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.
This resource contains over 100 Visual Schedule Pintable Cards to allow you to make your own fun, colourful and engaging visual schedule for home!
Visual schedules are important. They remain after words are spoken so allows children to refer to them and understand what is happening in their day. A visual schedule can be empowering and can help prepare children for the day ahead. Regular routines are learned more easily when it is represented visually. These are great to use also to support students to transition from one activity to the next.
Included are heading cards which include Days of the Week, Morning and Evening Cards, Daily routines and Chores as well as a page of empty template blank cards should you wish to make some special additions of your own.
EMPOWER & PREPARE YOUR CHILDREN FOR THE DAY!
GREAT TO SUPPORT TRANSITIONS!
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This lesson has been specifically developed to support students with learning or intellectual difficulties to understand key aspects relating to:
SAFETY IN THE COMMUNITY
A mini lesson exploring tips and strategies for personal safety when you are out and about in the community. We explore tips for keeping you safe with strangers, when you are out on the town as well as exploring the risks associated with texting.
This lesson has been created to include key information in a easy to read manner with visuals to support information retention. Depending on the age, developmental level and key learning needs, Teachers, Parents, School Counsellors and other Allied Health Professionals should use their insight and judgement to determine whether the information contained in this lesson is suitable and appropriate for each individual student.
This lesson is built into a scaffold learning system with a total of 6 lessons. You can choose to use this lesson in isolation, however should you with to further build the knowledge around relationships and sexuality, feel free to check out the remainder of the lessons. The lessons include:
Personal Body Safety
Puberty
Special Relationships and Dating
Sex and Consent
Safe Sex Practices
Safety in the Community
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Please ensure that you are fully aware of the content of the package prior to implementing with children to ensure material covered is suitable and family consent is provided in order to teach children education around these topics.
This set includes 104 cards which include a variety of CVC words for each vowel.
Who would benefit from using these cards?
Children who have difficulty with speech and articulation would benefit from this set. These may include children with apraxia of speech, autism, Down Syndrome and severe phonological processes would benefit from these cards.
These cards would even help in building up the students vocabulary.
There are two buckets included at the end of the set. The first bucket can include the articulation cards which have been able to be successfully completed and the second bucket is for the articulation cards that might need a little bit more practice. When the students see that eventually their ”successful” buckets get full, this will help build upon their sense of achievement.
REMEMBER….PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT!
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FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
CONVERSATION STARTERS
This is a fun intervention for individual or groups to support everyone to get to know each other and build unity and cohesion. Give everyone in the group six m&m’s each. For each colour, the student should answer that corresponding question. If possible, try to ensure that there is a range of colours so they don’t get the same question.
This version is great for back to school week to reflect of how their holiday went, what they did and what they are looking forward to in the upcoming year. There are three versions including:
1.Getting to know you
2.Team Building
3.Ice-Breakers
NOTE: If you don’t have access to m&m’s we have included printable m&m tokens which can be printed, cut and used to random pick the m&m colours.
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Lesson Plan - Powerpoint is editable. Changes in Body and Puberty for both genders. Suitable for special needs classes.
You can individualize the program by including individual students name.
This is a fun, engaging, creative and non-threatening intervention which is great for students to explore self esteem strategies.
Sandwich ingredients represent the various strategies to support the student to use self esteem strategies. The following strategies are included: be authentic, eat healthy foods, exercise regularly, good sleep, positive affirmations, list your wins and accomplishments, pamper yourself, favourite music, create a memory box, clean environment, avoid triggers, deep breathing/meditation, set realistic goal and take action and surround yourself with positive people.
Laminate and use white board markers for students to write their own
Self Esteem strategies to create their own unique “Self Esteem” sandwich. This is great for a lunch time individual or group therapy intervention.
This is a fun, engaging, creative and non-threatening intervention which is great for students to explore calm down strategies.
Sandwich ingredients represent the various strategies to support the student to calm down. The following strategies are included: bounding on a ball, playing with play-doh, counting to 10, writing down thoughts, listening to music, stretching, quiet time, drawing, reading, going for a walk, meditation, hugging a favourite toy, having a drink and thinking happy thoughts. There are blank copies of the ingredients for students to write down some calming strategies that they like to use.
Laminate and use white board markers for students to write their own
calm-down strategies to create their own unique calm down sandwich. This is great for a lunch time individual or group therapy intervention.
SCISSOR AND TRACING TASK CARDS for early learners
There are a total of 52 scissor and tracing cards as well as 6 blank cards for student to create their own tracing and scissor lines should they wish.
There is a variety of foundational shapes and formations ranging from straight to curved lines and everything in between needed for your child or students to develop pre-writing and skills.
These are bright, colourful and engaging cards which are great for early learners to develop and strengthen their fine motor skills.
LAMINATE THESE TASK CARDS TO USE OVER AND OVER!
This Mini-Lesson utilizes a reflective framework to explore anger. Throughout this mini-lesson students will be requested to reflect on the following topics:
What is anger?
Difference between anger and aggression
Consequences of behaviour
Anger Awareness – Exploring Triggers
Presentation of Anger including clues and warning signs Thoughts, feelings, - behaviours and physical presentations
Costs and Benefits of Anger
This is a great resource for students who need to explore and address their anger!
This resource is great for parents, teachers and others who are supporting children who may display challenging or behaviours or concern. This Behaviour Support Templeate focuses on feelings, thoughts and actions in each state. The states include:
Calm/Recovery - Relaxed and Happy State (green page)
Level 1 - Early Warning Signs (yellow page)
Level 2 - Escalation (orange page)
Level 3 - Climax (red page)
This resource includes a completed example of the Behaviour Support Plan for reference as well as a template of the Behaviour Support Plan which is blank.
This can also be utilized to support the students to reflect on their own behaviour cycle and trajectory, explore their own thoughts, feelings and physiological responses as well as isolate what supports they may require to assist them.
This resource is great for parents, teachers and others who are supporting children who may display challenging or behaviours or concern. This Behaviour Support Templeate focuses on feelings, thoughts and actions in each state. The states include:
Calm/Recovery - Relaxed and Happy State (green page)
Level 1 - Early Warning Signs (yellow page)
Level 2 - Escalation (orange page)
Level 3 - Climax (red page)
This resource includes a completed example of the Behaviour Support Plan for reference as well as a template of the Behaviour Support Plan which is blank.
This can also be utilized to support the students to reflect on their own behaviour cycle and trajectory, explore their own thoughts, feelings and physiological responses as well as isolate what supports they may require to assist them.
This is a great way to introduce the concepts of “bucket filling” for the beginning of the year or reminders of self-care and positive and empowering learning environments.
There are a total of 60 cards which includes a particular behaviour and on each card the student is asked to reflect on the situation and choose whether it is a Bucket Filler or a Bucket Dipper. The student may require some reflective questioning should they need prompting as to how and why a behaviour may be a bucket filler or a bucket dipper. These cards are created to facilitate conversation, discussion and insight. This resource includes 60 cards which has a narrative of what is happening in the situation, as well as 60 cards without the narrative to encourage the student to really reflect on the situation.
Let’s all be bucket fillers!
Sensory-Based Leisure Activities handout are activities that children enjoy, find relaxing and/or stimulating which are associated with the following senses:
Touch
Smell
Hear
Sight
Movement
These activities can be implemented at home and/or in the classroom environment and are categorised within the various senses domains.
This document also includes information regarding what is an object of reference and how these can be utilized for skill development and communication.
This document also explains cues that can support your child’s understanding (ie: auditory cues, gesture cues, olfactory cues, routine cues, tactual cues, visual cues). To supplement these activities a communication dictionary template (blank and editable) has been included for individualised responses.
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. This set includes 84 visual cards which students are encouraged to differentiate between the five various food groups.
Meat and Protein
Vegetables and Fruits
Junk Food
Dairy
Breads and Grains
Simply cut out the visual cards and food group categorizing buckets and away you go! There is a lot of versatility in utilizing this activity so you are only limited by your imagination.
This activity can be completed individually, in small or whole group settings.
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So often I hear teachers, parents and therapists ask about where and how to start teaching children how to write.
We are often questioning how to fix poor letter formation habits and how to address pencil grasp issues.
This is a 26 page document which highlights the key aspects to consider when teaching a child to handwrite. For example, how to hold a pencil/pen, seating position, techniques and strategies to initiate handwriting and build upon the current skills. This document also highlights various iPad applications to support the find motor skills and handwriting development.
This is a great easy instructional document which includes numerous material and can be used by other Occupational Therpists, Speech Therapists, Teachers, Allied Health Professionals and Parents! Give your child the best start in life :)
This project is a creative and beautiful way to acknowledge and encourage a kindness mindset within a school or education setting. It is encouraging for the school community to see the tree grow as kindness and good deeds continue to be added to the tree over tree. This helps to foster a positive, encouraging, constructive environment to help build growth mindset, personal character and reduce bullying. This is a great initiative for a whole class or entire school approach to bring about systemic change.
This resource includes:
What is a Kindness Tree?
Plant a Seed of Kindness Poster
Kindness Quotes
Kindness Pledge
Ways you can show Kindness
My Kindness Checklist for Students
Create your own Kindness Tree templates (tree, leaves, hands, apples, hearts and additional decorations)
Extra Notes page
This early Learning Resource is a great activity to support children to learn key words, letter and sound 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 25 pages which includes 96 individual cards. 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.
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.