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Help your special education students learn to stay safe and not run away with this engaging and interactive social story. This resource is perfect for teaching students with autism, emotional disabilities, and other special needs how to handle difficult situations and emotions when they want to elope and run away. With clear and concise language and colorful illustrations, this social story helps students understand the safety concerns of elopement and how to cope with the wanting to run away in

A social story is an important tool to help students decrease target behavior and increase replacement behavior. Task initiation and starting work is a vital behavior for primary grade students. This social story is intended to reinforce positive behaviors for special education students with autism, ADHD, anxiety, and other emotional disabilities in order to initiate a task and start their work. Priming is a behavior management strategy that involves showing/telling a student what is upcoming in

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

Students stuck in their way of thinking? This Flexible vs. Rigid Thinking Flashcard Sort can be used as a tool to help students learn flexible and bendy thinking. With this activity, students will learn different scenarios that involve flexible thinking and scenarios that involve rigid thinking so that they can generalize these scenarios to their day to day lives as students! This resource includes:30 scenario cards in color (15 of flexible thinking, 15 of rigid thinking)30 scenario cards in bl

Looking for a comprehensive and engaging social story to help your special education students understand the rules of sitting on carpet and rugs? Look no further than this Digital Special Education Sitting on Carpet Rug Rules Social Story! Our social story is designed specifically for special education students and features simple, easy-to-understand language and clear, visually appealing images to help reinforce important concepts. With our social story, your students will learn about the impor

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

Improve your special education students' winter clothing vocabulary with this engaging and interactive adapted book. This 6-page resource is perfect for students with intellectual disabilities, autism, and speech language needs as it features simple sentences and picture supports to help with language development. To use, simply print and cut out the pages, then have your students match the images to the corresponding pages. They'll love the hands-on aspect of this activity, and you'll love how

A social story is an important tool to help students with safe behaviors. 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 in order to decrease aggression and decrease elopement. Priming is a behavior management strategy that involves showing/telling a student what is upcoming in their day so that they can better regulate their emotions when it happens.

A social story is an important tool to help students decrease target behavior and increase replacement behavior. Sharing and taking turns is such a vital behavior for primary grade students. This social story is intended to reinforce positive behaviors for special education students with autism, ADHD, anxiety, and other emotional disabilities in order to follow the classroom rule of sharing and taking turns. Priming is a behavior management strategy that involves showing/telling a student what i

Improve your special education students' President's Day vocabulary with this engaging and interactive adapted book. This 6-page resource is perfect for students with intellectual disabilities, autism, and speech language needs as it features simple sentences and picture supports to help with language development. To use, simply print and cut out the pages, then have your students match the images to the corresponding pages. They'll love the hands-on aspect of this activity, and you'll love how

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

Use this social story to help special education students with autism, ADHD, anxiety, and other emotional disabilities decrease target behavior and increase desired behavior. This resource includes a colored and a black and white version of the 9-page booklet social story, which uses positive language to reinforce positive behaviors and assist with priming (a behavior management strategy that involves showing/telling a student what is upcoming in their day). This social story is an important tool

Are you looking for a helpful tool to teach your students how to write clear and persuasive AEC paragraphs? Our AEC Paragraph Graphic Organizer is a practical and effective way to do just that. This resource includes: Printable AEC Paragraph Graphic OrganizerDigital AEC Paragraph Graphic Organizer via Google SlidesThis organizer is designed specifically for students and can be printed or used digitally. It provides a structured framework that guides students through the process of writing AEC pa

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

A positive reinforcement system is an important tool to increase a target or replacement behavior. Using a token chart is an easy way to reinforce special education students with autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and behavioral concerns. When a student is shown an array of "menu items", the rewards become more appealing, thus leading to more desired/positive behavior. This reinforcer menu keeps student choice in mind. Print, laminate, and velcro the different reward visuals and tokens to work on increasin

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

Help your special education students learn appropriate behavior and expectations during centers and stations with this engaging and interactive social story. This resource is perfect for teaching students with autism, developmental delays, and other special needs how to manage stations and centers with appropriate behavior. With clear and concise language and colorful illustrations, this social story helps students understand the concept of stations and centers and how to cope with the bustling