Around Town Round Up-- Reinforcement for Task Completion

Reinforcement is an essential component to motivating students with ASD and other disabilities. It increases the likelihood that the student will perform a target skill or behavior in the future. Task completion is an important target skill for many students and therefore we have found a variety of great reinforcement systems related to task completion to feature on today's Around Town Round Up. These examples include a variety of ability and grade levels and can be modified to meet the needs of any learner.

Some work completion reinforcement systems use pictures and words to correlate with the tasks needing to be completed. In this example, students complete the activities pictured on the left and move them to the right as they are finished. At the end, they get a free choice period symbolized by the question mark card.

Susie Stoner
Bradford Elementary, Bradford

These picture icons correspond with taskboxes to be completed before the student gets the chosen keyboard toy.

Lindsey Woods
Fairborn Primary, Fairborn

For older students or students with strong reading skills, task lists can be used to communicate what tasks need to be completed.

Robbie Whorton
Trotwood-Madison HS, Trotwood

Emily Ottmar
Stevenson Elementary, Mad River Local Schools

Some reinforcement systems use tokens to symbolize the number of tasks to be completed. Tokens can be removed as the task is finished.

Jennifer McGowan
Smith Middle School, Vandalia

Brittany Sword
Valley Elementary, Beavercreek

Visual Supports provide structure for students to know what items or activities they can work for. Choice boards can be at a designated break location or they may be part of the reinforcement system visual supports.

Emily Ottmar
Stevenson Elementary, Mad River Local Schools

Jennifer McGowan
Smith Middle School, Vandalia

Lindsey Woods
Fairborn Primary, Fairborn

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