Pattern Puzzlers

 

                                              

Pattern Puzzlers developed by Your Therapy Source is truly a gem! It's rare to find a huge variety of puzzles that help develop visual discrimination skills, form constancy, thinking and problem solving skills. As you can see the image above, each worksheet comes with a theme - shapes/sports/transport and others along with strips in various shapes on the left. Your kiddo has to scan and find the specific pattern in the worksheet. 

There are thirty such pattern puzzlers and the icing on the cake is the blank patterns at the end that you can use to make your own puzzles! 

This digital download costs $4.99 and can be purchased on the Your Therapy Source website

 https://www.yourtherapysource.com/product/pattern-puzzlers/

Interoception - Linking Body Sensations To Feelings & Emotions

 

                                                

Interoception is the hidden sense that plays a vital role in helping us decode our body's signals by recognizing them and interpreting them accurately. This is very important and crucial for us not just for understanding body signals of hunger, thirst, etc. but also feelings and emotions before they overwhelm us. But unfortunately, many children on the Autism Spectrum struggle with this. I have been searching for a good resource to teach these elusive skills to my son and found this gem! This review is for the digital resource bundle, please explore and pick and choose as needed.

Visual and engaging social narrative introduction to Interoception that stresses the importance of noticing the body sensations and linking them to emotions.

A huge collection of visuals that will help them explain how they experience the feelings and emotions in different body parts.

Understand and learn Interoception vocabulary in a play based format.

Level 2 bingo card game 

Body mapping -  a visual way to interpret body signals to feelings

                       This one is an editable play based card game that doubles up as a memory game.

                                                  

A simple activity card and follow up questions that encourage him/her to feel the body signals.

               Body sensations thermometer that help them understand and rate body signals as small, medium or huge and act accordingly.

                                          

Interoception board game!

This is a small brief introduction of the ten resources available in this bundle. I didn't explain it in detail as it would become a really big post. I am sharing the link to the bundle that lists all the individual resources too. I hope you find something that suits your kiddo's needs. 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Interoception-Linking-body-sensations-to-feelings-emotions-Growing-Bundle-7096021

Hand-Eye Coordination - Learning Shapes & Colours

 

                                                    

Looking for a pocket friendly activity to have fun filled learning experience, you have reached the right place. This week's post features a digital download created by teacher-author Hope Learning ESL. 

In this digital download, you will find numerous worksheets that help nurture your child's shape and colour recognition, critical thinking, problem solving, eye hand coordination and fine motor skills. Every worksheet has a colour code as you can see in the images and he/she has to match the correct colour and shape accordingly. There are four shapes - square, rectangle, triangle and star and multiple colours for each shape. There are black and white pages too, wherein, he/she can colour them and make their own key!

You can use them as a cut and paste activity or laminate and add velcro for prolonged life. You can purchase this digital download here, it costs $3:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Hand-Eye-Coordination-Learning-Shapes-and-Colors-8314160

Visual Discrimination Mega Bundle

 

                                     

 Visual discrimination skills are essential for developing reading, writing, daily living, social skills, fine motor skills and thinking skills in our children. This digital resource created by Just Teachy is bursting with simple and easy activities that help foster these crucial skills. You can use readily available materials for many activities in this bundle. Let's take a look:

 

                 You can purchase these digital resources individually or as a mega bundle which is more pocket friendly as there is a Back to School sale on TPT now and these resources are available at 25% discount. I am sharing the link for the mega bundle below:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Visual-Discrimination-MEGA-Bundle-6021741

Early Learning - Pongal Pot Prepositions

 

In today' post, let's take a look at a simple and fun way to learn prepositions in a Pongal themed free resource. This gives your kiddo an opportunity to explore and learn about seven prepositions - in front of, away, behind, on, near/next to, below, etc.

This is a digital resource that you have to download and take a printout. It's rare to find free Indian themed resources, so do take a look and explore the other free resources in this website. Thank you Madhumitha for this amazing resource!

You can find this resource here:

https://www.littleladoo.com/pongal-pot-prepositions/

Cryptogram and Decoding Jokes/Riddles

 

                                                       

Cryptograms are an amazing way to develop visual skills, fine motor skills, thinking skills and problem solving skills. This digital resource created by teacher author - Creatively OT, makes cryptograms fun and interesting. These resources are themed and each themed bundle has related words. Your kiddo has to look at the key at the bottom of the page and decode the words. The most interesting part is decoding jokes and riddles which add an interesting twist. Let me share an example about a joke my son decoded today morning:

Why are math books sad?

They are full of problems 😄

These are some of the themes available, choose one that interests your child. I am sharing the link to purchase the bundle so that you can explore all the available themes :

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Cryptogram-and-Decoding-Occupational-Therapy-Bundle-6919918

There is a freebie you can try right away - Space Cryptogram worksheets

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Space-Cryptogram-Worksheets-Freebie-7006116

                Once you purchase and download these worksheets, your kiddo can write the answers or use scrabble tiles or if you want to skip the printing part - use Kami, wherein he/she can type the answers directly on the worksheet.

Two Amazing Free Resources To Teach Problem-Solving Skills

 

                                                      

Dear reader, today I am going to share details of two massive free resources to teach the all important - problem solving skills to our children and young adults. These freebies are created by Melissa a SLP and founder creator of The Speech Therapy Store. Without further delay, let's check them out.

The first one is a free bundle of - Problem solving graphic organizer for grades K-12. This helps build the crucial skills of - Identifying the problem, finding the best possible solutions, identifying the consequences and choosing the best possible solution. It also includes more than 70 social problem scenarios to get you started and also blank ones to help you add personalized scenarios.

Amazing, right? Wait till you read about the second freebie! The next one is - 31 Best Wordless videos to teach problem solving skills. She has curated a collection of these wordless videos that are kid-appropriate and not just that, she went ahead and shared 31 sets of corresponding worksheets to go with these videos. Each set of worksheets include - identifying the problem and the solution, WH questions, Story retell with predictions and Sequencing.

Thanks a ton, Melissa for these wonderful freebies. I hope you find these as useful as we have.

https://www.speechtherapystore.com/social-problem-solving/

                              https://www.speechtherapystore.com/wordless-videos-to-teach-problem-solving/

Digital Job Exploration - Working At A Library

 

                                                     

Today, let's take a look at a digital job exploration, wherein, your young one who is in his/her way to exploring and figuring out their career or vocation, takes a hands-on look at what involves working in a library. This is a digital download created by teacher-author, Autism The Teen Years. 

There are many activities in this digital resource, let's take a look:

Book returns - libraries have their own way of arranging books and each book is labelled with many alphabets. In this activity, he/she has to arrange the books that have been returned to the library in their correct places on the shelves. This involves reading the alphabet chain on the book and arrange in a sequence starting with the alphabet that comes first. For example, 

ADHTYU comes before HYTGFR

and similarly, 

ACDTYU comes before ADHTYU

Organize the magazines by name and also by dates/months

Stamp the due date - The date the book is loaned is given and he/she has to mark the due date that falls after two weeks

Enter customer information - a good way to practice data entry.

The best thing about this resource are the editable slides that are provided for all the types of activities, you can create your own variations and give a personalized experience for your young adult. I hope you found  this review helpful. 

You can purchase this digital resource HERE

Resources To Teach Self-Regulation Skills

 

                           

                                          

Teaching Self-regulation and coping strategies for our children is a very essential skill that will help lead a better life. However, finding the correct resources to teach this tough skill is the challenge for parents and therapists. The three most often used programs throughout the world are :

Zones of regulation

The Incredible 5 point scale and

How does your engine run?

In this post, let's explore some of the digital resources developed by experienced teacher-authors. 

The above image is of - Self-regulation coping strategies developed by Basics.  This is a very  comprehensive digital resource that includes over 300 strategy cards to teach coping skills. 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Self-Regulation-Coping-Strategies-Social-Story-Charts-and-Posters-6120679

The second resource is Car speeds workbook developed by All therapy resources and is compatible with How does your engine run program. 

This digital resource is good for a beginner learner as it helps them ease into the program by teaching about the different emotional states, matching scenarios, emotions and physical sensations to car speeds and many more. You can purchase this resource here:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Car-Speeds-Workbook-How-Does-Your-Car-Engine-Run-3-speed--7768054

The third resource is Anxiety coping strategies for older children and is developed by Basics. It includes social stories and explicit step by step directions to teach 7 coping strategies.

You can purchase this here

 https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Anxiety-Coping-Strategies-for-Middle-and-High-School-5925595