Make visual supports that help your child understand, choose and join in
Original picture schedules, first-then boards, choice boards and social narratives you can print, personalise and start using today, with a clear method that keeps your child's voice at the centre.
- 48 printable pages: 96 original picture symbols (colour, large and colour-in), 16 ready boards and 12 blank templates
- A Visual Supports Planner workbook with routines, support inventory, use log, review reminders and a live dashboard
- 5 fillable forms, 20 social narrative templates, a teacher and carer guide and a home and school agreement
- A 10-chapter e-book with a gentle, respectful method, 38 scripts and letters, 31 AI prompts and a 4-week calendar plan
The Visual Supports Kit · Bodhih Pro Kits · 106 by Bodhih Training, trainers to 2,000+ companies since 2008.
How do I make and use visual supports for my child at home?
Start with one hard moment, not the whole day. Match a support to what is hard (a now-next strip for transitions, a first-then board for starting tasks, a wait card for waiting), use pictures your child reads easily, say few words, and review every few weeks. The Visual Supports Kit by Bodhih Training gives you the method, printables and planner.
Want the full free guide first? Read How to Make and Use Visual Supports at Home: A Step-by-Step Guide.
You already feel the problem. Here is what it is costing you.
Saying the same thing ten times
You repeat instructions all day and still the words seem to disappear. Everyone ends up tired, and nobody is being difficult.
Transitions that turn into battles
Ending screen time, leaving the park or getting out of the door can unravel a whole morning. Your child often seems to have no idea what is coming next, or when.
Downloaded cards that never get used
Free printables look lovely on the fridge but nobody explains which one to use, when, or what to say. A month later they are curling at the corners.
Home and school pulling different ways
School uses one set of pictures and words, home uses another, and new adults have no idea what your child's cards mean.
Picture the next few weeks with the kit open beside you.
Imagine next Monday at 7.40. A short strip of pictures on the back of the door: toilet, teeth, shoes, coat, car. You point and say one word. Your child looks, puts their shoes on and turns the card over. As you open the Planning Sheet tonight and choose just one hard moment, you will notice how much calmer it feels to work on one thing at a time.
Picture the end of tablet time with a countdown strip in your child's hands, removing one number each minute, and a first-then board showing what comes next, something they chose. When the strip runs out, the change happens, and it happens the same way every day.
Think ahead to the dentist, the haircut, the school trip. A social narrative written with your child, in their style, read on calm evenings before the day. A communication passport in the bag that tells new adults how your child says help, stop and finished.
Whether you start with the printable boards tonight or set up the Visual Supports Planner at the weekend, you will be using a method designed around understanding and choice, and you may find your child has more to say than the old routine left room for.
24 files that do the work for you
The e-book shows you how. The tools make it happen. Here is exactly what you download.
The Visual Supports Kit (e-book, PDF)
The guide: methods, worked examples, scripts and exercises
Start here: your visual supports map
The whole job as a flow, with the file to open at each step, your first hour and a 30/60/90-day plan.
Visual Supports Planner workbook
Ten sheets: settings, routines, support inventory, use log, review due, weekly trend, symbol vocabulary, narrative library and a live dashboard.
Which Visual Support? Planning Sheet
Ten minutes to go from one hard moment to the right support, with a way to tell if it is helping.
Task Analysis Builder
Break any daily job into four to eight picture steps, decide which step to teach and how much help to give.
Social Narrative Writing Frame
Plan a calm, truthful social narrative in four blocks, in your child's own style.
Communication Passport
A fillable passport, written with your child, so new adults know how they communicate and what helps.
Visual Support Review Sheet
A four-to-six-weekly review: keep, change, fade or stop each support, with your child's view.
Social narrative templates: 20 situations
Twenty drafted social narratives to personalise, each with check-before-you-use notes.
Guide for teachers and carers on our visuals
A ready-to-send two-page guide: the cards your child uses, what they mean, the words to say and what to avoid.
Script and message library
38 scripts, messages and letters for introducing visuals, using them in the moment, hard moments, family, school and health services.
Home and school visuals agreement
A one-page agreement for home and school (or two homes, or family carers) on shared symbols, words and habits.
Worked example pack: Arjun's visual supports
The main forms filled in completely for one composite family, so you can see what good looks like.
AI prompt pack: 31 prompts for visual supports
31 tool-agnostic prompts grouped by step, each with what to paste in and what to check.
Visual supports at a glance
Every type of visual support on two pages: what it is for, how to start and which kit page to print.
Decision card: what to try when...
If this happens, try that: a one-page decision card for the most common moments.
Making them last
Printing, materials, laminating, hook-and-loop, storage, cleaning and digital versions.
Common mistakes to avoid
Twelve common mistakes with visual supports and what to do instead.
Picture symbol cards 1: daily routines
48 original routine symbols in colour, 12 in large size and 48 colour-in versions (10 pages).
Picture symbol cards 2: feelings, needs and places
14 feelings, 18 needs and 16 places in colour, 12 large cards and colour-in versions (10 pages).
Boards: schedules, first-then, choice, waiting and more
16 ready boards: daily schedule, first-then, now-next, choice boards, wait, break and help cards, countdowns, change cards, feelings, task strips and outings.
Blank templates to draw or add photos
12 blank pages: cards, schedule strips, task strip, story booklet, pocket passport, all about me, week planner, photo frames and key ring cards.
4-week introduction plan calendar
Twenty short reminders over 28 days to introduce visual supports one step at a time.
Visual supports task board (CSV import)
28 tasks with stage, type and file, ready to import into Trello, Asana, Notion, Planner or Jira.
Chapter by chapter
Each chapter opens with a real situation, gives you a method and ends with something to do today, using the tools in your kit.
- Format
- PDF e-book + printable PDF + XLSX + fillable PDF + DOCX + ICS + CSV
- Files
- 24 files plus a one-click ZIP
- E-book
- 64 pages
- Printables
- 48 pages: 96 original symbols, 16 boards, 12 blank templates
- Works with
- Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice, Word, Google Docs, Acrobat Reader, GoodNotes, Google Calendar, Outlook, Apple Calendar, Trello, Asana, Notion, Planner, Jira
- Best for
- Parents, carers and teachers of children and young people who process pictures more easily than words
Why Visual Supports Help
What visual supports are, why pictures last when words vanish, and what NICE, NCAEP and the National Autism Center say.
Start With the Hard Moment
Five questions that match the right support to the moment that keeps going wrong.
Photos, Symbols or Words
The ladder from real objects to written words, sizes, materials and blending with school symbols.
Schedules, Now-Next and First-Then
How to set up and teach schedules with show, say, do, move, and how to keep first-then kind.
Choice Boards and Your Child's Voice
Real choices, saying no, respecting every way of communicating and when to involve a speech and language therapist.
Task Strips for Jobs With Many Steps
Turning daily jobs into four to eight picture steps and fading your help while the pictures stay.
Waiting, Time, Change and Feelings
Wait cards, countdowns, change cards, feelings check-ins, and help and break cards.
Social Narratives Written in Your Child's Style
Four building blocks for calm, truthful stories written with your child.
Everywhere Your Child Goes
School, outings, healthcare visits, holidays and family carers using the same cards and words.
Fading, Updating and Keeping It Going
Six-weekly reviews, fading one thing at a time and supports that grow up with your child.
Not just reading. Tools you will actually open again.
E-book
- The Visual Supports Kit e-book: 10 chapters, 2 appendices, 6 figures
Printables (48 pages)
- Picture symbol cards 1: daily routines (48 symbols in colour, 12 large, 48 colour-in; 10 pages)
- Picture symbol cards 2: feelings, needs and places (48 symbols in colour, 12 large, 48 colour-in; 10 pages)
- Boards: daily schedule, first-then, now-next, now-next-then, 3 choice boards, waiting, break and help cards, countdown and time circle, change of plan cards, feelings check-in, countdown to a big day, two task strips and an outing board (16 pages)
- Blank templates: cards, large cards, schedule strips, task strip builder, 2-page story booklet, pocket passport, all about me, week at a glance, photo frames, my favourites and key ring cards (12 pages)
Workbook
- Visual Supports Planner: Start here, Settings, Routines, Support Inventory, Use Log, Review Due, Weekly Trend, Symbol Vocabulary, Narrative Library and Dashboard
Fillable PDF forms
- Which Visual Support? Planning Sheet
- Task Analysis Builder
- Social Narrative Writing Frame
- Communication Passport
- Visual Support Review Sheet
Word templates
- Social narrative templates: 20 situations
- Guide for teachers and carers on our visuals
- Script and message library: 36 scripts and messages plus 2 ready-to-send letters
- Home and school visuals agreement
- Worked example pack: Arjun's visual supports
- AI prompt pack: 31 prompts for visual supports
Cheat sheets
- Start here: your visual supports map
- Visual supports at a glance
- Decision card: what to try when...
- Making them last
- Common mistakes to avoid
Plan and import
- 4-week introduction plan calendar (20 reminders)
- Visual supports task board CSV (28 tasks) for Trello, Asana, Notion, Planner or Jira
When you have worked through it, you will be able to…
Every outcome is practised with a worked example and a tool, not just described.
- You will be able to choose the right visual support for a specific hard moment
- You will be able to pick photos, symbols or words at the level your child reads easily
- You will be able to set up and teach a schedule, now-next strip and first-then board kindly and consistently
- You will be able to offer real choices and teach help, break, stop and finished cards
- You will be able to break daily jobs into task strips and fade your help over time
- You will be able to write calm, truthful social narratives with your child
- You will be able to share the same cards and words with school, family and health services
- You will be able to review, update and fade supports as your child grows
Know your starting point. Prove your progress.
People who measure before and after improve faster and can show it. AssessAll, our sister assessment platform, has AI-graded assessments that pair with this kit. Take one now, work through the kit, then re-take it.
Early Years & Childcare Practice Judgment
Take the assessment →AssessAll assessmentFamily & Elder Caregiving Judgment
Take the assessment →AssessAll assessmentEmotional Intelligence Profile
Take the assessment →JobularyIf-then plans that make habits stick (Jobulary)
Make it a growth plan →A taste of Chapter 2
It is bath time in Ohio. Jake has twins, Mia and Max, who are five. Max is autistic and was diagnosed last spring. Jake has bought a laminated visual schedule online, forty-two symbols on a neat strip, from wake-up to sleep. It hangs on the fridge. Nobody looks at it. Bath time is still a battle, because the problem with bath time was never the order of the day. It was that Max does not know when bath ends, and the water on his face feels terrible. The most common mistake with visual supports is to start with the product rather than the problem. A full-day schedule is a fine thing, but it is the answer to one specific difficulty (not knowing what is coming next across the day). It does nothing for a child who struggles with the end of screen time, the feeling of a hair wash or the noise of the school hall. So start with the hard moment. Then choose the support that matches it.
The honest comparison
| Free templates and typical advice | This kit | |
|---|---|---|
| Method | A sheet of symbols with no guidance | A 10-chapter method: choose, make, teach, share, review and fade |
| Symbols | Mixed clip art of unclear origin | 96 original, consistent symbols in colour, large and colour-in versions |
| Boards | One schedule template | 16 boards for schedules, choices, waiting, time, change, feelings, tasks and outings |
| Child's voice | Often built around compliance | Choice, no, finished and help built in from day one |
| Home and school | Nothing to share with school | Teacher guide, communication passport, agreement and email scripts |
| Tracking | No way to tell if it is working | Planner with use log, review reminders, weekly trend and dashboard |
| Countries | One country's terms only | Dated notes on support plans in the US, UK, India, Australia, Canada, UAE and Singapore |
Made for you if…
- Parents and carers of autistic children, or children with ADHD, language delay, learning disabilities, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy or anxiety
- Families still waiting for an assessment who want something practical and safe to start now
- Teachers, teaching assistants and SENCos who want consistent visuals between home and school
- Grandparents, childminders and co-parents who share the care
- Families anywhere in the world, in any language at home, who want original printables they can relabel
- Parents of older children and teens who want supports that grow up with their child
Probably not for you if…
- Anyone looking for a therapy, diagnosis or a replacement for a speech and language therapist or AAC system
- Anyone hoping to use pictures to force compliance or as a punishment system
- Families who already have a complete, working set of supports from their child's therapy team and need nothing new
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Start with the quick-start chapter, then the main spreadsheet or planner. Most buyers use something from the kit the same day.
Start with one hard moment tonight
Open the Planning Sheet, choose one moment and print the cards you need. Whether you begin with a first-then board this evening or the morning strip tomorrow, you will be building supports around your child's understanding and choice, one calm step at a time.
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What are visual supports?
Visual supports are things a person can see that help them understand, remember, predict or communicate: schedules, first-then boards, choice boards, task strips, wait cards and social narratives. They keep information still, so a child can look again instead of relying on spoken words that disappear.
How do I make a visual schedule for my child?
Choose one routine, show three to six steps in one direction, use pictures your child recognises, and let your child move each card to a finished pocket. Use few words and the same words every time. The kit includes a daily schedule board, schedule strips and 96 symbols to start with.
Are the picture symbols from PECS, Boardmaker or Widgit?
No. Every symbol in this kit was drawn for it, and the kit is independent of PECS, Boardmaker and PCS, Widgit and other commercial sets. If your child's school uses one of those, keep using it for key words, and use the kit's Symbol Vocabulary sheet to record which picture you use for each word.
Will visual supports stop my child from learning to talk?
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association says available research does not support the idea that augmentative and alternative communication reduces motivation to speak, and that it can help natural speech. Keep talking as you point, and ask your speech and language therapist about your own child's communication.
Does my child need a diagnosis to use this kit?
No. Visual supports are low-cost and safe to try while you wait for an assessment, and they help many children with or without a diagnosis. The kit suits autistic children, children with ADHD, language delay, learning disabilities and anxiety, and any child who processes pictures more easily than words.
Is this kit therapy or medical advice?
No. It is educational content from a training company. It teaches practical, widely used ways to make and use visual supports, and it does not diagnose, treat or replace your child's speech and language therapist, occupational therapist, doctor or school. Rules on school support plans differ by country, so check your local authority, school and an independent advocate.
How can I measure my starting point as a parent or carer?
If you would like to reflect on your own caregiving decisions or how you read and respond to feelings, Bodhih's AssessAll platform offers the Family and Elder Caregiving Judgment, the Early Years and Childcare Practice Judgment and the Emotional Intelligence Profile. They are optional and separate from the kit.
How do I turn this into a plan that actually sticks?
Import the 4-week calendar and write one if-then plan for your hardest moment, such as 'If it is 7.30, then I show the morning strip.' Jobulary has a clear guide to if-then plans that make habits stick, and the kit's Use Log shows you whether the plan is working.
Can I share the printables with my child's school?
Yes, you can give copies of your child's cards, boards, guide and passport to the adults who support your child, including school staff. Please do not share or resell the files themselves. Schools and organisations can ask about a team licence at solutions@bodhih.com.
What is the refund policy?
Digital kits are non-refundable once downloaded. The exceptions are corrupted files that are not fixed within 3 working days, duplicate charges, or failed delivery.
How much does The Visual Supports Kit cost?
₹999 including 18% GST for buyers in India, or $29 for buyers outside India. One-time payment, no subscription, with an automatic invoice.
How do I get the files after paying?
Instantly. Your download page opens the moment payment succeeds, and a permanent download link is emailed to you. Download each file separately or everything in one ZIP.
What software do I need?
Any of the usual tools: Excel or Google Sheets for spreadsheets, Word or Google Docs for templates, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Preview, Xodo or GoodNotes for the fillable PDFs, and Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar for the calendar plan.
Can I get a refund?
Because it is a digital download, kits are not refundable once downloaded. We always refund a duplicate charge or a failed delivery, and if a file is corrupted and we cannot fix it within 3 working days. Full terms: bodhih.org/refunds.
Can my company buy this for a team?
Yes. Team and company licences, and workshops on this topic run by Bodhih Training, are available. Write to solutions@bodhih.com or call +91 99000 11601.
