Prompt Hierarchy Posters (Autism/SPED )
Behavior / Classroom / Products / Teacher Inspirations

Prompt Hierarchy Posters (Autism/SPED )

Implementing the Prompt Hierarchy in your classroom is ESSENTIAL! It often gets difficult to guide paraprofessionals when there are numerous staff within your classroom. I have designed 2 posters that I will be implementing this year! After discussing and modeling each section with my para’s, these posters will be posted around the classroom from visual … Continue reading

Behavior Coloring By Code Simplified – Autism
Behavior / Products

Behavior Coloring By Code Simplified – Autism

Behavior Coloring by Code Sheets are to help teach simple basic behaviors that I want my students to understand. At the beginning of the year we work on basic behaviors/following directions such as “sit down” and “stand up.” It is also important to teach appropriate behaviors (Green Behaviors) and inappropriate behaviors (Red Behaviors). Here is … Continue reading

Zones of Regulation Bulletin Board
Behavior / Social Thinking

Zones of Regulation Bulletin Board

Social Thinking reached out and asked me to develop a Zones of Regulation Bulletin Board that they could present at their 10th Annual Social Thinking Conference this year. The Zones of Regulation: A Curriculum Designed to Foster Self-Regulation and Emotional Control written and created by Leah Kuypers (2011) and selected lessons by Michelle Garcia Winner.©2011 Social Thinking … Continue reading

Social Thinking Curriculum
Behavior / Social Thinking

Social Thinking Curriculum

       Social Thinking is a treatment framework and curriculum developed by Michelle Garcia Winner that targets how to enhance and improve social thinking abilities, regardless of diagnostic label (often there isn’t a diagnosis). Social Thinking’s Mission directly taken fromwww.socialthinking.com: “At Social Thinking®, our mission is to help people develop their social competencies to better … Continue reading

Autism & Challenging Behaviors
Behavior / Social Thinking

Autism & Challenging Behaviors

Here are some Behavior Management strategies that I have found successful over the years with a wide variety of students. Hopefully you will find them as successful for you as well!           There is no one-size fits all when it comes to special education classroom behavior management strategies.  Behavior interventions can be preventive … Continue reading

Visual Organization Planning – Autism
Academics / Behavior / Social Thinking

Visual Organization Planning – Autism

           Kids with Autism often struggle in the area of Executive Functioning or “Organized Thinking.”   Our kids can be very “smart” and have a cognitive black hole with regards to intuitively learning organized thinking and related skills spontaneously.               Organized Thinking for our kids is about … Continue reading

Sensory Processing Disorder
Behavior / Sensory

Sensory Processing Disorder

Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), exists when sensory signals are either not detected or don’t get organized into appropriate responses.  Pioneering occupational therapist, educational psychologist, and neuroscientist A. Jean Ayres, PhD, likened SPD to a neurological “traffic jam” that prevents certain parts of the brain from receiving the information needed to interpret sensory information correctly.  A … Continue reading

Fidgets & Using Our Strategies
Behavior / Sensory / Social Thinking

Fidgets & Using Our Strategies

Helping my students to understand the importance of using fidgets appropriately and utilizing their strategies to help calm themselves down.  A Quick Social Story Reminder for Calming Down Quick Visual Reminder that is placed about their Fidget Bin (My students want to grab ALL the fidgets and/or sit by the bin and play with them) … Continue reading