Invitation to become a Founding Member for a new community . . .
This invitation closes Friday, January 30.

From my newsletter. . . .

This year marks 30 years since Visual Strategies for Improving Communication was first published - which is a little hard to believe.
I’ve been working with visual strategies for a long time now, and over the years they’ve become go-to tools for supporting communication, learning, and behavior in many classrooms and homes.
 
But lately, some things have changed.
 I’ve been hearing from more teachers, SLPs, and parents who are feeling stretched thin and under-supported — especially when they’re working with students whose needs don’t fit neatly into typical expectations.
 
The questions are coming more often, and the situations feel more complicated.
 What I keep hearing isn’t one single problem — it’s a combination of things that pile up over time.
 
Many people supporting neurodivergent learners feel stressed and alone, because the needs of their students are so different from everyone else. But especially when they’re trying to support students whose communication or behavior needs are more complex.
 
You can Google anything these days, but what you get is scattered ideas that don’t tell you exactly what to do next in real-life situations.
 
And while visuals and communication supports are everywhere, it’s often unclear which ones actually help this student understand, communicate, or handle this challenging situation. 
 
I keep thinking: it shouldn’t be this hard. 

That’s what’s been pushing me to think about creating a different kind of space — one that focuses less on just collecting hundreds of pictures and more on moving beyond the basic classroom schedules and choice boards.
 
Visuals can be incredibly helpful in real-life challenging situations — when behavior escalates, when emotions are hard to manage, or when communication breaks down.
 
What’s often missing is help figuring out what’s actually needed in “those” moments, and what will really work.
 
Right now, this is still my raw idea. But I’m considering opening it first to a small group of founding members.
Founding members would be people who want to be part of this from the beginning — sharing what they actually need, helping shape the direction of the community, and learning alongside others who understand the realities of this work.
 
A couple of reasons I’m opening this first to founding members.
First, your feedback will help guide what this becomes, so it’s genuinely useful and relevant.

Second, founding members will join at the lowest price this community will ever have — and that rate will not increase as long as you remain a part of the group.

If this sounds like something you’d like to know more about, just send me a quick note to tell me you are interested in getting more information.

“Yes, I’d like more information.”    Just send your reply to this email address:  

office@usevisualstrategies.com
Be sure to include your name and your email address so I will know who you are to send you information.

I’ll send you the details.

Warmly,
Linda

Here's the email again:  office@usevisualstrategies.com

P.S. This is not meant to be a huge commitment or a complicated decision — just an early invitation for information for something I’ve been thinking carefully about.