We designed Goally's visual schedule app for kids to help with bedtime and morning. Customize routines with custom videos, photos, and audio.
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Autism activities to help increase communication, fine motor skills, sensory play skills, interaction & more in your home or autism classroom!
43 Social Stories covering the following categories: Behavior Hurting Self Healthy Habits At School Holidays ***Warning: these are a smaller and slightly modified version of larger sets of social stories - see below for the links to the larger products to see if you already have these in the larger version. Through reading these positively written stories, the child with autism will learn how people may feel about their behavior and how they can change that behavior. The visuals provided as well as the positive tone have shown to be effective at modifying even the most challenging of behaviors. The mini size make these more cost efficient and portable tool for individual’s who need social stories. Being smaller, the Social Story Bundle: Mini can be used in many ways: *Read individually often to reinforce the behavior *Sent home as a reinforce for various behaviors *Read to the class as a social skills lesson To assemble: Print each page, laminate and cut out. Gather the pages together and punch a hole in the top left. Attach a ring of some sort to bind. The Category cover pages are optional and can be used to organize large sets of cards. One option is to attach all the Behavior Social Stories together with the Behaviors cover on a ring. Another option is to print the Behaviors cover page and attach it to the storage system where you will be keeping the social stories. A blank one is provided for your own options. ***Warning: The following Social Story Sets were created into mini versions for this product: Social Story Set for Children with Autism: Behavior Social Story Set for Children with Autism: More Behaviors Social Story Set for Children with Autism: Hurting Self Social Story Set for Children with Autism: At School Social Story Set for Children with Autism: Healthy Habits Scoial Story Set for Children with Autism: Holidays
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Autism is not a disease, nor a contamination. Born with special brains, autistic children come from the love of two people, not from poison.
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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
Are you overwhelmed by the amount of Behavior supports there are available out there! Are you looking for that particular one you need to help you manage behaviors and maintain structure in your cl…
Set of Makaton visual cards great to use on your lanyard and to support SEN/ASD children throughout the school day. Available in a pdf for you to print, laminate and add to your lanyard. This resource will help you with behaviour management and supporting learning in particular to SEN children. To be used alongside Makaton signs. I hope you love this resource as much as I do. Pdf is for your own use only, please do not share or distribute.
Routine and structure are so important for autistic individuals. It creates predictability, eases anxiety, and empowers individuals.
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Use this double sided card for visual supports for students who engage in self-injurious behaviors. On one side of the card there is a large picture with the words "I will not bite myself." On the backside there is a list of replacement behaviors along with pictures of the rules. ............................................................................................... DynaVox Mayer-Johnson 2100 Wharton Street Suite 400 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 Phone: 1 (800) 588-4548 Fax: 1 (866) 585-6260 Email: [email protected] Web site: www.mayer-johnson.com
Autism is a group of developmental brain disorders collectively called autism spectrum disorders, or ASD. Dr. Craig Erickson, a psychiatrist and assistant…
Pathological demand avoidance is part of the autism spectrum.Parents must learn the right strategies for reducing avoidance behaviors and anxiety in PDA ...
I have a good friend with an autistic son, it seems like once a week someone inadvertently hurts her feelings by not understanding why her son acts the way he does. Education is always our best defense, maybe we can all be a little less judgmental, we don’t what road others are walking on.
Awareness of autism is on the rise and we're getting better at identifying non-stereotypical presentations in children. However, this leaves a lost generation of Autistic adults who have gone through their lives undiagnosed. This article unpacks what autism is, Autistic masking and two common presen
Boardmaker Icons SENTENCE STRIPS --- All About Me --- For School. This is a great activity for expressive speech and answering WH-Questions. Colorful sentence strips: My name is _____. I go to _____ school. I am _____ years old. I am in _____ grade. My birthday is _____. My teacher is ______. I learn at school. I play at recess. Preparation and Use: You will need: - Printer - Standard Size, White Cardstock Paper 8.5” x 11” Laminate (optional) Book Ring Hole Puncher Scissors Preparation: Print out packet. Fill in with a pen the necessary blank squares on the sentence strips neatly: (Child’s name, age, birthday, grade, teacher’s name, school name. Laminate (optional) Cut each sentence strip. Punch hole on each sentence strip, on left side. Collate sentence strips and Secure with book ring. Use: - Have child practice reading these sentence strips aloud. Ask a question, and have child answer using the sentence strip. (What is your name? “My name is John Doe.” The Picture Communication Symbols ©1981–2010 by Mayer-Johnson LLC. All Rights Reserved Worldwide. Used with permission. Boardmaker™ is a trademark of Mayer-Johnson LLC. In addition, please include the following company information in the resource section of your documentation: Mayer-Johnson 2100 Wharton Street Suite 400 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 Phone: 1 (800) 588-4548 Fax: 1 (866) 585-6260 Email: [email protected] Web site: www.mayer-johnson.com
Simply put, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is not a single disorder, but a group of developmental disabilities with a shared core of symptoms that can cause considerable social, communication and behavioral challenges.
Tantrums Don’t Help Me Fix a Problem is a social story created by TAP. This particular social story is written to help children understand why tantrums will not fix their problem. It also hel…
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Wonder about behaviors typical to kids with Autism and want to know why they do that? Read on and learn more! || Why do kids with Autism Do That?
The connection between our children's gut health their brain is amazing. Gut health and autism are connected and what you feed your child will effect them.
A blog about autism resources and support from a special ed teacher with first-hand experience.
Kids who have autism often struggle with organized team sports because of communication and social difficulties. But these five sports tend to be winners.
The other day I was reading about a mother’s excitement over her daughter’s language acquisition. It had me thinking back and remembering how that felt for us. My son is now 12 and has …
