Many children and youth struggle with interoception (lesser known sense that gives you awareness of the feelings in your own body - feeling such as the sense of hunger, thirst, when to use the bathroom, hot or cold). To build interoceptive
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Special Education, Life Skills, Occupational Therapy
Take a deep breath! That is a common phrase heard when an individual is stressed, upset of simply overwhelmed. While extraordinarily effective at calming the body, it can be difficult for children and and youth if it isn't practiced. These calming
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Special Education, School Counseling, Occupational Therapy
Included are 23 effective movement breaks to use with a whole classroom of students, small groups of students or individual students. As an OT, I have used these movements as part of my calming corner. Children can pick a card and easily complete
Subjects:
School Counseling, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy
Many children and families find immunizations anxiety provoking. This social story primes children through engaging images and dialogue to reduce their worries around getting their annual flu shot. We sincerely hope that this social story helps
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Special Education, Life Skills, Occupational Therapy
Are you looking for ways to help your students self-regulate? One of the best ways to help children learn to calm and regulate is to teach them to breathe. Breathing naturally calms the body. The challenge - getting kids to breathe when they are
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Special Education, Classroom Management, School Psychology
This social story accompanies a series of 10 beads designed to help children to self-calm. Using writing with symbols, the story helps children understand that their bodies are like engines, sometimes they run fast, sometimes they run slow, and
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Life Skills, School Counseling, Occupational Therapy
This is a wonderful introduction to progressive muscle relaxation for young children. The story begins by having children choose their monster emotion (it is encouraged that these sheets are laminated and Velcro is placed on the back so that
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School Counseling, Occupational Therapy, School Psychology
Many children have worries. To help children cope, adults can encourage young children to draw or print their worries and in turn externalize these challenging emotions. With the children and families that I work with, we like to draw our worries on
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Special Education, Occupational Therapy, Early Intervention
Calming Affirmation Cards for Kids. Each day, pick one card and ask students how they demonstration that affirmation. For example, if the affirmation is, "I am brave" ask the students to provide share different ways that they are brave. This will
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School Counseling, Occupational Therapy, School Psychology
Are you looking for ways to help your students self-regulate? One of the best ways to help children learn to calm and regulate is to teach them to Move. Movement naturally calms the body. The challenge - getting kids to move when they are agitated
Subjects:
School Counseling, Occupational Therapy, School Psychology
Do you have students who benefit from activities to help them self-regulate their arousal, attention, emotions and behaviour? If so, access this handout and two dice to enable you to access over 36 breathing, movement, and cognitive activities that
Subjects:
Classroom Management, School Counseling, Occupational Therapy
This efficient, one page fillable PDF document allows parents, caregivers, and special education teachers to summarize key strengths, needs, accommodations and interests of students. At the beginning of the year, it can be challenging to keep track
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Special Education, School Counseling, Occupational Therapy
Grades:
Not Grade Specific
Types:
Professional Documents, Classroom Forms, For Parents
Are you looking for ways to help your students understand expected and unexpected behaviour in light of COVID-19? This card sorting task will help individual students, small groups and whole classes sort what is expected and unexpected in regards to
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
18 years as an occupational therapist working in schools.
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MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY
BScH (Psychology); BScOT (Occupational Therapy); Masters in Educational Psychology