A director's setup guide
Make something useful
- Communicate an own ready arrangement and first action.
- Give an agreeing helper one suitable broad-paper direction, or keep it unperformed.
- Keep your design words and any actual helper action separately.
Example and next help
Write/dictate/draw an own starting arrangement and specific first action. Invite an agreeing operator only for suitable ordinary whole-paper actions. Preserve the child's choices and the operator's actual physical actions separately. A guide can remain unperformed. An unrelated adult broad-card setup demonstrates what makes an instruction usable; no tool/purchase/fastener required.
Blank guide · Play Plan Bench · Paper twin
Grown-up help
Offer speech, sign, AAC, pointing, drawing, faithful dictation, usual home-language support when competent, private work, pause, rest or finish. Ask one part at a time and keep its meaning. No partner, winner, score, time limit or fixed response length is required. Use only locally suitable broad whole paper/card, a checked marking tool and a stable comfortable table. A helper may act exactly as directed; keep the child's idea and the actual operator's action separate. Record an actual event only when it happened. A missing record can mean unknown; it does not establish that no action happened. A supplied story remains fiction.