Teacher of students with multiple disabilities - Salary and Career
Special Education Teachers

Teacher of students with multiple disabilities - Career description, activities, functions and salary

They promote the education of students with special educational needs, teaching them to read and write in Portuguese and Braille, calculate, express themselves, solve problems and activities of daily living, develop skills, attitudes and values, develop functional activities and programs of essential stimulation and education of young people and adults, assessing the educational needs of students, carrying out activities such as: planning, evaluating, developing materials, researching and disseminating knowledge in the area, can direct and coordinate special education establishments.

How much does an Teacher of students with multiple disabilities earn

A Teacher of students with multiple disabilities earns between $1.371 and $5.760 per month, with an average monthly salary of $2.558 and a median salary of $2.116 according to an Averwage.com salary survey along with to data of professionals hired and fired by companies in the labor market.

Our research is based on the salaries of 1.754 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the Teacher of students with multiple disabilities

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 2.558 30.701 640 17
1º Quartile 1.371 16.455 343 9
Median Salary 2.116 25.392 529 14
3º Quartile 4.393 52.711 1.098 28
Higher Salary 5.760 69.117 1.440 37


Professional job categories

  • Science and arts professionals
    • teaching professionals
      • other teaching professionals not previously rated
        • special education teachers

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Main workplaces

Special Education Teachers they work in teaching, health and social services, research and development, recreational, cultural and sporting activities and public administration, defense and social security. They are statutory or registered employees, work both individually and in an interdisciplinary team, with occasional supervision, indoors and during daytime hours. Eventually, they work in uncomfortable positions for long periods, in some activities they can work under pressure, leading them to a stressful situation. They may also be exposed to loud noise, unsanitary conditions and physical aggression.


What does it take to work in the field of Special Education Teachers

The exercise of these occupations requires higher education in the area of education, with courses or specializations in the area of special education.


Functions and activities of Teacher of students with multiple disabilities

Special Education Teachers must:

  • assess the educational needs of students;
  • training professionals to work in the area;
  • participate in pedagogical-administrative activities;
  • act in the teaching-learning process;
  • search on topics of interest in the area;
  • demonstrate personal skills;
  • prepare pedagogical materials and specific resources;
  • search for topics of interest in the area;
  • divulgar knowledge of the area;
  • participate in the development of different educational assistance programs;
  • research on topics of interest in the area;
  • participate in the elaboration of the school's political-pedagogical project;
  • evaluate student educational needs;
  • assess students' educational needs;
  • acting in the teaching-learning process;
  • search about topics of interest in the area;
  • evaluate students' educational needs;
  • disseminate knowledge in the area;
  • disseminate knowledge of the area;
  • disseminate area knowledge;
  • forming professionals to work in the area;

  • Activities

    • working with computer language resources;
    • evaluate receptive student communication;
    • provide advice to the school community;
    • develop projects for the care of young people and adults;
    • develop visual material for students;
    • developing professional activities with students;
    • assess students' learning styles and paces;
    • research language acquisition strategies;
    • adapt teaching games in braille and in enlarged types;
    • indicate institutions for vocational education practices;
    • working with augmentative and alternative communication;
    • transcribe texts in enlarged types;
    • apply the legislation on the rights of people with special learning needs;
    • participate in lectures and courses;
    • teaching work orientation classes;
    • participate in the planning of school-family integration activities -community;
    • demonstrate ability to recognize own limitations;
    • evaluate the linguistic performance of the deaf;
    • assess beginner student's knowledge;
    • establish partnerships with multidisciplinary teams;
    • master sign language;
    • monitoring student training in companies;
    • develop research projects;
    • demonstrate ability to study and research;
    • demonstrate ability to manage educational establishments;
    • adapt the curriculum to the needs of students;
    • elaborate essential stimulation projects;
    • teaching the use of soroban for mathematical calculations;
    • disseminate written sign language to the community;
    • establish partnerships with families;
    • analyze the results of assessments of professionals from other areas;
    • participate in class councils;
    • demonstrate observation skills;
    • elaborate records of student progress;
    • create materials for alternative communication;
    • forward students to specific assessments;
    • demonstrate ability to articulate different realities;
    • prepare instructors to work in the professional training of the apprentice;
    • participate in the preparation of newsletters on forms of communication;
    • planning extracurricular activities;
    • demonstrate ability to interpret sign language;
    • organize exhibitions of student work;
    • prepare functional activities that involve the community;
    • indicate institutions for professional education practices;
    • prepare professionals for educational work in hospitals;
    • alphabetizing in braille;
    • demonstrate tolerance;
    • evaluate students' expressive communication;
    • participate in area associations;
    • prepare visual cues for contextualizing environments;
    • search for special education topics;
    • work in essential stimulation programs;
    • participating in the activities of the sensory integration program;
    • prepare the sign language interpreter to work in the teaching modalities;
    • work on the theme of prejudice in different types of events;
    • master braille;
    • identify students' learning needs;
    • mastering content and methodologies in the area;
    • select activities and physical and material resources;
    • teaching to organize reference objects to anticipate daily activities;
    • training an interpreter guide for the deaf and blind;
    • disseminate sign language to the community;
    • develop assistance programs for youth and adults;
    • participate in the organization of events on prevention;
    • teaching work orientation classes;
    • create material in brazilian sign language (libras) and portuguese language;
    • implement educational assistance programs;
    • prepares the community to use orientation and mobility techniques;
    • disclose the results of research projects;
    • produce videotapes with subtitles and sign language;
    • elaborate a lesson plan;
    • elaborate proposals for teaching portuguese as a second language ;
    • demonstrate ability to work in a team;
    • research visual and spatial experience of deaf and deafblind people;
    • analyze pedagogical proposals;
    • participate in health and education forums;
    • prepare reports;
    • demonstrate ability to manage frustrations;
    • demonstrate ability to work with differences;
    • teaching portuguese language;
    • analyze bibliographies on syndromes and pathologies;
    • prepare self-contract materials;
    • forward the student to the job market;
    • demonstrate leadership ability;
    • correcting student work;
    • participate in the assessment of students' expressive communication;
    • teaching portuguese as a second language;
    • elaborate projects to assist young people and adults;
    • teaching curriculum contents in sign language and portuguese;
    • guiding work in the reading room;
    • transcribe students' braille texts in ink;
    • plan curriculum components according to year/cycle;
    • search bibliography on syndromes and pathologies;
    • develop assistance programs for young people and adults;
    • define school contents;
    • demonstrate the ability to articulate different realities;
    • perform pedagogical and cultural activities in hospitals;
    • study the written language of sign language;
    • participate in the elaboration of the teaching plan;
    • preparing the community to use braille;
    • adapt the curriculum to the students' needs;
    • participate in research projects;
    • grant interviews to the mass media;
    • teaching recreational activities;
    • analyze new theories for practical implementation;
    • pedagogically coordinate institutions serving students with special learning needs;
    • contribute to the elaboration of magazines, newspapers and newsletters;
    • work in educational qualification programs;
    • record texts in different media (tapes, multimedia etc);
    • teaching contents of curricular subjects;
    • prepare materials with motor and postural adaptations;
    • prepare deaf instructors to work in teaching modalities;
    • teaching activities of daily living (adl);
    • elaborate codes of social interaction;
    • participate in the evaluation process of the student's psychomotor and cognitive aspects;
    • participate in school inclusion programs;
    • participate in the elaboration of the school curriculum;
    • plan the evaluation of the teaching-learning process;
    • develop functional activities that involve the community;
    • develop projects with non-school institutions;
    • master different forms of communication;
    • search written sign language;
    • guiding student internships;
    • plan individual educational intervention programs;
    • evaluate project results;
    • study approaches to augmentative and alternative communication;
    • preparing the community to interact with people with special educational needs;
    • forward the student to protected, vocational or occupational workshops;
    • research bibliography on syndromes and pathologies;
    • create didactic-pedagogical materials;
    • performing activities for orientation and mobility;
    • proceed ethically;
    • evaluate student learning styles and paces;
    • demonstrate planning ability;
    • teaching the activities of autonomous living;
    • participate in category associations;
    • direct institutions serving students with special learning needs;
    • forward student to regular education;
    • elaborate assessment instruments;
    • evaluate school performance;
    • coordinate course;
    • demonstrate ability to direct educational establishments;
    • participate in the activities of the sensory integration program;
    • forward the student to training in companies;
    • study the proposals of educational legislation;
    • participate in the preparation of texts on topics in the area;
    • prepare teachers for inclusion classes;
    • demonstrate ability to work with individualized teaching;
    • work in educational rehabilitation programs;
    • delivering work orientation classes;
    • guiding volunteers for special education in communities;
    • teaching the use of reference objects;
    • participate in the preparation of information on prevention;
    • developing activities of the different curricular components in libras and portuguese;
    • develop educational assistance programs;
    • create textures, reliefs that convey knowledge;
    • direct institutions that serve students with special learning needs;
    • participate in the organization of seminars, forums and other events;
    • demonstrate creativity;
    • demonstrate improvisational skills;
    • make didactic-pedagogical materials;
    • search sign language;
    • transcribe texts in ink into braille;
    • research the use of technologies;
    • participate in pedagogical meetings;
    • register grades and contents in class diaries;
    • participate in the process of evaluating the student's psychomotor and cognitive aspects;
    • demonstrate ability to motivate others;
    • provide specialized pedagogical support services in different teaching modalities ;
    • develop essential stimulation projects;
    • assess beginner student knowledge;
    • performing recreational activities aimed at socio-affective interaction;
    • demonstrate flexibility;
    • demonstrate pedagogical coordination capacity of educational establishments;
    • coordinate course;
    • prepare instructors to work in the apprentice's professional training;
    • plan extracurricular activities;
    • plan activities based on the visual experience of students;
    • deliver lectures and courses;
    • participate in the assessment of students' receptive communication;


    Sectors that hire Teacher of students with multiple disabilities the most in the job market

    • activities of associations for the defense of social rights
    • general public administration
    • elementary school
    • welfare services without accommodation
    • child education - day care
    • high school
    • social assistance activities provided in collective and private residences
    • child education - pre-school
    • associative activities
    • cleaning in buildings and households




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