Ready-To-Regulate

This simple visual helps to provide structure, consistency and effectiveness for students who take sensory motor room breaks! It outlines a routine and structure to best support their safety, independence and readiness to learn! This is great for establishing consistency with school or clinic sensory motor rooms. Steps included:Enter with a teacherCheck in with your body and brainChoose a toolSet a timerClean upCheck in with your body after using the toolBody and brain is ready to learn

Activity coloring book to help students label their level of alertness and identify tools to support their body and brains for learning!

This GoogleDrive gives you COMPLETE access to all things SENSORY and REGULATION resources from a licensed and registered Doctor of Occupational Therapy and Certified Trauma Professional. This collection of resources is useful for OT practitioners, mental health practitioners, special education/general education teachers, parents and more! This is a dynamic Google Drive with access to constantly added new and improved resources - there are over 50+ resources available for you right away! The Goog

Fidgets, flexible seating, and other regulation strategies are a great way to promote readiness to learn! BUT, using these strategies for regulation purposes need to be explicitly taught, modeled, and reinforced. It is often that these "tools" can quickly become "toys" in the classroom. We want to teach children that the way we use our tools supports our learning and engagement in the classroom setting. This resource includes:Visuals of Tools vs. ToysChecklist for understanding Tools vs. Toys

This visual choice boards aids students in selecting regulation tools that support their overall readiness to learn. This choice board includes:Blow bubblesSensory sandMindful coloringBody squeezesDrink waterListen to musicQuiet spaceStretches*Please note that each child's sensory system is unique! **It is important to note that not all students respond to sensory input in the same way. Sensory interventions should NEVER be forced or used as a reward. If the child demonstrates a need for sensor

These supplementary resources support the teaching and implementation of the evidence-informed curriculum The Alert Program. Develop your students' self-regulation skills in order to get their body and brains ready to learn!

Our bodies are constantly fluctuating between energy levels. Our goal is to regulate our energy levels, emotions and behaviors to match the demands of the activity or environment. Help to identify observable behaviors that may indicate when your students' body and brain are not ready to learn!

Need a fun and engaging way to teach students about regulation, emotions, or classroom management? Use this "Regulation iSpy" to help guide discussions about each of the characters' responses to their environment, possible feelings/emotions, and tools that could help support their readiness to learn! This is a great activity for introducing and reinforcing regulation and coping skills. It can be used as an individual, small group or whole group lesson! You can also use this resource to supplemen

This visual choice board guides healthy and safe movement based activities. They intentionally provide proprioceptive and vestibular input to help regulate the sensory nervous system and promote optimal learning! This visual includes:Jumping jacksJoggingLungesChair squatsFrog JumpsBear CrawlBalancingSide bendsDance breaks

Zones of Regulation - Social Story (English and Spanish)

This simple visual choice board provides various animal walks that promote gross motor strength, motor coordination, bilateral integration, proprioceptive/vestibular input AND imaginative play skills! This can be used during structured movement breaks to help promote optimal learning, movement and fun! Animal Walks Included:Seal stretchBear walkSnake crawlFlamingo standStarfish standButterfly stretchCat crawlFrog hopsArmadillo roll*Please note that each child's sensory system is unique! **It is

Evidence supports that students benefit from intentional and explicit teaching on social emotional learning. Implementing classroom sensory and self-regulation tools can be highly beneficial - when they are taught and implemented with structure and expectation! Introduce how to use sensory and self-regulation tools with this social story!

Identify emotions and Zones of Regulation using Among Us characters!

Access this full set of regulation cards that helps students to identify and select regulation tools that work for their own body and brains! This is a great activity for students who are just learning or exploring various sensory, movement, mindfulness or general regulation strategies and can be used as a modified activity card sort to help build each student's individual tool box. Categories of tools include:Classroom accommodations / flexible seatingGeneral regulation toolsMindfulness toolsMo

Heavywork is a type of proprioceptive input that helps students gain regulating sensory input through everyday classroom routines and activities. Providing students with intentional opportunities for embedded heavywork jobs helps to provide integrated sensory regulation AND build a sense of classroom belonging throughout everyday school routines! Heavywork Choices include:Wipe down the whiteboardHold the door open for classmatesHelp stack chairsPush/pull the library cart

Our brain is constantly taking in sensory information to help us make sense of the world around us. Sensory integration is a process that allows our body and brain to take in information from the environment, organize it through our central nervous system, and create a response that allows us to participate in everyday life. When we talk about sensory, we may think of our 5 common senses (touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound). However, our bodies actually have 8 different sensory systems that i

Categories of tools include:Classroom accommodations / flexible seatingGeneral regulation toolsMindfulness toolsMovement toolsHeavy work toolsSensory tools*Please note that each child's sensory system is unique! **It is important to note that not all students respond to sensory input in the same way. Sensory interventions should NEVER be forced or used as a reward. If the child demonstrates a need for sensory input OR is uncomfortable with sensory input, we must honor the child’s needs. This do

Help students to regulate their body and emotions with a classroom calming corner! Allow students to utilize calming strategies and quiet classroom environments with structure and purpose to get ready to learn!

Many schools have implemented Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports ( PBIS) into their Tier 1/whole school systems. Understanding the core components of "Be Responsible, Be Respectful, Be Safe" can be challenging for some of our students. This tool provides a social story AND easy to reference visuals on ways students can be successful across their school environment.

Visuals for heavy work and partner activities in the classroom!