How Do I Teach This Kid?-Visual Work Tasks for Beginning Learners on the Autism Spectrum is the first in a series of books designed to share ideas for using visual strategies to teach children with autism. This resource provides special education teachers, therapists, parents, and home-based therapists with practical, easy-to-implement ideas for creating over 80 different work tasks or boxes to be used to teach students to work independently and for an established length of time. This book contains classroom and home-tested ideas for addressing skills in six different areas: sorting, matching, reading, writing, mathematics, and motor tasks. The ideas are designed for early learners, ages 2-10. Other books in the series will focus on teaching young learners beginning reading, writing, and math skills and appropriate play skills using visually structured techniques. Book jacket.

About this Resource

vii

What are task boxes?

ix

Creating an independent work system

xiii

Stuff to save for task boxes

xvi

What do you do with the stuff once you get it?

xvii

Tricks and tips for task box construction

xix

Task boxes to make

Motor tasks

1

(14)

Put blocks in slot

3

(1)

Pull clothespins off box, put in hole

4

(1)

Put mini balls in hole

5

(1)

Pull blocks off box, put in hole

6

(1)

Pull teddy bears off box

7

(1)

Put big checkers in slot

8

(1)

Park cars in spot

9

(1)

Assemble film canisters and drop in slot

10

(1)

Poker chips in slot

11

(1)

Put coins in bank

12

(1)

Put facial features on a potato toy

13

(1)

Block construction

14

(1)

Matching tasks

15

(16)

Plastic egg color match

17

(1)

Clothespin color match

18

(1)

Puzzle piece outline match

19

(1)

Blocks color match

20

(1)

Tile sample color match

21

(1)

Simple picture match

22

(1)

Match block pattern

23

(1)

Memory match

24

(1)

Shape match

25

(1)

Border picture match

26

(1)

Box top match

27

(1)

Object to photo match

28

(1)

Lotto picture match

29

(2)

Sorting tasks

31

(22)

2-color car sort

33

(1)

3-color poker chip sort

34

(1)

4-color game piece sort

35

(1)

3-way colored beads sort

36

(1)

Colored straw sort

37

(1)

Boy-girl sort

38

(1)

Teddy bear color sort

39

(1)

Sports eraser sort

40

(1)

Balls and blocks sort

41

(1)

Ghosts and pumpkins sort

42

(1)

Apples and pumpkins sort

43

(1)

Paint card sort

44

(1)

Crayon sort

45

(1)

Plastic utensils sort

46

(1)

Sort sports cards by category

47

(1)

File index cards by color

48

(1)

Same/different sort

49

(1)

Texture sort

50

(1)

Category sort

51

(1)

Sort by size

52

(1)

Reading tasks

53

(20)

Alphabet sequence

55

(1)

Upper to lower case letter match

56

(1)

Word to word match

57

(1)

Word to picture match

58

(1)

Clothespin word to picture match

59

(1)

Blocks to color words match

60

(1)

Paper clips to color words match

61

(1)

Sentence to picture match

62

(1)

Initial sound sort

63

(1)

Initial letter match

64

(1)

Character and setting sort

65

(1)

3-part story sequence

66

(1)

File by first letter

67

(1)

File words by category

68

(1)

Alphabetical order on clothespins

69

(1)

Holiday to month name binder

70

(1)

Opposites binder

71

(2)

Writing tasks

73

(10)

Trace lines

75

(1)

Draw lines to match

76

(1)

Spell name sequence

77

(1)

Letter match to spell word

78

(1)

Attach clothespins to spell words

79

(1)

Simple sentence construction with pictures

80

(1)

Simple sentence construction with words

81

(2)

Math tasks

83

(14)

1:1 correspondence with pegs and film canisters

85

(1)

1:1 correspondence with cotton balls and ice cube tray

86

(1)

Count dots, match to number

87

(1)

Count sets of items, match to number

88

(1)

Sequence numbers on strip

89

(1)

Make sets on a box

90

(1)

Fill in the sequence with missing number

91

(1)

Sequence by skip counting

92

(1)

Size seriation

93

(1)

Make sets in ice cube tray

94

(1)

Make sets in cups

95

(1)

Extend pattern with stickers

96

(1)

Appendix I: Sample IEP goals

97

(6)

Appendix II: Data sheets for tracking independence

103

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