Jake Dorr

This handout is for students to simply create a visual depiction of their personal identity. Assuming that everything they would want the world to know about them could be portrayed within the clothes they wear, it's the "I want the world to know" T-shirt Design handout. This is a great way to help students who have low verbal or expressive abilities to find a way to share about themselves in a fun, imaginative exercise. We often give off clues and contextual meaning as to who we are and what we

This handout--called a "friendship file" because it is used to build a profile about others--is great for promoting self-expression in learners who are underserved in the area of conversation, reciprocal play, or basic social interaction skills. Provided the students are able to either write or draw their responses, this activity can help foster and develop the skill of not only articulating details about oneself, but sharing those interests with others. Even though it comes in two pages, Page 2

It can be difficult for children on the autism spectrum or with severe impulsive behaviors (such as ADHD or Down syndrome) to discern which sorts of objects around the school are theirs to touch, and which objects are off limits due to unwritten social rules. These signs are great for cutting out and laminating, then attaching to various objects where the teacher would like to reinforce expected behavior with regard to public vs. private property. My teacher's chair. The interactive white board

This is a simple one-page lesson for small groups working on self-regulation strategies. Special Education teachers, counselors, speech pathologists, instructional assistants or other staff can use this lesson to help the student work through their responses to problems. Which things are we allowed to say? What do we WISH we could say but had better not speak out loud? What things can we do to move towards resolving the issue that caused the frustration? In working through this visual representa

For any students who struggle with executive functioning skills, organization or just general adolescent neglect! This is a great cover-all topic for classroom tidying of desks and it scaffolds each layer of the organizational process into understandable bites. Works well for all ages; any student who needs that extra boost in step-by-step sequencing and modeling the expectation of staying organized and decluttered.

This one-page wonder can become a daily math exercise to help students become familiar with basic numeracy skills and comprehension of place value. By practicing how to make sense of the numbers 1-20 in multiple ways, students will develop a kind of shorthand for understanding how to arrange the digits, know their place in a sequence, and demonstrate knowledge of their value quickly. Whether using as Math warm-ups or just for small group skills remediation, this handout really promotes fluency a

An activity for identifying different emotions and associating them with various levels of intensity. Many young people who have autism have difficulty navigating subtle nuances in emotional reactions; they often jump between extremes. This worksheet helps students on the autism spectrum to broaden their language and to be able to self-advocate and describe the way they are feeling to others. Often the most severe word for an emotion evokes a blow-out of that extreme (hence comparing it to hot l