Autism, Special Education, Speech Therapy, Social Emotional Learning
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Neuro-inclusive social story about different communication styles:
Explains different communication styles and how to interact with them.Designed to help children understand and identify direct and indirect communication.
Direct and Indirect Communication Flashcards
Activity suggestions:
Discuss these phrases with your child and ask them if they think they are direct or indirect. You can use these to play bingo, snap or a memory game.
Helps children to understand and learn the process of going to bed and reduces anxiety.
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Bedtime Social Story
Discusses going to bed, when to go to bed, following a schedule and taking the steps needed to go to bed.
Visual To-Do List:
Visual bedtime to-do lists can support your child and help to teach them how to get ready for bed independently. They also help to reduce anxiety around the process and give the child clear guidance on what steps need to be taken in which order.
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Pre-made to-do list
Editable to-do list
**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.
Tired of making the same type of traditional pumpkin every year? Use our template and step-by-step instructions to make this Haunted House Pumpkin! A great challenge for older kids!
You need:
Pumpkin
Spoon
Knife
Bowl
Template
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.
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Social Story
2 activity sheets
2 pages of Positive Affirmation Superhero Badges
Make a Rabbit - Step-by-step instructions & template. Art & Craft. Written instructions.
Arts and Crafts, cutting, sticking, Montessori, early intervention, KS1, KS2
Make art lessons easy with our step-by-step template and instructions!
Great for helping children to practice their cutting, folding and coloring skills.
Just print out the template and get started!
Make a Dog - Step-by-step instructions & template. Art & Craft. Written instructions.
Arts and Crafts, cutting, sticking, Montessori, early intervention, KS1, KS2
Make art lessons easy with our step-by-step template and instructions!
Great for helping children to practice their cutting, folding and coloring skills.
Just print out the template and get started!
Teaches children to understand emotions through Arts and Crafts.
Social Emotional Learning, Gestalt language, SEL, ASD, Special Education, neurodiversity-affirming, neuro-inclusive, Early Intervention, Autism, Speech Therapy, Kindergarten.
Emer is a neurodivergent elephant that changes color depending on her emotions. She focuses on teaching children four of the basic emotions; happy, sad, angry and scared.
The arts and crafts are designed to allow children to practice their emotional understanding while being creative and using drama to explore their feelings.
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4 Make a Mask - happy, sad, angry and scared. Once made can be used for drama and learning through play.
5 Color in Easy Jigsaws - Covers all four emotions.
5 Mazes - Help Emer find her way.
11 Coloring Pages - covers all four emotions.
3 Scissors Skills Worksheets
4 Lollipop Stick Elephants - covers all four emotions. Once made can be used for drama and learning through play.
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**CLASSROOM EMOTIONS DISPLAY **- Decorate your classroom with this beautiful ready made bulletin board display.
Social Emotional Learning, SPED, SEL, ASD, Special Education, neurodiversity, neuro-inclusive, Autism, Speech Therapy, Kindergarten.
Emer is a **neurodivergent **elephant that changes color depending on her emotions. She focuses on teaching children four of the basic emotions; happy, sad, angry and scared.
The Emotions Display Resources help you create a gorgeous display that the children can use as a reference point and will brighten up the classroom.
Includes:
Classroom Banner. PDF.
Emotions Word Cards - happy, sad, angry and scared.
5 A3 Printable Emer the Emotions Elephant Characters. Happy, sad, angry, scared and neutral.
5 A4 Printable Emer the Emotions Elephant Characters. Happy, sad, angry, scared and neutral.
Enjoy creating your display! Any feedback would be great!
**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.
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!
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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!
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.
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There are three maps: one is pre-made, and two you can use to design your own town.
Decide how big you would like your maps to be.
Download maps and print them to size.
For 'My Map," draw or print out photos and stick them on. It can be nice to use locations the child knows. This may help reduce anxiety about trips to these places. You can also make it fun by allowing the child to design their own map.
Find or make pieces: You can either find small toy cars or figures or cut out and laminate the pieces below.
Autism, NEURODIVERSITY, social learning, alternative to social skills, SPED, social emotional learning, SEL, use like boom cards, Speech Therapy, special education, literacy
Learning ages 8 -13
The Neurodiversity Online Games were created in response to the need for new approaches to teaching social skills to children with autism. They are designed by special education and allied health professionals. They aim to provide an alternative to traditional methods by teaching children and teenagers social learning in a way that embraces neurodiversity and allows them to build confidence using their strengths and viewpoint of the world.
These games focus on understanding neurodiversity and developing a sense of identity.
Includes: a combinations of matching games, jigsaws, drawing, vocabulary games and questions. The level of difficulty varies between games.
Autism, NEURODIVERSITY, social learning, alternative to social skills, SPED, social emotional learning, SEL, use like boom cards, Speech Therapy, special education, literacy
Learning ages 8 -13
The Building Friendships: Understanding Personal Qualities Online Games were created in response to the need for new approaches to teaching social skills to autistic children. They are designed by special education and allied health professionals. They aim to provide an alternative to traditional methods by teaching children and teenagers social learning in a way that embraces neurodiversity and allows them to build confidence using their strengths and viewpoint of the world.
Imagine that you didn’t understand the meaning of the word ‘kind’? How would you know what others meant when they said someone was kind? How would you be able to know who is showing kindness?
For lots of children and teenagers understanding the language used to describe personal qualities can be confusing. They can also find it difficult to identify these qualities in themselves and others. Developing an understanding of personal qualities is vital for children and teenagers, it is needed for both growing their sense of self, developing self-image and building positive relationships and friendships with others.
These games focus on developing and understanding of the language associated with personal qualities and which qualities are helpful for building friendships.
Includes: a combinations of quiz questions and vocabulary games.
restorative practice justice, challenging behavior management, classroom behavior, classroom management, neuro-inclusive, anger management, behavior tracking, sensory sensitivities/needs, autism, neurodiversity-affirming
Expectation Contracts - A collaborative, neurodiversity-affirming approach using restorative practice!
Expectation Contracts:
Open communication around expectations and choices in a positive way.
They help children to discover new ways to solve problems.
They present the expectations in a clear, visual way which children can easily understand
Take children’s opinions into account.
They offer predictability, consistency and a sense of control.
Provide the child with the opportunity to become more responsible and aware of their choices.
For use in school and at home.
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Instructions
Example contract
15 contracts