The Autonomy Cards are a series of cards designed to train and increase autonomy in different areas of life of people with intellectual disabilities or autism. They can be used directly by the person with intellectual disabilities or autism and/or mediated by parents, the support teacher and those who work in the education and rehabilitation fields.

The cards are portable and customizable. Thanks to the ring on which they are inserted, everyone can create his/her own deck by selecting the needed steps, they help to visualize and memorize the steps required to perform numerous activities. Each activity is broken down into a variable number of steps according to need. Also supplied in a printable version, they can be used as a visual support, included in the daily agenda or to illustrate sequences of actions or social stories.

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PERSONAL CARE AND HYGIENE

The cards in this box depict all the steps for performing daily personal care and hygiene actions, such as:

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Each action deck illustrates, in a variable number of steps depending on the action, the complete sequence for performing the chosen action.

Wash hands:

Card 1 – I approach the sink

Card 2 – I turn on the faucet

Card 3 – I adjust the water temperature

Card 4 – I press the pump of the liquid soap dispenser

Card 5 – I evenly distribute the soap on both my hands

Card 6 – I rinse off my hands

Leaf through some selected card that have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation:

THE AUTHOR

Marco Pontis is a Teacher of Pedagogy and special didactics for intellectual disabilities and generalized developmental disorders as well as Pedagogy and special didactics for multi-professional collaboration at the University of Bolzano. For over fifteen years he has been working with and for people with autism spectrum disorders and other complex disabilities, constantly collaborating with family associations in the training of parents, school workers, socio-health care workers and supervising evidence-based educational interventions.