HOW
Do I Teach This Kid?
Visual Work Tasks for Beginning
Learners on the Autism Spectrum
Kimberly A. Henry
How Do I Teach This Kid?
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Table of Contents
Creating an independent work system
What do you do with the stuff once you get it?
Tricks and tips for task box construction
Task boxes to make
Motor tasks
Put blocks in slot
Pull clothespins off box, put in hole
Put mini balls in hole
Pull blocks off box, put in hole
Pull teddy bears off box
Put big checkers in slot
Park cars in spot
Assemble film canisters and drop in slot
Put poker chips in slot
Put coins in bank
Put facial features on a potato toy
Block construction
Matching tasks
Plastic egg color match
Clothespin color match
Puzzle piece outline match
Blocks color match
Tile sample color match
Simple picture match
Match block pattern
Memory match
Shape match
Border picture match
Box top match
Object to photo match
Lotto picture match
Sorting tasks
2-color car sort
3-color poker chip sort
4-color game piece sort
3-way colored beads sort
Colored straw sort
Boy-girl sort
Teddy bear color sort
Sports eraser sort
Balls and blocks sort
Ghosts and pumpkins sort
Apples and pumpkins sort
Paint card sort
Crayon sort
Plastic utensils sort
Sort sports cards by category
File index cards by color
Same/different sort
Texture sort
Category sort
Sort by size
Reading tasks
Alphabet sequence
Upper-to-lower case letter match
Word-to-word match
Word-to-picture match
Clothespin word-to-picture match
Blocks-to-color words match
Paperclips-to-color words match
Sentence-to-picture match
Initial sound sort
Initial letter match
Character and setting sort
3-part story sequence
File by first letter
File words by category
Alphabetical order on clothespins
Holiday-to-month name binder
Opposites binder
Writing tasks
Trace lines
Draw lines to match
Spell name sequence