Now and next boards helps pupils with SEN and behavioural difficulties to focus on what they should be doing in the instant, and what will be happening next. This is a very supportive strategy as it breaks the day down into simple stages and helps to alleviate anxiety. Simply attach a piece of velcro to the now and next areas. Symbols for lessons and transitions can be laminated and used to velcro to the board.

Social Story: Taking My Medication Many children and students take medications for various reasons, whether it be a medical condition, illness, or diagnosis such as ADHD. Children often times do not feel comfortable with the idea of medication, or do not know how to take medications properly. This social story is meant to make the process of taking medication more predictable, easier to manage, and less stressful for children. This social story conveys these themes using practical examples, engaging visuals, and developmentally appropriate language suited to elementary and special education students. We hope this social story will help you help the children and students you work with! What You Will Receive: 1 high-quality PDF file 8.5"x11" in size 11 Pages How to Use: After uploading product, save file to your device Print either at home, or via local print provider or online print service Bind, laminate, or place in duotang to use with your students Personal Note: Should you require a different file format or size, let us know and we can do this for you. We love what we do and so would appreciate your feedback and review so we can continue to provide practical resources to our fellow educators. Thank you.

Student Case Study Template & Guide To Help Writing a Case Study - SEND Special Educational Needs Fantastic Tool for ALL teachers to provide commentary in regards to student progress Ideal for OFSTED preparation Excellent when used for students with special educational needs Whole School Resource Great to analyse progress and arrange relevant intervention

This is a SENCO survival kit to help to implement a whole school approach to SEN. Included is: A staff SEND audit (along with descriptions) for you to audit your staff training needs and confidence in working with students with SEND. A quality first teaching SEND for you to use on learning walks / observations to identify good practice and areas for development. Two booklets for staff - one on supporting students with dyslexia / literacy difficulties, and one on supporting students with speech, language and communication needs. Focus is on quality first teaching in the mainstream classroom. A powerpoint about dyslexia to deliver to staff. A powerpoint about SLCN to deliver to staff. Suitable for primary, secondary and FE. The author is a senior advisory teacher, trainer and writer in the field of SLCN.

This social story is a great read for students who may need some support with biting. A lot of children bite others as a sign of frustration, anxiety, pain etc. - sometimes we may even find no explanation for why they are biting but hopefully this social story will help reduce biting behaviours. It is a general book full of different things your mouth can be used for as well as why we shouldn't bite - how it makes others feel, and if we need to bite what we can do etc. Many students with autism are visual learners and like to learn through seeing something in action. This book comes complete with matching, simple yet engaging graphics to help describe what is being said on the page. Comes in col option only - no b/w availability, however you can print in grayscale. Pages included are; ♦ I can use my mouth to eat food. ♦ I can use my mouth to sing songs. ♦ I can use my mouth to laugh. ♦ I can use my mouth to talk to others. ♦ I can use my mouth to whistle. ♦ I can use my mouth to drink. ♦ I can use my mouth to tell stories. ♦ I can use my mouth to smile. ♦ I can use my mouth to do lots of nice things. ♦ Sometimes I get angry and want to bite! ♦ It’s ok to bite my chew toy. ♦ But it’s not ok to bite my friends. ♦ Biting hurts my friends and it will make them sad. ♦ Sometimes, my teeth hurt and I want to bite. ♦ I can bite my chew toy or ask for help. ♦ If I have bad teeth I can go to the dentist for help. ♦ I will remember to use my mouth to be kind. I recommend printing out each of the individual pages, laminating them and then binding them into a book so it will be easier for students to read - or be read to, as well as being stronger and longer lasting.

7 cards of each emotion (with visuals and a variety of synonyms) from ‘The Colour Monster’ by Anna Llenas. Perfect for laminating and attaching to your lanyard, a great resource to help young children and SEN children communicate about their feelings.

Social story about not always getting your own way and learning to accept the word no. It discusses the feelings they may have about not getting their way and the reactions they want to have but then how they should more appropriately react. The point of a social story is to use a patient and reassuring tone to teach children about social situations in a way that can be easily understood. Social stories can be useful for any child who is struggling to understand a situation or concept or needs help to understand a social skill or social cue, expectations, perspectives, common responses or is troubled about an upcoming event but social stories are particularly useful for children on the autistic spectrum for whom social cues can be challenging and who often suffer anxiety if they do not know what to expect from a situation. These books should be used over and over to reinforce the point so I would suggest either putting the pages into a display book or laminating and binding them. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Children’s Illustrator

A template for SENCos/Inclusion Managers to use when observing a pupil. Provides a full range of text boxes to ensure that all aspect of a child’s support, teaching and learning are explored in order to make effective judgements. Personalised to my school - delete logo and replace with your own!

Set of makaton visuals to support children. Great resource for asd children. SEN children. Print, cut, laminate and add to your lanyard for easy access.

If you are in the process of implementing SCERTS model into your assessment and planning practice, you will find these documents useful. I merged my school’s IEP template with one of the SCERTS assessment forms and used these for two years in my classroom, with great success. The four editable documents contain some of the SCERTS goals and Transaction Support Strategies to help achieve them. The students used as examples were at the communication stages 1 and 2.

Editable emotions check in used for daily PSHE to support children in developing their understanding of emotions. This resource is linked into the Disney film Inside Out. Can also be used with Thrive.

The 26 Emoticon/feelings cards are an ideal way to help your children to express their feelings or to recognise facial changes and read expressions. By using the ‘emoticons’ which children now understand through texting, social media and other sources, you can make an up to date version of ‘faces’ cards and children feel less conspicuous carrying them around. Print as large cards for home/school use and in a pocket sized version on a wrist twist which easily fit into a pocket or onto a key-ring. ​ ​​These cards are great for discussing how other people feel, exploring body language and facial expressions These are also available to purchase professionally made on a keyring from my Ebay store £4.99 inc delivery. EBay item number:132146215081

In this lesson, students are introduced to good hygiene, and are asked to judge others based on their personal hygiene. This gives them an awareness of their own hygiene levels. They learn the importance of good hygiene, and when they need to practice it, as well as showing them the skills to practice good hygiene with. This lesson has been rated outstanding. Included is the lesson plan for this, which shows differentiation, other tasks you can try, and a step-by step guide to the lesson. There is also a whole lesson powerpoint, and a hygiene activity to the students to complete, discuss and hand in! I am also on hand if you need any tweaks, help, or additional guidance! Enjoy :)

15 fun and simple work tasks to practice counting skills up to 10. Laminate the resources with glossy laminate for use with a dry erase marker to write and mark counting. Lots of different illustrated scenes to count from! Intended for use as a TEACCH task for individual work stations to support independent working, or as a starter to a maths lesson. Made using Communicate InPrint 3 with WIDGIT symbols.

Resources included are as follows: 18 PDF files for you to print. A4 emotions posters – 9 posters each with a standing Lego person A4 emotions posters – each with Lego face showing different emotions A4 emotions poster – showing all faces Matching cards – faces and emotions words to match together Lego people outlines to colour and add emotions to faces Long banner, large lettering, display borders Small emotions cards for pupils to use at their desks Work booklet cover 3 writing tasks Sentence writing sheet for topic summary Word search

Literacy Mat designed to be used in Social and Emotional interventions sessions.

This is a sensory story I created for my topic 'seasons'. This was written for a PMLD/ CLDD class. I have written it with the sentence, the sense, the sensory experience and what I and my TAs are looking for and observing throughout the sessions. Repeat story throughout the term to enable the child to develop anticipation, investigation, awareness, preference and much more. Could also be used in an EYFS KS1 class.

Special educational needs and disability: towards inclusive schools Oct.2004

PowerPoint presentation on the rationale behind our decision to ensure all children contribute to their Annual Review through a the use of video, embedded in a multimedia presentation. Also covers the strategies we used to introduce it. More about it here: http://www.switchitmaker2.com/reviews/reviewscoming.htm#willow Although we used Switch It Maker 2 for our presentations, you could use any presentation software: PowerPoint, Windows Movie Maker, iMovie, Prezzi, etc.

A simple ten-week three-target chart for behaviour management or other achievements. Each week is numbered and you then add the date, a smiley, neutral or sad face to represent whether the target has been achieved, and a comment. For example, you might choose three targets such as ‘I will keep my desk tidy,’ ‘I will remember my homework,’ and ‘I will use joined-up writing’, and then you tick them off each week for ten weeks. Could also be given to parents as a reminder of what the child should be doing at home each week. If you love it, please leave a review!