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Information on the developmental progression & academic impact of foundational fine motor, visual-motor, and sensory processing skills.

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Foundation Skills for Learning Education Handouts

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Jan Z. Olsen (Handwriting Without Tears), 2009

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This information is outdated - let me know if anyone has found more recent keyboarding standards.

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Motor Development Variations Across Cultures

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Motor Development Variations Across Cultures

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A Cognitive Approach to Teaching Printing to Primary School-Age Children (FREE handwriting curriculum)

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Rolling stamps for applying writing lines to unlined worksheets.

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LegiLiners are rolling, self-inking stamps to quickly ink lines for handwriting, music and math. Here are all the LegiLiner patterns available to you!

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Updated developmental milestones for ages 2 months - 5 years. Also can be found on the CDC website here: https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/milestones/index.html

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Free resource for teachers.

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Improving the health and happiness of the world, one educator at a time.

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Positioning - Proper Chair and Table Height

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Positioning - Proper Chair and Table Height

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Positioning - Proper chair and table height

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Supporting learners who are challenged to sit still in the classroom.

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How to HOLD A PENCIL | Pencil Grasp Hack | Pencil Grasp | Tips & Tricks ✍️

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Video tutorial of how to use the "Spaghetti and Meatballs" analogy to teach spacing between letters and words. Can be adapted to students of all levels.

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Size Matters Handwriting Program teaches spacing with Spaghetti and Meatballs

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Creating a sensory toolkit that is tailored to your student's specific needs.

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Strengths-based accommodations and teaching styles (Carrie Wheeler, 2016).

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PBIS World | A Complete Tier 1 Through Tier 3 Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports System

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PBIS World is in no way affiliated, associated, or connected with any other website, entity, organization, or federal, state, local, or other government agency, department, program, policy, organization, or initiative.

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Trauma Informed Self-Regulation for the Classroom

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Interoception: what it is and why it matters!

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Computer activity for Lower Elementary Students

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The Five Senses is an educational activity for kids to learn about taste, smell, vision, hearing, and touch.

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Promoting Successful Participation at School

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Promoting Successful Participation at School

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AOTA, 2017

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Supporting Participation in Autistic Learners

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Supporting Participation in Autistic Learners

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AOTA, 2017

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Getting your child to pause for a moment to do a body scan can be, uh hum (clear throat), sometimes challenging. At least it has been in my experience. Let's face it, we are a world on the run, most of the time, and our moments are crammed with appointments, outings, events, playmates, and encounters of the friend kind. However, one of the first steps in teaching your child calming techniques, is to get her to pay attention, with detail, to what is going on inside her body. You must be able to recognize tension, and discern where it is in the body, before you can do anything about it (such as, start a calming technique).
Assume comfortable position. Begin to turn your eyes and ears inward to listen to the body and pay attention to how you are feeling. Breathe slowly in and out. Repeat. In and out. Excellent work. Bring your attention to your toes on your left foot. How do they feel? Now check your left ankle. Can you feel it? If not, wiggle it a little bit. Now check in with your left leg. Is there any stress or tension there? Breathe. Imagine that you are releasing any tension that you find, like pulling the lid off of a jar of steam. Good! Let's focus on the toes of your right foot. Wiggle them a bit. How do they feel? Let go of any tension that you find. Now your right ankle. Now pay attention to your right leg. Breathe. Relax. Excellent! Now we check in with your lower back. How is your back touching the floor or chair? How does your stomach feel? Any time you find some stress, just let it go, like a puff of steam into the air. Good. Pay attention to the back of your neck. How does it feel? Check in with your head. Does it feel light or heavy? Feel your ears, the roots of your hair, your forehead, your cheeks. Can you feel your teeth? How do they feel? How does your tongue feel inside your mouth? Feel the top of your head. Breathe. Relax. Did you find tension anywhere? If so, just allow it to melt into the floor, to fall away from you. Now sit quietly for a few seconds. Check out your whole body. Imagine a cloud of relaxation is ready to swish right over all of you, taking with it any stress or tension that you found. Great work!!!! Now you know just where stress or tension likes to hide in your body.
Try out this fun way to engage your child in doing frequent body scans to determine where the tension lies within the body. Play Stress Bot. You, parent, get to be the Stress Bot, who specializes in helping kids scan for stress and tension in the body. Introduce your child to the concept of the Stress Bot and explain that you and the Stress Bot are going to help him find places of stress or tension in his body. Now, adopt your best "robot voice" and guide your child using the following script:

Explain to your child that Stress Bot is always on call to help him scan his body to see if there is tension or stress there. Invite him to call upon Stress Bot any time he is not feeling good to see where the source of the feeling is inside his body. After Stress Bot helps him find the stress, he can use one of his favorite relaxation tools to help get the stress out of his body and begin to feel good and more relaxed.

This quick check-in is excellent for you to use when you are on the go and you would like your child to do a quick body scan or "check in."
Hands on head. How is it feelings? Hands on heart. How is it beating? Hands together. Calm or shaking? Breathe and do a body scan.
Quick Stress Bot Body Scan Script, (please stay in character with your best robot voice):

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http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=2280 Getting your child to pause for a moment to do a body scan can be, uh hum (clear throat), sometimes challenging. At least it has been in my experience. Let's face it, we are a world on the run, most of the time, and our moments are crammed with appointments, outings, events, playmates, and encounters of the friend kind.

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12-Week Lesson Plan

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Resources and activities for kids, including: sounds & music, visual relaxation, guided meditations, live animal cams (!), and exercise & yoga.

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Guided Square-Breathing for Kids

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Guided Meditations and Breathing Activities for Kids

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Free: Online Mindfulness Class for Kids!

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Mindful Schools has created ten free mindfulness classes for kids (as seen on CNN). Join us online - for mindful activities, mindful movement, read-alouds - and let's have fun exploring mindfulness together. Free Online: Mindfulness Class for Kids! Sign up to receive classes and mindfulness resources in your inbox.

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Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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12-Week Lesson Plan

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12-Week Lesson Plan

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Handwriting Practice Packet (31 pages)

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Self-editing checklist for paragraph-writing.

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Self-editing checklist for sentence-writing.

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Posters for letter reversals (b/d and p/q) for younger students.

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Strategy + poster for b/d reversals, appropriate for older learners.

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Be the Pond | Mindfulness for Kids | Cosmic Kids Zen Den

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3 Minutes Body Scan Meditation - Mindfulness For Kids And Adults

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15/21 Days of Mindfulness Bootcamp - 5 Minutes Bodyscan Meditation for Families and classrooms

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Watch & Stream Free Kids Yoga Videos | Cosmic Kids

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Watch and stream kids yoga videos in a safe space on our website. Cosmic Kids' most popular adventures can be found here as well as on our app.

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Fan favorite whole-body movement break to promote cognitive organization and focus.

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Astronaut Training 2 - Let's Get Moving Gross Motor Class  | Movement Break | Brain Break

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Top Ten MTSS Tier 1 PT Strategies Stevens

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Accessible Playgrounds | The Home for Accessible and Inclusive Playgrounds

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This directory lists playgrounds that have inclusive and accessible features. Yes, we would all love to have the perfect inclusive playground in our neighborhood. But we know that is not reality. Here you can find the best of the best as well as playgrounds that have added accessible swing seats or other accessible feature.

We know that it is difficult to push a wheelchair through wood mulch (EWF) and we have done our best to let you know about the surfacing.

In the BIO section, you will find a description of the playground. In the NOTES section, you will find information about the park the playground resides.

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accessible playgrounds in the united states

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Accessible and Inclusive International Playground Directory | Accessible Playgrounds

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This directory lists playgrounds that have inclusive and accessible features. Yes, we would all love to have the perfect inclusive playground in our neighborhood. But we know that is not reality. Here you can find the best of the best as well as playgrounds that have added accessible swing seats or other accessible feature.

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Accessible, Inclusive, and Adaptive Recreation Guide - 1 - A magazine created with Madmagz

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Accessible, Inclusive, and Adaptive Recreation Guide was created with Madmagz. Madmagz is a website that enables you to create a magazine in web, PDF or print format.

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Video tutorial to activate word-prediction software on Windows 10.

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How to use Word prediction in Windows 10

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Supporting Participation in ADHD Learners

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Supporting Participation in ADHD Learners

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Knowledge, tools, and resources to support ADHD learners from OT4ADHD.com.

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OT4ADHD -school based occupational therapy support for students with ADHD

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school based occupational therapy support for students with ADHD

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Teacher Toolbox: Supporting Students with Special Needs

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Teacher Toolbox: Supporting Students with Special Needs

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Free activities and tools provided by Do2Learn.

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Providing the proper expectations, interventions, and supports can help individuals with special needs to succeed and learn the skills they need to lead productive lives. While this material is based on techniques that have proven effective for special needs, the tips may be of value for individuals with a range of other disorders that result in behavior, social, and learning problems.

The Teacher Toolbox is a compilation of advice from Dr. Claire Coles' team of experts at the Marcus Institute and the Maternal Substance Abuse and Child Development Center at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. We are especially grateful to Molly Millians, whose dedication and knowledge has guided this material.

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picture exchange communication system cards

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Do2Learn: Educational Resources for Special Needs

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Providing the proper expectations, interventions, and supports can help individuals with special needs to succeed and learn the skills they need to lead productive lives.

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Wunder The first community app for parents and caregivers of children who learn and think differently.

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