Play sports
The ball bounces, someone shouts, and the rule that applied a second ago suddenly does not. Sport asks the body and the rules to work together at the same moment, and the visual support below breaks that into parts you can take one at a time.
♀Play sports
A girl in sports clothes holds a racket and a basketball with a football at her feet.
About this visual support
Sport looks like pure movement from the outside, but a lot of the work happens in the head. A child has to remember whose turn it is, which ball belongs to which game, where on the pitch they are allowed to stand and what happens when someone breaks a rule. On top of that the body has to run, aim and stop on time. When several sports are mixed into one session, the rule system swaps mid-way, and what worked a minute ago is suddenly wrong.
Visual support takes part of that load off working memory. A row of cards showing the warm-up, which sport is running now, how the turn order goes and when the session ends lets a child check for themselves instead of constantly reading the other players. For a child with adhd that is often the difference between being in the game and drifting to the edge of it.
Put the turn-order picture where it can be seen from the pitch rather than in the changing room, so it is available mid-play. With Routined you can bring the same picture set to practice on your phone, and try the app for fourteen days at no cost.