Sasha from theautismhelper.com shows how to organize ABLLS assessment materials using three binders and baskets with color-coded folders and labeled task cards. The system keeps everything accessible during testing and saves time, with each binder covering a major assessment section.
Hi, this is Sasha from theautismhelper.com, and this is a product preview of my ABLES materials and tasks. So the ABLES is the Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills, and it's an assessment that I absolutely love and use all the time. It gives me such great information about my students' abilities and really gives me such a clear idea on where to go, which is especially helpful for some of our lower functioning kids where you're often at a loss. The thing that I struggle with with the ABLES is the organization of all the materials. Prior to completing the— this reset of resources, I had this huge, huge laundry basket with all of this stuff, and it was a huge mess. So I really wanted a way to organize all these materials so it's in one spot. So now the— the whole ABLES assessment is within these 3 binders and 3 small baskets of materials. So there are some some hard goods you're going to need, and they're clearly outlined in this product. In order to utilize this product, you are going to have to buy the Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills assessment book. It's on Amazon for $60, totally worth it. These are the tasks that go along with that assessment, so you can't do the assessment just with this alone. So I'm going to give you a brief overview of how it's organized, and then I'll follow with some photos of the actual tasks included. So there's a binder cover and spine for each of the 3 major sections that have the bulk of the tasks, um, so those are all included so you can be organized. Within each section, there are photos and a list of the actual hard items that you need. Again, I really struggled going through the whole assessment and trying to find everything and remembering exactly what they mean, so having this quick photo guide is hugely helpful. The rest of this book, all of the tasks are organized either into file folders or sets of task cards. They're all color-coded, so each letter has its own color the name of the task and the letter-number combination that's used for the assessment is on here easily. So you'll be able to find everything really— so every task is organized, um, with the color-coded label and into a file folder. So you can take this out if you want the kid to work by itself or even work right out of the binder. So I wanted to give the most amount of flexibility. Um, so the different tasks are all included in here. They're all labeled so you can find them really quickly. If you have to start at a later one, like you have to go right to B17, you can easily find it, you know what task you're working on, and all the pieces are right there. So this really makes the assessment so, so, so much easier. I can't even stress it enough. Doing it before and after this product recently has been— I've really seen the big difference between using this and not using this. So if you use the ABLES, I highly recommend it. Um, with the resources that are not file folders, um, C and G are very similar. It's receptive language and labeling. So instead of making the products twice, you can really use the same tasks for, um, multiple sections. So the only other items you'll need for CNG are sets of common objects, which I let you know here. So in order to really clarify which things are for C and for G, everything's labeled with both parts of the assessment, so the receptive language component and the labeling component. So you can quickly go through whether you're working on C or G, just attending to the green or attending to the blue. I know this looks really complicated, but I promise when you're doing the assessment and you have a wiggly, wanting to run away child next to you, you're gonna be really thankful for this kind of obsessive color coding. So what I did was laminated page dividers once I taped everything on here so it'd be a little sturdier, and then right behind it I Velcroed the baggie with the task cards. So this one is identifying features and parts of an object, so the cards are right behind there. Labeling in Spanish Selecting adjectives, the cards are right here. And again, all the baggies are labeled also because, you know, baggies get lost and then you're like, "What the heck is this set of bags for?" So all of the baggies are right behind the task card, the page divider, so you can quickly go through and be like, "Okay, I wanna work on C45, here it is." And here are the cards for C45. So it's really, really easy to find, which I, again, like I said, I found hugely helpful. The last section are the kind of academic sections which have a lot of materials set up the same way. What materials you need, the dividers with the task cards behind it, or the file folders. So I think having this color coding system and everything in one spot just really makes the assessment a breeze. Um, like I said, I labeled baskets with the actual items that we need. Um, so really this doesn't take up a lot of room anymore. I have 3 big binders 3 little baskets, and that's it. Um, so again, this was a product preview of the ABLEs, uh, Resources and Tasks by theautismhelper.com.
