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Find the best selection of multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults, and educators. The website offers: Curated Booklists, Review of Children's Literature, and an Anti-Biased Book Talk Video Series. Additionally, Social Justice Books.org provides critical reviews of children’s books from a variety of sources, compiled by See What We See. You can also explore children's literature through an anti-bias, anti-racist lens in the Anti-Biased Book Talk video series.
This is a FREE version of an activity geared toward solving social problems. This is a great resource for distance learning, as it can be used as a static flashcard set over video conferencing (teletherapy).This activity shows a picture along with a short paragraph containing a social scenario. Each slide asks the following questions:* How do they feel?* How can you tell?* What is the problem?* What should [character] say or do next?This activity targets areas of language such as: sequencing, feeling ID, perspective taking, nonverbal language cues, figurative language, problem solving, and predicting. It is also a great tool for getting groups of older students to engage in discussion and debate!This activity can be used as an electronic flashcard set (just scroll through the pages of the PDF to go from card to card), or the pages can be printed out for individually-targeted and independent work. This is a GREAT option for educators and parents who are doing distance learning!
Available for purchase, this 80 minute webinar taught by Karen Wolfe, LMFT you will learn the 4 main components of social skills and how to support each one; how executive functioning plays into social skills and what you can do to help; what a child really needs to have healthy conflict resolution; the 5 most important things you can do to support your child’s success with peers and teachers; Tools and resources on teaching specific social skills in a fun way.
Improve children's social skills and reinforce positive character traits! There are no right or wrong answers in these six unique board games! Each game has players discuss the solutions to socially challenging situations. Together the group decides upon the best action encouraging all players to communicate, listen and participate in the game. The games target six important issues that children often struggle with: Morals, Manners, Empathy, Friendship, Showing Emotions, Managing Emotions. Ideal for use in small groups, these games will encourage your students to work together as they learn to improve their social skills. For ages 6 to 11. Contains six game boards, 24 counters and one die.
Social Thinking and Me is a powerhouse of social knowledge to help children in upper elementary and middle school transition into the more socially complex and socially demanding older grades and become stronger social problem solvers. Whether it is thinking about hidden rules and expected behavior, developing a deeper understanding of your emotions and how you influence the emotions of others, or comparing the size of your reaction to the size of the problem, this award-winning two-book set breaks larger and more complicated social concepts down into smaller chunks to make it easier for adults to teach and kids to learn. It provides a common language to more easily discuss social strengths and weaknesses – and therefore is a natural fit for multiple environments including clinic, school, and home.
!Social Thinking.com publishes their own educational products, provides online training and conferences, and provides a large library of free articles that are consistent with the Social Thinking Methodology. With the Social Thinking Methodology, you gain evidence-based strategies to help people age 4 through adult improve their social competencies, including: Self-regulation, Social-emotional learning, Executive functioning, Perspective taking, Social problem solving.
His real name is Lester, but everyone calls him Soda Pop Head. Most of the time he is pretty happy, but when things seem to be unfair his ears gets hot, his face turns red and he blows his top! Lester’s dad comes to his rescue by teaching him a few techniques to loosen the top and cool down before his fizz takes control. There goes Lester. Watch him fester. His ears start to fizz. He gets mad as a griz. His face turns red. Hes a Soda Pop Head. You just never know when Lester will blow. His cap will go flying. If it hits you, youll be crying, so you’d better stay away from Lester today!” Soda Pop Head will help your child control his/her anger while helping them manage stress. It’s a must for the home or classroom.
Our multi-ethnic dolls give tots a hands-on introduction to families—with an extra-chubby, easy-stand design that ensures frustration-free play! Each family includes 4 easy-grip dolls made of soft, squeezable plastic. You get all 4 families shown, for a total of 16 dolls. Largest doll measures 5 1/2" tall. Each family also available separately. 6 mos. - 3 yrs. / Infant - Preschool
Everybody barfs. Dogs, cats, chickens, alligators, and even you. It happens to everyone, and sometimes it even happens . . . at school. With her characteristic humor and compassion, Nancy Carlson helps young readers through what is often a scary and embarrassing rite of passage. Sometimes you barf. But it's OK. You get better!
Let’s Play Therapy Institute LLC (LPTI) provides high quality, experiential, research-based professional development programs to mental health professionals utilizing the therapeutic powers of play. Let’s Play Therapy Institute LLC (LPTI) is an Approved Provider for the Association for Play Therapy (APT). Approved Provider 20-609. Play therapy workshops are offered to psychologists, play therapists, counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, and all other mental health professionals. Play therapy credit may not be awarded to non-mental health professionals.
Beth Richey, LCSW, RPT-S and Tammi Van Hollander, LCSW, RPT-S present a guide for parents, caregivers, and therapists on how to implement Special Playtime in the home. The therapeutic skills outlined in Special Playtime can help children reduce problem behaviors and increase caregiver/child bonding. Visit www.BethRicheyCounseling.com to download a free copy of the power point to use in your own therapeutic practice. Especially helpful via telehealth to coach caregivers.
When you're a little bit spoon and little bit fork, where do you go when the table is set? A funny “multi-cutlery” tale for everyone who has ever wondered about their place in the world.
Star Institute offers a Sensory Blog written by sensory experts including Licensed Professional Counselors, Speech-Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapist/Feeding Specialists. The Blog provides information on Sensory Groups, Sensory in the news, Sensory related research, A Sensory-Aware Recipe of the Month, and a Sensory-Aware Tool of the month.
Based on cognitive behavioral principles that link thoughts, feelings and behaviors, the techniques described in this workbook help young people to understand why they get anxious and how they can 'starve' their anxiety gremlin in order to manage their anxiety including panic attacks, phobias, social anxiety, generalized anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder.
Based on cognitive behavioral principles, this workbook uses fun and imaginative activities to teach children how to manage their anxiety by changing how they think and act – getting rid of their Anxiety Gremlins for good!
This workbook includes engaging, fun activities and real life stories that show how our thoughts are related to our behavior and emotions, allowing young people to understand why they get stressed, the effects of stress and how to 'starve' their Stress Gremlin!
Help children to understand and manage their anger with this fun and imaginative workbook.The Anger Gremlin is a naughty creature and his favourite food is your anger! The more anger you feed him, the bigger and bigger he gets and the angrier and angrier you feel! How can you stop this? Starve the Anger Gremlin of angry thoughts, feelings and behaviours, and watch him disappear!Based on cognitive behavioural principles, this workbook uses fun and engaging activities to teach children how to manage their anger by changing how they think and act – getting rid of their Anger Gremlins for good! Packed full of stories, puzzles, quizzes, and colouring, drawing and writing games, this is an excellent resource for parents or practitioners to use with children aged 5 to 9 years.
StephenPorges.com is the informational website of Dr. Stephen Porges, author of the Polyvagal Theory, Distinguished University Scientist at the Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina.
When Anh’s friends leave and he feels left out at school, his anger shows up to keep him company. Anh the protagonist of Gail Silver’s previous book Anh’s Anger, is a typical and easy-to-relate-to elementary school-age boy. His anger, personified as a red hairy impulsive creature, teaches him some valuable lessons about not getting carried away by his strong emotions. By counting his steps and coordinating them with his breathing Anh is able to slow down and take his anger for a peaceful and magically transformative walk.
A sticker chart is a reward chart on which you add stickers to acknowledge desirable behavior. You can use any of the behavior charts on this site for this purpose. You can change the background and the theme, you can add clip art with various topics such as princesses, superheroes, space, and many more. Once you have added the clipart, you can edit the text and even add additional text and your child’s photo.
