Meal time
Cutlery in one hand, a conversation running around the table and a chair to stay on: a meal makes demands in several directions at the same time. The visual support below takes apart what is actually supposed to happen.
♂Boy eating at the table
A boy sits at the table holding a fork and a knife in front of a plate of food.
About this visual support
Noise around a dinner table rises fast. Cutlery against plates, siblings talking over each other, a radio in the background, and in the middle of it a child is meant to coordinate hand movements and follow the conversation. Eating is often the easiest part.
Visual support reduces how much has to be held in mind at once. When the order at the table is on the wall, your child does not have to spend energy working out what is expected and can put it into the cutlery instead. One tip that tends to help: let one of the pictures show a pause, for example putting the cutlery down and taking a drink, so there is a built-in breathing space exactly where the sound usually becomes too much.
In Routined the meal can sit as a fixed routine in the day view, so it appears well in advance instead of landing in the middle of something else.
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