In this instructional video, Sasha from theautismhelper.com presents a set of five color‑coded, Excel‑based data‑entry vocational tasks designed for students with autism. She explains the motivation behind using data entry as a suitable work skill—students’ natural rule‑following, discrimination, and structured work habits—then walks through the minimal teacher setup (pre‑made Excel files and visual folder directions). Each of the five tasks (Monthly Expenses, Weekly Hours, Lunch Choice Options, Days of Meeting Attendance, Daily Group Tasks) is described, highlighting the number of entries (30‑50 per task), the type of data entered (numbers, days, choices), and the variety of Excel skills practiced (graphing, sheet switching). Sasha also shows how the tasks integrate into her existing independent work system using labeled folders (F1, F2, etc.) and a mini‑schedule, ensuring seamless adoption for educators already using that system. The video concludes with tips for training students and embedding the tasks into daily routines.
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Hi, this is Sasha from theautismhelper.com, and today I'm here to share a video tutorial of my new data entry work tasks. So I really strive to make sure all of my students' work is really functional and preparing them for a life of independent skills and future jobs as well. And I've really been thinking about how we live in such a technology-thick world. Even servers at restaurants, they have to go in and click on a touchscreen. In Busboys, they have to go on a touchscreen and say which tables they've cleaned and haven't cleaned. So we want to make sure that we're involving our students in technology even in their independent work skills. A skill I think would be great for a lot of our students is data entry. Kids with autism tend to be rule followers, they have great discrimination, and they're very structured in their work. So data entry would be an awesome job for a lot of our students. So I've created some very visual and structured, structured data entry vocational tasks. So I'm going to guide you through the setup. It's very minimal setup on the teacher's part, and then some tips on how to train your students and teach them how to work on these skills. So there's 5 different tasks included. I put them in 5 different color folders. I think the color coding will help a little bit. On the front of each folder are very clear directions for the students with some visuals as well, so they'll see exactly how to open the exact Excel document. All of the Excel documents come with the product, so you won't have to create any setup yourself. All the Excel documents are in there as well as these visuals. So if a student has task number 1, they'll get this folder and they'll go head over to the computer. So in the computer, like I said, a folder with all of the Excel documents comes with it. So you'll get this folder that says Data Entry, and each of the 5 work tasks will be in here already set up. So your student will follow the directions to click on the Data Entry and find the task they're working on. They're working on number 1, Monthly Expenses. So they'll open Monthly Expenses, and everything's already structured for them to input the data. So there's between 30 and 50 different tasks included within each task. So the student will take the top one and they will fill out the coordinating numbers for each section. So this task is monthly expenses. So how much an electric bill costs, gas bill, TV bill. So they will input all the numbers. Once they are done, they will put it on the completed side and the next student or the next time they do it, they will have a new one to do. So each, each task follows kind of the same structure. So I will briefly go through the 5 tasks to kind of have an idea of the different activities. So this one's monthly expenses. The next one's weekly hours, so there's people's names and they have to input the correct amount of hours. Again, there's between 30 to 50 different tasks included in here. Lunch choice options— this one works on inputting 2 weeks worth of data, so kind of changing it up a little bit, as well as the structure of the graphs are going to change within each section. So they aren't just getting stuck in one type of graph setup, they're going to work on different types of graphs. Next is days of meeting attendance. So for each of the students, what day do they attend a meeting? So I'll have to type in Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday coordinating with each student. And the last one is daily group tasks. So looking at inputting, inputting 2 days worth of data for each group, what task they're going to do Monday and Tuesday. So there's a variety of different types of skills. Like I said, I'll go through a few of the different Excel documents to give you a peek on what the different Excel documents look like as as well. So I showed you this one already is the monthly expenses. The next one, weekly hours, is a similar layout. The weeks are across the top and the students are along the side. So they'll input the hours for each week. The next one is total weekly lunch choices. So they'll put in for each week which types of lunch choices were selected. Days of the meeting, so instead of inputting numbers, they're writing in a day of the week. And the last one is daily work. So this one they'll have to switch between sheets, which they have to on the first one as well. So we're working on a variety of Excel type of skills. So I'm gonna coordinate this right into my independent work system. I'm not gonna start a new system or anything. This is gonna go right with my work tasks. So I'll show you how I have that set up. So this is my work system, which if you follow my website, you're very familiar with. Each of my tasks have a number and they have a mini schedule. Well, I made these ones that say F for folder. All of my things have Velcro on them. So when students get this on their daily schedule, they'll have F1. They will go match it and they will go do their F1 task and then they're finished. So it's going to fit in very nicely with my independent work system. So if this is something you already use, this will plug in perfectly. Um, again, this was a video tutorial of my data entry vocational work tasks from theautismhelper.com.
