Sasha from theautismhelper.com previews the 40-item Work Tasks Mega Pack, printable cards designed to build work endurance and help autistic and special-education students generalize skills like sorting and matching. Each card includes a photo, description, setup instructions, and materials list. Tasks range from sorting office supplies to assembling pencils to opening Ziploc bags.
Hi, this is Sasha from theautismhelper.com, and this is a product preview of my 40 Work Tasks Mega Pack. So this pack has everything and anything you need to guide the development of work tasks, work boxes, vocational tasks— everyone kind of has their different name for it. But every autism classroom or special ed room needs a ton of work tasks. You need to keep your kids busy while you're working one-on-one or in small group with other kids. The point of these tasks are a few things. You want to— we want to teach our kids to be doing tasks for longer time, so increase that work endurance. We also want to generalize previously mastered skills. If we've taught sight words, if we've taught sorting and matching, we want to make sure they can generalize that to a variety of tasks and do that on their own. Independent work is the next big thing. Our kids need to learn how to work on their own, and some of these things are a little bit boring by nature, they're not very exciting and they might be a little bit rote and mundane, and that's okay. That's part of the skill. Parts of our jobs are not fun and exciting at every moment, and it's a life skill to know how to do those more rote tasks and still continue to maintain that work endurance and work independence. So there's a variety of types of tasks to kind of hit on all these different areas and have for a variety of types of learners. So there's some for your more basic foundational learners, and then there are some tasks in in here that are a little bit more advanced. So each task follows the same structure. I give a photo of the task, a task description, how to set it up, and the materials you need. And I kind of on purpose set this to the side on each task so you can cut this off, and then if you need to laminate these, it'll make life a lot easier for laminating. I even saw one teacher who cut all of these edges off and then put them on a ring, on a, like a ring binder clip, so then she could easily sort through the tasks to find the ones she needed when her aides were setting them up. So this one is sorting office tasks. So again, each, each of these resources is going to give you all the materials you need and directions for how to set it up. So here's all the labels for setting up office tasks. Here's matching clothes to the words, so working on some foundational and functional vocabulary, sorting light and dark clothes, loading office supplies, So there's a bunch of different exemplar for that. Pencil assembly, rubber banding spoons, again description and setup included. Here's the matching pad for that. Assembling hardware, labeling letters for color— for colors and shapes with clothespins, measuring items. So this is a great one for students who are nonverbal to work on matching, sorting hair rollers. Sorting flashlights, opening and closing containers, patterning with beads, sorting items by color, matching coins, loading pennies, assembling lunch bags. All the visuals— matching and loading colored chips, measuring beans, matching Unifix cubes, sorting food groups. So this one has all the pictures ready to go. Sorting healthy and junk food, again all the pictures. Sorting silverware. Opening and closing Ziploc bags, a great, great functional skill. Sorting pens and pencils, I love this one for my foundational learners. It's simple, functional, totally age-appropriate for our older guys. Stuffing envelopes, another great one. Colating, Sorting Colored Shapes, Matching Colored Paperclips, Matching Letters, Putting Beads on Pipe Cleaners, Stringing Beads, Identifying Temperature Words, Sorting Letters by Zip Code, Sorting Hardware, all the pictures included, Filling Lunch Orders. This is a really great one that's really fun. This includes all the labels and the food. Matching socks, filling in missing letter, matching initial consonants. Everything in that for this one's included. Matching coin to cost. Love this one too. And then at the end, this is really the best part, there's a list of the tasks, a list of the pages, and the supplies that you will need. So you can print out these last 3 pages, 4 pages, and Take yourself to the dollar store, highlight which tasks you want to make, and you will know exactly what to buy. So maybe you don't need the rubber banding spoon, but you definitely want to do pencil assembly, assembling hardware. You can just sit, highlight what you need, and then you'll have a built-in grocery list. You can get everything at the dollar store or Target, and this really will not cost you a lot of money and take a lot of time. Alright, so that's my product preview of my work task mega pack by theautismhelper.com.
