Teachers and children with autism seem to respond well to the use of computers in the classroom to make and show visual schedules.

The authors suggest that the visual schedules be printed out so that students can have them in a notebook and find them easily. At first it may be hard for teachers to learn to use the PowerPoint(TM) program on the computer, but with practice it should save them time making visual schedules. Computers can also provide video models that show the child over and over how to do something. Children seemed to do as good a job generalizing (repeating the action in many settings) from computers as they do from notebooks and live people models. The authors point out that computers do cost a lot and they can break easily.