Social Express is a social learning program, designed to teach core social-emotional skills needed to help develop meaningful relationships and successfully navigate our social world. Students watch videos providing different social scenarios and students determine the appropriate social behavior in each scenario.  This is a subscription based online program that is checked out to teachers for their students.  It is currently free until June 1st for all students. 

Superflex…A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum is a Social Thinking curriculum created for K-5 students. It’s paired with a comic book that introduces the concept of the Team of Unthinkables, characters that represent the different ways our brain has not-so-flexible thinking in social situations.  This is part of the Think Social curriculum and can be checked out at the IRC.

Social stories are short individualized stories devised as a tool to help students better understand the nuances of interpersonal communication so that they could interact in an effective and appropriate manner. They can be used to introduce a new environment or activity, review appropriate ways to complete daily activities, assist in problem solving, or discuss changes to a schedule/routine.

Sample social stories and directions found here: PBIS World

Emotional self-regulation is the ability to respond to the ongoing demands in a socially appropriate way.  Students learn to recognize the clues their bodies give them by identifying which of the 4 zones they are in and strategies they can use when they are not in a comfort zone.  

This program teaches children how to identify and change how alert they feel, initially using the analogy of an engine.  Students identify their bodies as high, low, or just right.  Strategies are taught to assist students in getting to that "just right" or "ready to learn" zone.  This program is available in the IRC for checkout.

Calm lowers stress and anxiety through guided meditations, breathing programs, stretching exercises, and relaxing music . This app can be recommended by your assistive technology facilitator or can be added for free to a personal device.

This is a meditation and mindfulness app that allows the student to check in with their emotions, and recommends short guided meditations, yoga and acupressure videos, tuned to how the student feels.  This app is free for teachers.

The Time Timer displays the passage of time with a disappearing red disk. This is a powerful tool for visual thinkers of all ages and abilities. It comes in different sizes, as well as a watch format, and can be checked out in the IRC.

With the Google Keep Chrome Extension you can clip notes as you browse the web and save them to Google Keep.  Students can create to do lists, reminders, and notes all saved in one location.  Video Tutorial available

A resource developed by Karen Janowski, Assistive Technology Consultant, EdTech Solutions