An engaging, visually clear slide deck designed for high school students with special needs. It defines strengths and weaknesses, translates personal interests into workplace skills, and provides sentence starters for professional communication.
Visual task cards and communication prompts for Junior, featuring large visual symbols and high-contrast text for classroom support.
A slide presentation version of the 'Fresh Start' social story, featuring age-appropriate design and clear visual symbols for a 14-year-old student.
A printable social story for a 14-year-old student, using clear visuals and age-appropriate language to explain the process of cleaning up after an outburst before returning to class.
A one-page fridge reference sheet for parents listing quick heavy work activities and functional chores, branded with "Andy's OT Toolbox Resource" for consistency. It is specifically designed as a single-page printable reference.
A comprehensive parent guidebook explaining proprioception and sensory seeking for high schoolers with intellectual disabilities, now featuring "Andy's OT Toolbox Resource" branding. It covers functional heavy work, movement breaks, and age-appropriate home integration tips.
A weekly tracking sheet for parents to monitor task initiation and sustained focus, using a simple color-coded system and star ratings to record student progress.
A comprehensive guide for parents providing practical homework tips, details on the virtual tutoring program, and a worksheet for planning summer routines to maintain student progress.
A printable toolkit for parents featuring a customizable First/Then board, visual icons, and focus checklists to support task initiation and independent work at home.
A professional slide deck for parent training focusing on task initiation strategies, First/Then boards, checklists, and summer planning for students with autism.
A minimalist slideshow featuring three embedded YouTube videos designed for independent student work stations.
A weekly progress log for task initiation, revised for improved layout, writing spaces, page flow, and accessibility. Final version.
Printable desk checklists and visual prompts for task initiation, revised for improved reading flow, larger font sizes, and single-page layout.
An archival-themed slide deck for task initiation, revised for improved contrast and visual polish. Final pass.
A history-themed teacher guide for a task initiation intervention, featuring a 4-week 'Expedition Plan' and specialized strategies like the 'Discovery Protocol'. Revised for improved contrast and page flow.
A weekly progress log for task initiation, revised for improved layout, writing spaces, and page flow.
Printable desk checklists and visual prompts for task initiation, revised for improved reading flow and visual clarity.
An archival-themed slide deck for task initiation, revised for improved contrast and visual polish.
A weekly master log for synthesizing behavior and academic data across 6 IEP goals. Revised to fit all goals and narrative sections on a single page with improved text contrast.
An academic performance tracking document for recording trial-by-trial accuracy percentages and prompt levels. Revised to integrate prompt codes and fit on a single page.
A professional behavior tracking document for recording frequency tallies and duration data for a specific IEP goal. Revised for strict single-page printability and clear handwriting areas.
A comprehensive 10-page practice pack for high school ELs, providing dedicated nonsense word mapping, decoding, and fluency activities for every session in the 5-week intervention cycle.
A dedicated student-facing material for biweekly progress monitoring of nonsense word fluency, featuring focused word lists for Week 2 and Week 4 assessments on a single page.
A biweekly progress monitoring and data tracking sheet for nonsense word fluency, including interpretation guides for instructional adjustments.
A consolidated one-page cross-reference sheet identifying phonetic challenges for speakers of Spanish, Swahili, Burmese, and Vietnamese.
A concise 5-week teacher-facing intervention guide for high school ELs, detailing session routines and weekly objectives.
A teacher-facing resource outlining the best practices for timing, feedback, and thread safety when developing switch-accessible games for visually impaired students.
The fully corrected Python source code for the Nancy Drew Mystery Game, featuring a robust SpeechManager class and improved transition timing for switch accessibility.
An explanation of why the original Nancy Drew mystery game code was failing to read menu options and a summary of the technical fixes required for reliable switch accessibility.
A comprehensive facilitation guide for teachers to lead discussions on the IEP stigma. It includes critical discussion prompts, teaching notes on the specific figures (like Maya Angelou and Daymond John), and a 'stigma-busting' vocabulary guide to reframe behavioral challenges as strengths.
A reflective worksheet for students to process the 'Mind over Myths' presentation. It includes space to connect with famous figures, reframe behavioral labels into positive superpowers, and identify their own unique strengths.
A bold, modern slide deck dismantling the 'IEP = not smart' stigma by showcasing successful African Americans like Whoopi Goldberg, Maya Angelou, and Daymond John. It reframes emotional dysregulation and learning differences as unique ways of processing rather than deficits in intelligence.
High-contrast student drill sheet Version E for 9th-grade special education, focusing on suffix accuracy and visual discrimination of look-alike word pairs like dinner/diner.
High-contrast student drill sheet Version D for 9th-grade special education, focusing on suffix accuracy and visual discrimination of look-alike word pairs like person/prison.
High-contrast student drill sheet Version C for 9th-grade special education, focusing on suffix accuracy and visual discrimination of look-alike word pairs like bottle/battle.
High-contrast student drill sheet Version B for 9th-grade special education, focusing on suffix accuracy and visual discrimination of look-alike word pairs like batter/better.
A high-contrast student drill sheet for 9th-grade special education, focusing on suffix accuracy and visual discrimination of look-alike word pairs like party/parties and pottery.
A simplified one-page teacher implementation guide for 9th-grade special education reading fluency drills, focusing on suffix accuracy and visual discrimination strategies.
A final unit assessment designed for accessibility. It features large, clear fonts, simplified multiple-choice options with identical styling to prevent cues, and a creative drawing area for students to demonstrate their favorite concept from the unit.
A fun, interactive trivia-style slide deck to review unit concepts. It poses multiple-choice questions about the Sun, Earth's cycles, and the planets with high-contrast, visually supportive layouts to encourage student participation and confidence before the final assessment.
A teacher guide for the final lesson of the unit. It includes a structured review plan, an assessment guide for the Space Master Quiz, and a simple rubric for evaluating student progress without requiring stickers or prizes.
A worksheet helping students identify the tools and experiences of an astronaut. It features a categorization task (what is needed in space), simple Yes/No comprehension questions about space travel, and a personal reflection prompt about being an explorer.
An instructional slide deck about space exploration. Features clear visuals of telescopes and rockets, explains the concept of zero gravity with relatable examples, and includes an embedded video tour of the International Space Station to show how astronauts live in space.
A teacher guide for the Space Explorers lesson, covering astronauts, rockets, and telescopes. Includes interesting facts about daily life in space with focus on visual and video instruction, without requiring physical props.