# 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.

- **SOC code:** 25-2056.00
- **Canonical URL:** https://singulariki.com/roles/role-25-2056-00
- **Also known as:** Learning Support Teacher, Resource Program Teacher, SPED Resource Teacher (Special Education Resource Teacher), SPED Teacher (Special Education Teacher), Deaf and Hard of Hearing Teacher (DHH Teacher), Emotional Disabilities Teacher, Hearing Impaired Itinerant Teacher (HI Itinerant Teacher), SPED Inclusion Teacher (Special Education Inclusion Teacher)
- **Frame:** "AI exposure" means task overlap (how codifiable the work is), not jobs lost or a forecast. Every figure below is traced to a named public dataset.

## What this work is

**Core tasks** (O*NET):
- Instruct students with disabilities in academic subjects, using a variety of techniques, such as phonetics, multisensory learning, or repetition to reinforce learning and meet students' varying needs.
- Develop or implement strategies to meet the needs of students with a variety of disabilities.
- Modify the general elementary education curriculum for students with disabilities.
- Teach socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification or positive reinforcement.
- Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, or administrative regulations.
- Prepare classrooms with a variety of materials or resources for children to explore, manipulate, or use in learning activities or imaginative play.
- Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among students.
- Provide assistive devices, supportive technology, or assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.
- Coordinate placement of students with special needs into mainstream classes.
- Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, or other professionals to develop individual educational plans (IEPs) for students' educational, physical, or social development.
- Encourage students to explore learning opportunities or persevere with challenging tasks to prepare them for later grades.
- Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.

## Skills, tools, capabilities

**Knowledge, skills & abilities** (O*NET, highest importance first):
- Education and Training _(knowledge)_
- English Language _(knowledge)_
- Oral Expression _(ability)_
- Active Listening _(essential_skill)_
- Speaking _(essential_skill)_
- Instructing _(transferable_skill)_
- Oral Comprehension _(ability)_
- Customer and Personal Service _(knowledge)_
- Reading Comprehension _(essential_skill)_
- Learning Strategies _(essential_skill)_
- Social Perceptiveness _(transferable_skill)_
- Problem Sensitivity _(ability)_

**Skills in demand:**
- English Language _(Common Skill)_
- Instructing _(Specialized Skill)_
- Active Listening _(Common Skill)_
- Social Perceptiveness _(Common Skill)_
- Reading Comprehension _(Common Skill)_
- Learning Strategies _(Specialized Skill)_
- Deductive Reasoning _(Common Skill)_
- Critical Thinking _(Common Skill)_
- Inductive Reasoning _(Common Skill)_
- Mathematics _(Common Skill)_
- Writing _(Common Skill)_
- Speech Recognition _(Specialized Skill)_

**Tools & technology:**
- Microsoft Excel _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Office software _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Outlook _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft PowerPoint _(hot technology)_
- Microsoft Word _(hot technology)_
- American Sign Language Browser
- Children's educational software
- Drawing software
- EasyCBM
- Email software
- goQ WordQ
- Individualized Educational Program IEP software

## AI exposure & outlook

- **AI task-overlap index:** 44th percentile (Moderate) across all occupations — composite of current-era exposure studies (ai-exposure-index-v1).
- **LLM task exposure, γ (OpenAI / Eloundou):** 45th percentile (Moderate) — source: eloundou_gamma.

## Sources

- **O*NET** (30.3) — U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **Anthropic Economic Index** (v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27)) — Anthropic. https://www.anthropic.com/economic-index
- **“GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.)** (arXiv 2303.10130) — OpenAI / academic. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130

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_Generated from Singulariki's joined dataset; data snapshot 2026-06-02T21:00:32.945303+00:00. https://singulariki.com/roles/role-25-2056-00_