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Welcome to Teaching Autism! Here you will find engaging, hands-on and differentiated activities that are used by thousands of students all around the world. From task boxes to adapted books and binders.. You’ll find resources that I’ve successfully used in over 10 years of my career.
Hi! I'm Nikki, an autism specialist with over 10 years of experience working with students aged 3-19. My passion for creating hands-on and engaging resources, as well as providing support to other educators all around the world is what led me to create 'Teaching Autism.'
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Editable Phone Number Dialing Practice | Life Skills Task Boxes for Special Ed
Are you looking for engaging activities for your life skills activities? Do your students need to work on their phone number practice? If so, this task box is the perfect addition to your life skills lessons. What's Included?21 phone number cards.Phone with buttons to push.Empty phone number cards with numbers to match or for students to write in.Editable PDF (Open in Adobe PDF READER!) with different options where you can add images, text and phone numbers to personalize this task box to yo
K - 1st
Other (ELA), Other (Math), Reading
Life Skills Adapted Binder for Special Education | Independent Work & Functional
Looking for a comprehensive, hands-on way to teach functional life skills in your special education classroom? This Life Skills Adapted Binder includes 26 real-world life skills activities designed to help students build independence, confidence, and practical daily living skills through structured, visual, and repeatable practice. Perfect for Special Education, Autism classrooms, life skills programs, and independent work, this binder supports students in learning skills they can actually us
PreK - 2nd
For All Subjects, Money Math, Other (ELA)
CCSS
RF.K.1a
Life Skills Task Boxes for Special Education | Independent Living Activities
If you are building a life skills curriculum for your special education or autism classroom, this Life Skills Task Boxes Bundle gives you hands-on, structured, independent work tasks that target real-world functional skills your students need. The task boxes included in this bundle are;Clothing on the Washing Line - Following InstructionsGrocery ShoppingLife Skills Sentence MatchingPutting Away GroceriesRooms of a House SortingIdentifying Objects in Rooms of the HouseUS Money Shopping - FallBei
K - 1st
For All Subjects, Reading, Vocabulary
Monthly Fine Motor Journals for Special Education Year Long Morning Work Centers
Need low-prep fine motor activities you can use every single day? These monthly fine motor journals give you ready-to-go morning work and centers that build essential skills all year long. Save time and build essential skills with these year-long fine motor journals, designed for autism and special education students. Each monthly journal includes 20+ hands-on activities that support fine motor development while keeping students engaged and independent. Perfect for: Morning work Centers In
PreK - 1st
English Language Arts, Reading, Vocabulary
I Am Working For Visuals for Special Education | Autism Visuals
'I Am Working For' token charts are a great behavior management tool to use with your autism and special education students. They are a visual resource which will help motivate and encourage students to complete their work task(s) in order to gain tokens to receive their reward/choice item at the end of it as well as providing them with the opportunity to stay focused. As professionals, we all know that students work at a variety of different paces and levels to each other, which is why in th
PreK - 5th
Also included in: How to Set Up Your Autism Classroom | Autism Classroom Resources
Fine Motor Skills Task Boxes | Fine Motor Activities for Special Education
Support your students’ development with these engaging Fine Motor Task Boxes for Special Education. This bundle includes a variety of hands-on fine motor activities designed to strengthen hand muscles, improve coordination, and support early academic skills. These fine motor task boxes are perfect for special education classrooms, autism classrooms, preschool programs, and kindergarten classrooms. Each task is designed to encourage independent work while helping students build essential fin
PreK - K
Geometry, Numbers, Vocabulary
WH Question Picture Scenes for Speech Therapy | Year Long WH Questions Bundle
Are you looking for engaging WH question picture scenes for speech therapy that you can use all year long? Do you need differentiated WH question activities that work for mixed-ability groups, early intervention, autism classrooms, and special education students? This Year Long WH Questions Picture Scenes Bundle is designed to make teaching WH questions simple, structured, and highly engaging. With themed picture scenes for every season and holiday, this bundle gives you endless opportunities
PreK - 1st
Other (ELA), Vocabulary
Cause and Effect Activities | Task Boxes for Special Education
Are you looking for hands-on and engaging work task boxes for your special education students? Do you want your students to work on their cause and effect recognition skills? If so, this matching cause and effect activities task box is perfect for your students. Students need to look at the first image and scenario on the puzzle, and then find what happens next and connect them together to make a cause and effect puzzle. InstructionsPrint the puzzles.Cut out and laminate each of the individ
PreK - 1st
English Language Arts
Also included in: 149 Task Boxes for Special Education | Year Long Autism Work Box Bundle
Valentine’s Day Wh- Questions for Speech Therapy | Special Education
Looking for Valentine’s Day wh-questions for speech therapy that are engaging, visual, and easy to use? This Valentine’s Day speech and language resource helps students practice who, what, and where questions using fun, themed scenes that support comprehension, attention, and expressive language. Perfect for speech therapy, special education, early intervention, and language groups, this no-prep resource provides structured practice with built-in data tracking. What’s included This resource inc
PreK - 1st
Other (ELA), Vocabulary
Life Skills Activities for Special Education | Functional Daily Living Skills
Are you looking for functional, hands-on life skills activities that help students build real-world independence? This Life Skills Activities Bundle for Special Education includes engaging, differentiated activities that target money skills, shopping, daily living routines, and community-based learning. Perfect for autism classrooms, life skills programs, and special education settings, this bundle supports meaningful, functional skill development that students can apply in everyday life. What’
K - 3rd
Other (ELA), Reading, Vocabulary
Fine Motor Skills Task Cards | Fine Motor Task Box for Special Education
Do your students need to work on their fine motor and pre-handwriting skills? If so, these fine motor skill task cards are perfect to use with your students. With 161 task cards included, your students will have plenty of opportunities to work on their pre-handwriting skills. These task cards feature a variety of images that students can trace over or within the lines, providing a fun and interactive way to develop essential motor skills. Developing fine motor skills is crucial for our stud
PreK - 1st
Speech Therapy Boom Cards | WH Questions, Prepositions & Teletherapy Bundle
Looking for engaging Speech Therapy Boom Cards that target WH questions, prepositions, category sorting, and language comprehension for teletherapy and distance learning? This Speech Therapy Boom Cards Bundle includes interactive, no-prep digital activities designed for speech therapy sessions, special education classrooms, teletherapy, and online learning. These self-checking digital task cards help students practice answering WH questions, identifying prepositions, sorting categories, and bu
PreK - 1st
Other (ELA), Reading, Vocabulary
Big and Small Sorting | Task Boxes for Special Education
Are you looking for hands-on and engaging work task boxes for your special education students? Do you want your students to work on their big and small sorting skills? If so, this task box is perfect for your students. Students need to identify what size the images are on the task card, and then match the symbol (big or small) onto it. InstructionsPrint the task cards and symbols.Cut out and laminate each of the individual cards and symbols.Students need to match the symbol sizes onto the ta
PreK - 1st
English Language Arts
Also included in: 149 Task Boxes for Special Education | Year Long Autism Work Box Bundle
Birthday Math Activity Counting Work Task Box for Special Education
Are you looking for hands-on and engaging work task boxes for your autism and special education students? Do you want your students to love working on their counting, color recognition and fine motor skills? Or are you looking for a sensory and hands-on activity to add to your math centers? If you say yes to any of those questions - this birthday math activity is the perfect addition to your task boxes. Your students will love working on their number, instruction, counting and f
PreK - K
Math
CCSS
K.CC.B.4
Spring WH Questions for Speech Therapy | Spring Picture Scenes
Are you looking for engaging Spring WH questions for speech therapy that keep your students motivated and excited to learn? This Spring WH Questions resource is the perfect way to bring seasonal fun into your speech therapy sessions while targeting essential language and comprehension skills. With 10 different spring-themed picture scenes, this pack gives you structured, visually supported WH question practice that works beautifully in speech therapy, autism classrooms, early intervention, and
PreK - 1st
Other (ELA), Vocabulary
CVC Words Word to Picture Matching Activities | Phonics & Reading Centers
Make learning CVC words fun, hands-on, and engaging with these interactive CVC Words Word to Picture Matching Activities! These activities help students strengthen their early reading, vocabulary, picture recognition, and phonics skills while building confidence with CVC words. Students match CVC words to the correct pictures, helping them connect written words with real meaning and visual understanding. This is especially helpful for beginning readers, non-verbal students, autistic learners,
PreK - 1st
English Language Arts, Reading, Vocabulary
Identifying Prepositions Boom Cards | Speech Therapy Distance Learning
Do your students need to work on identifying prepositions? Do they need to work on their fine motor and mouse skills? Are you looking for an online resource to get your speech therapy students working on their prepositions skills during distance learning?If so, this identifying prepositions words boom cards resource is perfect for you to use with your students. There are 28 Boom Cards / preposition tasks included in this resource. How to UseStudents need to look at the 2 images on each pag
K - 1st
Shark Number Recognition 0-50 | Math Shark Week Activities
This shark themed number game is a great way for students to work on their instructional skills, listening skills, and number recognition skills. This shark game will be a great way for you to celebrate shark week in your setting. Instructions:Print out the pages that you wish to useCut out the mouth of the shark and laminate the shark page so students can post through his mouth. Or cut out the shark on his own, cut out his mouth and then put onto a box so that students post the number throu
PreK - K
Math, Numbers
149 Task Boxes for Special Education | Year Long Autism Work Box Bundle
Are you constantly creating independent work for your special education students? Do you want a structured, year-long task box system that builds independence, reinforces IEP goals, and keeps students engaged all year? This Year Long Task Boxes Bundle for Special Education includes 149 hands-on task boxes covering math, literacy, life skills, fine motor, language, and functional skills. With a total value of over $260, this mega bundle gives you a complete independent work system for just $1
PreK - 1st
Numbers, Reading, Vocabulary
477 Adapted Books Mega Bundle for Special Education | Autism Interactive Books
Are you tired of constantly searching for adapted books for your special education classroom? Do you want a COMPLETE, done-for-you adapted book library that covers reading, life skills, WH questions, vocabulary, counting, alphabet skills, holidays, seasons, and so much more? This 477 Adapted Books Mega Bundle for Special Education gives you everything. With a total value of over $573, this bundle is designed to save you time, reduce prep stress, and give you years of hands-on, engaging learnin
PreK - 1st
English Language Arts, Reading, Vocabulary
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Experience
Welcome to Teaching Autism! Here you will find engaging, hands-on and differentiated activities that are used by thousands of students all around the world. From task boxes to adapted books and binders.. You’ll find resources that I’ve successfully used in over 10 years of my career.
Hi! I'm Nikki, an autism specialist with over 10 years of experience working with students aged 3-19. My passion for creating hands-on and engaging resources, as well as providing support to other educators all around the world is what led me to create 'Teaching Autism.'
Teaching style
Nikki has always been passionate about creating engaging, student-led learning opportunities that foster independence and confidence. Her focus is on helping each student reach their full potential in ways that align with their individual strengths, abilities, and needs.
A strong believer in "less stress, more success," Nikki founded Teaching Autism to share high-quality, ready-to-use resources designed to support educators while easing the day-to-day pressure.
Her creative and innovative teaching approach has earned her a stellar reputation with schools around the world. From hosting a pretend wedding in a real wedding venue to transforming classrooms into monthly crime scenes, Nikki brings a unique, imaginative twist to learning - making lessons not only educational, but truly unforgettable.
Awards & shining teacher moments
I’m proud to have been recognized for my dedication to the autism community and the work I do through Teaching Autism. I was honored to be a runner-up for an Autism Heroes Award in recognition of my commitment to supporting autistic students.
My website, TeachingAutism.co.uk, was named the #1 Best UK Autism Blog in 2018, and in 2019, Teaching Autism was a runner-up for the Online Social Network Award. That same year, I was also voted the 21st Best Autism Blog on the internet.
My own education history
On top of my educational qualifications, I have also received training in; Play, Sensology, Autism, What is Autism?, PECS, Google Classroom, First Aid, Epilepsy, Fire Safety, CPI, MAPA, Literacy, Numeracy, ICT, SEN: Autism, SEN: Behaviour, Non-Verbal Literacy, Non-Verbal Math, Rights Respecting Schools, Sensory Integration, Makaton, Food Hygiene, Numicon, Read Write Inc., Language Link, Manual Handling, Infant Links, Making Maths Fun, SIMS, Behaviour Watch, BookCreator, iPad, Touch Trust, Music Therapy, Sensology, Social Eyes, Early Intervention Behaviour Management for Teachers, Safeguarding, ELKLAN taster, SCERTS, ABA, Understanding Autism, along with attending regular conferences.
Additional biographical information
I share my knowledge, experience and training with the world through my;
- Blog; https://teachingautism.co.uk
- Podcast; https://www.learningwithnikki.com/podcasts/teaching-autism-and-special-education-by-nikki
- Online Training Course for Autism and Special Education Teachers; https://www.learningwithnikki.com/autism-classroom-training
- Monthly VIP Membership; https://www.learningwithnikki.com/monthly-membership-sales-page
- Task Box Library https://www.learningwithnikki.com/the-task-box-library
You can also view videos of my resources in action at my Youtube channel; https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8jqVhrHKB3zMAlzOQSnnyA/videos?view_as=subscriber
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