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This is a visual designed to support students who are non-verbal or have limited verbal skills in communicating their wants and needs. This visual allows students to express when they are hungry, thirsty, need the bathroom, need a break and need to take a walk to release some energy. To use, print on cardstock for durability. Laminate. Cut out the "I want" sentence strip and cut out the square icons depicting choices individually. Place hard velcro on the blank square on the sentence strip. Plac

This resource contains everything you need to build an ABA program within your classroom! Included you will find over 640 probes (with data sheets) pulled directly from the VB-MAPP AND ABLLS assessments, master assessment binder with picture cards (a HUGE money and time saver), color-coded picture cards based on skill, editable data sheets, implementation guide and tips/tricks for making a successful program. I encourage you to view the file preview!! Brought to you by 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

I created this visual for a student who had a difficult time interrupting during group instruction. Dependent on the expectations of each activity within the day, I switch the icon to indicate what a student should be doing communication wise (be quiet- no sounds while walking in the hallway, wait- it's not my turn yet and I need to listen to others in the group, talk- it's my turn to share my thinking). I have since used this visual with multiple students with measured success. This visual also

Get your hands on this hit of a resource! This download contains a choice board for 12 different monthly thematic songs (8 songs per month) that students can request. These songs will help promote seasonal vocabulary in a motivating, engaging way! In addition to monthly thematic songs, this download contains... - a choice board for requesting different instruments (16 choices) - mini-activity schedule icons to create a schedule within a schedule - a social story to describe music group expecta

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 contains both daily calendar activities AND visuals to practice personal information for students with special needs. This resource can be adapted for writers and non-writers for easy differentiation in your diverse classroom! Included in this resource: - review of classroom rules/behavior expectations -feelings check-in (color-coded visuals) -today is, yesterday was, tomorrow will be... - the month/year/ weather is... - i am a boy/girl - my eye color/ hair color is... - my height (in f

This is an adapted book designed to teach students to answer yes/no questions. The book contains symbolized text to support non-readers and emerging readers. Students respond to a yes/no question by selecting a picture and text icon containing the word yes or no and velcroing it to a blank space. There are real life pictures to accompany the text. There are 20 pages within the book. This book was designed for students with the autism spectrum in mind. Brought to you by autism elementary. ---

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 is an adapted book based on the ABLLS and VB-MAPP assessments that targets Listener Responding: Feature Function Class level 3 targets. Students will respond to questions by selecting an item from an array of 9 picture cards containing similar stimuli (e.g. colors, shapes) for 45 different questions. Students can either listen to a teacher read the questions out loud before selecting their answers, or students who are readers can complete this book independently. If your learners are not ye

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 the one purchase you need for Halloween-themed activities for your special education classroom or speech therapy sessions! For each activity, there are three differentiated levels of student work, so that content can be accessible to students whose abilities range from students who are working on errorless matching to students who are producing sentences. This mega-pack includes... - 3 lessons on describing a pumpkin - 3 lessons on identifying/sorting items that are associated with Hal

Since answering "wh” questions can be tricky for students with communication difficulties (ex. where do you sleep?), I developed differentiated activities for students to identify Feature, Function, Class (FFC) objectives by filling in phrases (ex. you sleep in a...). Depending on student ability, present students with an array of three to six picture/vocabulary cards to select their answer choices. Level 1 students (green template) are students who benefit from errorless learning and are workin

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

Do you have students who are emerging readers but seem to be lacking in the comprehension department? Teach your students to build fluency AND comprehension with this adapted book designed for learners who typically struggle with "WH" questions. This book allows students to read simple sentences that emphasize learning pronouns and action words and demonstrate comprehension of text by matching a photo from a field of three choices that describes the picture. Better yet, the photo choices contain

This is an adapted book to target the skill of filling in the name of an object when given an object's feature. This skill is pulled from the ABLLS assessment (H17). Students will select answer choices from a field of four picture card icons with text. This adapted book builds language skills, reading fluency, and recognition of common sight words. Great for special education, early intervention, ABA therapy, or speech therapy! To assemble, print all pages. You will need to print 16 copies of

Bumblebee, Bumblebee what do you see? This thematic adapted book mirrors the beloved Eric Carl stories and teaches students to identify what color and what object for spring vocabulary words. It's a great resource for teaching high frequency words to emerging readers and is accessible to students who are not yet able to answer "what" questions without the use of visual supports. All instructions for assembling this book included in download! Let's be pals! Follow @autismelementary on Instagra

This is a prep-free download to support your special education classroom in attending a Community outing to a pumpkin patch! Here's what's included: Lesson Plan Two versions of a parent letter Social story Visuals to support during the outing Differentiated journals for students to complete after the outing Visuals for a post-activity (decorating pumpkins)

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