Functional tasks special education

Listen to this Special Ed Podcast with 15 great ideas for Functional Centers for students with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism in High School. Read more and subscribe today!

Who is prepping more work boxes this summer? I just love getting new ideas, especially for our older life skill students! Christina Bailey, a transition life skill teacher, offered to share a bunch of her work boxes on my blog! Thank you Christina! Christina works with transition aged students (19-26 years old) with severe cognitive and/or health impairments. Her school serves students from multiple school districts within the county who learn best in an alternative placement. Are you ready?…

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A list of student business ideas for special education students to practice independence, money math, cooking, responsibility, and so much more!

Using task boxes in your elementary classroom is a great way to stay organized. As a beginning teacher, you can create these task boxes and use it year after year. Task boxes in special education classroom are perfect for independent stations. My special ed students can easily go to the independent center and get out exactly what they need. My teaching them the expectation of the organization it also helps them. Task boxes activities for special ed students can be about anything!

Errorless tasks are great for any special education or early childhood classroom.These mini binder tasks are arranged in a such a way, that the icons which correspond to the image are located at the bottom of the page. The student will choose any icon and stick it on one of the Velcro spaces within that image. The beauty of these tasks is that there is no wrong answer!

Centers or "Play centers" are centers that are intentionally planned; with a purpose in mind. A lot of my play based centers are planned aroun

In you special needs class, do you have any behavior issues? Any kids that are over-responsive or just the opposite, under-responsive? YOU.NEED.HEAVY.WORK. I cannot stress enough how much of a DRASTIC change we saw in some of our special thinkers when we began implementing this work system into their daily routine. Here's some info on

It’s been a while since I linked up for Workbasket Wednesday, but I finally snapped some pictures of my Workbaskets and just had to share them with you all! Check out these adorable Back to School tasks with a focus on fine motor skills! This task has been a classroom favorite. Students use the ... Read More about Workbasket Wednesday!

If you think task boxes and work tasks are just for elementary school, think again. Task boxes are a great way to practice functional skills your students will need for independent living. But if you’re struggling to find age-appropriate tax box ideas for your secondary special education students, I’ve got you covered! Here are 40+ task box and work bin activities you can use in your life skills classroom to practice vocational skills and life skills. Find them all here.