"Can you imagine life without your calendar, your Blackberry or iPhone? Are you a person who would have difficulty surviving without those yellow sticky notes hanging in strategic places to remind you of important things? ... You and I use visual strategies to help us manage our life routines successfully. They help us organize our thinking and remember what to do. Visual supports help us accomplish activities and obligations more completely and with less stress."
The following article gives us some input on the importance of visual supports for our students on the autism spectrum and how we can adapt these supports for students of all ages and for a variety of life experiences.
http://www.autismdigest.com/Portals/0/docs/Visual%20Strategies.pdf
