Soccer practice
On the pitch everything lands at once: loud voices, fast rules, body contact and a ball already moving. The pictures below break the session into chunks the brain can keep up with.
♂Playing soccer
A leg in a blue soccer shoe kicking a black and white soccer ball.
♂Playing football
A boy kicks a football.
♂Football
A happy boy in football kit kicks the ball.
About this visual support
Soccer practice is rarely one thing. Coach instructions, team expectations, noise from other pitches and a ball suddenly rolling at you have to be processed in parallel while the body acts. For children who take in a lot of sensory input at once, the overview is often the first thing to slip.
Help the child prepare by walking through the session before you leave home: changing, warm-up, drill, match play, water, cool-down. Tucked inside the kit bag or saved on a phone, the pictures let the child check rather than ask the coach in the middle of a drill. Knowing a pause is coming is often enough to make the most intense minutes manageable.
Agree a short signal with the coach — a hand on the shoulder, a thumbs-up — so support can land without words on the pitch. To plan the week's training and bundle boots, shin pads and water bottle into a recurring checklist, the Routined app fits well. The picture library below is free to download for the kit bag.
Use this image in a schedule
Build your own visual schedule with this image and download it as a print-ready PDF. Completely free.
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Take the visual supports with you
In Routined you build schedules from these pictures, add timers and voice instructions, and your child follows the day on their own.
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