Research: Lights, Camera, Action! Using Engaging Computer-Cued Activity Schedules

Authored by Kimball, JW, Kinney EM, Taylor BA, and Stromer R. in TEACHING Exceptional Children, Volume 36, Issue 1, p. 40-45, (2003).

Article summary (posted Sep 14, 2006):

This article describes in detail how the PowerPoint (TM) program can be used to create visual schedules on the computer.

Visual schedules are tools to help students learn self-management. The authors describe how visual schedules can help students achieve functional skills that are seldom achieved through regular teaching approaches. Traditionally, visual schedules use photographs, symbols, and/or words on notebooks or note cards. The authors express their desire that computer technology be harnessed to meet students’ learning needs in their educational plans, specifically through computer-based visual schedules. They describe several children who were able to reduce loud vocalizations and play independently while on a computer-generated visual schedule.

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child-centered, functional skills, picture exchange communication system (PECS), play, schedule, self-management, symbols, visual, visual schedules
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