Help with a PECS/ TEACCH type symbol - any ideas??

[helewele]

Hi everyone,

I am generally a lurker on MN, but am hoping you will be able to help

My DD is 5 with a diagnosis of severe ASD and she is at a MS school with a full time classroom assistant who is wonderful with her. DD uses a schedule and is able to follow this really well.

The problem is we are looking for a symbol card that could represent 'pretending' or 'using your imagination' - something like that. DD has started a new block of phys. ed that involves listening to a tape and using your imagination, something she really struggles with. Has anyone any ideas? It would be really useful to be able to use a symbol card on her task board. Thanks for reading, Hx

Why not a thought bubble pic.

The thing is pictures don't mean anything until the person who is interpreting them understands the concept that they are able to represent.

Just because a picture of someone's hand up means 'stop' to you, doesn't mean it is going to to the person you are trying to get to use it, - unless it is 'paired' with the experience of 'stop' iyswim.

So almost any symbol will do, as long as it has shared meaning.

So you can practise the task at home, and show her the image you have chosen, and then when it appears on her task board she might have a clue what it means.

Hope that helps.

You can practise this at home by taking one of her favourite episodes of a programme and playing it to her without pictures and ask her to tell you who is talking, where they might be (or you can use Peter and the Wolf which is excellent for this)

Then you can try and extend this by talking about what else might be going on, and any new ideas that aren't actually in the film etc.

Is there one for dream?