Scheduling Boards and Reminders

I’m personally not a scheduling person. I really resist a typical TO-DO list or maybe “being told” what to do on some level lol, but using visual imagery to enhance understanding and to conceptualize events and tasks helps calm the inner monologue and all the “what ifs”. It can be very black and white. It doesn’t have to be done in order and in fact, it doesn’t all have to be done at all in my opinion, but using visual “scheduling” boards to have open ended language interaction supports language with others as a joint activity with a common ground for understanding VERSUS language with others as nagging auditory reminders. Let’s take that part out – the reminders should eventually come from within anyway. The sooner you can get on that page with the ones you love, the more pleasant the interaction tends to be.

Scheduling boards and reminders are easy to create in the moment. Use boards as a springboard for discussion. I use this from nonverbal kids to highly verbal adolescents to my own kids and their family calendar, but I honestly use this same method for myself in BRIDGE Communication Builder AND LOVE IT!!! One day, I’ll show ya’ll my wicked calendar/planner/reminder boards I built lol.

We do looooove to build 🤗

~Danielle