Free Halloween Pictures: Visual Supports for Autistic and Non-Speaking People
Updated: 3 days ago
For a profoundly autistic person who does not speak, Halloween can be confusing. Familiar people look different in costumes, the doorbell rings again and again, and strangers in masks stand at the door. With pictures you can go through the evening in advance, so it is easier to know what will happen.
Halloween in pictures
The Borrowed Peace picture bank has pictures for the usual steps of Halloween:
We carve a pumpkin
We decorate for Halloween
I put on my costume
Trick or treating
Ringing the doorbell
I get sweets at the door
Trick or treaters at the door
I give out sweets
We carve a pumpkin We decorate for Halloween I put on my costume Trick or treating Ringing the doorbell I get sweets at the door Trick or treaters at the door I give out sweets
When Halloween is too much
Nobody has to take part in everything. You can come home early from trick or treating, and a note on the door helps if the doorbell is too much. With pictures a person can show that a sound is bothering them or that something is scary, and an adult can show what happens next.
Doorbell sound bothers me Scared Everything is too much Wearing ear defenders Break I go home to recover
Pictures for adults too
Ear defenders and a break are also in the picture bank as pictures of an adult man and woman, along with over 700 other pictures of adults.
Wearing ear defenders, adult man Break, adult woman
How to use the pictures
Look at the pictures together for a few days before Halloween. Repetition makes them familiar.
Choose only the steps that will happen for you. If you are not going trick or treating, you do not need that picture.
Show in advance who will come to the door and what they may look like.
Keep the pictures for a break and for going home with you all evening.
When the evening is over, show what happens next.
Download the pictures for free
The Borrowed Peace picture bank has over 2,600 pictures for everyday life with profound autism. Every picture comes in colour and in black and white, and you can write your own text on it. The picture bank is free and needs no sign-up.
Search for Halloween, pumpkin or sweets to find the pictures.
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