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 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.
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.
This Early Intervention Speech Therapy Resource has been developed as a Building Communication Skills Program. It has been developed to assist you in using pictures/visuals and Makaton signs to facilitate communication with your child.
This program is great for individuals with intellectual disabilities and cognitive impairments who require the use of visual supports to supplement and build upon their communication attempts.
This package includes:
Strategies when using visuals to help your child communicate
Learning new words
Making sentences
Communicative temptations
Strategies when using Makaton signs to help your child communicate
Why is signing used with children with communication difficulties
Points to remember when introducing signing stages in teaching your child signs
These worksheets includes 10 Comprehension and Reflection Worksheets to help further your students understanding of key life skills about personal safety. Each page includes a mini-informative narrative about a safety situation. On each page there are three comprehension and reflective questions to help support the student to reflect on the risks, explore decision making, consequences and gain insight into the situation.
Each worksheet explores a different scenario where the following safety themes are explored. They include:
1.Safety around appliances
2.Fire safety
3.Safety with medicines
4.Pool safety
5.Keeping secrets – (i.e. - don’t keep secrets)
6.Wearing helmets
7.Water safety
8.Road safety
9.If you get lost, stay where you are!
10.Do not share personal information online
Each page can be used as a stand-alone worksheet or as a companion and supplement to your lesson.
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 project is a great way for students to learn about their family heritage and gain a better sense of where they came from. Students are encouraged to create their own family tree and conduct their own research of their family. This resource includes templates, worksheets and all of the resources that is needed to create their own family tree. An example family tree and questions has been included to support children’s understanding of family trees and how different family members relate to each other.
This resource includes:
What is a family and a family tree?
Family Quote Poster
Definitions: Heritage, Ancestry, Tradition
Exploring Family Trees (hypothetical family tree and questions)
Exploring Your Own Family
My Family Tree Template
My Family Interview Questions
Other Questions (you might want to ask family)
Create your own Family Tree Templates (tree, leaves, labels, blank templates, family member visuals)
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.