Routines Chart
a magnetic weekly chart for older kids who are ready for a bigger picture than first / then. heads up: the chore magnets lean on words, not big picture symbols, so it suits early readers more than kids still learning letters. there's dry erase space ...
Melissa & Doug Magnetic Responsibility Chart
a routine tracker and a timer in one, so the steps and the countdown sit side by side. you stick the routine stickers onto the tracker in your own order, and the little moon pops off as a visual timer (1, 2, 5, 10 or 15 minutes). flags: it lights up,...
Learning Resources Bedtime Routines Visual Timer
visual timers are on both the raising children network and beyondautism lists. on this one the colored disk shrinks as time runs out, so “5 more minutes” becomes something you can see. it runs silently, with an optional beep you can turn off. takes 1...
Time Timer MOD 10 Minute Visual Timer
beyondautism lists sand timers as a simple way to show time passing, and there's nothing to tick, beep or light up here. this one is big and chunky, plastic with rubber caps, one minute. no reviews yet on target, so i'm going on the listing and the b...
hand2mind 1 Minute Jumbo Sand Timer
not a timer, but beyondautism suggests this trick: build a lego tower and take one block off as time passes, so a child can see how much is left. duplo is the bigger brick size, rated 18 months and up. 65 pieces, and they work for regular play too. 4...
LEGO DUPLO Classic Brick Box 10913
the unglamorous one that makes the printables on this board work. the oxford health nhs guide uses laminated strips for visual timetables. this is a thermal laminator, so the listing's 3 to 5 minute warm-up is it heating up. it takes items up to 9 in...
Scotch TL902 Thermal Laminator
refills for the laminator above. 65 letter-size pouches, 3 mil, which scotch pitches as the everyday thickness (5 mil is the stiffer one). enough to laminate a lot of cards and redo the ones that go missing. 4.8 from 366 reviews.
Scotch Thermal Laminating Pouches, 65 ct
the other half of every diy board here. the oxford health nhs guide uses velcro on its visual timetable strips so picture cards can go on and come off as the day moves along (the leicestershire guide uses blu tack, which works too). 75 sets of 5/8 in...
VELCRO Brand Sticky Back Dots, 75 ct
the raising children network mentions schedules for the whole week, not just the day. this is a plain magnetic dry erase weekly board, 16 x 16 inches with a wood-look frame, and it comes with a magnetic marker and one magnet. it isn't made for kids, ...
U Brands Magnetic Dry Erase Weekly Board, 16 x 16