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Choice Board
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Situation
How do I get a student to tell me what it is he wants?
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Summary
A Choice Board is a visual display of choices that the student prefers. Use either objects, photos or icons that represent the item or activity.
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Definition
This is a strategy to teach students to make requests and initiate communication.
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Quick Facts
- Child's Age: 0-2, 3-5, 6-10, 11-13, 14-17, 18+
- Planning Effort: Moderate
- Difficulty Level: Easy
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Pre-requisites
Knowledge of student likes/preferred items
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Process
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Make a choice board of preferred items using objects, photos or icons.
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Place this up on a wall or accessible location.
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Take the student over to the board and have him choose an item.
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Immediately reinforce this by verbally stating what he chose as you give him the item and praise, praise, praise!
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See if the student then will initiate this process-repeat!
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You can have choice boards specific to items available in the area or available at that time, depending on the student and classroom environment.
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Documents and Related Resources
SetBC Resources (PDF and Word Boardmaker templates)
Consultant/Author: Katie Bentz, M.Ed.
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