Community Helpers Autism Special Education Receptive/Expressive ID

Community Helpers | Matching, Receptive & Expressive Identification + Data Sheets

Help students learn about the important people in their community while building language, identification, matching, and social awareness skills!

This Community Helpers resource includes 23 different community helpers with 3 pictures of each helper for better generalization represented with engaging, kid-friendly picture cards. With multiple images of many community helpers, students can practice identifying occupations across different people and illustrations rather than learning to recognize only one specific picture.

This resource is perfect for ABA therapy, special education, speech and language instruction, preschool, kindergarten, early elementary classrooms, and individualized learning programs.

Students can use the community helper cards to practice:

• Identical and non-identical matching
• Receptive identification — “Touch/show me the firefighter.”
• Expressive identification — “Who is this?”
• Identifying occupations by function — “What does this person do?”
• Answering WH/function questions — “Who puts out fires?”
• Naming community helpers
• Generalizing skills across different pictures and people
• Building community and social awareness
• Developing vocabulary and functional language

This resource also includes data collection sheets and a Community Helper Tracking Sheet, making it easy for teachers, therapists, BCBAs, RBTs, SLPs, and other providers to monitor student progress.

The tracking sheet provides space to monitor multiple skills for each community helper, including matching, receptive identification, expressive identification, describing what the helper does, identifying a helper by their function, and independently naming community helpers.

✨ Perfect For:

ABA therapy • Discrete trial instruction • Special education • Speech therapy • Preschool & Kindergarten • Early elementary • Community helper units • Vocabulary instruction • Receptive & expressive language • Matching activities • Centers • 1:1 instruction • Small groups • Homeschool

Simply print, laminate, and cut out the cards for a durable resource that can be used again and again. Use the cards individually, present them in an array for receptive identification, pair matching cards together, or incorporate them into structured teaching sessions and classroom activities.

Make learning about community helpers meaningful while targeting multiple skills with one versatile resource!