**Dinner Time Social Story **
SPED, special education, autism, communication, sharing, early intervention, Special Education, Speech Therapy, Social Emotional Learning.
Discusses dinner time, eating your own food, not taking other people’s food, asking for foods you would like, explaining when you don’t like your food.
Includes 2 activity sheets.
Strength Cards - (Anxiety, self esteem, confidence, stammering)
This is a tangible way for your child to learn about their strengths. This activity/tool is great for confidence building and is a great tool to use for children who are anxious, have poor self esteem/low confidence, with autistic children, children with language delays/disorders and children who stammer.
**New Sister Social Story. **Can be personalized.
Autism, early intervention, SPED, speech therapy, special education.
Explains what to expect with a new baby, fun things you can do with a brother, the babies needs, differences between babies and children, parents being busy and safety with the new baby.
Includes 2 activity sheets.
New Brother Social Story. Can be personalized.
*New Brother Social Story. autism, early intervention, SPED, speech therapy. *
Explains what to expect with a new baby, fun things you can do with a brother, the babies needs, differences between babies and children, parents being busy and safety with the new baby.
Includes 2 activity sheets.
**Social Story about Strangers **
Discusses how to identify strangers, what to do if you meet a stranger and who is safe.
Includes 2 activity sheets.
SPED, special education, autism, communication, safety, early intervention, Special Education, Speech Therapy, Social Emotional Learning.
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Lunch Time at School Social Story - autism, lunch, early intervention
Discusses lunch time at school, eating your own lunch, asking for foods you would like and explaining when you don’t like your food.
Includes activity sheet.
SPED, special education, autism, communication, road safety, early intervention, Special Education, Speech Therapy, Social Emotional Learning.
Change Social Story
Autism, early intervention, Special Education, Speech Therapy, Social Emotional Learning
Discusses change, coping methods and how to stay calm. Includes staying calm activity sheet.
Understanding Anger Activities & Games - Anger Management, regulation PDF
SEL, social emotional learning, Autism, Special Education, Speech Therapy, Social Emotional Learning, SPED, fine motor skills
Emer the Emotions Elephant Activities:
Emer is an elephant who changes color depending on her emotions. Here, she focuses on teaching children the basic emotions of angry and happy and how to identify these emotions in themselves/others
Activities to help children identify how anger looks and to be able to compare it to and distinguish it from happiness. Once children have grasped this they will be able to consider if they are feeling angry or happy and move onto learning how to regulate and manage their anger. Activities also help children practice fine motor skills.
Includes:
Matching sheets - identifying anger and happiness - uses photos, symbols and cartoons
Jigsaws
Coloring sheets
Drama activity - Make a Mask - can be used to act out anger & happiness & learn physical responses
Scissors Skills worksheets
Maze activities
challenging behavior management, classroom behavior, classroom management, neuro-inclusive, anger management, behavior tracking, sensory sensitivities/needs, autism
SOLVE THE WHY CHART: A neurodiversity-affirming way of identifying and documenting what is causing challenging behavior, tantrums, or meltdowns
What are ABC charts? (Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence)
Ever wonder why a child has suddenly become so angry? Or is struggling with challenging behavior? An ABC helps you keep a record of these moments, uncover the triggers, figure out why they are becoming so upset and how to best support them.
Concerns about ABC charts:
However, recently, the neurodiversity movement has raised some concerns about these charts and whether they are overly focused on neurotypical expectations and interpretations of behavior. Our Solve the WHY chart, addresses these concerns and provides a neurodiversity-affirming alternative for supporting children.
It is also useful for gathering evidence for school inspections, writing IEPs, developing behavior support plans, SNA applications and applications for more resources and support within your school.
Includes:
Step-by-step instructions
Examples of how to use
Solve the WHY charts
Information on ABC charts
Information about the concerns regarding ABC charts
first/then, Autism, visuals, SPED, Speech Therapy, special education, early intervention, literacy, neurodiversity-affirming
Visual Communication Cards can be used to support communication between the adult and child. These cards are designed to help communicate which locations/activities/events the child will be going to/doing now, next and then. This increased understanding can help to reduce anxiety.
Children and adults can use different combinations to explain where they are going/would like to go and things they are going to do/would like to do.
Uses visuals to support visual learners and autistic children.
Can can be used over and over!
Includes:
3 now/next boards (different colors)
2 now/next/then boards (different colors)
86 location/activity/events cards
42 editable location cards
timetable, Autism, visuals, SPED, Speech Therapy, special education, early intervention, literacy, neurodiversity-affirming
Visual Schedule are simple, clear timetables which use pictures to explain the events and order of the day, parts of the day or routines to children. They support communication and reduce anxiety.
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Uses visuals to support visual learners and autistic children.
Can can be used over and over!
Includes:
Schedule background
86 location/activity/events cards
42 editable cards
Instructions
Knowing my Boundaries Activities.
Neurodiversity, Safety, Autism, Speech Therapy, SPED, speech therapy, life skills
Neuro-inclusive alternative to working on social skills.
Working on identifying our boundaries, assertiveness, saying no, why we have boundaries & respecting other’s boundaries.
Autism, Gestalt language processors, sentence, SPED, vocabulary, building, Speech Therapy, special education, early intervention, literacy, GLP, NLA, Natural language acquisition
‘LET’S GO’ is an important phrase for helping children communicate.
The Map Game uses imagination to allow children to use their new vocabulary and ‘LET’S GO’ phrase while having fun exploring the map of an imaginary town. It is also an opportunity to continue modeling the phrase “let’s go” for the child.
Includes:
10 mazes of different levels.
The maze activities allow children to apply the phrase ‘Let’s go’ to finding their way through a maze.
How to use:
Print out the mazes (below) that suit your child’s ability level.
In each maze, the child will need to guide a character to a certain location.
While the child is solving the maze, model the phrase ‘let’s go.’ Eg. If the aim is to get the character to the shop, say, “Let’s go to the shop.”
Support your child in solving the maze, or solve the maze as a team if needed.
Praise your child when they complete the maze.
LET’S GO - LOCATIONS - NOW/NEXT/THEN - VISUAL COMMUNICATION BOARDS
Autism, Gestalt language processors, sentence, SPED, building, Speech Therapy, special education, early intervention, literacy, GLP, NLA, Natural language acquisition
Visual Communication Cards can be used to** support communication** between the adult and child. These cards are designed to help communicate which** locations the child will be going to or would like to go to now, next and then.** This increased understanding can help to reduce anxiety.
Children and adults can use different combinations to explain where they are going/would like to go.
Ideal for Gestalt Language Processors.
Mitigable gestalt - ‘let’s go’ phrase can be used for those at later stages.
Suitable for all stages.
Uses visuals to support visual learners and autistic children.
Can can be used over and over!
Includes:
3 now/next boards (different colors)
2 now/next/then boards (different colors)
24 location cards
30 editable location cards
Ideal for use with our ‘LET’S GO’ resources for Gestalt Language Processors!
The Double Empathy Problem E-Book for Children:
This book is great to teach autistic and non autistic children about the Double Empathy Problem.
The theory of ‘double empathy’ proposes that Autistic people do not lack empathy. Autistic people experience the world and express emotions differently to non-autistic people. Autistic and Neurotypical people have difficulty understanding each other and need to meet half way. Both autistic and non autistic/neurotypical people need to learn about this to understand each other. It is important that families/whole classes learn about this and this social story/e-book is a great tool for learning!
Confidence Building Social Story & Activities Neurodiversity-Affirming, Self-Esteem, positive affirmations. PDF.
SEL, social emotional, SPED, autism, SPED, speech therapy, special education, school counselling.
Neurodiversity as a Superpower!
Neurodivergent children/teenagers can often struggle with confidence and self-esteem. This social story explains confidence and introduces neurodiversity as a superpower. It helps children/teenagers to view their differences positively and with pride. It explores the topic further through activity sheets which help students to identify what makes them feel confidence and how being neurodiverse gives them superpowers. It also includes positive affirmation superhero badges which can be made to support self-esteem development.
Includes:
Social Story
2 activity sheets
2 pages of Positive Affirmation Superhero Badges
What are they thinking? Perspective Taking Cards
Perspective Taking, Neuro-Inclusive, Social Emotional Learning, Neurodiversity
Perspective Taking Cards are useful for introducing children/teenagers to the concept of perspective taking and interpreting viewpoints. They provide simple visuals of familiar situations for the child/teenager to discuss and consider.