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Environmental Supports. Globe Star, LLC. Why use supports . Environmental supports enhance the individual’s ability to be more adaptable in accepting change and to be more interdependent with others. Four General Categories . Temporal Procedural Spatial Assertion.
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Environmental Supports Globe Star, LLC
Why use supports • Environmental supports enhance the individual’s ability to be more adaptable in accepting change and to be more interdependent with others.
Four General Categories • Temporal • Procedural • Spatial • Assertion
How Supports Assist the Individual • Take into account the individual’s sensory needs, • His/her need to understand the passage of time, • His/her modes of learning and strengths, and • His/her need for accurate, reliable information
Temporal Supports • Organize the sequence of time and time frames • Examples: schedules, completion guidelines, waiting supports, and strategies for accepting changes
Schedules Visual schedule
Completion Guidelines Visual cards and visual cues
Waiting Supports Waiting situations and visual cards and cues
Strategies for Accepting Changes Visual cards
Procedural Supports • Organize the relationship between steps of an activity or relationships between objects and people • Can include clarification about routines, personal possessions, or privacy
Routines Organizing the sequence with visual cues
Possession Visual supports that will help to convey clear meaning
Privacy Ethics of touching
Spatial Supports • Provide specific information regarding the organization of the environment • Include information about the location of objects • Can assist the individual in becoming comfortable with a situation that is over stimulating - sensory overload • Can clarify places for keeping personal belongings - personal spaces • Can help the individual understand his spatial relationship to others
Location Creating an ordered and planned environment
Supports for Sensory Overload Visual cues along with a sensory diet prescription
Personal Spaces Responsibility for transporting personal property and returning it
Relationship to Others Spatial cues
Assertion Supports • Help the individual initiate and exert control • Assist the individual in making choices and maintaining self-control
Making Choices Visual and verbal supports
Self-Control “Taking a Break”, “Quiet Place” &/or “Safe Place”