Your Cart
Loading

Initiation Deficits | Strategies for Students Who Can't Start Tasks

On Sale
Sale ends in 10 days
$4.00 (25% off)
$3.00
Added to cart

Some students sit in front of a task and cannot begin, even when they understand it. These 12 strategy tables describe common signs of initiation difficulty, a specific support for each and the impact it has.

What's Inside

  • Recognizing Task Avoidance
  • Reacting to a Blank Page
  • Correcting Perfectionist Paralysis
  • Identifying the Overwhelm Point
  • Learning from a Late Start
  • Accepting Responsibility for Delay
  • Frustration with Freezing
  • Repeating the Same Waiting Pattern
  • Applying a "Just Start" Strategy
  • Helping a Peer Begin
  • Fearing the First Step
  • Celebrating a Task Started

How It Helps You

  • Shows how to respond to a blank page, perfectionism and freezing
  • Offers a simple "just start" approach students can use on their own
  • Helps you identify the point where a student becomes overwhelmed

Ways to Use It

Use them during independent work, in executive functioning groups, in IEP planning or as a staff reference.

Who It's For

Special education teachers, gen-ed teachers, counselors and parents.

Format

PDF (print-ready) and PPTX (editable). 12 strategy tables, one per page. Instant download.

Need more than one?

Strategy Tables Bundle (10)

If one-page strategy tables suit the way you work, the Strategy Tables Bundle (10) includes this resource and 19 more in one download, and you save 58% compared to buying each item separately.

You will get the following files:
  • PDF (106KB)
  • PPTX (98KB)

Customer Reviews

There are no reviews yet.

Contact Us

Got a question, idea, or just want to say hi? We'd love to hear from you.. drop us a message and we'll get back to you soon!