Teaching Feelings and Emotions

Many parents and teachers find it difficult to teach young learners with special Ed how to recognise their feelings and emotions.

Teaching young learners how to label their emotions is a difficult skill to learn, and being prepared to seize opportunities when these present naturally is sometimes lengthy. 

In my class I've arranged a number of  activities and Social Stories where students can begin to recognise someone happy, sad, angry and practice labeling facial expressions with visual cues.

The Task cards I created gives my kiddos the opportunity to practice identifying facial expressions and emotions as well as being able to label them correctly with answer sheets! 

To make this activity more fun and interactive my kiddos used pegs to answer first, then dabbers to complete assessments sheets!

 I have also added this resource to my Social Story Bundle!

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Visuals for Behavior Management

 Classroom Cue Cards - 

I use visuals with my non verbal students that's finding it difficult to understand, process and follow verbal directions. 

The most tricky situations I find sometimes arise when transitioning at lunch time, outside recess/playtime and in the classroom setting.   So clipping the visuals that I might need to my wrist has become a must!

I've hooked up three keyrings full of the visuals  that I can grab and change when I'm in a hurry.

1. for the classroom

2. for the dinning hall

3. for outside at recess/playtime

The visuals help my kiddos to understand and follow directions while transitioning and help with any frustrations that might rise! 

I've included 41 Visuals which I popped on to lanyard's and wrist bands, that are divided into these 3 areas and in 3 different sizes to suit.

These Visual Cue Cards are perfect to reinforce verbal directions and in my opinion great for any kindergarten, preschool or Special Ed Classroom setting with non verbal kids!

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Communication Visuals for non -verbal students with Autism

 Critical Communication -

Teaching students new skills such as requesting "break", "help" and "wait" can be tricky for some kids with Special Education Needs.

I  wanted to  support each of my non verbal students with  self -management strategies and tools that were easy to implement, so i created these 

visual support cards. 

To aid communication, avoid frustration and control behavior in my classroom I knew i had to incorporate these critical skills. 

I added handy visuals on the bottom for my student to tell me.....

• how they were feeling, by pointing or ticking the box when they needed a "Break", 
• directions on what to do while they were "waiting" 
• what they need "help" with

Producing these before behavior starts makes a huge difference in redirecting students as what to do. Support staff love the power of the cards!

I made them in three different sizes, in colour and black & white. 

I use these cards to provide structure in my behaviour support plans and they run in conjunction with ABA Management'.

 

Daily Planner

Using Visual Supports in Special Education! -

Working in a busy special Ed, Autism Classroom I soon realised I needed to find useful strategies for my young learners to access learning and keep on task in class. 

Being visual learners I needed to provide them with suitable strategies to promote independence, important to their learning success. 

So I listed what I thought were relevant!  

• A daily schedule
• Motivator choices
• Rules to follow
• Reward system
• Resources needed for tasks

From this I created "My Daily Planner"

Once laminated or placed in plastic pockets my students used dry wipe markers to personalise their own binders with their name, grade and class, followed by their teachers name, their friends name, things they like and things they don't.

I tagged all the important pages with visuals for quick access. 

SO NEXT I ADDED EXTRAS!

There are pages with the days of the week for your student to practice and tick off what day it is and same for seasons. 

Handy pages for students to write out their daily schedule and tick off as they go though it. Working for cards with a reward choice section for that day. 

Behavior Regulation strategies "first and then" 

Visuals for self regulation to help before any behavior build up.

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