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Willa
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Posted: May 13 2006 at 9:15am \| IP Logged

Aidan is going to be 7 and has cerebral palsy, some dev delays. He is becoming very interested in time sequence and wanting to know how we are spending our days. Every morning he asks questions about where we are going.

I would like to give him some easy clearcut visual way to understand things like: today we are going to baseball, tomorrow we are going to pick up his older brother in college -- that kind of thing.

Do you have some way you like to do this with kids that age? He functions as a 4yo, basically. I have heard of PECs schedules but wanted to know, if you use them, HOW you use them with your own kids.

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Posted: May 13 2006 at 1:57pm \| IP Logged

This may not be what you're looking for, but when I worked with a preschool program for children with developmental delays, we used picture schedules quite a bit. We'd print out the individual pictures and laminate each one that we needed. Then we'd make a board and put velcro dots on the board and on the back of each picture. We'd have a "to do" section and then a "finished" section. After we had completed a task, the child could then take off the picture and move it to the finished section. That seemed to be helpful for many of the children to have a visual for that activity being completed. Hope this helps. You could even have a board set up with the days of the week and put the appropriate pictures on the appropriate days. When I worked, which was 8 years ago, Boardmaker had a wonderful software program with endless amounts of pictures. I don't really know what's out there today though.

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Posted: May 13 2006 at 8:47pm \| IP Logged

Willa,

Here is one site:

http://www.dotolearn.com/

Here is another program I considered instead of Boardmaker

http://www.silverliningmm.com/

Boardmaker was only available in a school/multi-user version -- $300 for the basic program -- when I enquired years ago. Maybe that's changed.

If you work with an SLP, he or she may be able to help you by providing you with the specific pictures you need. We attach the pictures for Joseph's day onto a large, laminated piece of cardstock that has strips of velcro running vertically.

I have to run now as Joseph is driving Kristin nuts right now.

In Christ,
Deborah

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