Sasha from TheAutismHelper.com previews a PDF pack of 23 communication work tasks for autistic learners. The activities cover yes/no sorting, emotion matching, WH-questions, and pronoun selection, each with setup instructions and a materials list. Tasks progress from basic to complex and require minimal extra purchases beyond what most classrooms already have.
Hi, this is Sasha from TheAutismHelper.com, and this is a product preview of my Communication-Based Work Tasks. So there is a small product preview in the TPT description that shows a lot of these products all prepped in real life, um, so if you want to see some of those, definitely check that out. But I'm just going to scroll through the PDF, um, and there is a photo of each finished resource as well. So if you've used any of my other work task mega packs, this is set up in the same way. There is a title for the activity, the photo of the finished product so you know what it's supposed to look like, task description, instructions for setup, and the materials needed. There's a very detailed table of contents and shopping list at the end so you can know easily which things to print or what you have to buy. There's pretty minimal buying included in this resource because a lot of the content is included in these pages, but you'll need some things like baskets and clothespins, things like that. So first is yes/no sorting. So all of these tasks, by the way, are communication-based, so looking at some type of communication skill ranging from pretty basic to more complex. So I love these for a speech room. I love these for just any independent center, or if you want to kind of organize your independent center by types of tasks. But these are skills that our kids really need to work on and need a lot of practice. So definitely take advantage of that independent work time by including resources like these. Um, there's 23 tasks included, again, all that communication theme. So this is sorting yes and no. Next is sorting polite and rude phrases. This is one of my favorite ones. I really like this activity. Sorting emotions: happy, sad, and mad with real photos. Matching the emotion to the name. So there's cards with the photos and cards with the emotion name, and then you'll match them on these storage cards. So it's not necessarily memorizing the order, it's more like little mini puzzles. Ways to say hello versus ways to say goodbye. Next is matching answer to WH question. I also really, really love these because this is something that a lot of our kids struggle with. So here's the question, and then students will match the answer. Advanced categorizing, so 8 different categories, kind of a little more complex sorting these items, a little less common categories. Sorting by function, 5 different cards that you will sort the items by function on. Following Directions. I also really like this one. It has kind of a card. You could put this in a mini photo album or just laminate it and use dry erase markers. And there's 3 different instructions students have to follow on each card. This is a little bit longer task. I also really like this one, Describing. So writing 3 words that describe each item. A lot of our kids get stuck on just color or size, so prompting 3 words will really force kids to kind of get a little creative and think about adjectives. In a different way or verbs in a different way. Matching quote to location, this one's amazing for inferences, for context clues, for thinking about, you know, which things we're saying at each location and why. Selecting real versus make-believe. Sorting by ending sound, so these are all ending digraphs, so putting the 3 items that end in the ck, the dge, the ng, and then here are all the pieces. This one is matching the coordinating season— seasonal item and then explaining why. So the adding the why component is great because so many of our kids can match associations and categorizing, but it's that explaining why the pumpkin goes in fall or why the snowman goes in the winter and it doesn't go with the summer. So you can match the item and then have a dry erase marker to fill in the why question, so answering those because. Animal Similarity and Differences, so following the prompt to find either this animal that is the same or that is different based on the clue. Initial Digraph Sort, so there's 7 different digraphs that you're sorting the pictures by. This one's a little trickier, again forcing kids to slow down, looking at work endurance, working on really thinking about each thing as we're doing it. Two-Component Matching with Food, so not just a vegetable but a vegetable that is green, so really attending to all the tasks text there. Filling in the correct pronoun based on the picture with he, she, her, and his. Labeling emoji to emotion. I love this for my older kids. These are such cute icons and a pretty wide range included in here, and you'll have to like a little bit use the process of elimination, which is a great skill too. Matching items to the room. So there's 8 different rooms included, and you'll put up a few pieces of Velcro and they'll match the coordinating items. Sorting good choice or bad choice. I also included the expected or unexpected behavior language as well. And there are both picture versions and textual versions here, so you can intermix or just pick one or make two different tasks out of this. So here's all the picture options and then the text options. Selecting the sequence, so attending to this top phrase— which happened first, which happened last, which happened second— and finding the right item. —right part of the sequence. Sorting photos by pronoun: he, she, and they. A lot of our kids really struggle with correct pronoun use, so this is a great one. So again, here is that final table of contents, the name of the task, the pages, and the supplies needed. So you can easily just print this out, go to the dollar store, go to Target, and make sure you have all of the right dry erase markers and bins and things like that. And there's 23 different levels, uh, 23 different tasks included. This is one of my favorite sets I've ever made. I had so much fun looking at these skills. I think these are all such important skills to work on, and they'd be so fun either to work independently or really to work, you know, as guided practice, because a lot of these skills are things that our kids really need practice on. So again, this was a product preview of my Communication Work Tasks by theautismhelper.com.
