Description
- Competitive Price: The Optimism Kit offers incredible value with 12 different components and over 1000 pictures! By including everything you need in one package, this kit saves you the cost and hassle of printing, ink, laminate, and Velcro. The total value of assembling this comprehensive kit is $500, but you get it all at a fraction of the cost!
- Ready to Use: No need to print, cut, or laminate. All components come organized in a nicely designed heavy-duty Kit/box.
- Behavior Support – The visual schedule, Classroom Rules Cards, and social stories are designed for children with autism to help them understand expectations and manage their actions. Provides clear guidelines on appropriate behaviors and uses non-verbal instructions to manage behaviors.
- Outstanding and Easy Communication Tool – The Comprehensive Visual Communication Book features 500 communication cards organized in a clip-open ring binder. The cards can be easily rearranged to meet the child’s needs.
- Communication on the Go – This tool offers a versatile and portable strategy for communication and behavior management. It contains 20 pictures from the communication book that are hole-punched and ready to place on the included loose-leaf ring, which can be attached to a belt loop, purse strap, or lanyard. This helps children communicate “on the go.”
- Expert Illustrations/Design – Simple style illustrations send clear and direct instructions, which are more effective than complicated illustrations for many autistic children. All designs are created by experts!
- Easy to Use – The pictures are clustered in categories, and the pages on which the pictures are affixed by Velcro already have 12 pictures each. The pages are tabbed and labeled by category, and each category has a color. There are small boxes in the kit with colors that match the tabs, allowing you to easily remove pictures from the book and substitute others that are a higher priority for the children you work with. Start with a single picture when working with a child with autism. Using pictures of items or concepts that have significant appeal to the child works best. The Velcro is very sturdy; pull each picture off and replace it a few times until the pictures can be easily removed by children. Begin with one word and add words as the child grasps the concept of visual communication or as their need to communicate increases.
- High-Quality Material – The communication cards are made from quality paperboard and excellent printing. They feature high quality colors, durable metal accessories, and can be used repeatedly.
- Optimal Size – Each picture card in the communication book measures 2.5 x 2.5 inches. The flash cards are approximately 5.5 x 5 inches. The training manual is 8.5 x 11 inches, while each of the social stories are 7 x 9 inches.