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 toileting program gives you information and a helpful learning sequence to follow for toilet training. This is particularly relevant and helpful for children with autism.
Separation can cause a lot of stress for families and can also significantly impact upon children’s wellbeing.
The great news is that there are some child-centered approaches and strategies that can support parents to connect with and understand their children’s needs during times of separation and transition. For example when your child heads off to Day Care, Kindergarten or School.
The following portfolio includes strategies and interventions to help strengthen the parent-child relationships while promoting their child’s social and emotional wellbeing throughout separations and transitions.
We explore Separation Anxiety, Attachment and Development and the specific tips for success. Additionally we explore the important role of routines and schedules within a child’s life. A Social Narrative called “Going to School” is included as well as numerous visual support resources for emotions, coping skills and routine posters.
This portfolio is divided into six individual lessons. You can choose to use each lesson in isolation or scaffold through the lessons one by one. The six lessons include:
1.Understanding Separation Anxiety
Understanding Separation Anxiety
Separation & Development
Object Permanence
Leave and Return
The Good News…
What Separation Anxiety Looks like?
2.Attachment & Development
Attachment theory
Secure & Insecure Attachment
Why does Attachment matter?
Characteristics of temperament
Simultaneous Feelings
3.Tips for Success
PEP TALK – Prioritise Building a Strong Connection
The triad – preparation, brisk transition & time
Tips for Success Checklists (Before the date, the night before, on the day, after pick up)
The hard part – Separating and saying “goodbye”
Helpful Hints
4.Routines & Schedules
Why are Routines & Schedules important?
Creating Predictable Routines
My Morning Routine
Poster & Checklist
My Night Time Routine
Poster & Checklist
5.“I’m Going to School” Social Narrative
I’m a big kid now!
Good things happen at school
My Classroom, Teacher & Backpack
I feel nervous & Coping Tools
Hug – Kiss – High-5 and Bye
I am safe!
I am brave!
6.Emotions & Coping Tools
Feeling & Body Connections
Feelings
Body Sensations
Coping Strategy Cards
Balloon Breathing & Other Breath Strategies
Coping Affirmations
Mental Health includes our emotional, psychological and social wellbeing. It affects how we think, feel and even act. Our Mental Health is very important because it helps determine how we relate to others, handle stress and make choices in life.
This also works in reverse. The different aspects of ones life, such as interpersonal relationships and physical factors can all impact our mental health. Other conditions such as stress, anxiety and depression can also affect a persons mental health.
Good Mental health is a delicate balance of many factors and elements in ones life. Together, they help to either contribute to good mental health or potentially cause disruptions. In this portfolio, we explore important aspects of mental health that teenagers and adults should be aware of to ensure that we are giving them the best foundation to achieve ongoing wellness and happiness.
This portfolio is divided into six individual lessons. You can choose to use each lesson in isolation or scaffold through the lessons one by one. The six lessons include:
1.What is Mental Health?
What is Mental Health?
Risk Factors
Mental Health Continuum
Exploring your Mental Health States
2.Anxiety and Stress
What is Anxiety?
What is Stress?
What’s the difference?
How Anxiety & Stress Affects the Body
My Anxiety Checklist Questionnaire
Exploring your Anxiety & Stress Worksheet
3.Depression, Self-Harm and Suicide
What is Depression, Symptoms & Causes
Self-harm and why people do it
Suicide and warning signs
Helping someone at risk
Let’s bust those myths!
Negative Thoughts and tracking
4.Drugs, Alcohol and Mental Health
The impact of Drugs on Mental Health
How Alcohol affects your Brain
Looking at your Habits Questionnaire
5.Caring for Self
The importance of Self-Care
Seven pillars of Self-Care
Limiting Social Media Use
Exercise, Sleep Hygiene Practices
Self-Care Check-in and Bingo
Developing a Self-Care Plan
6.Reaching out
Relationships & Depression
Reaching Out – What to do and say
Ask for a check-in
Where to go for Support
Raising the Alarm
My Action Plan
DISCLAIMER: This resource is mainly for information purposes and are not intended to be a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, medical treatment or therapy. Please never disregard professional psychological or medical advice nor delay in seeking professional advice or treatment because of something you have read in this resource.
Separation can cause a lot of stress for families and can also significantly impact upon children’s wellbeing.
The great news is that there are some child-centered approaches and strategies that can support parents to connect with and understand their children’s needs during times of separation and transition. For example when your child heads off to Day Care, Kindergarten or School.
The following portfolio includes strategies and interventions to help strengthen the parent-child relationships while promoting their child’s social and emotional wellbeing throughout separations and transitions.
We explore Separation Anxiety, Attachment and Development and the specific tips for success. Additionally we explore the important role of routines and schedules within a child’s life. A Social Narrative called “Going to School” is included as well as numerous visual support resources for emotions, coping skills and routine posters.
This portfolio is divided into six individual lessons. You can choose to use each lesson in isolation or scaffold through the lessons one by one. The six lessons include:
1.Understanding Separation Anxiety
Understanding Separation Anxiety
Separation & Development
Object Permanence
Leave and Return
The Good News…
What Separation Anxiety Looks like?
2.Attachment & Development
Attachment theory
Secure & Insecure Attachment
Why does Attachment matter?
Characteristics of temperament
Simultaneous Feelings
3.Tips for Success
PEP TALK – Prioritise Building a Strong Connection
The triad – preparation, brisk transition & time
Tips for Success Checklists (Before the date, the night before, on the day, after pick up)
The hard part – Separating and saying “goodbye”
Helpful Hints
4.Routines & Schedules
Why are Routines & Schedules important?
Creating Predictable Routines
My Morning Routine
Poster & Checklist
My Night Time Routine
Poster & Checklist
5.“I’m Going to School” Social Narrative
I’m a big kid now!
Good things happen at school
My Classroom, Teacher & Backpack
I feel nervous & Coping Tools
Hug – Kiss – High-5 and Bye
I am safe!
I am brave!
6.Emotions & Coping Tools
Feeling & Body Connections
Feelings
Body Sensations
Coping Strategy Cards
Balloon Breathing & Other Breath Strategies
Coping Affirmations
Este libro de trabajo ha sido diseñado para que los adolescentes y adultos exploren, definan y se nutran a sí mismos a través del cuidado personal. Este recurso es motivador, inspirador y fundamentador. Este recurso brinda a los adolescentes y adultos una gran base para explorar dónde se encuentran actualmente en la vida, hacia dónde quieren ir (esperanzas / deseos / sueños), así como equiparlos con las habilidades, el conocimiento y la percepción para que estén equipados con las herramientas de autocuidado y los apoyos adecuados para hacer frente a cualquier cosa que les depare la vida.
Este libro explora lo siguiente:
¿Qué es el autocuidado?
Siete pilares del autocuidado (explorando cada uno individualmente y si alguno de nuestros pilares necesita reparación)
Cualidades y rasgos más fuertes
Explorar el sentido central del yo individual (intelectual, espiritual, física y emocionalmente)
Lo que es importante para ellos: sueños, deseos, metas.
Explorando barreras y superando obstáculos
Explorando momentos decisivos
Preguntas de reflexión guiada
Ejemplo de lista de verificación de Morning Headstart (y desarrollo de su propia rutina matutina que nutre su cuerpo, mente y alma)
Plantilla de autorreflexión diaria
Citas inspiradoras, analogías, hojas de trabajo y más.
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.
Exploring barriers and overcoming obstacles
Exploring defining moments
Guided reflection questions
Morning Headstart checklist example (and developing your own morning routine which nourishes your body, mind and soul)
Daily Self-Reflection Template
Inspirational Quotes, Analogies, Worksheets and more.
This creative and printable board game has been developed to provide a foundation which explores a vital executive functioning skill - self-control and impulse control.
“Let’s Pause” is a growth mindset board game which is great for students who may struggle to think before they act, who present with difficulties associated with ADHD or students who could benefit from considering the consequences of their actions.
Using the analogy of a “remote control” students are asked to reflect on their behaviour and the impact when they can
-“pause and stop” and think about their behaviour
-“fast forward” where impulses take over
-“play” when you can just keep going
-“rewind” when they can take a step back after our impulses have got the better of us and think about the consequences.
This game encourages reflection and psycho-education around impulse control, self-control, emotional regulation and anger management.
There are over 115 reflective question cards with 23 cards in each of the five various color-coded areas. These include:
- Reflect – practical and relatable scenarios to help put learning into practice
- Let’s Pause – reflecting on impulse control and its impact
- Better Choices – exploring emotional regulation, coping strategies and strategies
- Let’s Chat – conversation starters to build rapport
- Anger – exploring anger management
This is a great game which is a perfect supplement for our Impulse Control “Let’s Pause Mini-Lesson”
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This lesson helps students personify and project their grief onto their own monster that they create with the therapeutic aim to reflect and gain insight. This intervention asks students to create a representation of grief and give it a name. By externalizing grief, it becomes something that they can deal with and manage. It is no longer an abstract idea that they have no control over. It becomes manageable.
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. This activity supports the individual to do this.
This therapeutic intervention requires the therapist to be very curious and unconditionally accepting of the Grief Monster that the student creates and imagines. Remember the vital role of empathy and at the end of the intervention sincerely thank the student for sharing what their grief looks like as a monster to support integration. Further discussion ideas for integration might include exploration of the themes and trends that arise during this intervention.
This resource includes:
Therapist Notes
We are sorry for your loss…
What is grief?
How does your body feel today?
What feeds your grief?
Getting to know your Grief Monster?
Safe Place for your Grief Monster
What it looks like?
Monster Diaries
Coping Strategies – Ways to care for your Grief Monster
My Helping Hand
Monster feelings chart Poster
Post Session Reflective questions
Building your own Grief Monster
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This Mini-Lesson explores positive self talk which is the key to building self esteem… Persistent low self-esteem can impact an individual’s life in many ways. The constant exposure to negative feelings can trigger depression, anger, guilt, shame, anxiety or sadness. These emotions can feel overwhelming at times.
One way that can really help is to change the negative self-talk into positive self-talk. This in turns help to build self-esteem. By improving self-esteem, the student is better able to emotionally regulate which serves to improve many areas of their lives. This mini-lesson serves to change the negative self-talk scripts that students often gravitate towards and move to a more positive and constructive self-talk script.
The example of a spider and its web is used. The more you tell yourself NEGATIVE self-talk, the more it will stick. The more you tell yourself positive self-talk, the more it will stick. Just like a spider catching food in it’s web. Once it’s caught…it’s hard to get out. So, the students are empowered to make a choice - to have either positive or negative self talk stuck in their web!
This resource includes many self-talk affirmations and scripts that the students can read and include on their own “self-esteem” spider web. They can choose which ones they want to apply to them. Included are a couple of reflective exercise activity sheets to help students to reflect and gain insight into what is happening for them. This is a great resource for students who would like to explore self-talk and self-esteem!
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This workbook includes 10 Comprehension Worksheets to help further your students understanding of appropriate social skills. Each page includes a mini social story narrative about that social skill and how it can be implemented in day to day life. On each page there are questions with three multiple choice answers to help support the student to retain the knowledge. The themes of each page are targeting the following social skills:
Greeting Someone
Sharing
Interrupting
Following Directions
Waiting for my turn to talk
Speaking so everyone can listen
Looking at others when talking
Saying “Thank you”
Helping Others
Asking to join in and play
Each page can be used as a stand alone worksheet or as a companion and supplement to your lesson.
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This creative and printable board game has been developed to provide a foundation in which to discuss several key topics in non-threatening way.
“Recharge Your Battery” is a growth mindset board game which explores self-care and the different domains including physical, mental, emotional and social aspects. Using the analogy of a “battery”, this game encourages reflection and psycho-education around healthy self-care habits.
There are over 115 reflective cards with 23 cards in each of the five various color-coded areas. These include:
Wellness
Self-Discovery
Self-Love
Recharge
Gratitude
This is a great game which is a perfect supplement for our “Recharge Your Battery” Workbook.
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This is a great way to introduce the concepts of red and green behavioural choices. These are great for the beginning of the year or reminders about positive and accepting behaviours as well as how we can contribute to an empowered learning environment. This is a great way to facilitate conversation, discussion and insight about red and green choices.
There are over 40 different mats for larger classes and clear distinction between acceptable and positive behaviours (which are green) and unacceptable and negative behaviours (which are red).
This is a great emotional regulation resource which can be used to supplement any emotional regulation, behavioural , social emotional learning curriculum.
This package includes everything that you need – just simply print!
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• Each time you give feedback on a product, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. Feedback to TpT Sellers, just like feedback to students, is a valuable tool to aid improvement of future products. Go to your “My Purchases” page to view past downloads, and provide a rating and comment.
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This creative and printable board game has been developed to provide a foundation in which to discuss several key topics in non-threatening way.
“Recharge Your Battery” is a growth mindset board game which explores self-care and the different domains including physical, mental, emotional and social aspects. Using the analogy of a “battery”, this game encourages reflection and psycho-education around healthy self-care habits.
There are over 115 reflective cards with 23 cards in each of the five various color-coded areas. These include:
Wellness
Self-Discovery
Self-Love
Recharge
Gratitude
This is a great game which is a perfect supplement for our “Recharge Your Battery” Workbook.
Check out some of our best sellers below! Don’t forget to follow our store!
STORE CREDITS - Did you know…?
• Each time you give feedback on a product, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. Feedback to TpT Sellers, just like feedback to students, is a valuable tool to aid improvement of future products. Go to your “My Purchases” page to view past downloads, and provide a rating and comment.
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10 page Speech Therapy Program for “wh” and “y” sounds. Program includes progressive development activities and games to support speech development for children.