Autism Elementary

This download contains an adapted book, picture vocabulary cards for receptive/ expressive identification, and a data sheet to track date introduced and date mastered for 21 different verb-noun, noun-verb combinations pulled from the VB-MAPP and ABLLS assessments. Examples of a verb-noun/ noun-verb combination include: boy swimming, girl running, drinking milk, driving car etc. This resource can be used for both expressive and receptive learners. To assess expressive learners, present one p

Let's set our students up for success by showing them a concrete representation of what the expected behaviors are during transitions to/from/ and within different areas in the classroom and school building. This download contains visuals paired with text that outline classroom rules so that you and the various individuals who interact with your students can frequently reference these visuals and ensure that you are using common language. It also contains visual rules specific to entering the cl

These re-usable visual templates contain 18 images of different physical actions for motor imitation (e.g. turn around, wiggle fingers) that can be used to support students in playing Simon Says. The pack also contains a my turn/your turn visual. Playing Simon Says is a great, quick way to give my students a movement break in a structured, functional way. It also allows them to practice taking turns acting as both leader and follower. A highly motivating way to teach imitation, listening skills

This is a resource designed to increase communication opportunities while engaging in structured play. Visuals include Mr. Potato Head, Legos, toy cars, toy airplane and requesting art materials (ex- what color paper? what materials will you use?). There are also two levels of communication strips that can be used in a variety of play skills activities. The first set of visuals includes 12 different commenting/requesting sentence strips (e.g. roll the dice, let's play again). The second level of

This adapted book teaches students to identify and label (receptively or expressively) 50 different everyday items presented in multiple formats. Students will respond to the question "what do you see?" by selecting a different (non-identical) picture of the target item from a field of 4 possible choices. This is intended to help children generalize their knowledge of multiple forms of the same item; a green baseball cap and a tan cowboy hat are both hats. Many of our students will memorize one

This is an adapted book designed to build reading comprehension skills for students who are learning to identify who/what/where questions in presented text. Each page contains a short paragraph and follow-up questions asking students to identify the answers to WH questions. Students select their answers from velcro picture icons. Great for students with autism, non-readers, emerging readers, special education, early childhood and students with disabilities. Brought to you by autism elementary!

This is an adapted book based on the VB - MAPP and ABLLS assessments that targets identification of actions for common scenarios (e.g. riding the bus, blowing bubbles). It contains 32 different sentences with symbolated text supports. Students read the sentence and then match a picture containing a real-life image to the corresponding sentence. Great for building vocabulary of nouns and verbs, enhancing reading comprehension skills, and teaching identification of common words with symbolated tex

This book is designed to teach students to identify items that are commonly associated with different community locations and holidays. Each page contains an image of a community location (e.g. post office) and five blank boxes for students to select and match images paired with text containing commonly associated items (e.g. stamp, envelope, mailbox). This book is great for students who are learning to answer wh questions and categorize. The images make it accessible for non-readers and the tex

This set contains 24 CVC word flashcards containing pictures and blank color-coded boxes (consonants are white, vowels are blue). Students will look at the pictures and select and match the letters to corresponding boxes to spell the cvc word depicted by the picture. Flashcards and letter tiles are intended to be printed on cardstock, laminated and backed by velcro icons for repeated use. Great for students with special needs, emergent readers, early childhood classrooms and early childhood spec

Visual discrimination tasks and the ability to match a variety of generalized images to a sample are important skills that are often a precursor to success with higher levels of Picture Exchange Communication Systems (PECS) and successful access of AAC devices. This product contains 4 differentiated options to teach matching skills for spring vocabulary words. Students can practice identical matching, matching multiple examples of clip art images, and matching real images to clip art images. A