Sprouting Tots

Encourage your students to turn these "Rock Brain" thoughts into flexible thoughts!

Encourage your students to turn these "Rock Brain" thoughts into flexible thoughts!

Give this handout to your student's and/or client's caregivers to promote participation during non-preferred activities. Encourage families to work together to create their own list of negotiables and non-negotiables.

Help your students/ clients understand the importance of self-advocacy by working through these discussion prompts.

Use this activity to encourage "flexible thinking" with your clients or students. Ask the student to turn the provided lines into a whole new picture!

Help your students or clients understand and identify what contributes to their feelings of upset, anger, or dysregulation. This checklist is specific for home use!

Use this social story to help your students/ clients understand the importance of wearing their AFOs while validating feelings of frustration that they have to wear them.

Encourage flexible thinking by challenging students to fill in these sentences!

This activity introduces a flexible thinking friend "Rishi" who is really fun to play with because he's so flexible! Encourage your clients/ students to be "flexible thinkers" and guess what Rishi said when things did not go as planned.

Encourage your students to identify Expected or Unexpected behaviors by coloring expected pictures green and unexpected pictures red.

"When My Friends Come Over" is a social story explaining the role of being a good host! Social stories are excellent tools for depicting expected behavior - Ideal for children with Autism or limited social skills.

"My Hands" Is a social story explaining the positive and expected things hands can do as well as the unexpected things hands should not do during school. Great for children with Autism, poor impulse control, or limited social awareness.

Walk your students/ clients through this activity to identify things in their control and things not in their control. Encourage students to locate where on the chart each item belongs.

This parent friendly resource offers tips and tricks to help picky toddlers eat and explore vegetables. These tips also apply to eating non-preferred foods!

This parent friendly handout helps caregivers understand why undesired throwing occurs and what they can do to decrease this behavior moving forward.

Ask students/ clients to go through each of these items and identify them as flexible or rigid. Excellent tool to use when introducing the concept of "flexible thinking"

Use this visual reminder for your clients or students to remember items they need to bring home at the end of the day. Print, laminate, and put on a key ring! Or tape to student's planner.

Use this worksheet to help students/ clients understand their body's "clues" in relation to emotion.

This is a general list containing calming and alerting sensory tools to help kiddos with sensory processing disorder regulate themselves using their senses. Try it with your children, your students, or your clients!

Use this during food school activities or send this home with families to work on at meal time!