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Social Distancing: Social Stories and Narratives
Social Distancing: Social Stories and Narratives
Check out these websites for support in explaining social distancing to your children. Click on the links below to go to each website.
The creator of this webiste has handpicked some of their favorite meditations, sleep stories, movement exercises, journals, and music. All of the resources on this page are currently free to use and to share.
Brain breaks provide brief breaks from any type of mental work, such as school work. They help minimize frustration and improve learning. Activities can be physical or relaxing and quiet. This resource offers several brain break suggestions for children (or for parents!), explains how to find the right fit for each child, and teaches how to plan brain breaks.
This article provides information about:
how positive reinforcement works,
ways to give positive attention,
examples of behaviors to reinforce, and
troubleshooting two common issues with positive reinforcement.
This resource provides six highly effective tips for using positive reinforcement in eLearning environments. This site also provides simple explanations of positive and negative reinforcement for a more in-depth understanding of how behavior works.
This resource has a variety of free materials that will help your children thrive while learning at home. It provides lesson plans and other materials to support parents through remote learning.
Note: This resource can support any child, even though it was designed with children with autism in mind.
Although this resource was created for children with autism, these tactics can help children of all ages and skill sets. You will find visuals, examples, and definitions presented in a user friendly manner.
Note: This site uses some technical language. Some parents might prefer to explore these interventions by clicking on the button below.
Token economy systems can help children improve behavior, such as doing homework or keeping their hands to themselves. This resource walks parents through each step of creating a token economy, provides examples, and helps troubleshoot problems.
Note: Although this site recommends working on up to three behaviors at once, we suggest starting with just one.
A visual schedule is one helpful strategy to establish a daily routine. This website allows you to create and print a visual schedule for your child to use at home.
The Illinois Autism Partnership and Easterseals have provided a free toolkit for parents to use during school closures. This toolkit includes visual schedules, first-then boards, token boards, and other printable behavior management tools to help work with your children at home. Note: This resource can support any child, even though it was designed with children with autism in mind.
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