Autism Class

✦I created these visual references of 20 functional signs for my non-verbal students with autism, parents, and staff members who work with the children. After I started learning signs and teaching my students I realized that the signs would not be useful if not generalized across settings. So I created printables to send home to parents, as well as hand out to our specialist teachers (gym, art, music) and any other staff who worked with the students. Includes: ✧ Visual Reference Sheets 20 Fu

Need something fun to make community trips more meaningful? ✯Use this activity year after year with special education classes while taking community trips to the grocery store! Put each scavenger hunt sheet on a clipboard and have students work in pairs, with an adult, or in a small group to find and check off each item on their list. This activity can be used with students of all levels, as it includes great visuals paired with words. Lists can be used multiple times because there are 10 dif

Great for Social Skills Groups!✫Social Questions:30 question cards that can be used to practice social questions individually or used to spark conversation topics during social/ language groups. You can cut, laminate, put on a key ring, and use one set for individual practice or group conversation practice. Another option is for students to write their answers on the back of each card and practice asking/ answering with each other. ★Or consider getting Conversation Skills which includes 20

✰ Perfect Resource for Non-verbal Students!!! Best-Selling and Use Daily Year after Year!!!✦Both "Functional Sign Language" and "Functional Sign Language Part Two" bundled together at a discounted price! Great for non-verbal students! Includes: ✧ Visual Reference Sheets 40 Functional Signs. Great printables to send home to parents, specialist teachers (gym, art, music) and any other caregivers who work with the child! Includes instructions for the more difficult signs. A total of 9 visual r

✰ Sentence Comprehension: Level One:Use these 15 cut and paste worksheets to encourage your students to learn basic sentence comprehension skills. They are a fun way to introduce the skill or to continue practice. Students are asked to read one sentence at a time and match the correct pictures to them. Great for special education--especially designed for children with autism! If this looks too easy, check out:Sentence Comprehension: Level Two or Sentence Comprehension: Level ThreeOR check o

☆Behavior Consequence: "If, Then" Statement Puzzles: Includes 10 sets, for a total of 20 puzzle pieces. Great as an aid for students to learn through words and visuals consequences for both positive and negative behaviors. Various options for use: 1. Students cut out each set of puzzle pieces. Then, they mix up the pieces and practice matching them. Put the cards into the “If, Then Pocket” for storage when finished. 2. The puzzle pieces can also be used as a center activity (laminate for

✫ Sign Language Flashcards for Portable Use! Daily Tool!Flashcards for 40 functional signs. For best use, print flashcards on cardstock and laminate. You can put them on a key ring for portable use. Great for students, teachers, staff, parents, and caregivers! Useful daily, in many settings, year after year!!The signs included are:✫ "Angry" ✫ "Sick" ✫ "Sad" ✫ "Happy" ✫ "Tired" ✫ "Where" ✫ "What" ✫ "When" ✫ "Hot" ✫ "Cold" ✫ "Coat" ✫ "Home" ✫ "Look-At-That" ✫ "Work" ✫ "Friend" ✫ "Wait" ✫ "Soo

✰ Excellent Functional Skill!•Students cut out the “grocery item" pictures and sort them between the “grocery store aisle cards.” Answer key included with pictures, so teacher or student can check their work. Great to promote independence! Use as a group activity or laminate for an independent work station/ center. ★Great idea for a special education class prior to taking a community trip to a grocery store! There are 16 sorting cards for the following grocery aisles:-Fruits and Vegetables -M

✬✯✰ Practice Counting Coin Combinations!Includes:• Counting dimes & pennies combinations o 4 worksheets adding dime and penny combinations and 2 worksheets adding candy using dime and penny combinations Counting nickels & pennies combinations o 4 worksheets adding nickel and penny combinations and 2 worksheets adding candy using nickel and penny combinations Counting quarters & pennies combinations o 4 worksheets adding quarter and penny combinations and 2 worksheets adding toys using quarter

Great for Back to School Rules, Social Studies: Learning about Laws, and Comparing Rules vs. Laws. Ideal for students with special needs and children with autism because picture symbols are used! Can be used as a cut/ paste or a center's activity! Includes Standards! ★ Instructions and Description:1. Go over each rule or law and its meaning with students. 2. Have students cut out the word cards and picture cards. If printed in black/ white, have students color picture cards. 3. Have students

✶ Fantastic to Teach Basic Comprehension Skills!!Includes basic, visually oriented, differentiated worksheets to help students master and differentiate between "who," "what," "when," and "where" using visuals to enhance understanding. These worksheets are great for students with autism and other disabilities or for young learners. Great assessment tool as well! ✬ This package includes:•4 posters (Who, What, When, Where) •10 worksheets for Who •10 worksheets for What •10 worksheets for When •1

☆ Use this Tool Daily, Year after Year!Play Skills Data Sheet: Three levels that can be used for both initial assessment and ongoing play data collection. Great for creating goals and progress monitoring! The criteria used is research based and developmentally consecutive based on level. ✯ You May Also Like:Social Skills Lap BookSocial Skills: Good vs. Bad ChoicesSocial Skills: Perspective Thinking SkillsVisual Schedule for Autism BundleVisual Schedule for Autism: Home and Community PiecesDail

★This product can be used anytime during the school year, but is a great introductory unit to get to know your students! Great idea to display for Back to School Night! Also, great for a Social Studies Unit! If your students are unable to tell you all information needed, send home the questionnaire on the following page for parents/ guardians to complete. ★ Product is differentiated! As a special education teacher, differentiation is my specialty!! This being said, there are two copies

✰ Synonym and Antonym Bundle!!! Get two great products for less! Includes:Building Vocabulary- Antonyms:16 Antonym Cut and Pastes: Match the antonyms to the pictures by cutting and pasting the antonym pairs under the appropriate picture and 16 Antonym Write the Words: Match the antonyms to the pictures by using the word bank to write the antonym pairs under the appropriate picture. Plus, an Antonym List of 30 antonym pairs! Pairs are repeated for practice and mastery. Building Vocabulary- Sy

Students use pictures to sort between who, what, when, and where. There are nine pictures for each category. Great for beginning comprehension skills! Works wonderfully for children with autism and special needs. ✫Directions to make File Folder Games: 1. Glue Who, What, When, & Where pages into a file folder or on cardstock 2. Print the pictures on cardstock 3. Laminate all pages 4. Use Velcro on the Who, What, When, and Where pages and on the pictures 5. Put the pictures in a container and

This includes four spring themed cut and paste activities. Great for developing basic language concepts! I created these activities for my autistic support class because they struggle with the following concepts, which the activities are based on: 1. Match words to pictures 2. Picture association/ Basic analogies 3. Descriptors: Matching pictures to phrases 4. Positional Words: Matching pictures to sentences More Spring products: More seasonal products: Spring Number SenseSpring PrepositionsMo

★☆Sort Between Habitats!! This product includes the Forest, Desert, and Ocean habitats. It provides definitions of each habitat, large, colorful pictures of habitats, pictures of animals (5 animals per habitat) to cut and paste, options for product use (Centers, Group Work, Booklet) an answer key, and a review worksheet. The main activity is sorting: students cut/ paste the animals into their correct habitat. There are two versions per habitat (one real life photo and one clipart version.) C

✰ Do your student struggle with basic comprehension skills?This engaging set of 15 cut and paste activities provide students with the opportunity to learn comprehension skills on their level. Students read two sentences at a time and match each sentence to the correct picture. Level Two is designed to make students look for basic context clues amongst sentences in order to determine which picture fits. ★✯ Is this too hard? Check out: Sentence Comprehension: Level One★✯ Or is it too easy? Chec

Create a Map Includes:☼ Begin by reviewing map symbols using the two “What’s the Map Symbol?” Worksheets ☼ Have students color and cut out the symbols on the “Map Symbols” page ☼ Then, students glue the symbols into the boxes on the “Map Key” sheet • Next, students write what each symbol stands for on the line next to each symbol ☼ Attach the map key to a large, blank sheet of construction paper ☼ Then, have students create a map • Begin by having them draw roads, sidewalks, and pat

Use this visual schedule all day, everyday, year after year! A visual schedule is imperative for children with autism. It helps ease transitions and creates structure/ routine in the classroom. Here are 37 visual schedule pictures that I created and use daily with my students. I update the product whenever I add more pieces in my classroom :) The schedule includes the following: 1. Bathroom 2. Lunch 3. Go Home 4. Morning Work 5. Centers (two different choices) 6. Play Centers (two differen