See schedule
A schedule only works if the child can link the box on paper to an actual point in the day. That link is not automatic. The visual support below trains exactly that bridge between symbol and real time.
♂Man sees schedule
A cartoon illustration of a person pointing at a schedule next to an eye icon.
About this visual support
To an adult, a daily schedule looks self-explanatory: one box is breakfast, the next is school, the last is dinner. To a child it is nothing of the kind. Before the box on paper can mean anything, the brain has to link the symbol to a real event, and that event to a rough place in the day.
Visual support carries both links, from symbol to event and from event to time. When the child sees the picture of breakfast, then teeth, then jacket and shoes, a sense slowly builds that the morning has a shape. Reading the schedule then becomes recognising the morning in miniature on paper, not decoding an unfamiliar grid.
A concrete tip: point at the box at the exact moment the activity is actually happening, not only in the morning. The symbol gets tied to the moment in the body, not just to a plan on the fridge. In the Routined app, the marker moves through the schedule with the day, so the child can see where in the flow you are right now.