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Visual supports can help to decrease anxiety and increase independence across all settings for students with special needs. This toolkit provides you with all that you will need to help structure your child’s day at home, no matter his/her age.
Do2Learn provides thousands of free pages with social skills and behavioral regulation activities and guidance, learning songs and games, communication cards, academic material and transition guides for employment and life skills.
This website has some ideas to set up first-then charts to use when teaching and working at home. Follow these three steps:
Show the student the first/then card, point to the two symbols, and say “First (Activity 1), then (Activity 2)”. If the student resists or gets off task, show them the card again and repeat this phrase.
When the first activity is done, show the student the first/then card again and say “(Activity 1) finished!” while pointing at the first visual on the card. Then point to the second activity and say “Now, (Activity 2).”
Begin Activity 2 immediately.
This scale can be used as a reminder for children about expected voice volume to use when learning at home.
Download symbols that can be cut out and put on a lanyard to support communication needs and positive behavior at home.
Download a 5-point scale that you can customize to fit the needs of any child.
From Easter Seals DuPage & Fox Valley. Activities to do with supplies in the house.
This webpage offers a list of "heavy work" activities that can be done at home.
From Affirm at University of North Carolina. Ideas for how to use technology to have children keep in touch with friends and family. Include visual cue sheets for FaceTime, Marco Polo, and various video chat apps.
This website provides information about how you can write your own social stories for students.
Social Emotional resources – lessons, activities, and printables – in the following skill areas: Communication, Cooperation, Emotion Regulation, Empathy, Impulse Control, and Social Initiation.
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