• Home
  • Shop
    • Shop Now
    • Gift Cards
    • Cart
    • Purchase Orders
    • School Licenses
    • My Account
  • Blog
    • Academics
      • Adapted Books
      • Comprehension
      • Cooking
      • Crafts
      • ELA
      • Fine Motor
      • Life Skills
      • Math
      • Occupational Therapy
      • Science
      • Sensory Bins
      • Social Emotional Learning
      • Social Skills
      • Social Studies
      • Speech Therapy
      • Task Boxes
      • Vocabulary
      • Writing
    • At Home Learning
      • Digital
      • Remote Learning
    • Behavior
      • ABA
      • Communication
        • AAC
      • Data
      • Schedules
      • Visuals
    • Simple Classroom
      • Back to School
      • Book Recommendations
      • Classroom Setup
      • Freebies
      • IEP
      • Inclusion
      • Inspiration
      • Organization
      • Paraprofessional
      • Remote Learning
      • Seasonal
        • Fall
        • Winter
        • Spring
        • Summer
    • Tot School
  • Classroom Tours
    • Self-Contained
    • Speech
    • Preschool
    • Elementary Autistic Support
    • K-2
    • K-2 (Socially Distanced)
    • K-4 (Tiny Room)
    • 1-4 (Life Skills)
    • 2-3 (ABA)
    • Middle School
    • High School
    • High School (Life Skills)
    • Multiple Disabilities
  • New Teachers
    • Join My Online Course
    • First Year
    • Interviews
    • Job Search
  • Grade Level
    • Preschool
    • Primary
    • Elementary
    • Middle School
    • High School
  • Simple Self-Contained Setup 101®
    • Join Now!
    • Success Stories
    • Log In
  • Free Resources
    • Log In
  • More…
    • Meet Alyssa
    • Meet Our Bloggers
    • Collaborate
    • Contact Me
    • Disclosures
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest

Simply Special Ed

Resource Downloads & Teaching Advice

ABA Behavior Blog Visuals

How to Prep a Tactile Token Board

Token boards are a useful tool in the special education classroom. There are many ways to build token boards, from fun characters to color coding. This blog post will show you how to create a tactile token board.

Why are token boards useful?

Token boards give a structured visual reminder of how close you are to earning a preferred item, activity, or food. For students doing a less preferred task, students that have difficulty working for longer periods, and for students who just need visual reminders to be successful, token boards are a hugely successful tool!

When using token boards we are able to visually remind our students of what’s next, and how much more work there is, without constantly using a verbal redirection. This reduces the stress on the student, gives clear expectations, and often reduces negative behaviors. You can learn more about using the different types of token boards in this blog post.

Who benefits from tactile pieces?

Any person with a visual impairment, cognitive impairment, or a person that needs concrete representation of the days events. For some of our students line art (like boardmaker, lessonpix, and symbolstix images) does not make sense to them. Real pictures may not work for them either, but an actual object and piece that you can feel works better. You can learn more about tactile classroom schedules with Stephanie in this blog post.

Making a Tactile Token Board

1.Gather Materials

To make a tactile token board you will need a piece of cardstock, laminator, lamination sheet, token board template, velcro, and bingo disks. (links are affiliate links, I find the best prices for you and receive a small commission if you click my links, thanks for supporting the blog!)

2. Cut + Laminate

Cut token board and glue to the astrobrights backing. (you can glue two token boards to one astrobrights sheet. Place the sheet into the lamination and laminate. Then cut out the two token boards.

3. Add velcro

Add soft velcro dots to each square.

4. Add Velcro to Bingo Chips

Add hard velcro dots to bingo chips and reward pieces.

5. Add Bingo Chips+ Reward to Board

Attach the bingo chips and reward pieces to the token board.

I hope this tutorial for a quick and easy tactile token board was helpful! Let me know in the comments if you have any requests for future tutorials!

Click here for 10 free print + go token boards.

Related Posts:

  • Creating and Using Tactile Schedules
    Creating and Using Tactile Schedules
  • How to Prep for Meet the Teacher
    How to Prep for Meet the Teacher
  • 10 Prep Tips for Back to School
    10 Prep Tips for Back to School
Share
Pin


« 3 Spanish Materials for Special Education Students
6 Reasons to Join the Simply FREE Library »
Hi amazing teachers!
I'm Alyssa Shanahan -- a former Elementary Special Ed & Life Skills teacher. My classroom focus was always to keep things simple, increase communication, and build independence. Simply Special Ed's goal is to help teachers and students reach their full potential in and out of the classroom!

Sign up to receive exclusive tips,
free resources, and more!

Recent Posts

Ideas for Winter Fine Motor Practice

Ruby Valentine Saves the Day Book Activities

Skills to Teach during Lunch

This is an image of an SLP and child doing speech therapy

5 Tools for Teaching Articulation

4 Crafts for Valentine’s Day

Weather Themed Sensory Bins

Copyright © Simply Special Ed 2023 · Design by Fancy Girl Design Studio

Copyright © 2023 · Simply Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in