We are a team of professional Occupational Therapists, Speech Therapists, Behavioural Practitioners, Counselors and Teachers who enjoy creating resources to support children and young people to build confidence, resilience and ensure optimal learning. We are motivated by passion to create educational and therapeutic resources which are evidence-based, creative, innovative and flexible.
We are a team of professional Occupational Therapists, Speech Therapists, Behavioural Practitioners, Counselors and Teachers who enjoy creating resources to support children and young people to build confidence, resilience and ensure optimal learning. We are motivated by passion to create educational and therapeutic resources which are evidence-based, creative, innovative and flexible.
Small, Medium and Big Problems Sizes, Reactions and Solutions Counseling Lesson
This lesson encourages students to differentiate between small, medium and big problems as well as exploring potential reaction sizes. This resource is reflective in nature allowing for open discussion and reflections to encourage students to brainstorm and generate solutions and ideas for various problems.
This is a fun, engaging and creative counselling lesson which is great for a variety of individual, group and whole class activities to support learning. This mini-lesson helps to develop social emotional skills, in particular learn to problem solve and strengthen social skills.
THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES:
Different sizes of problems (small, medium, big)
-Criteria of different sized problems
-Examples of problems
-Draw your own problems (worksheet)
Learning about reaction sizes
-Under-reaction, typical and over-reactions
-Exploring problems with different reaction sizes
-How different sized problems might make you feel?
Small, Medium and Big Problem Posters
Activities and Worksheets
Activity 1 – Sorting Problem Scenarios into sizes (small group or whole class activity)
Activity 2 – Exploring reactions worksheet (under, typical and over reactions)
Activity 3 – Problems and Solutions 2-piece visual puzzles
Activity 4 – Matching Problems to solutions worksheets including Problem Solving Options Poster and creating your own solutions poster (including problem solving ideas poster)
Activity 5 – Colour in the size of the problem
Activity 6 – Brainstorming Reaction Sizes worksheet
Activity 7 – Find-a-word
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This Early Learning Resource is a great activity to support children to count, learn written number and numeral recognition as well as fine motor skills at the same time! Just print and laminate these templates for a re-usable resource that children can play with time and time again. Add some pegs and this will be a great addition to any early childhood environment.
There are a total of 18 pages which includes 68 individual cards with numbers ranging from 1-20. This is a versatile resource and has been utilized well as a great whole class activity, group and individual work. This is all about making learning fun for our learners.
Fine motor skills are achieved when children learn to use their smaller muscles, like muscles in the hands, fingers, and wrists. Children use their fine motor skills when writing, holding small items, buttoning clothing, turning pages, eating, cutting with scissors, and using computer keyboards.
This Activity-A-Day Calendar is for a two week period which is great for school holidays or an intense short term intervention. This program is aimed at supporting sensory modulation and integration, specifically utilizing tactile stimulating activities.
How does it work? Simply print out the calendars and put them on the fridge. Each day includes various fun activities that can be completed with your child.
It literally is as simple as that! Therapy made fun and easy!
Understanding My Worldview is a 9 page document to support teachers, parents and carers to understand children who have experienced trauma from a neuroscience and neuropsychological lens.
This document explores how the child may be currently operating within their environment and is written in third person. This document covers the fundamentals such as the role of the amygdala and how that impacts upon behavioural concerns.
this has been written in third person so it is like the child who has experienced trauma is really explaining it to you. This is a unique perspective to help build empathy, understanding and compassion for the child whilst also being educative, informative and interesting.
This has been a stand out document which all teachers, parents, carers, foster carers and allied health staff would benefit from having in their tool kit.
Social stories are written to share meaningful and accurate information to define, describe and explain accurate information in a meaningful way to enhance the students social understanding.
Social stories are great for increasing a students understanding of socially appropriate behaviours and interactions.
This social story explores the concept of “Walking in Lines”. It explores key aspects such as encouraging students to face the front, hands down, walking behind the person in front, use your eyes to watch where you are going and to be quiet.
Visual supports are included to enhance the students understanding of the written word.
To supplement this social story remember that you can support your students or child to learn to share by giving them plenty of time and opportunities to practice. Praise and encouragement for good sharing will reinforce this concept.
PROGRAM TWO - SPECIFIC PROGRAM FOR
/k/ and /g/ and “s” on the end
This program has been successful and are great for giving to parents at IEP meetings and homework. This program is so versatile you can utilize this for kindergarten, special needs and children with autism.
This program has been successful and are great for giving to parents at IEP meetings and homework. This program is so versatile you can utilize this for kindergarten, special needs and children with autism.
This is a 22 page program which includes the following:
How to make the sound as well as tips and tricks to making the sound
Various practice activities (including games)
Steps to learning my words
Clear speaking strategies
Heirachy of cues (and tiops for eliciting sounds)
spare word templates
Hierarchy of cues (and tips for eliciting sounds)
This workbook contains various activities designed to explore an individual’s self compassion and self-esteem. These worksheets and activities can be used as a foundation for discussion and reflection.
Self Compassion is about accepting yourself no matter what happens. For example, even if I am feeling insecure, I completely accept myself as who I am. Self Compassion means being understanding and gentle with ourselves when we struggle, fail, suffer or even feel inadequate instead of criticising yourself.
Self Compassion means taking a balanced approach to any negative feelings or experiences that we encounter. Instead of becoming overwhelmed, exaggerate or even suppress our emotions and experiences, self compassion means accepting ourselves – even the parts that are vulnerable and imperfect.
Just remember…self esteem is not about learning to love everything about ourselves…it’s about loving ourselves even though there are things that we do not like. If we see self esteem as a destination of perfect self acceptance it will always seem too far away.
Many today suffer with a damaged sense of self. Some individuals have such profound self-esteem deficits that they have internalized the belief that they are bad and that their future is hopeless. The goal of enhancing self-esteem for these students is not an easy one, but it is an important component of any successful treatment program. This workbook has been developed to help students to develop the tools to help individuals focus on their strengths and abilities, promote feelings of self-worth, encourage a more optimistic attitude and install a hope for their future.
This 38 page workbook addresses important issues that are relevant in relation to increasing self-esteem, understanding feelings, bullying and anger management. This workbook is designed so that the child has an opportunity to reflect on who they are, including to gain further insights into self-esteem, feelings, bullying and anger management.
Some activities are also whole-class activities to encourage self-esteem and empowerment, encouraging all children to isolate and express the things that they like and admire in the others in a very fun way.
This workbook contains various activities designed to explore an individual’s self compassion and self-esteem. These worksheets and activities can be used as a foundation for discussion and reflection.
Self Compassion is about accepting yourself no matter what happens. For example, even if I am feeling insecure, I completely accept myself as who I am. Self Compassion means being understanding and gentle with ourselves when we struggle, fail, suffer or even feel inadequate instead of criticising yourself.
Self Compassion means taking a balanced approach to any negative feelings or experiences that we encounter. Instead of becoming overwhelmed, exaggerate or even suppress our emotions and experiences, self compassion means accepting ourselves – even the parts that are vulnerable and imperfect.
Just remember…self esteem is not about learning to love everything about ourselves…it’s about loving ourselves even though there are things that we do not like. If we see self esteem as a destination of perfect self acceptance it will always seem too far away.
This story is to help students understand different voice volumes and where they are appropriate to use in different settings and environments.
Using the analogy of car speeds, this story is relatable, easy to read and understand and visually supported.
This social story also includes two posters which help to cement their learning and understanding.
So get in the drivers seat and take control of your voice volume!
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This Occupational Therapy Tip Sheet can be printed double sided and perfectly summarizes the following:
What are Find Motor Skills and why are they important?
Explains and provides strategies for the following:
Shoulder Girdle Stability
Hand strength
Fine Pincer Grasp
Manipulation Skills
Bilateral Hand Use
This is a great tip sheet for parents, carers and teachers to help them understand fine motor skills and give them some easy to implement strategies for develop and strengthen their skills.
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Everyone grieves differently and experiences different emotional reactions. Some may not want to discuss while others may want to share memories of their loved one. Therefore it is important to allow every individual to express themselves as much as they feel comfortable doing so.
The objectives of this workbook are to facilitate dialogue which is important during the healing process. This resource additionally focuses on the development of coping strategies which is a key component for any type of therapeutic work. The more coping skills and individual possesses, the better they will be able to handle emotional distress that comes with the loss of a loved one.
The following resource explores and includes the following:
-What is Grief?
-“Tears” of Grief Model
-5 Stages of Grief
-Exploring Emotions (including Concurrent Emotions)
-Exploring Physical Symptoms of stress (impact on body)
-Coping Strategies
-Development of a “Staying Healthy Plan” (mental and physical strategies)
-Creative Therapy activities, worksheets, reflective questions and colouring
Creative Intervention to support anxious children to let go of their worries with the help of their worry tree.
This project is a creative way for children to identify and acknowledge their anxieties. Sometimes we all carry around worries. They might be about school, home, friendships or even changes in our life. This activity encourages children to think about their worries and put them on their own worry tree. They can write down all of their worries and put them on the tree so that they don’t need to carry these worries around with them anymore. When the worries have been placed on the tree, it opens up discussion around strategies and ways that they can cope with that worry.
This resource includes:
What is a Worry Tree
My Worries (What do I want to talk about) worksheet
When I feel Worried Brainstorm
Coping Skills Poster
Rainbow Breathing
Breathing & Concentration Exercise
Mindful Senses
Create your own Worry Tree Template (tree, leaves, butterflies, birds)
Extra Notes Page
WHAT TO DO
If you have a worry all you have to do is to write your worry on a leaf. Use some glue and glue your worry on the tree. Your tree will keep it safe until you have explored your worry with someone and thought of some coping strategies. As time goes by, you can use the butterflies and birds to take the worries away!
This resource is great for preschoolers, kindergarten, children with autism and special needs. Learning to be able to isolate, distinguish and learn categories are vital for language development and executive functioning.
Simply cut out the visual cards and categorising buckets and away you go! There is a lot of versatility in utilizing this activity so you are only limited by your imagination. Should using the whole set be overwhelming, you can start off small by starting with only a couple of categories and then work on building more categories into the activity over time.
This activity can be completed individually, in small or whole group settings.
There are over 84 visuals included which can be categories into various categories including:
body parts
school
family
food
weather
chores
animals
community helpers
shapes
home
and much more…
"I have used this resource multiple times both as a Speech Therapist and Special Needs Teacher and it has been invaluable in supporting language development, sentence building and learning fundamentals including category building. Highly recommend. This resource will be in my toolbox for years to come!"
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Creative Intervention to support anxious children to let go of their worries with the help of their worry tree.
This project is a creative way for children to identify and acknowledge their anxieties. Sometimes we all carry around worries. They might be about school, home, friendships or even changes in our life. This activity encourages children to think about their worries and put them on their own worry tree. They can write down all of their worries and put them on the tree so that they don’t need to carry these worries around with them anymore. When the worries have been placed on the tree, it opens up discussion around strategies and ways that they can cope with that worry.
This resource includes:
What is a Worry Tree
My Worries (What do I want to talk about) worksheet
When I feel Worried Brainstorm
Coping Skills Poster
Rainbow Breathing
Breathing & Concentration Exercise
Mindful Senses
Create your own Worry Tree Template (tree, leaves, butterflies, birds)
Extra Notes Page
WHAT TO DO
If you have a worry all you have to do is to write your worry on a leaf. Use some glue and glue your worry on the tree. Your tree will keep it safe until you have explored your worry with someone and thought of some coping strategies. As time goes by, you can use the butterflies and birds to take the worries away!
This managing my emotions hands-on and fun mini-lesson helps students to develop emotional literacy by learning to identify their emotions, isolate why they feel that way and learn healthy and constructive ways to manage them.
This mini-lesson includes the following:
POSTERS
-Emotions Wheel - Coloured Visual Clipart Poster
-Emotions Wheel - Coloured Written Word Poster
-Emotions Wheel - Black and White Colouring Page
EMOTIONS WHEEL OVERLAY
-Template to create your own Emotions Wheel
-Photo Example of completed wheel
WORKSHEETS
-Worksheets to support students to become more aware of their own emotions, potential triggers as well as building emotional literacy.
COPING SKILLS
-Exploring uncomfortable emotions
-Coping Skills Poster
-Create your own Coping Skills Poster
This is a fun, engaging, creative and non-threatening intervention which is great for students to explore self-esteem. In particular, self-confidence, identify, feeling of belonging and feeling of competence.
What to do?
1.Encourage students to explore each of the 24 realistic scenarios on each page and reflect on how that scenario would make them feel. This also encourages self-compassion and consideration of feelings and actions as they resonate with each scenario.
2.The next step is for the students to explore the “Self-Esteem Ingredients” list and tick what self-esteem strategy they could employ and use for that particular scenario. This helps students to reflect, explore and gain insight into their own feelings and behaviours.
3.Students then put those ingredients into the “blender” which is located on each page to cement the lesson. There are 20 visuals for already developed self-esteem and confidence strategies which students can utilize. There are an addition 12 blank visual cards for students to explore some of their own individual and unique self-esteem strategies that work for them.
4.Lastly, students can create a name for that particular self-care smoothie. This heightens the learning outcomes and students become more likely to explore and employ these self-care strategies within their everyday life.
NOTE – There is a COMPLETED example page so students can see this resource in action!
This workbook has been designed for teenagers and adults to explore, define and nurture themselves through self-care. This resource is motivating, inspirational and grounding. This resource gives teenagers and adults a great foundation in which to explore where they currently are in life, where they want to go hopes/desires/dreams) as well as equip them with the skills, knowledge and insight so that they are equipped with the right self-care tools and supports to deal with anything life throws at them.
This workbook explores the following:
What is Self-Care?
Seven Pillars of Self-Care (exploring each one individually and if any of our pillars in need of repair)
Strongest Qualities and Traits
Explore individual core sense of self (intellectually, spiritually, physically and emotionally)
What’s important for them – dreams, desires, goals. Needs and wants
Personal Goal Review
Planning your success
Exploring barriers and overcoming obstacles
Exploring defining moments
Guided reflection questions
Tips for keeping a routine
Morning Headstart checklist example (and developing your own morning routine which nourishes your body, mind and soul)
Tips for a healthy bedtime routine.
Negative and Positive Thinking Patterns
Daily Self-Reflection Template
Inspirational Quotes, Analogies, Worksheets and more.
This is a fun, engaging and creative craft activity lesson which encourages a positive growth mindset for children to grow in self-confidence and self-esteem.
All About Snowflakes (including fun facts)
Self-Esteem Questionnaire
Self-Esteem Sentence Starters
My Self-Esteem Snowflakes
-Example
-Blank Template (including various sizes)
Snowflake Qualities and Traits
-Example
-Blank Templates
Whole Class Activity – Snowflake Garland
THIS MINI LESSON IS A GREAT ADDITION TO YOUR COUNSELING OR SEL LESSONS! GREAT FOR INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP WORK.
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PROGRAM ONE - SPECIFIC PROGRAM FOR
/b/ /t/ /d/ /k/ /s/ /t/ /f/ /ch/ /l/ /h/ /s/ /th/ /s/ clusters
This program has been successful and are great for giving to parents at IEP meetings and homework. This program is so versatile you can utilize this for kindergarten, special needs and children with autism.
This program has been successful and are great for giving to parents at IEP meetings and homework. This program is so versatile you can utilze this for kindergarten, special needs and children with autism.
This is a 22 page program which includes the following:
How to make the sound as well as tips and tricks to making the sound
Various practice activities (including games)
Steps to learning my words
Clear speaking strategies
Heirachy of cues (and tiops for eliciting sounds)
spare word templates
Hierarchy of cues (and tips for eliciting sounds))
The following sounds are included:
/b/ and /t/
/d/ and /k/
/s/ and /t/
/f/ and /ch/
/l/ and /h/
/s/ and /th/
/s/ clusters
Each handout includes the following sections: How to make the sound, tips and tricks to make the sound, ways to practice, and a visual association for the sound (e.g. /z/ is the “buzz” sound). The following sounds are included: /m, b, p, y, n, t, d, k, g, f, v, sh, ch, j, s, z, l, th, r/. I hope you find these useful!