'star when you fought with them, what alternative did you give them?'
I asked them to tell him what was coming next, or give him warnings there was a change coming, or to refer to the CLASS visual timetable.
They said he was a visual learner, so I asked them for proof of that, to which their only response ever was 'All children with ASD are visual learners!'.
NOT good enough.
If ds was a visual learner then how comes he doesn't understand body language ffs. It is SO much more complicated than that.
Plus the pictures they wanted to use with him would have required a whole other level of training and education which they were not qualified to deliver.
i.e. First you have to have learned the concept being communicated about, then you have to learn that the picture represents the concept (rather than being a random 2D object of its own), then you have to learn that the picture represents that the concept is likely to occur soon, then you have to understand that what happens soon, may well not be very much like the picture at all (i.e. a stick drawing of a man with a football to represent PE, when you are about to gymnastics, and engage in the forgotten to communicate change of clothes.).
You can't just locate an image, present it to a child and satisfy yourself that some meaningful communication has happened, - but this is exactly what happens, all the time.
Then the child, more confused than ever, plus denied the opportunity to learn the meaning of 'Come on x, lets get changed into our indoor PE kit and go to gymnastics'.
This stuff needs EXPERTS to deliver, if at all.
okay rant over.......