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Special Education Teachers, Elementary School

Teach academic, social, and life skills to elementary school students with learning, emotional, or physical disabilities. Includes teachers who specialize and work with students who are blind or have visual impairments; students who are deaf or have hearing impairments; and students with intellectual disabilities.
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  • Work Activities

      Skills

      Abilities

      Knowledge

      Education

      Education
      Bachelor's degree
      Work Experience
      No work experience
      Training
      No on-the-job training

      Pay

      Washington Annual Salary
      85340/yr

      Washington Employment Trends

      Currently Employed
      211,200
      Yearly Projected Openings
      14200

      Personality

      Social: People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking. They do well at jobs that need:

        Tools

        • Adaptive communication switches for the physically challenged
        • Assistive listening devices
        • Balance or gross motor equipment
        • Binocular light compound microscopes
        • Board games
        • Braille devices for the physically challenged
        • Building blocks
        • Canes
        • Childrens science kits
        • Compact disk players or recorders
        • Compasses
        • Computer mouse
        • Desktop calculator
        • Desktop computers
        • Digital cameras
        • Digital voice recorders
        • Document camera
        • Enteral feeding administration sets
        • Game pads or joy sticks
        • Handheld thermometer
        • Handicraft tools or materials or equipment for the physically challenged
        • Hearing aid
        • Keyboards
        • Laminators
        • Laser printers
        • Letter or symbol boards for the physically challenged
        • Medical or surgical suction tubings
        • Mobile medical services first aid kits
        • Notebook computers
        • Overhead projectors
        • Page turners for the physically challenged
        • Patient scooters
        • Personal computers
        • Photocopiers
        • Pointers
        • Puzzles
        • Sand or water tables or activity centers
        • Scanners
        • Standers or standing cages or standing aids
        • Telecommunication devices TDD or teletypewriters TTY for the physically challenged
        • Therapeutic pegboards or activity boards
        • Touch screen monitors
        • Voice synthesizers for the physically challenged
        • Walkers or rollators
        • Wheelchairs

        Technology

        • Computer based training software
        • Data base user interface and query software
        • Device drivers or system software
        • Electronic mail software
        • Graphics or photo imaging software
        • Internet browser software
        • Office suite software
        • Presentation software
        • Spreadsheet software
        • Voice recognition software
        • Word processing software