Sasha from theautismhelper.com shows how to build a binder system for autistic students who need heavy visual supports. It includes daily schedules, calendar work, matching activities, tracing worksheets, and consolidated math and language arts sections, all designed to keep students on task and reduce teacher prep.
Hi, this is Sasha from theautismhelper.com, and I'm here to show you the binder setup for my lower functioning students, so my students that need more visuals. I shared another video of my other binder setup, and this one is run very similar, just with additional visuals for my students. It's important to keep all of our kids organized and to really set them up with an organization system because a lot of our kids can't inherently figure that out on their own, and also it makes everyone's life easier. So this student has a visual daily schedule that he uses a dry erase marker on. So here's his schedule in the front. Um, the first section is calendar work. So we see we have all of our different calendar pages that we do together, or he does on his own. Some of these are already finished for the day. So all the different calendar and weather work is in one section. Um, it's nice to kind of have a place where he can stop and I can check in so we can make sure that he did it all. Um, having interactive calendar work is really important for some of our kids because a lot of our kids need something to do with their hands to be engaged. So having their own versions of the, the items that are on the board that they do as a group is really important. Next is some matching work. I really recommend just having some general matching work in a binder. This helps when you have multiple kids you're trying to work with at once. You have something for them to do. So maybe if I'm working with another student, this student can get started with some of this matching stuff just to keep them busy. If your kids are not busy, they're running away. So So we have some different matching pages, our vocabulary words that he works on tracing. We're doing the fall words right now. Um, the next section is daily work. This we do as I do— I work with them on because they still need a little bit of help. This is one of my newer guys, so he's doing the copying the words and the counting and the colors. Next, I put all their curriculum in one spot. This I do with them one-on-one. So this is our language arts level daily curriculum. So we do this together, and the math is in the back. So everything's in one spot whenever I need to work with the student. On Direct Instruction, everything's in one place, which makes my life a lot easier. Having the visual dividers really helps. I have an agenda that goes with it, and matching the visuals really helps show the students exactly what they should be working on. So again, this was a video of my student setup. If you have any questions, please check out theautismhelper.com.
