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Following Directions is a hard concept. This visualchart helps the child remember the three basicsteps of following directions. The teacher canpoint to each step as he or she is directing thestudent. Eventually, this can then be placed onthe student’s desk until it can be faded alltogether.This is a chart the teacher used to teach thechild signs in the community. She would hold upthe card, have the child find that sign in thecommunity and then log the success of each trial.This is an example of a Now/Then chart. This is aminiature schedule for a student. Some peoplecall this “bribery”; however, it is not bribery. Itis a shaping tool to elicit non-preferred worksandwiched between preferred activities. Thiscan be faded to Two Non-Preferred Activitiesbefore a Preferred activity and so on. Ask anyonewho tells you this is bribery to work for free fora day and see what they say.This is a visual reminder of the classroom rulesusing exemplars of expected behavior. Forchildren with lower cognitive skills, real picturesof themselves exhibiting the behavior arepreferred.This is a school to home communication tool. Thislets the parent know what the student did inHome-Living each day. This is for a student withemerging verbal skills to assist in opening thecommunication stream.Positive Interventions and Effective Strategies Riffel -© 2005 - 96 -