Pack the cloths
Instructions that rely on working out the contents yourself rarely function. Bring what you need requires already knowing what is going to happen, and often you do not. The pictures below make the list concrete so nothing has to be guessed at the last minute.
♀Pack the cloths
An adult puts colourful cloths into a cardboard box.
About this visual support
Summarising instructions save time for whoever already knows the task and cost time for everyone else. Pack the cloths sounds simple, but it assumes knowledge of how many, which kind and what they are for. Without that knowledge the task becomes guesswork, and guesswork often ends with nothing being done at all.
Visual support replaces the summary with content. Three pictures showing the number and the type let the task be carried out by someone who has never done it before. It also spares the adult from checking afterwards, because the result can be compared with the picture. The same row also works for a sibling or an adult, since it assumes no earlier experience.
A concrete tip is to store what has to be packed in one place with the same picture beside it. When picture and items share a location, both the searching and the hesitation disappear. In Routined the cleaning task can sit as a routine with a few steps, and the app can be tried for fourteen days at no cost.
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