Challenges with focus and attention can become a huge roadblock to learning for kids and young adults. Simply put, attention is critical to learning. If students can't focus on the lesson, they are going to struggle with understanding the new content. If students can't focus on the directions, they
Natural and Integrative Approaches to Neurological and Behavior Problems
Social skills can be taught just like academic skills. Follow this six step process to teach your students how to work more effectively in cooperative learning teams.
I love pragmatic language evals. I even like to write the reports. Don't judge me, because I want to share my pragmatic language evaluation tools with you.
Today I'm excited to have Corrina from From Mrs. Allen's Teaching Files here to share a really fun and exciting activity to use when talking about self control. Self control is such a hard
Yes, ANOTHER free printable this week. I know, if I could pinch you from here I would; free stuff is so dreamy! This is a quick matching manners worksheet I made tonight as a supplement to a Manner…
Motivation, social & cultural, emotional and personal barriers can all affect a school student’s ability to learn. This post explores these learning barriers.
If you want to teach your little ones about the concept of opposites you will want to check out these fun opposites worksheets and activities.
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Working with kids and young adults who are oppositional can be challenging. Being oppositional might mean refusing to do work, breaking rules, and engaging in other challenging behaviors. The truth is, many kids can be oppositional from time to time, so many of these strategies work with all learner
I am trying to get some cover sheets on some of the curriculum I have sitting here. This has been a slow process. I just starting using Power Point a little over a week ago, and so far so good. The folks on TpT have been great answering my questions and helping me out. Tutorials are great!!! Will post more as I make them. http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Personal-Hygiene
Challenges with focus and attention can become a huge roadblock to learning for kids and young adults. Simply put, attention is critical to learning. If students can't focus on the lesson, they are going to struggle with understanding the new content. If students can't focus on the directions, they
Great little visual for students learning how to cope with angry or fustrated feelings. #socialskills
Anger is probably the #1 issue the kids I work with deal with. In this post you will find many great links, worksheets, and resources for addressing anger in children of all ages. One of my favorit…
Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism
Are your looking to make life more manageable for you and the class? Our Social Skills bundle is packed with engaging stories, useful sorting sheets and fun behavior posters. This Social Skills Bundle includes 10 of my best stories plus 6 Social skill strips. I've also added some handy behaviour sor...
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A blog about autism resources and support from a special ed teacher with first-hand experience.
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What is the difference between Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome? Autistic children have severe symptoms & signs compared to children with Asperger's syndrome.
Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism
Social scripts, also known as stories, are one of the most effective and simple ways to provide support to kids with autism. A social script is a short narrative written in first person that discusses one problem situation. So, they come in especially handy for really any situation that comes up. So
Concerned about the state of the world, Canadian author and illustrator Elise Gravel created a wonderfully timely illustrated poster that explains the
Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism
Kira is working hard on her spelling test, pressing down hard with her pencil as she's writing. Suddenly, the pencil breaks and she bursts into tears. "My pencil broke!!!" she yells to no one in particular.
Please note: we are now called Thinking Autism. This is an old version of this publication. For an updated current version of this publication with with up to date research, please visit our website: https://www.thinkingautism.org.uk/taking-action/resources-and-publications/ How Intensive Interaction can help your child with autism to learn more naturally. From the introduction: "... Why, if my son was making progress, was he becoming more demand-resistant? Why was he still unhappy, anxious, isolated and obsessive? Why were we, his family, still so stressed and depressed about our relationship with him?" "Luckily when Tom was 7½ I discovered Intensive Interaction (I.I.). The people who developed this educational therapy looked closely at how skills, normally impaired in autism, are acquired in natural childhood development..." By Sara Moroza-James FREE PRINTED VERSIONS of this booklet can be requested via [email protected]
Social stories are exactly what their name suggests; very short and simple stories that illustrate a particular social scenario, often in picture format.
Here are 10 tips to help teach children to be independent with self help skills and everyday routines: 1. Make sure you have time...
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