I just made up a list for my daughter and put it on her bedroom door....her get up routine and bedtime routine, she can read and understands the routine pretty well....if your child doesn't read yet you could just draw pictures....everyone get your crayons at ready....

Here's one thing my mother did for me... take pictures w/ a digital camera, type in 1" or however many inch squares you want and paste them and then size them down to the size of the square or however big you want them. You don't have to use squares if you have the idea just by looking at the screen. It usually doesn't actually take too long. Just put pics on a notecard so they are more hard and not so floppy. Then laminate or have a place do it when you have what you need for a little while anyway...Mini schedules also help to eliminate more work than needed in some cases. Also, this site, achievementproducts.org they have tons of picture cards, $19.95
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Kris

hate to admit it, but i'm 20 and i still use them to get through school. make my own, but instead of a generic one, there is one different one on paper for each day. that way, i'm prepared for how this day will be different from others

oh, by the way- kids love to get stickers for every item on the schedule they complete, you can put the sticker right next to the completed event on the schedule. never underestimate the power of stickers

Hi!

Sally, don't be ashamed... I'm 21 and I have-to use them. I even have mini schedules all over the house, just to remember to take my medicines, eat and use the bathroom from showering to brushing my teeth, to using my meds, flossing, washing my hands, etc. I just am completely lost and stressed when I can't have a schedule... I've tried to switch to word schedules but they don't work for my brain for some reason. And, for me its digital pictures or it almost gets me confused in a way. I'm thinking of adding a PECS/Word schedules to my website. Do you think that would be a good idea?

Kris

My daughter uses the schedule and it helps alot! Her Pre-K teacher made one for her and it was great. Herding, i found your website yesterday, i spent about an hour on there and plan to go again after im done here. Very nice and helpful, alot of information, i really just wanted to say THANK YOU for doing that!

your childs teacher should be able to give u any picture symbol you need. and make a communication set up for you at home. That IS there Job!
:)

or their SLP

Hi Adonia!

Thanks :) I'm really glad you liked it and I hope that it will help. Just to let you know, I added a ton of polls on the polls/questionaires page, maybe you can do it too, so we can get some percentages of what people think about each one of them! :) Also, stevensmom, yes actually my mom works in an autism classroom and they do help w/ some of that! :)

Hugs,
Kris

Hello, I get pec cards printed and laminated from my sons speech therapist.They want to try to use the same design for therapy and school so my son becomes more familiar with them.Some services will also provide you with them.its rediculos to pay the price to actually buy them can be printed of a computer.

I made one for Sean. Sean didn't like the ones that were printed from the computer, so I ran around with the digital camera taking pics of everything. I took pics of Pj, reg. clothes, toys, stores, cars, buses, school, you name it we have a pic of it. That helped Sean a lot. He needed a real visual of what was coming next. The transition issues were soooo bad for him and this helped him so much. We have since graduated to first and next cards but I found the real pictures to work best for Sean. Good Luck. Hugs Denise

I never done pecs with my son personally. But yea just grab your digi and snap pics of what you want them to know and laminate it. It's better cause they can actually see the person/thing/place you're talking about as opposed to this generic ones

We made our own with digital pictures and/or pictures from magazines. We did laminate them and put velcro pieces on the back so that we could change the schedule if it became necessary.

Kris would get up and look at the schedule every morning.

Hugs,

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