Connectism Future Tools

Customizable Visual Supports

Create visual supports designed around your child's routines, communication needs, and interests.

In Development

Personalized for everyday life

Make the visual fit your child

Connectism is building a customizable visual support tool to help families create personalized supports that fit their child's interests, routines, and learning needs.

Families can choose their own words, steps, images, or videos to create visual supports that are meaningful, familiar, and easier for their child to understand and follow.

First–Then Boards

First shoes on → Then play a game

Create a simple two-step visual using familiar words, activities, and images.

Routine Visuals

Get dressed → Brush teeth → Backpack → Go

Build step-by-step visuals for mornings, bedtime, hygiene, school, and everyday routines.

Choice Boards

Dinosaur • Blocks • Coloring • Outside

Offer clear visual choices using activities and interests that are meaningful to your child.

Communication Cards

Break • Help • Wait • All done

Create simple visual cards for everyday communication and support needs.

Planned experience

Create a support in a few simple steps

The goal of this feature is to help families quickly create simple, personalized visual supports based on their child's interests and learning needs.

Making information and expectations easier to understand can help reduce confusion, frustration, and overwhelm while encouraging participation and creating a more positive learning experience. Visual supports can be used on a phone, tablet, or computer, or printed for everyday use.

Choose a visual support type

Add your own words, images, steps

Choose images for tasks based on what your child is learning

Quick and simple and convient for families

Save it to your account or print it for everyday use

Example preview

First–Then

First

Brush teeth

Then

Bedtime story

Another example

First–Then

First

Wash hands

Then

Ice cream

Preview examples only. The customizable creator is still in development.

Familiar interests

Personalize images around what your child enjoys

A child who loves dinosaurs, cars, dolls, animals, or a favorite activity may respond better when those familiar interests appear in the visual support.

DinosaursDollsAnimalsCarsTrainsGamesSpaceFavorite activities

Everyday support

Ways families could use visual supports

Visual supports can make routines, choices, communication, and transitions easier to understand by showing information clearly and consistently.

Daily routines

Break everyday tasks into clear, predictable steps for mornings, bedtime, hygiene, meals, and getting ready.

Transitions

Show what is happening now, what comes next, and when an activity is finished.

Communication

Create simple cards for needs such as break, help, wait, all done, yes, and no.

Choices

Offer a small number of clear visual choices to make decisions easier and reduce overwhelm.

Waiting

Make waiting more concrete by showing what the child is waiting for and what will happen afterward.

Learning new skills

Use visual steps to practice tasks gradually and support more independence over time.

Coming to Connectism

This feature is currently in development

We're continuing to refine this idea so the finished tool can be simple, flexible, and useful for real family routines.

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Make the visual fit your child

Create a support in a few simple steps