Conflict identification, brainstorming alternative responses, and evaluating social consequences. Builds student capacity to navigate peer disagreements and select appropriate communication strategies.
A comprehensive 4-week ELA curriculum designed for Special Education Extended School Year (ESY) programs, serving grades 1-4 with differentiated activities, daily visual slides, and hands-on, multi-sensory support.
A multi-week emotional regulation and social self-advocacy curriculum designed specifically for high schoolers with ADHD and BIPs. This sequence provides a modern, gamified framework for identifying triggers, practicing coping mechanisms, tracking daily goals, and resolving peer conflicts.
A unit introducing high school students to essential teamwork, communication, and problem-solving skills, focusing on workplace readiness, self-advocacy, and Pre-ETS skills.
A social-emotional and social skills sequence for 1st graders, specifically tailored for autistic learners. Uses a space-themed metaphor of 'Space Scouts' to teach bodily autonomy, personal space, flexible thinking, and alternative playtime choices.
A comprehensive social skills unit focusing on personal space and boundaries across various school settings and routines for the week of May 25th. This unit differentiates for four distinct classroom groups (Kean, Ramapo, WP, and WashU) with tailored social stories and activities.
A 6-week intervention sequence designed for a first-grade student with autism, focusing on functional communication, task completion, and elopement prevention using a Paw Patrol theme.
A specialized counseling sequence focused on replacing physical aggression with functional communication and sensory regulation for students with high-needs autism. This sequence emphasizes 'Gentle Hands' and provides visual tools for managing frustration when denied access.
A comprehensive regulation system for a 4th-grade student with autism, focused on academic frustration, motivation, and communication support using the Zones of Regulation framework. Includes strategies for both classroom and home environments.
A series of collaborative lessons designed for Best Buddies pairs to foster social connection through shared creative projects, from gardening to storytelling.
A collection of adaptive social skills and behavior lessons for students with autism, focusing on classroom engagement, emotional regulation, and social boundaries.
A comprehensive speech-language therapy packet for 8th-grade students focusing on vocabulary depth, figurative language, and self-advocacy skills. Students will decode multiple meaning words, interpret idioms and sarcasm, and identify their personal communication preferences.
A comprehensive lesson for high school students with developmental disabilities focusing on the outermost circle of the Circles Curriculum: Community Helpers. It includes interactive slides, a structured script worksheet, ready-to-use role-play scenario cards, and a teacher facilitation guide.
Week 4 of the ESY literacy program, focusing on functional vocabulary and expressive communication. Students learn safety signs, expressive words, and cooperative communication skills through camp-themed scenarios.
Week 3 of the ESY literacy program, focusing on sentence writing and grammar. Students practice high-frequency handwriting strokes, capitalization, punctuation, and constructing functional simple sentences.
Week 2 of the ESY literacy program, focusing on comprehension and story elements. Students explore story characters, settings, sequencing events, and main ideas using visual reading tools and interactive stories.
Week 1 of the ESY literacy program, focusing on phonics and word recognition. Students explore letter-sound correspondence, blending, and high-frequency sight words through multi-sensory activities.
A comprehensive annual functional skills pacing framework for grades K-8. This framework structures a whole-school alignment across living, social-emotional, and community safety domains, optimized for special education administrators, resource teachers, and service providers.
An adventure-themed speech-language therapy lesson for middle schoolers to practice problem-solving, inferencing, and social communication. Students solve 'island dilemmas' to escape a mysterious tropical island before summer break begins.
A highly structured social skills lesson designed for third graders with low-functioning autism (ASD), focusing on accepting when a peer plays a game differently. Includes a direct-instruction teacher script with visual cues, a trace-and-color path worksheet, and a visual social scenario comic strip.
An active customer service roleplay game for adults with IDD. Students practice essential social, communication, and problem-solving skills through authentic workplace scenarios and interactive group rotations.
A 90-minute interactive lesson on social manners and respect designed specifically for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), featuring slides, a complete activity guide, scenario cards, and a facilitation plan.
Students apply unit learning to a chosen career or post-secondary education path, identifying workplace accommodations and constructing a self-advocacy plan.
Under the Pre-ETS category of Counseling on Post-Secondary Opportunities, this lesson equips transitioning high school students with knowledge of workplace accommodations, visible/invisible disabilities, and self-advocacy. Students explore equity rights to prepare for post-secondary career and vocational opportunities.
An interactive, highly visual student matching worksheet where students draw lines to connect official community helpers with the specific verbal request or emergency script they would say to them.
A comprehensive, step-by-step teacher facilitation guide featuring lesson plans, instructional pacing, script-practice structures, differentiation tips, and safety insights for teaching the Outermost Circle.
A set of 4 printable, easy-to-cut role-play scenario cards color-coded by helper category with simple social situations, targeted helpers, and bold practice scripts.
A structured, highly visual student worksheet featuring simple 3-4 word speech-practice check-offs and interactive fill-in-the-blank script templates with large handwriting lines.
A visual slide presentation designed for students with developmental disabilities to learn about the four main categories of community helpers, understand the concept of the outermost circle, and learn simple scripts to request help.
A 5-page printable ELA student extension packet for Week 4 (Wildlife Word Safari), featuring advanced functional vocabulary activities (community safety signs, action verbs, cooperative communication, animal classification, and high-level reading comprehension) styled with teal/safari-themed designs.
A 5-page printable ELA student extension packet for Week 3 (Sentence Trail), featuring advanced grammar and sentence-building activities (capitalization, punctuation types, fragments/run-ons, compound sentences, and descriptive reading comprehension) styled with trail/hiking-themed indigo-blue designs.
A 5-page printable ELA student extension packet for Week 2 (Campfire Chronicles), featuring advanced comprehension activities (character traits, setting analysis, plot sequencing, theme, and creative reading comprehension) with amber/campfire-themed styling.
A 5-page printable ELA student extension packet for Week 1 (Phonics Forest), featuring one higher-challenge activity per day (Mon-Fri). Includes sound substitution, riddle-solving, sentence building, sight word cryptograms, and a reading comprehension passage with creative writing.
A comprehensive 3-page print-ready teacher facilitation guide for Week 4 of the ESY literacy program, outlining the daily 60-minute ELA lesson routine, structured communication scripts, and worksheet exemplars.
A comprehensive 3-page print-ready teacher facilitation guide for Week 3 of the ESY literacy program, outlining the daily 60-minute ELA lesson routine, structured writing scripts, multi-sensory accommodations, and worksheet exemplars.
A comprehensive 3-page print-ready teacher facilitation guide for Week 2 of the ESY literacy program, outlining the daily 60-minute ELA lesson routine, structured story scripts, multi-sensory accommodations, and worksheet exemplars.
