Provide disabled students with assistive devices, supportive technology, or assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.

“Provide disabled students with assistive devices, supportive technology, or assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.” is a task performed by Substitute Teachers, Short-Term. Among the occupation's 18 rated tasks, workers place it 14th by importance (#5 most important). About 57% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Assist individuals with special needs. in Assisting and Caring for Others

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Answer students' questions. · importance 4.7
• Enforce school and class rules to maintain order in the classroom. · importance 4.7
• Follow lesson plans designed by absent teachers. · importance 4.6
• Take class attendance and maintain attendance records. · importance 4.5
• Supervise students during activities outside the classroom, such as recess, lunch, and field trips. · importance 4.4
• Organize and supervise games or other recreational activities. · importance 4.3
• Assist students with boarding or exiting school buses. · importance 4.3
• Teach social skills to students, such as communication, conflict resolution, and etiquette. · importance 4.3
• Tutor or assist students individually or in small groups. · importance 4.3
• Distribute or collect tests or homework assignments. · importance 4.3
• Distribute teaching materials, such as textbooks, workbooks, papers, and pencils, to students. · importance 4.2
• Teach a variety of subjects, such as English, mathematics, and social studies. · importance 4.2
• Operate equipment such as computers or audio-visual aids to supplement presentations. · importance 4.1
• Counsel students with adjustment or academic problems. · importance 4.0

See all tasks on the Substitute Teachers, Short-Term page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-22400,
  title  = {Provide disabled students with assistive devices, supportive technology, or assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-22400}
}