Autism Resources for Kindergarten

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Implementing a Soft Start in Special Education Classrooms
Have you ever had one of those mornings? You know – one of those mornings where everything seems to be going wrong. The same thing is true for our students! Our students sometimes have those difficult mornings as well. In this blog post, let’s talk about what a soft start is and how you may want to implement it in your classroom.
One of the most common calming strategies I see utilized with students is deep breathing. I think we have all at one point or another told a student (or coworker, or even ourselves!) to ‘take a deep breath’. While ‘taking a deep breath’ seems like a simple direction, it is much harder than you would think! In this post, I want to share some evidence behind deep breathing, and some specific techniques you can use to help your students access this helpful calming strategy Aba Therapy Activities, Calming Techniques, Calming Strategies
Calming Strategies and Tips for Students with Autism
One of the most common calming strategies I see utilized with students is deep breathing. I think we have all at one point or another told a student (or coworker, or even ourselves!) to ‘take a deep breath’. While ‘taking a deep breath’ seems like a simple direction, it is much harder than you would think! In this post, I want to share some evidence behind deep breathing, and some specific techniques you can use to help your students access this helpful calming strategy
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Time Management Visuals for Children with Special Needs
Empower special education teachers and parents of autistic students with our resource focused on teaching essential time management and waiting skills. Featuring over 18 sets of evidence-based visual tools, this comprehensive package leverages visuals to model task division, time budgeting, waiting for events, and exhibiting appropriate behavior during waiting intervals. Cultivate essential life skills seamlessly with these straightforward and effective visual resources!
Enhance question-answering skills for students with limited verbal abilities through this adapted learning resource. With 6 pages featuring 3 groups per page, the book prompts students to match corresponding images to answer questions regarding quantity, color, size, and animal identification ("How Many?", "What Color?", "What Size?", and "What Animal?"). Animal Identification, Skills For Students, Book For Students, Baby Play Activities, Book Prompts, Adapted Books, All About Animals, Occupational Therapy
Animal Themed Adapted Book for Students with Special Needs
Enhance question-answering skills for students with limited verbal abilities through this adapted learning resource. With 6 pages featuring 3 groups per page, the book prompts students to match corresponding images to answer questions regarding quantity, color, size, and animal identification ("How Many?", "What Color?", "What Size?", and "What Animal?").
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Functional Math Level 0.5 Year Long Curriculum for Sped Classrooms
This brand new year-long math curriculum focuses on teaching functional & foundational math skills and concepts using all real photos. It even includes a non-writer version for seamlessly differentiated instruction.
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Valentine's Day Class Party Setup Kit for Learners with Autism
Make Valentine's Day parties inclusive and enjoyable for autistic students and those with special needs using this resource tailored for special education teachers and parents. Structured routines, visuals, and a clear schedule ensure a seamless and predictable party experience. This Valentine's Day party kit is a convenient, print-and-go solution that eliminates the need for laminating!
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Weather Mega Pack for Children with Autism and Special Needs Classrooms
This comprehensive mega pack is a must-have set of resources designed to facilitate weather concept learning for diverse learners, including nonreaders and visual learners. This product caters to a wide range of students, fostering a comprehensive understanding of weather concepts and their relevance to daily life.
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Time Management Activities for Children with Special Needs
Empower special education teachers and parents of autistic students with our resource focused on teaching essential time management and waiting skills. Featuring over 18 sets of evidence-based visual tools, this comprehensive package leverages visuals to model tasks division, time budgeting, waiting for events, and exhibiting appropriate behavior during waiting intervals. Cultivate essential life skills seamlessly with these straightforward and effective visual resources!
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File Folder Activities (Valentine's Day Themed) for Students with Special needs
Enhance learning with this set of 12 Valentine's Day-themed file folder activities. This resource includes file folders targeting big/little, identical and non-identical matching, simple, intermediate, and complex patterns, sorting by size, counting, matching numbers to written numbers, sequencing the alphabet, and matching uppercase to lowercase letters. Perfect for independent work, homework, or 1:1 instruction, these engaging activities are both fun and functional!
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NEW RESOURCE! Life Skills Level 0.5 Year-Long Curriculum for Sped Classrooms
This year-long life skills curriculum focuses on teaching fundamental skills that are the building blocks to life skills and activities of daily life. Level 0.5 focuses on the following skills: edible vs. inedible, eat vs. drink, hot vs. cold, silverware, open vs. closed, the symbolism of red and green in the community, community signs and symbols, wet vs. dry, items that are laundered, matching shoes and socks, putting away items, up and down, stop and go, technology symbols, and on and off.
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Toy Themed Matching Workbook Activity for Learners with Special Needs
This fun and interactive resource includes the materials to make 5 adapted books, one for each day of the week. Each workbook features 6 easy matching activities, including matching out of a field of 6, errorless matching, and match by color tasks. All activities feature toy and play themed images to provide engaging vocabulary and concept exposure. Focused on everyday vocabulary, tasks, and concepts, these workbooks create engaging learning experiences.
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Community Helper I Spy Adapted Book Activity for Special Ed Classrooms
Elevate your social studies lessons with this interactive adapted book. It's ideal for developing essential skills such as choice-making, vocabulary building, and identifying community helpers based on function or related vocabulary words. With 12 interactive pages, each featuring a clue, students must select the correct community helper from three picture response options.
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All About the Park Life Skills Unit for Special Ed Classrooms
Making teaching life skills interactive and accessible to all leaners with this massive unit! Increase functional literacy skills while teaching your students essential vocabulary and concepts that they use in their daily life. Life skills education is so important for many of our learners. Increased awareness and understanding will enable our students to have a higher degree of functional independence! This series focuses on common locations our students go in the community.
This adapted book is an excellent resource for teaching the challenging concept of non-examples to children with limited verbal skills. It focuses on crucial skills like decision-making, vocabulary development, and identifying items based on an exclusionary criterion. With 10 interactive pages, each featuring a clue, students must select the item that is not an example of what the clue suggests from four picture response options. Mom Cards, Decision Making, Clue
I Spy Adapted Book for Children with Special Needs
This adapted book is an excellent resource for teaching the challenging concept of non-examples to children with limited verbal skills. It focuses on crucial skills like decision-making, vocabulary development, and identifying items based on an exclusionary criterion. With 10 interactive pages, each featuring a clue, students must select the item that is not an example of what the clue suggests from four picture response options.
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Pre-K Literacy Engagement Ideas for Sped Classrooms
As an Infants & Toddlers special educator, I am constantly trying to figure out new ways to increase toddler engagement during literacy! Many of our families seek goals related to reading with their child because they not only understand the benefits of reading but also recognize its significance as a valuable shared experience. Now, of course, expanding literacy engagement is not reserved solely for the toddler age! In this blog post are just a few of my favorite literacy hacks!