Communication visuals are an essential part of every day life for our SWAN students. Our focus in Ruby's learning space has been largely visuals-oriented, with Ruby making fantastic progress in reading and following directions that include multiple visual prompts (full sentences made from PODD visual images). 

In literacy, we are using PODD visuals to help Ruby share stories about things from her own life, by creating short books for Ruby to read, with PODD  visuals to tell the story. The story above is a work in progress, and Ruby loves finding the animals from her PODD book in library books, and asking to watch documentaries to learn more about them. 

The fantastic thing about PODD visuals is that they are easily understood by those who haven't seen them before, so they're a very important tool for our non-verbal students to communicate with others.

We now have a PODD book available in the library for any interested students to explore at lunch time.