Significant Cognitive Disabilities

This video shows one educator reviewing the classroom manual she uses with her paraprofessionals.

This video shows one educator sharing how she uses a task analysis data collection form. This form is intended for use by teachers, paraprofessionals, and other service providers collecting data for student Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals and baseline data to determine a need for new/updated IEP goals or behavior intervention.  

This video shows one educator sharing how she uses an Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence (A-B-C) data collection form. This form is intended for use by teachers, paraprofessionals, and other service providers collecting data for student Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals and baseline data to

Texas SPED Support’s Monthly Instructional Guides help special education teachers in self-contained classrooms navigate the school year. Each month contains relevant content and resources.

This video shows how different types of switches, combined with other technologies, allow students with complex needs and physical disabilities, with limited fine motor control, to engage more independently with the world around them.

A personal communication dictionary documents student-specific actions and their meanings.

This video shows how one educator uses a personal communication dictionary to document student-specific actions and their meanings.

A first/then visual support is an effective strategy used to help students understand and follow a sequence of activities.