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Self-Injurious Behaviors In Young Autistic Children
Self-injurious behaviors in young autistic children, such as head banging, self-biting, and skin picking, are more common than many school teams realize. Research estimates that up to half of autistic individuals experience these behaviors at some point in their lives. For educators and therapists, these behaviors can affect a child’s safety, learning, and ability to […]
Wakeful Rest: How Can Quiet Thinking Time Help Your Students?
Students move through an enormous amount of information during the school day. A lesson ends, and almost immediately there is another question to answer, another worksheet to complete, another conversation to have, or another activity to begin. But what happens when we occasionally stop adding more information? Research on wakeful rest suggests that periods with […]
Ready to Write Song and Free Printable
The Ready to Write Song is a fun handwriting warm-up that helps children prepare their bodies, hands, and pencils for writing. Children follow simple movements for posture, breathing, hand warm-ups, pencil grasp, and paper placement. Use the song before handwriting practice, journal writing, worksheets, or other pencil-and-paper activities. You can download the FREE Ready to […]
SENSORY OVER-RESPONSIVITY IN KIDS: RESEARCH + FREE PRINTABLE
Sensory over-responsivity in kids shows up in classrooms every day. A student who covers their ears at the sound of a pencil sharpener, refuses to wear certain fabrics, or becomes distressed by cafeteria noise may be experiencing more than a passing preference. These strong, negative reactions to everyday sensory input affect a meaningful portion of […]
Body Awareness Worksheet: What Is My Body Telling Me?
Helping children notice signals from their bodies can support greater body awareness, self-regulation, and independence. This free body awareness worksheet gives children a simple visual way to identify what they may be noticing in their bodies and think about what those signals could mean. The What Is My Body Telling Me? printable includes common body […]
Natural Opportunities to Build Everyday Skills Needed for Learning
Children need many skills to participate successfully in school. Attention, organization, problem-solving, self-regulation, working memory, flexibility, and independence all support learning throughout the day. These skills need opportunities to develop and be practiced. Fortunately, families and educators do not always need special activities to build everyday skills. Many opportunities are already part of a child’s […]
School Count and Graph Free Worksheet
This School Count and Graph free printable combines visual scanning, counting, and beginning graphing practice in one engaging activity. Students search the page for familiar school objects, count each type, and record their answers by coloring the graph. The black-and-white worksheet requires no preparation and is easy to use in classrooms, therapy sessions, homeschool lessons, […]
50 Student Success Strategies to Foster Independence
Helping students succeed is not about reminding them of every step or staying beside them until the work is finished. One of the most important student success strategies we can teach is how to recognize what they need and take the next step with less adult support. The free printable 50 Things Students Can Try […]
Preventing Teacher Burnout Free Printable
Teaching requires an incredible amount of attention, decision-making, emotional regulation, flexibility, and problem solving. Teachers are expected to support students, manage the classroom, deliver instruction, respond to unexpected needs, communicate with families, document progress, and keep moving through the school day. That is a lot for one nervous system. Explore this free printable preventing teacher […]
Why Your Students Won’t Start Their Work? Exploring Task Initiation Through a Brain-Body Lens
A student sits in front of a blank worksheet. The directions have been given, the materials are ready, and the student appears to understand what to do, but nothing happens. It is easy to see this as a motivation problem. In reality, getting started can depend on a long list of brain and body factors, […]