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Looking for a resource to help your special education students understand and navigate "big deal" and "little deal" problems? Look no further than "Big Deal vs. Little Deal Problems: A Social Story for Special Education Students"! This social story is specifically designed for special education students, and uses engaging illustrations and simple, age-appropriate language to explain the difference between "big deal" and "little deal" problems. Perfect for group or individual reading, this social

Don't know what kind of reward motivates your student? With this reinforcer survey / inventory, you can interview your student and find out what they dislike, like, and love! This makes a positive reinforcement system or token chart much more effective - because you will use rewards that your student actually likes and responds to! Included in this product:2-page reinforcer survey in multiple colorsinstructions on how to use productOnce you discover what your student will respond do, check out m

Help your special education students learn flexible thinking with this engaging social story. This resource is perfect for teaching students with autism, developmental delays, and other special needs how to handle difficult situations and emotions and to practice flexible thinking. With clear and concise language and colorful illustrations, this social story helps students understand the concept of flexible thinking and how to cope with it in a positive and healthy way. The story covers changes

Help your special education students learn to accept "no" with this engaging and interactive social story. This resource is perfect for teaching students with autism, developmental delays, and other special needs how to handle difficult situations and emotions when they are told "no." With clear and concise language and colorful illustrations, this social story helps students understand the concept of "no" and how to cope with it in a positive and healthy way. The story covers asking for somethi

Behavior management can be challenging. This bundle is meant to get you started right away with supporting challenging behaviors such as aggression and off-task behavior. The bundle includes strategies that would be recommended to teachers by behavior specialists - token/behavior chart, behavior visuals, unexpected vs. expected behavior, first - then visuals, reinforcer survey, a feelings check-in journal and social stories. This resource includes: 5 Social Stories (each story targets a specif

The terminology of expected behaviors and unexpected behaviors can be really helpful when teaching students what behavior is acceptable and unacceptable. This picture sort can help guide your teaching on these expected behaviors with visuals so students can see what the behaviors look like. Additionally, this picture sort can assist a current BIP on a replacement behavior. This resource includes:Expected vs. Unexpected Signs15 color images of expected behavior15 black and white images of expect

Help your special education students learn about emotions and feelings with this engaging and interactive social story. This resource is perfect for teaching students with autism, developmental delays, and other special needs how to define emotions and feelings. With clear and concise language and colorful illustrations, this social story helps students understand emotions and feelings and how to define them so that they recognize what an emotion or feeling is. The story covers anger, sadness, h

Behavior visuals are an important tool to help students know what behavior is expected of them. This resource makes it easy to provide an individualized positive replacement behavior visual for special education students with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and processing deficits. Just print, laminate, and add a binder ring to attach to a lanyard so you have them available wherever you go in your school! Additionally, larger sizes are also available if you would like to make mini-posters for the classr

Help your special education students learn how to apologize and say sorry with this engaging social story. This resource is perfect for teaching students with autism, developmental delays, emotion disabilities and other special needs how to handle difficult situations and emotions and to practice apologizing and saying sorry. With clear and concise language and colorful illustrations, this social story helps students understand the concept of apologizing and saying sorry and how to cope with it

This memory game can be a great tool to help students with challenging behaviors learn what expected and unexpected behavior is. The game can help guide your teaching on these expected and positive behaviors with visuals so students can see what the behaviors look like. Additionally, this memory game can assist a current BIP on a replacement behavior. This resource includes:2 pages of 15 color images of expected behavior2 pages of 15 black and white images of expected behaviorPlease feel free to

Help your special education students learn to practice kindness and be nice with this engaging and interactive social story. This resource is perfect for teaching students with autism, emotional disabilities, and other special needs how to be kind and the benefits of kindness. With clear and concise language and colorful illustrations, this social story helps students understand the positive effects of kindness and examples on how to be kind. The story covers asking feelings that kindness brings

Help your special education students learn to respect personal space with this engaging and interactive social story. This resource is perfect for teaching students with autism, developmental delays, and other special needs how to respect personal space and understand what personal space is. With clear and concise language and colorful illustrations, this social story helps students understand the concept of personal space and how to respect the personal space of others, while also providing sc

A First-Then Board is an important tool to help students with completing an important task first. It can add structure and routine to a block of time in a special education student's schedule. This resource makes it easy to provide an individualized first-then structure to a student's schedule with several schedule visuals to choose from along with several positive behavior visuals and reward visuals. Included in this product:8 First-Then Boards12 Schedule Visuals12 Positive Behavior Visuals27

A social story is an important tool to help students with behaviors on the playground at recess. This social story is intended to reinforce positive behaviors (through the use of positive language) for special education students with autism, ADHD, anxiety, and other emotional disabilities to practice skills related to prosocial behavior, social communication, emotion management, and behavior expectations. Priming is a behavior management strategy that involves showing/telling a student what is u