Behaviour & routines
Visual Schedule
Also called: picture schedule, visual timetable
A visual schedule shows a sequence of activities as pictures or icons in order, letting a child see what is happening now and what comes next without an adult telling them.
They are standard practice in early-years classrooms and in supporting autistic children, and they work for the same reason in both settings: they externalise a sequence a child would otherwise have to hold in memory, and they make transitions predictable.
Photographs of the child performing each step work better than generic clip art, because recognition is instant and the schedule is unambiguously about them.
Printables that practise this
Routine Chart
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Weekly Schedule Template
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