A coping skills menu is a great tool that to help students who are new to learning how to regulate their nervous system.
For those of you who find relaxation a hard place to be, and work way beyond 40 hours a week at your job, along with caretaking your children, or house duties, or fighting with your spouse, or listening to friends or family member’s problems, or whatever else that might keep you ON... today we are reviewing the nervous
Teach your kids/students to check in with themselves and to self-regulate with the BEACH checklist infographic! Great for grounding, self-regulation, and practicing being present.
I have a confession---when I see something good, I take it and use it. I don't like to recreate the wheel, and I'm really not all that creative. I also work with people that are very hard-working and creative, so when I stepped into my co-worker's office (Heather Petrusa, SLP) and saw this homemade self-regulation scale, I grabbed it (with her permission) and told her that this was worth using and sharing with all of my blogging friends! She said that our mutual friend, an autism itinerant teacher, Leah Wilson, was actually the one who created it, and she (Heather) just tweaked it. I'm sure Leah won't mind sharing, so here it is! Anyone who works with children with autism knows the difficulties in regulating emotions. Within an hour, a child can go from 'sleepy' to 'boiling' and not have strategies to get to the 'green' area. I liked this scale that Heather and Leah developed because it integrated elements from the 'How does your engine run?' program with emotional states and specific strategies (worded with 1st person statements encouraging more independence with handling regulation in the classroom.) A therapist and teacher can use this scale to first teach emotions, strategies, and self-reflection, and then teach the child to apply these in the classroom. So---thanks Heather and Leah! I'm so happy to work with you! I'm sure your kids are too! To download in Boardmaker, click here! (You can then edit to fit your child's particular needs) To download in pdf, click here! .
This was a difficult post for me to write, it hits so close to home for me and I didn’t want to sound negative or rude. As always I only want the absolute best for all my Cysters and for them…
Did you know that serotonin is mostly in the gut? Serotonin regulates mood, anxiety, and fear. And while serotonin in the gut can’t cross into the brain, it DOES transmit signals to...
Have you ever pondered the reason behind your body sweating excessively while cycling indoors, such as in a typically cool garage? The answer lies in the body's incredible ability to regulate its temperature. When we engage in physical activity, our muscles generate heat as they work. To prevent overheating, our body's natural response is to
Did you know that serotonin is mostly in the gut? Serotonin regulates mood, anxiety, and fear. And while serotonin in the gut can’t cross into the brain, it DOES transmit signals to...
Throughout my years teaching middle school, I have had the experience of seeing many "work refusals". These are the situations when kids, for a variety of reasons, just refuse to start the work you give them. They might shut down and rest their head on their desk or lash out in anger, shouting about
Have you ever pondered the reason behind your body sweating excessively while cycling indoors, such as in a typically cool garage? The answer lies in the body's incredible ability to regulate its temperature. When we engage in physical activity, our muscles generate heat as they work. To prevent overheating, our body's natural response is to
Throughout my years teaching middle school, I have had the experience of seeing many "work refusals". These are the situations when kids, for a variety of reasons, just refuse to start the work you give them. They might shut down and rest their head on their desk or lash out in anger, shouting about
Based off of the Zones of Regulation Curriculum and the 1-10 Scale This product includes two different kinds of worksheets to help students process through their reactions to different problems. I usually laminate a copy of the thermometer so that students can keep a copy in their workbooks and use...
Once we established our positive behavior expectations, our PBIS team’s next big goal was to create a sitewide behavior intervention flowchart. In this flowchart, the goal was to: Clearly def…
Restorative practices in elementary schools are incredible, but they look a little different than in the secondary levels.
Discover interventions for emotional dysregulation in ADHD students. Co-regulation, environment structuring, and emotional scaffolding ...
Learn how to implement the self-regulation and the Zones of Regulation at a school-wide level with this blog post. Includes ideas for calm down corners, class lessons, and school counseling activities.
