Activity Schedules: Teaching Independent, Choice and Social Interaction to Children with Autism

Activity schedule is a scientific based practice using to teach children with autism. Activity schedules provide photographic or textual cues that help children with autism learn to obtain materials, complete activities, and put materials away without being verbally prompted to do so. Children also learn to manage changes in routine and to choose and sequence their own activities. The article discuss prerequisite skills, preparation of teaching materials, and teachers’ and parents’ uses of activity schedules to promote play, self care, social interaction, pre-academic and academic skills, and home-living repertoires.