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Speech Language Tier Process Descriptions

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Google Forms - create and analyze surveys, for free.

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Behaviors often associated with language deficits

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Behaviors often associated with language deficits

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Language RTI-Behaviors Often Associated with Language Deficits

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Making Your Classroom a Safe Place for Kids Who Stutter

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It’s not just Joe Biden—figures as various as Charles Darwin, Ed Sheeran, and Shaquille O’Neal stuttered growing up. Here’s how to integrate a student who stutters into your classroom.

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This free social story library provides downloadable pdf’s for the home, school, and community settings. Social stories are a great way...

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7 Ways To Encourage Smoother Transitions In Young Children With Autism | Join me to learn 7 tried & true ways to help your autistic child or student transition from activity to activity with less stress. I will also share a... | By Autism Little Learners | Facebook

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3.2K views, 43 likes, 30 loves, 261 comments, 21 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Autism Little Learners: Join me to learn 7 tried & true ways to help your autistic child or student transition from...

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First/Then Boards Descriptions and Downloads

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First/Then Boards Descriptions and Downloads

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First Then Boards Descriptions and Downloads

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Visual Schedules Descriptions and Example

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Visual Schedules Descriptions and Example

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Visual Schedules Descriptions and Examples

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All Done Bucket Description and Download

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All Done Bucket Description and Download

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Star Chart (helps with transitioning) like a countdown timer with more flexibility (NOT a Token Board or Working For)

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Star Chart (helps with transitioning) like a countdown timer with more flexibility (NOT a Token Board or Working For)

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Change Card-visually prepares student for change in schedule

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Change Card-visually prepares student for change in schedule

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Calm Down Cards (blog post and free download)

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Calm Down Cards (blog post and free download)

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Anger is a complex and difficult emotion for young children to deal with so having an awareness of anger management as an adult can really help. We need to help children learn how to recognise, talk about and manage their anger: not while they're angry, but while they're calm and happy in order to give them tools they can put to use when they really need them.
These free cards are available in Brazilian-Portuguese, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Romanian, Spanish and Swedish.
What works?

There is no 'one right solution' for anger management in children, as what works for one child may not work for another. That's why learning how to calm themselves may be quite a long-term project, it takes time to try different methods and ideas.

Also, the level of anger may change the effectiveness of a strategy. For example, if they are just a little angry stopping for a cool drink might be effective, but if it's a full-blown tantrum this might mean the drink is thrown across the room and they may manage better with a small, quiet, private space where they can talk to or cry with their favourite teddy.

3 simple steps toward anger management

In order to deal with anger it's important for children to learn to differentiate between their own varying emotions, and the intensity of their feelings. Pop over to 10 Activities and 10 You Tube Songs to Explore Emotions for a good roundup of ideas. It's one of the most popular posts on this site. If you'd like to use an emotions song based on 5 Little Ducks there's a free video and lyrics sheet you can download here.

The level of intensity is also important. Children need to learn to recognise their own anger as it's building to give them time to implement a strategy and calm themselves. Many suggest using an emotional thermometer. I have included a copy of this graphic in with the calming strategy cards download in case you find it helpful and would like to use it.

2. Teach calming strategies

During periods when your child is calm spend time reading about and talking about anger and other emotions, the effects they have and how we can learn ways to prevent ourselves from becoming really angry.

3. Practice, practice, practice

It's great to practice these strategies while your child is calm or in a good mood, but it's most important to actually see if they help during periods of mild to acute anger. What sounds like a good idea when you're happy, may not work so well when temper rises. Be prepared to try different methods over a long period till you find a couple of strategies that seem to be the most effective for you.

Using these calming strategies cards

talk to children about feelings of anger and different options that are available for cooling down

prompt children to decide what strategies might suit them best, or what they'd like to try first

remind or encourage angry children to make use of their chosen strategies

remember: you or your child might think of other methods you'd like to try that aren't included here!

After your child has decided what strategies they'd like to try, put those strategy cards somewhere nearby for an emergency reminder. If you have another strategy you want to use, write it on one of the spare blank cards and draw a related picture as a prompt.

Download here

Download these English 23 free calming strategy cards HERE.

Brazilian-Portuguese: Thanks go to clinical psychologist Mariana Rebello for this translation.
You can connect with Mariana on her website here.

Dutch: Thanks go to Hilde Van Den Eeckhaut for this translation.

Estonian: Thanks go to Riinika for this translation.

Finnish: Thanks go to Sanna Hemnell for this translation.

French: Thanks go to Cécile Delrieu for this translation.
You can request to join Cécile' s facebook group here.

German: Thanks go to Bettina Markones for this translation.

Icelandic: Thanks go to Linda Ósk Sigurðardóttir for this translation.

Romanian: Thanks go to Ana-Caterina Bedivan for this translation.

Spanish: Thanks go to Marina Griñón for this translation. LARGE SPANISH PACK.

Swedish: Thanks go to Sanna Hemnell (again!) for this translation.

How to calm an angry child

Pop over to this anger management post for more ideas on calming angry children. It's from The Early Childhood Research Podcast so you can listen to the post if you prefer it to reading!

Looking for black and white cards? Or more variety?

You can find 185 Calming Strategy Cards in both colour and black and white in my TpT store. You can find the SPANISH VERSION HERE!

What methods do you find effective to help kids calm themselves? Let us know in the comments!

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Anger Management: 23 Free Calming Strategy Cards

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Anger is a complex and difficult emotion for young children to deal with so having an awareness of anger management as an adult can really help. We need to help children learn how to recognise, talk about and manage their anger: not while they're angry, but while they're calm and happy in order to give them tools they can put to use when they really need them.

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How to use a token economy (Working For)

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How to use a token economy (Working For)

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Product Preview - "I am working.." Reinforcement Visual

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Working For Starter Kit and examples (token economy)

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Working For Starter Kit and examples (token economy)

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How to Use Prompts Effectively and Efficiently - The Autism Helper

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Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism

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Like we discussed in Monday's post, least to most prompting involves starting with the least intrusive prompts and moving up in the prompting hierarchy. This can be beneficial because it gives students to the opportunity to be independent and you are only providing as much prompting as needed. This is a strategy we tend to use naturally. When you meet a your friend's toddler you put out your hand to give a high five. If she doesn't respond you say, "give high five." If she still doesn't respond you move her hand to your hand to give a high five. This is a natural method of prompting. When using this method, ideally the prompts will be somewhat self fading. If you are always starting at the least intrusive prompt, your students will have the opportunity to demonstrate independence. As the student begins to learn the task, he will need less and less prompts to perform it correctly.

Some key tips for using this prompt fading procedure:

allow wait time; if you do not provide wait time you may be providing more prompts than needed and taking away the opportunity for the student to respond correctly

take data; data is key to track progress. Every time you utilize this prompting method - note the level of prompt you used. You want to see that your student is requiring less intrusive prompts as time goes on. This will help avoid prompt dependence.

use high powered reinforcers; use an item that is actually a reinforcer that your student wants to work for. The sooner he demonstrates the skills, the sooner he gets the reinforcer.

However, some children learn to "wait" for the prompt, meaning over time their learning history has shown them that if they do not respond a prompt will come and reinforcement will follow. Students may have never responded correctly with a less intrusive type of prompt and have never contacted reinforcement. If this occurs you can try most-to-least prompt, a time delay (we will talk about tomorrow), or re-evalute if you are using this strategy correctly (ie. providing wait time, using a reinforcer, etc.)

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3 Ways to Fade Prompts - The Autism Helper

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Like we discussed in Monday's post, least to most prompting involves starting with the least intrusive prompts and moving up in the prompting hierarchy. This can be beneficial because it gives students to the opportunity to be independent and you are only providing as much prompting as needed.

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Token Economies (Working For) Do's and Don'ts

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Token Economies (Working For) Do's and Don'ts

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Basic Concepts (vocabulary and following directions)

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Basic Concepts (vocabulary and following directions)

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Categories-Sort by Food, Vehicles, Animals, People

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Categories-Sort by Food, Vehicles, Animals, People

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Prepositions-Expressive Language-"Where is the puppy?", Receptive Language-"Point to the puppy is in front of the house"; Manipulative:  put the puppy on top of the house

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Prepositions-Expressive Language-"Where is the puppy?", Receptive Language-"Point to the puppy is in front of the house"; Manipulative:  put the puppy on top of the house

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Strategies to Help Students With and Without ASD with Literacy

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Strategies to Help Students With and Without ASD with Literacy

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Literacy and Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

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The START Project staff are identifying key characteristics impacting literacy for students with ASD and developing tools that may be helpful to supporting students. While students with ASD tend to demonstrate excellent word recognition and decoding skills, there are inherent challenges and impairment in the area of reading comprehension, often due to the fundamental characteristics of the disability.

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Self Management Ideas (using the student's interest areas)

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Self Management Ideas (using the student's interest areas)

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Differentiated Output Hierarchy - START Project - Grand Valley State University

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Differentiated Output Hierarchy - START Project - Grand Valley State University

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Visual Support Ideas based on classroom activity

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Visual Support Ideas based on classroom activity

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Universal Supports (can be modified for all grades)

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Universal Supports (can be modified for all grades)

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Universal Supports for EC Checklist.docx

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Social Story Example about taking a break using a child's interest area

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Social Story Example about taking a break using a child's interest area

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What do you need charts multiple template and pictures.docx

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CLAMS Cards for Classroom Activities.docx

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Video Tutorial of Behavior Contingency Maps

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The Importance of Structure and Routine in the Classroom

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The Importance of Structure and Routine in the Classroom

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Mini Video Training Series Ep 7: Importance of Structure and Routine

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Mini Training Series: Ep 27  Three Ways to Fade Prompts

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Mini Training Series: Ep 17 All Behavior Is Communication