TRAINS THEMED VISUAL SUPPORTS FOR AUTISM MINI BUNDLE

Description

Struggling to engage your child or students in playing with toy trains and transportation activities? Are you looking for visual supports for play? Do you want to include your students’ trains & vehicles interest to teach play, language and social skills but not sure how? This COST SAVING MINI BUNDLE is for you!

NB: This is a digital product which is available for download after purchasing. No physical product will be sent.

This Resource includes:

1. 56 Toy Trains Themed Visual Supports: These portable, toy trains themed visuals are your essential tool for:

(i) Teaching specific, trains-based related vocabulary such as ‘station’, ‘caboose’, ‘long track’, ‘short track’, ‘chimney’, ‘crossing’ and colours.

(ii) Encouraging expressive communication.

(iii) Teaching basic concepts such as ‘in’, ‘on’ and ‘under’ using your students interest of toy trains.

2. Visual Supports for Play: Toy Trains Play Ideas

These 6 visual supports help to:

(i) Extend engagement during trains pretend play

(ii) Teach specific, trains interests-based vocabulary

(iii) Provide no prep, print-and-go home practice language activities

3. “My Toy Trains Activities” Visual Schedule:

Give your students structure during their toy trains play to help:

(i) Promote positive behaviours

(ii) Extend play skills and attention skills through offering new ideas for toy trains play

(iii) Reduce overwhelm during open-ended play

4. Toy Trains Themed Sentence Strips:
Extend utterance length and support receptive language with these six sentence makers:
(i) “I found the…”
(ii) “I choose the….”
(iii) “I want the….”
(iv) “I have the….”
(v) “I see the….”
(vi) “I hear the….”

5. Trains-Themed Social Skills Visual Supports:

These specific, cars-themed visual supports help you to help your students:

(i) Join in toy trains play with others

(ii) Invite other students to play

(iii) Play cooperatively during trains play

(iv) Take turns during trains play

6. Trains Themed Adapted Book:

Adapted Books are simple stories that have been modified in some way to make them more accessible for students. These simple stories can teach concepts or skills and help to build basic reading skills.

**BONUS FILE: ‘First-Then-Later’ Visual Support Schedule

How This Resource Help Your Students:

• LANGUAGE SKILLS: The repetitive trains theme teaches colour names and simple sentence structure (‘I see a BLUE train…. I see a GREEN train….).

• EARLY SPEECH SOUNDS: A trains theme is a perfect way to introduce simple consonant-vowel combinations, e.g. “TOOT-TOOT”, ‘CHOO-CHOO” and “GO!”

• EMERGENT LITERACY SKILLS: Many students, particularly those with special needs, can find it difficult to engage in traditional books. This interactive Adapted Book gives your students a ‘job’ to do on each page, finding and matching the train pictures in different colours. This can increase your students’ engagement and concentration whilst teaching early book skills.
• ATTENTION SKILLS: Basing activities around your student’s interests has been shown to increase engagement and attention to tasks. By using your students’ interests of toy trains, you can help develop their attention and engagement.

This resource includes:
1. Multiple Play Options perfect for developing attention skills, creation skills and vocabulary, imagination skills, social skills and language skills.
2. Focused visual pictures for for using toys for children that need additional support
3. Bright, colourful photos to provide clear visual representation of different creations
4. Valuable information and evidence-based research on the benefits of visuals to help YOU help your child/students
5. Helpful photographic examples of how to use the resource, helping you to teach play skills with CONFIDENCE and KNOWLEDGE!