This lesson focuses on maintaining priority in the face of distractions and new inputs through a role-playing simulation and analysis of cognitive switching costs.
A comprehensive 15-lesson social skills curriculum designed specifically for middle and high school students with intellectual disabilities. It uses highly structured, visual-heavy layouts to teach conversational skills, peer dynamics, self-advocacy, and community safety through concrete social scenarios.
A comprehensive lesson package designed to teach students how to recognize initiation blocks, launch tasks using structured strategies, and self-monitor their focus independently. includes presentation slides, a teacher facilitation guide, and a student self-monitoring workbook.
A stylized student worksheet modeled as a 'Mission Control Flight Log' to guide students in breaking down a hard task into micro-steps, preparing their distraction shields, and logging focus levels.
A comprehensive 15-lesson training sequence designed for students with intellectual disabilities to master independent living. Covers personal care, household management, functional budgeting, and workplace readiness through interactive scenarios and gamified board games.
A collection of matching visual aids and signs to help manage classroom routines and expectations, including entry and exit procedures.
Comprehensive teacher facilitation and lesson pacing guide featuring scripted prompts, slide alignments, and troubleshooting strategies to deliver the Focus Launchers curriculum.
A visual and interactive self-advocacy curriculum designed specifically for students with intellectual disabilities and diverse communication styles. This foundational series empowers students to express feelings, request assistance, and make independent choices through highly structured group games, partner interactions, and individual visual communication books.
A lesson focused on developing real-world inferencing skills for tenth-grade students with special needs. Through life-skills scenarios, students learn to combine textual clues with prior knowledge to make logical conclusions.
Interactive, high-impact instructional slides styled as a 'Mission Control Dashboard' to teach students task initiation (Micro-Launches, Deflector Shields, and Fuel Gauges) for self-monitoring.
A comprehensive 15-day reading and functional life skills program designed for late elementary through high school students with intellectual disabilities. This unit integrates functional community texts (safety signs, schedules, menus, job applications) with core academic standards (WH questions, highlighting, inferencing, sequencing, and theme) through highly structured slides, worksheets, task cards, and assessment guides.
Teaches students how to join an ongoing peer conversation or group activity at school (e.g., at lunch or recess) using clear, structured visual steps. Includes an interactive slide deck and a visual reflection worksheet.
A professional 2-page print-ready Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) eligibility determination protocol. It features comprehensive fields for student information, assessment summaries, educational impact checklists, and a dedicated professional reference section highlighting the ASHA School-Based Eligibility guidelines with the requested URL.
