Review of the Up-to-Date Visual Support Research

Abstract

The use of visual support methods is recognized as an effective strategy for helping children and adults with develop­mental disabilities. In autism spectrum disorders visual methods aimed to work with the main difficulties reducing the quality of life: problems of communication, development of academic and social skills, problem behavior. The task of summarizing the results of visual support studies is topical. This review discusses modern foreign and Russian studies on the use of visual support in the educational and the psychological practice. The age composition of the sample, the design of the studies, the types of visual support used the context in which it was used and the tasks it was designed to solve are analyzed: learning disabilities, challenging behavior, communication.