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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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Body Parts Matching | Boom Cards for Special Education
Are you looking for a digital resource for your students to work on identifying parts of their body? Do your students need to work on their symbol recognition skills? Are you looking for online resources to use with your special education students? If so, this identifying body parts themed Boom deck is perfect to use with your students. How to UseEach page of the Boom deck contains a question, an image and 3 possible answers.Students read - or be read - the question, "What body part is it?"Th
PreK - 1st
Science
FREE Earth Day Recycling Task Box | Recyclable vs Non Recyclable Sorting
Looking for free Earth Day activities that are hands on, engaging, and meaningful? This FREE Earth Day Recycling Task Box helps students learn the difference between recyclable and non recyclable items while building sorting, life skills, and environmental awareness. Perfect for special education, autism classrooms, life skills programs, and Earth Day lessons, this activity is simple to prep and easy for students to understand. What Students Do Students will:Look at each item cardDecide if t
PreK - K
English Language Arts, Environment, General Science
Animal Habitats Adapted Books | Errorless Learning for Special Education
Are you looking for errorless learning adapted books to help students identify animal habitats in a clear, structured, and confidence-building way? Do your students benefit from hands-on, visual matching activities designed for autism and special education? These Animal Habitats Adapted Books are perfect for teaching where animals live using an errorless learning approach that reduces frustration and builds independence. What’s Included This resource includes 5 themed adapted books, each foc
PreK - 1st
Other (ELA), Reading, Science
Parts of a Pumpkin Adapted Book | Pumpkin Science for Special Education
Are you looking for a hands-on and engaging pumpkin science activity for your special education students? Do your students need support identifying and understanding the parts of a pumpkin in a clear, visual way? This pumpkin parts adapted book is a perfect addition to your fall or pumpkin unit. This interactive adapted book allows students to explore the different parts of a pumpkin while building vocabulary, comprehension, and symbol recognition skills. How This Adapted Book Works Each page
PreK - 1st
Other (ELA), Science, Vocabulary
Animal Habitats Matching Task Box Activity
Are your students struggling with their animal habitat skills? Or are you looking for some fun and hands-on animal activities to add to your centers? If so, these animal habitats task cards are perfect for your students to use in their independent work task boxes. Each habitat comes with 4 animals to match with. Habitats IncludedDesertOceanArcticRainforestWetlandAnimals IncludedCamelSnakeScorpionVultureClownfishDolphinSharkWhaleArctic FoxPuffinPolar BearSnowy OwlMonkeyPantherParrotTigerAllig
PreK - 1st
Science
Also included in: 149 Task Boxes for Special Education | Year Long Autism Work Box Bundle
Mammals v Insects Sorting Categories Task Cards
Are you working on animals with your students? Or do your students need to work on their category sorting skills? If so, these mammals vs insects sorting categories task cards are the perfect addition to your classroom. Your kindergarten, special education and autism students will love working on their categorizing skills with these mammals vs insects sorting cards. There are 28 different task cards included. Each task card contains an image of a mammal or insect. Students need to decide whe
PreK - K
Science
Living and Non Living Things Category Sorting Cards
Are you working on living and non living things with your students? Or do your students need to work on their category sorting skills? If so, these living vs non-living sorting categories task cards are the perfect addition to your classroom. Your kindergarten, special education and autism students will love working on their categorizing skills with these living vs non-living sorting cards. There are 60 different task cards included. Each task card contains an image of an living vs non-livi
PreK - K
Science
Five Senses Questions | Free Boom Cards
Do your students need to work on their five senses skills? Are you looking for online resources to use with your special education students for working on question and answering skills? Do your students love to use Boom cards? If so, this free five senses questions Boom deck is perfect to use for distance learning.How to UseEach page of the Boom deck contains a question, and image and 3 possible answers on the right.Students read - or be read - the sentence and matching questions.Students
PreK - K
Science
Zoo Shadow Matching Task Box | Special Education & Early Learners
Looking for a fun, hands-on way to boost visual discrimination and matching skills? This Zoo Shadow Matching Task Box is perfect for early years, special education, and preschool students who thrive on engaging, visual learning activities! Students will love identifying and matching familiar zoo animals (like giraffes, lions, snakes, koalas, and more) to their corresponding shadows. This resource helps build: Visual perception and recognitionAnimal identification skillsIndependent work habitsFi
PreK - K
Other (Science), Visual Arts, Vocabulary
Also included in: Zoo Task Boxes for Special Education | Growing Bundle of Task Boxes
Sea v Land Sorting Categories Task Cards
Are you working on animals with your students? Or do your students need to work on their category sorting skills? If so, these sea vs land animal sorting categories task cards are the perfect addition to your classroom. Your kindergarten, special education and autism students will love working on their categorizing skills with these sea vs land animal habitat sorting cards. There are 40 different task cards included. Each task card contains an image of an sea or land animal. Students need to
PreK - K
Science
Butterfly Life Cycle WH Questions Task Cards | Autism Visuals Science Activities
Looking for a hands-on, engaging way to teach WH questions while exploring the butterfly life cycle? These Butterfly Life Cycle WH Question Task Cards are perfect for helping students build understanding, communication, and sequencing skills using clear visuals and structured support. Students will read (or be read) the WH question, look closely at the image, and choose the correct answer from visual options. This makes it ideal for learners who benefit from visual supports, repetition, and p
PreK - K
Other (Science), Reading, Vocabulary
Weather Around the World Worksheets Weather Activities, Geography & Life Skills
Make learning about weather, countries, geography, and life skills fun and engaging with this Weather Around the World Activity Book! This printable workbook includes 54 differentiated worksheets that take students on an exciting adventure around the world with the “Weather Friends” as they explore different countries and weather conditions. Perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, special education, autism classrooms, homeschool learning, literacy centers, life skills lessons, morning
K - 1st
Geography, Math, Science
Farm Shadow Matching Task Box | Special Education & Early Learners
Looking for a fun, hands-on way to boost visual discrimination and matching skills? This Farm Shadow Matching Task Box is perfect for early years, special education, and preschool students who thrive on engaging, visual learning activities! Students will love identifying and matching familiar farm animals (like sheep, cows, pigs, horses, and more) to their corresponding shadows. This resource helps build: Visual perception and recognitionAnimal identification skillsIndependent work habitsFine m
PreK - K
Other (Science), Visual Arts, Vocabulary
Also included in: Farm Task Boxes for Special Education | Bundle of Task Boxes
Animal Habitats Sorting Mats
These animal habitat sorting mats are perfect for getting your students to work on identifying animals and their habitats. Students need to identify the animal on the card and then match it to the appropriate habitat. Habitats IncludedArcticDesertForestOceanRainforestWetlandsInstructionsPrint out all of the included pages.Cut out and laminate each of the individual animal cards.Laminate the habitat pages.Students need to match the animal cards to the habitat page.Click below to find:Animal H
PreK - 1st
Science
Planting a Tree Adapted Book | Earth Day Activities | Special Education
Looking for a meaningful and engaging Earth Day activity for your students? Follow James as he plants a tree in this interactive Adapted Book, designed to support comprehension, answering questions, and language development in a structured, hands-on way. Perfect for special education, this resource helps students actively engage with the story while building essential skills. What Students Will Do Students will: Follow the story of James planting a tree Read (or listen to) simple sentences
PreK - 1st
English Language Arts, Science, Vocabulary
Also included in: Science Adapted Books for Special Education
Pet Shadow Matching Task Box | Special Education & Early Learners
Looking for a fun, hands-on way to boost visual discrimination and matching skills? This Pet Shadow Matching Task Box is perfect for early years, special education, and preschool students who thrive on engaging, visual learning activities! Students will love identifying and matching familiar pets (like dogs, cats, rabbits, parrots, and more) to their corresponding shadows. This resource helps build: Visual perception and recognitionAnimal identification skillsIndependent work habitsFine motor s
PreK - K
Other (Science), Visual Arts, Vocabulary
Also included in: Pet Task Boxes for Special Education | Growing Bundle of Task Boxes
Transport Shadow Matching Task Box | Special Education & Early Learners
Looking for a fun, hands-on way to boost visual discrimination and matching skills? This Transport Shadow Matching Task Box is perfect for early years, special education, and preschool students who thrive on engaging, visual learning activities! Students will love identifying and matching familiar modes of transport to their corresponding shadows. This resource helps build: Visual perception and recognitionTransport identification skillsIndependent work habitsFine motor skills (when used with v
PreK - K
Other (Science), Visual Arts, Vocabulary
Also included in: Transport Task Boxes for Special Education | Bundle of Task Boxes
Ocean Animals Matching Activity
Teach your students all about different ocean animals with this adorable photograph to symbol matching activity. These puzzles are a great way for students to learn about ocean animals and being able to recognize them in different image formats. This is also great to introduce your students to symbols and to work on their symbol recognition skills. How to UseThe task cards come with a photograph and name of an ocean animal on one side, and blank on the other.Students need to use their oc
PreK - K
English Language Arts, Science
Category Sorting Cards Insects vs Jungle Animals
Are you working on insects and animals with your students? Or do your students need to work on their category sorting skills? If so, these insects vs jungle animal sorting categories task cards are the perfect addition to your classroom. Your kindergarten, special education and autism students will love working on their categorizing skills with these insects vs jungle animal sorting cards. There are 27 different task cards included. Each task card contains an image of an insects vs jungle an
PreK - K
Science
Weather Activities, Independent Work Task Box
Are you looking for hands-on and engaging work task boxes for your special education students? Do you want your students to work on the weather and their pre-handwriting skills? If so, this weather task box is perfect for your students. Students need to identify what the image of the weather is on the task card, overwrite the weather word and then match the symbol to the image out of 2 options on the bottom of the task cards. You will need to provide your students with a dry-wipe pen
PreK - 1st
Science
Also included in: Weather Task Boxes for Special Education | Growing Bundle of Task Boxes
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About the store
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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.'
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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