Personal Space Visual Cue Cards

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 23 pages, 228 type-in fields

• A Personal Space Chart: all 6 space cues on one poster, meant to be posted on a wall and taught from, not cut apart
• 6 personal space cards, 2 inches square, sized for velcro dots: arm's length away, wait your turn in line, quiet voice close up, stop, step back, ask first
• Every card and the chart twice: a full-color set for the wall and the board, and a black-and-white ink-saver set for the photocopier
• A Personal Space Practice Board with one main "Which Space Cue Did I Use?" slot and a six-slot "Today's Practice" strip with a time line under each
• Two desk-size personal space boards on one sheet, for a folder or a second setting
• 6 blank personal space cards with a type-in word line, for any cue the printed set does not cover
• A how-to page: before the first day, the three moves every time, how often to use the board, if a different cue is chosen than expected, when a cue is missing, writing down what changes
• A Personal Space Practice Log (16 rows: date, time, cue, how it happened, where, notes)
• A weekly roll-up (8 weeks) with a times-practiced-per-week graph
• A filled example — an invented student, one day on the log and three weeks on the roll-up, every number re-counted from its own row
• A family page with a kitchen-size chart and board and all six home space cues on one sheet
• A hand-off page so a paraprofessional or another classroom runs the same chart and board the same way
• A phrase bank: 24 lines in 6 groups (spoken lines for the chart and board, written starters for the log, the roll-up and the note home)
• A storage and binder label sheet: 11 labels and a spine strip
• Start Here, a contents page with page thumbnails, and a "what's next" back page

A personal-space reference tool that comes with its own data. Most cue-card sets stop at the pictures; this one adds a cut-apart card for every cue, a practice board, a log, a weekly roll-up and a phrase bank behind it, so a space cue used at school turns into a line on a page a case manager can bring to a meeting.

The Chart And Cards

• The chart: all 6 cues on one page, for teaching and for the wall
• The cards (6) — arm's length away, wait your turn in line, quiet voice close up, stop, step back, ask first: the same 6 cues, cut apart so one can move onto the practice board

Every picture is a concrete object or action, not an abstract idea — a ruler held between two people, people standing in a row, a stop sign, a person walking, a raised hand — chosen to be named in one word or a short phrase by a young child, in color AND in the black-and-white set; no invented symbol stands in for "personal space" itself.

The Board

• Personal Space Practice Board — one "Which Space Cue Did I Use?" panel with a slot, and a "Today's Practice" strip of six smaller slots with a time line under each.
• Two desk-size personal space boards — two boards on one sheet, cut apart, for a folder or a second student.

The boards carry no pictures, so they print the same in color or black and white.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the board's slots and time lines, the log, the roll-up, the family page, the hand-off page and the blank cards, or print and use a pen. The chart and card pages print on cardstock or plain paper; the cards cut along dashed lines. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT an editable online slideshow or word-processor document.

It is a way to show a personal-space cue in a picture and keep a record of when it was used. It is not a behavior plan, a clinical finding, a screening tool or a program of any kind, and it promises no outcome. It carries no prompt hierarchy, fading schedule or mastery rule; it does not say why a cue was chosen or what to do about it — how the chart is used with a student, and for how long, is what your team's plan says. The goal line and the criterion field are blanks for your district's own wording and your team's own number. The log counts one thing: which space cue was used.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals building personal-space and proximity awareness with early, pre-reading or emerging-language students, case managers who need that use to show up as data, and the families who get the home page sent home.

More In The Collection

This is one of several sets in the Visual Supports Collection, alongside Keeping My Hands to Myself Social Story, Manners and Polite Language Cue Cards, and Conflict Resolution Steps Cards; more picture-card sets are being added to the collection regularly, all on the same cards-plus-data shape.

Pictures (color pages): Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0. Pictures (ink-saver pages): Fluent Emoji, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, MIT License.