Increasing Independence

This packet is intended to address the different types of relationships we have in our lives following the circles of intimacy framework. Relationships included are family, friends, co-workers, boyfriend, girlfriend, acquaintances, and co-workers Packet is color coded to assist with virtual learning for our non-verbal learners. Do you have a student/client that is working on learning about the different types of relationships and how to "place" people in their life in their appropriate circle in

Create an individualized game board with a students/clients goals or targets. Get student/client buy in by having them help create their own game to address their areas of weakness. Cards can be a variety of flashcards, targets or goals that need to be worked on. See example photo of completed board.

This packet is intended to explore 6 different jobs for our vocational learners. Jobs included are Packet is color coded to assist with virtual learning for our non-verbal learners. Being a teachers aid, Being a Custodian, Being a Grocery Clerk, Being a Library Aide, Being a Vet Tech, Working in a Restaurant. Each lesson covers Job duties, Pay rates, Degree’s needed, Where will you work, What are the Work Conditions, and Dress code. There is also a narrative (Symbol supported text) that details

A social story is a narrative made to illustrate certain situations and problems and how people deal with them. They help children with autism understand social norms and learn how to communicate with others appropriately.- This social story is geared towards helping students/clients learn how to play tag with their friends.

Practice using an 'I feel' statement if someone acts in a way that makes you upset. You may be surprised how easily and calmly it solves problems.

Easy check off daily note for students in self-contained settings. Geared towards limited verbal learners who are unable to go home and tell their families about their day at school. Print sheet front and back and use a copy each day to say in touch with your students families **Includes a short page for families to fill out about their child's evening to give you all the information you need to start a collaborative home to school relationship. Also provided in Spanish.

QR Codes are a virtual link to a website, video clip, audio clip etc. When you scan the link with the QR Reader on your device or tablet, the link will lead you straight to the appropriate content. For our purposes, the QR Codes provides a link to step by step video modeling clips to help your student learn household cleaning routines. This packet provides 12 Unique QR codes that align with a video model and the visual task analysis of an individual performing each step. Fantastic way to incre

In order to tell how someone feels, we can remember to look at the Big Three- eyes, eyebrows, and mouth. These parts of the face show emotions the most. Draw each emotion and explain what a person’s eyebrows, eyes, and mouth look like when they feel that way. Then act out the facial expressions to show the emotion on your face.

Young minds can build vocabulary through the use of  bingo. Here is a FUN way to practice learning about how other cultures celebrate the holidays! With these 4 BINGO games, students will practice labeling and identifying the symbols associated with each of the 4 holidays.– Hanukah, Kwanza, Christmas, and Las Posadas.

Do you have a student/client that asks too many questions in a conversations, forgets to listen for a response or make a connected comment to their partners answers... try using the conversation scale to help them visually see how many questions they ask vs how many connected on topic comments they make.

Children with speech and language delays often have difficulty asking and answering questions appropriately.  This is a difficult skill as it requires the child to understand what is being asked, process the question, form an answer, and speak that answer.  Or, if the child is asking a question, it requires formulation of the question with all of the words in the correct order (which is often backwards from the word order for statements). Not all questions are created equal.  Some questions are

Visual Schedules in the Home/ School It is not secret that most students with special needs crave order and routine in their day to day lives. One of the easy ways to help them maintain that order in their lives is a visual schedule. The Green/Red Schedule is a simple visual schedule that allows teachers /parents to display and interact with your daily class/home schedule. Each event that occurs during your day is represented by an icon on the GREEN side of the schedule. As that activity has o

This activity helps students recognize their emotional reaction to a change by looking at the Emotion Choice Bar.  They can then use the Solution Choice Bar to decide how to regain self-control by selecting a suggested strategy.

Angry Birds Token Economy A token economy reinforces good behavior with tokens that can be exchanged for something desired. Angry Bird tokens can be exchanged for what the student wants to buy/ access after receiving ten tokens. Tokens are given when a student/client's behavior matches the desired behavior

Visual to help students understand the concept of multiplication... # of groups x # in each group.

Does your student/client have a hard time expressing their emotional state prior to becoming dys-regulated? This visual gives them a choice of 9 common emotions experienced and allows them to point to or assist with vocally expressing their emotional state to allow teacher or therapist to provide regulating activities.

Blank adding mat to be used with dry erase markers, magnetic numbers and counters. Place the numbers in the top boxes, place the counter in the bottom two boxes to visually support the concept of addition.

Template to make customized dice games.

Green to red schedules help student/clients to easily track what they have to do vs what they have completed. Place complementary Velcro on schedule and moving pieces (real pics or icons) as desired.

Follow this SIMPLE visual recipe to make your own homemade bubble solution. and wands