Hand Signals and Gestures Picture Cards

About this resource

A picture card for every hand signal or gesture, drawn plainly with no skin tone shown. Hold up a card and ask what it is; the child names the gesture. This is a naming and data-collection task, not a lesson about any one gesture, and the file never decides what counts as a correct answer; that stays your own scoring rule.

WHAT IS INCLUDED -- 19 pages, 320 type-in fields

Picture Cards

• 14 hand signal and gesture picture cards in full color, each a big cut-apart piece laid edge to edge in a 5-across grid (three rows, the last row four wide) so cutting is a few straight lines: thumbs up, thumbs down, wave, point, ok, peace, fist, stop hand, raise hand, handshake, muscle, open hands, crossed fingers, writing hand
• The same 14 cut pieces again as an ink-saver set in pure black outlines, for the photocopier

Probe And Track

• 3 quick picture probe forms (A and B, 5 pictures each; C, 4 pictures -- 14 does not split three ways evenly) that together cover the whole bank with no picture repeated on more than one
• Full-Deck Probe -- all 14 pictures on one sheet, with a verbatim column for what was actually said
• Data Log -- 17 rows: date, form, correct, out of, percent, notes
• Percent Graph -- 14 probes across, 0-100 percent grid, a field for the team's own criterion
• Caseload Summary -- 16 rows: student, baseline, current, trend, decision

Share And Write

• Practice at Home -- a family update built from six of the same pictures used in session, a weekly practice table, and lines for the gestures a family noticed outside of practice time
• Phrase Bank -- 21 observable-language starters across 6 groups (accuracy, what was said, carryover, the log and graph, the caseload page, the next probe)
• Filled Example -- an invented student, eight probes across three differently sized forms, every percent re-counted from its own row

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the log, graph, caseload page, family page, and probe-form headers, or print and use a pen. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT an editable online slideshow or word-processor document, and it is not a norm-referenced or standardized test.

It carries no elicitation, cueing or modeling script. It does not decide what counts as a correct name for a picture, a criterion, or a typical rate for naming these gestures -- every one of those is this clinician's own call, written once and reused every session. Pictures replace the printed word list a child cannot yet read; they do not replace the clinician's scoring rule.

Who This Is For

Speech-language pathologists and special education teams with young or pre-reading students on a gesture-naming, social-communication or expressive-language goal, and the families who get the practice page sent home.

Pictures: Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0 (color); Fluent Emoji by Microsoft, MIT License (ink-saver black and white).