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How to Teach Waiting to Nonverbal Students.

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Visual Supports for Waiting in Early Childhood Special Education

Waiting is one of the hardest skills for young learners to master, especially for nonverbal children in Special Education. When a child cannot understand the spoken word the idea of “wait” can feel confusing, frustrating or even impossible.

This is where the visual supports help turn spoken words into something students can see. For many learners, visuals are easier to process than language alone. They make expectations clearer, reduce anxiety, and help students feel more confident about what comes next.

What Is Wait Time?

One simple way to use visuals that makes a big difference is during wait time.

Wait time is the pause after you ask a question or give a direction. For some students, especially those with autism, processing language takes a little longer. When adults rush in with prompts or repeat directions too quickly, students may lose the chance to respond independently.

How Visual Cue Cards Help

Visual wait time cards give students a clear signal that it’s okay to pause and think. Instead of filling the silence with more words, the visual does the talking.

These cards help students understand:

  • What they should be doing
  • That a response is expected
  • That help will come, just not yet

Waiting becomes predictable instead of stressful.

Easy Visual Wait Time Tools Teachers Love

“Wait” cards use a simple word or symbol to remind students to pause.

Visual timers or countdown cards show how long the wait will last.

Thinking time cards let students know it’s okay to take a moment before answering.

Turn-taking visuals clearly show whose turn it is during games or group work.

Classroom Tips for Success

  • Teach the visual during calm moments
  • Pair it with a brief verbal cue, then stay quiet
  • Avoid repeating directions while the visual is shown
  • Praise the act of waiting, not just the final response

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Fun and Inclusive Winter Learning Tasks

Fun and Inclusive Winter Learning Tasks

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TASK BOX ACTIVITES

Get ready for snow filled fun with these winter themed task boxes! These hands on task cards will keep your students busy and learning while exploring their favourite time of the year!

Your kids will love practicing their fine motor skills and have a blast hunting the for the same pictures.

Bring winter indoors and keep the kids entertained with these engaging and inclusive tasks for workstations, centers and fine motor stations.

Each task is thoughtfully designed to enhance motor, cognitive, and communication skills while adding to the festive cheer. Join us in making this holiday season a memorable one!

Why I use Task Boxes

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When helping a child in Special Education to learn a new skill you need to give clear and simple instructions. A visually structured task can provide the small steps needed for them to understand, stay on track and complete an activity.

These type of Task box activities are broken down with one question to answer on each card as not to overload the learner. They enable the child to focus not only on the basic academic skills in front of them but strengthen fine motor skills, help the student develop self esteem and promote the independence I love to see in my classroom.

My workstations provide a calm area that has clear and specific visuals to help my students focus and learn. Adding these type of self-contained tasks at stations have provided continuous structure for my students to learn and master basic skills with no need for them to wander off and find other materials!

They are so handy to grab for my small group sessions as well as in the independent areas. I’ve organized them into their Curriculum groups and were able to fit into sandwich size containers! Now they’re labelled, easily stored and always ready and on hand.

It took some time to prepare them all in the beginning but now they’re just always ready to grab and go!

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Basic Math Task boxes

Color Task Box Activity

Task Cards – Find the Same

Color, Shape, Number, pegging

Opposites Task Cards

Letter Tracing Task Cards

Fall Task Cards – I can write numbers to 10

Ideas for Independent Work Centres

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Activities for Math Centres

My Centres are the tables that my students rotate around to learn, practice and master skills. I’ve colour coordinated each table and in this post I’ve listed some resources I use for these Independent work areas.

Binder Games

Binder Games have become popular in my Math Center stations, they provided the extra support to students with the practice they need with new skills and working independently . I use 2 types of Binders, both are valuable resources.

  1. Binders with detachable visuals were quick and easy to make up, I laminated, added Velcro to the visuals and placed them in a binder.
  2. Printable Binders that I printed off and put in plastic sheets as a drywipe activity.

I listed what my students needed to practice in maths and came up with these skills to concentrate on and make the resources I needed. Matching numbers to 10, Count and Match numbers to10 , Ordering numbers to 10, Order numbers to 10, Find the missing number to 10, Find the missing number to 10, Counting to 10, Sequencing summer items.

At the moment we’re Practicing counting forward beginning from a given number within a sequence and adding more to find the amount. My students use a dry wipe marker at their station to access this activity and like that they can wipe off any mistakes and start again.

Matching File Folders

These games are quick and easy to make up, Print out, laminate and Velcro and pop in a file folder and you will have great number games to use over and over again.

Task Boxes

I’ve broken these type of activities down with one question to answer on each card as not to overload the learner. They enable the child to focus not only on the basic academic skills in front of them but strengthen fine motor skills, help the student develop self esteem and promote the independence of the task.

These type of activities can be easily made up from classroom resources and stored in individual boxes ready to use as a Task Box activity on any centre.

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