About the store
Welcome to Applied Behavior Essentials!
I’m Melissa, the creator behind this shop. As a behavioral therapist with experience supporting children on the autism spectrum, I understand how important it is to have resources that are clear, engaging, and easy to use in everyday settings.
My goal is to create practical materials that support learning, communication, social skills, emotional regulation, and independence. Many of my resources include visual supports, social stories, task cards, activities, and structured teaching tools designed to make learning more approachable and meaningful for different learners.
At Applied Behavior Essentials, I focus on creating resources that are both effective and realistic for educators, therapists, and parents to use. I believe learning should feel supportive, encouraging, and accessible while recognizing each child’s individual strengths and needs.
Thank you for visiting my shop! I hope these resources help support your learners and make teaching a little easier along the way.
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Keeping My Hands to Myself | Touching Other People : A Social Story
This social story is designed to help children understand the importance of respecting personal space and keeping their hands to themselves. Through simple, clear language, it explains that while it’s normal to feel excited or happy and want to touch others, it’s important to recognize that not everyone wants to be touched. This story teaches children to respect others’ boundaries, use words to greet or show affection, and engage in appropriate ways to express themselves. Key lessons in this sto
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For All Subjects, Social Emotional Learning
Shower Routine Visual: How To Take A Shower (Light Skin Visual Icons)
This resource includes 20 step-by-step picture icons that outline the process of taking a shower. Each icon provides a clear visual representation to help guide individuals through each step, making it perfect for those who benefit from visual learning or need extra support with daily routines. The icons are designed to be simple, easy to understand, and visually engaging, ensuring that individuals can follow along independently.
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Emotion Flashcards - Real pictures of Males & Females All Ages
Encourage language development, communication, and conversation with these engaging emotion flashcards! Perfect for helping children identify and express their feelings, these cards feature vibrant, high-quality photos that represent five key emotions: Happy, Sad, Angry, Shocked, and Tired. Features:80 photo cards (approx. 5”H x 3 3/4”W each)Depicting a diverse range of males and females of all agesEach page contains 4 images for easy printing, laminating, and cuttingIdeal for sparking meaningfu
K - 5th
Vocabulary
Banging My Head Is Not Okay: A Social Story
This story is designed to help students understand the importance of expressing emotions in a safe and healthy way, rather than resorting to harmful behaviors like head-banging when they feel upset, frustrated, or angry. This story uses simple language and relatable scenarios to explain why head-banging can hurt both physically and emotionally, and encourages students to use their words to express their feelings instead. It offers copying skills, such as taking deep breaths, asking for help, or
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Social Emotional Learning
Shower Routine Visual: How To Take A Shower (Dark Skin Visual Icons)
This resource includes 20 step-by-step picture icons that outline the process of taking a shower. Each icon provides a clear visual representation to help guide individuals through each step, making it perfect for those who benefit from visual learning or need extra support with daily routines. The icons are designed to be simple, easy to understand, and visually engaging, ensuring that individuals can follow along independently.
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Safety Problems Solving Real-life Scenarios Boom Cards
Safety Problem Solving Boom Cards™ | Real-Life Safety ScenariosHelp learners build safety awareness and problem-solving skills with these interactive Safety Problem Solving Boom Cards™. This deck includes real-life photo scenarios where students identify what is unsafe, think about what could happen, and choose what they should do instead. Each card presents a realistic safety situation with multiple-choice response options. Learners practice recognizing unsafe choices, understanding consequence
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For All Subjects
How Do They Feel? Emotion Scenarios Level 2 | Social Emotional Boom Cards
How Do They Feel? Social Emotional Scenarios | Level 2: Emotion Word + Picture Match Boom CardsHelp students practice identifying emotions in real-life social situations with this interactive Boom Cards™ deck! In this Level 2 set, students read a short relatable scenario, choose how the person feels from emotion word choices, and then match the feeling to the correct emotion picture. This deck gives students extra practice using context clues, facial expressions, body language, and social-emot
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For All Subjects, Social Emotional Learning
What Can I Say? Self-Advocacy Scenarios Boom Cards
Help students practice using appropriate self-advocacy phrases with this What Can I Say? Self-Advocacy Scenarios Activity. This resource gives learners real-life situations and helps them choose a helpful phrase to express their needs, ask for help, request a break, ask for space, or communicate when something feels difficult. Each card includes a simple scenario and three response choices. Students will practice identifying the best phrase to use instead of shutting down, avoiding the task, us
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For All Subjects, Social Emotional Learning
How Do They Feel? Emotion Scenarios | Social Emotional Learning Boom Cards
Practice identifying emotions with real-life, relatable scenarios! This interactive resource includes 20 decks focused on helping students read social clues, understand how others may feel, and build stronger social-emotional awareness. Each scenario includes a short story and three emotion choices. Students look at the situation, use context clues, and choose how the character feels. ⭐ What’s Included:✔ 20 interactive decks ✔ Short real-life emotion scenarios ✔ Three answer choices per sce
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For All Subjects, Reading, Social Emotional Learning
Intraverbal Fill-ins | File Folder
This resource includes 3 engaging boards designed to support intraverbal fill-in practice. Each board features 15 prompts that encourage students to complete simple sentences with the correct word. Perfect for building language skills, students will be prompted to fill in the blanks with words like "pencil," "fork," or "crayon." These boards are ideal for reinforcing vocabulary, sentence structure, and intraverbal responses. Great for both classroom and home use, this resource can be customized
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English Language Arts
Follow-up Questions for Teens Boom Cards | Conversation Skills
Build stronger conversation skills with real-life follow-up question practice!This Boom Cards™ deck gives students practice choosing the most appropriate follow-up question after reading short, everyday social scenarios. Each card includes a brief scenario and three answer choices. Students decide which question best connects to what the speaker said and helps keep the conversation going. The scenarios are age-appropriate for older students and include common topics such as shopping, restaurants
9th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
For All Subjects, Social Emotional Learning
Sort Same vs Different Items | File Folder
Sort Same vs Different Items ActivityThis engaging sorting activity helps students develop critical thinking and categorization skills by distinguishing between items that are the same and those that are different.
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What Can I Say? Politely Interrupting Conversations Boom Cards
Help learners practice choosing polite phrases to interrupt a conversation appropriately with these interactive Boom Cards™! This digital social skills activity includes real-life school, home, and community scenarios where learners must choose the best phrase to politely interrupt, ask for help, join a conversation, get someone’s attention, or communicate a need respectfully. Each card presents a short scenario and two response choices. Learners practice identifying the more appropriate phrase,
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For All Subjects
Safety Problems Solving Real-life Scenarios Open-Ended Questions | Boom Cards
Safety Problem Solving Boom Cards™ | Real-Life Safety Scenarios | Open-Ended QuestionsHelp learners build safety awareness and problem-solving skills with these open-ended Safety Problem Solving Boom Cards™. This deck includes real-life photo scenarios where students look at the picture, identify what is unsafe, explain what could happen, and write what they should do instead. This resource is designed for learners who are ready to move beyond multiple-choice answers and practice generating thei
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For All Subjects
Handling Mistakes: Real-Life Social Scenarios Boom Cards
Help learners practice handling mistakes, staying calm, and choosing appropriate responses with this engaging Boom Cards™ deck! These real-life social scenarios are designed to help students understand that mistakes happen and that they can respond in a calm, flexible, and appropriate way. Students will read short, relatable scenarios about everyday mistakes, such as getting an answer wrong, spilling something, dropping materials, making a mistake during a game, or seeing a peer make an error
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For All Subjects, Social Emotional Learning
Asking Why Questions in Conversation Boom Cards
Help your learners practice asking meaningful “why” questions during everyday conversations with this interactive BOOM Cards™ deck! This resource includes real-life conversation scenarios where students choose the best “why” question to keep the conversation going. Each card presents a short, relatable scenario with two answer choices. Learners practice identifying the question that makes sense based on what the person said. This activity is great for building WH-question skills, expressive lan
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For All Subjects, Social Emotional Learning, Speaking & Listening
Asking How Questions in Conversation Boom Cards
Help your students practice asking “how” questions in conversation with this engaging Boom Cards™ deck! This digital resource includes 30 real-life scenarios where learners choose the correct how question based on the situation. Each card presents a short, relatable scenario with a realistic visual and two answer choices. Both answer choices begin with “How…”, so students practice carefully identifying which question best matches the problem or situation. This resource is great for building
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For All Subjects, Social Emotional Learning, Speaking & Listening
What Should They Do First? Prioritizing Real-Life Situations Boom Card
What Should They Do First? Prioritizing Real-Life Situations is an interactive social problem-solving Boom Card resource designed to help students practice choosing the best first step in everyday situations. This resource includes real-life scenario task cards that target prioritizing, decision-making, safety awareness, responsibility, urgency, and problem-solving. Each card presents a short relatable scenario and asks students to decide what the person should do first using 3 multiple-choic
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For All Subjects, Social Emotional Learning
Good or Bad Choices at School | Real-Life Scenarios for Teens | Boom Cards
Help students learn appropriate school behavior with these engaging and interactive Boom Cards™! This resource includes 25 real-life social scenarios that encourage students to think about everyday choices they may encounter at school. Students will read each situation, look at the visual, and decide whether the choice is appropriate or inappropriate. These age-appropriate scenarios are designed to support social emotional learning, decision-making, perspective taking, and positive peer interact
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Classroom Community, For All Subjects, Social Emotional Learning
Shower Routine Visual: How To Wash Hair (Light Skin Visual Icons)
This easy-to-follow visual chart is designed to teach the important steps of washing hair. It features simple and clear illustrations and breaks down into 11 steps of the hair-washing process.
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Welcome to Applied Behavior Essentials!
I’m Melissa, the creator behind this shop. As a behavioral therapist with experience supporting children on the autism spectrum, I understand how important it is to have resources that are clear, engaging, and easy to use in everyday settings.
My goal is to create practical materials that support learning, communication, social skills, emotional regulation, and independence. Many of my resources include visual supports, social stories, task cards, activities, and structured teaching tools designed to make learning more approachable and meaningful for different learners.
At Applied Behavior Essentials, I focus on creating resources that are both effective and realistic for educators, therapists, and parents to use. I believe learning should feel supportive, encouraging, and accessible while recognizing each child’s individual strengths and needs.
Thank you for visiting my shop! I hope these resources help support your learners and make teaching a little easier along the way.
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