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Use these picture-supported story lessons to teach your students important social skills related to community. The instructional lessons teach what to say or do in social situations that are sometimes overwhelming to the student with autism and PDD. The behavioral lessons target specific social pro…
| Copy 1 BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, April 26, 2024 |
The Highly Sensitive Child shows how HSCs are born deeply reflective, sensitive to the subtle, and easily overwhelmed. These qualities can make for smart, conscientious, creative children, but with the wrong parenting or schooling, they can become unusually shy or timid, or begin acting out. In thi…
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Join us on the adventures of our four charming characters, Evan, Ellie, Jessie and Molly as they earn about thinking thoughts and feeling feelings.
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Understanding what it means to be part of a group is a fundamental social concept to develop in our early learners. It's a precursor to so many other aspects of our social lives: having friends, working in a classroom, having a successful career and being part of our community. In this storybook, w…
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Our four characters blast off into outer space and land on an alien planet. They learn that while verbal communication with the aliens may be challenging, by thinking with their eyes they can figure out how to interact - and have fun - with the creatures they encounter.
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Thursday, June 6, 2024 |
While we often realize the importance of verbal language and what to say in a conversation, it is important to understand that physical proximity is also a key ingredient to successful social interactions. Keeping your body in the group means maintaining a comfortable physical presence around other…
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The concept of whole body listening was introduced in 1990 by Susanne Poulette Truesdale to help young children understand that listening is an "active" process. We introduce this child-friendly vocabulary so our young ones begin to understand that listening is more than just using their ears.
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, March 1, 2024 |
In the storybook Hidden Rules and Expected and Unexpected Behaviors, Evan, Ellie, Jesse and Molly take an adventure on the high seas. They board a pirate ship and learn about the hidden rules of being part of a pirate crew.; They explore what is expected and unexpected when sailing on the ship and…
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In-the-moment problem solving is a complex process! In this storybook, we define a problem as something that happens that was not part of the plan and makes people feel uncomfortable. Our goal for this unit is to raise our students' awareness of four key concepts that help our students learn to sel…
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Shared imagination is the ability to imagine what another person(s) is thinking, feeling, and/or pretending. Most young kids develop the ability to imagine or pretend together; it's the means by which they relate to the thoughts, feelings, and actions of others. Many children with social emotional …
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Children are often waiting - for the school bus, their turn on the slide, or their birthday - and waiting can be frustrating! But learning to be patient and developing self-control will equip children with tools for success in school and in social settings. With vivid illustrations and simple strat…
| BC Children's and Women's Family Library | On Loan, due Friday, May 10, 2024 |
Saying please and thank you are fun and easy to remember with this simple and repetitive story told with the help of flaps that little fingers can easily lift.
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Circles involves categorizing social roles and designating each of six colour circles with its associated Three "T's", Touch, Talk, and Trust. The Circles mat/wall chart is intended to provide a reinforcement activity to the video program: "Circles, intimacy & relationships".
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Accessories to accompany the Circles mat/wall chart. Circles involves categorizing social roles and designating each of six colour circle with its associated Three "T's", Touch, Talk, and Trust. The Circles mat/wall chart is intended to provide a reinforcement activity to the video program: "Circle…
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Depicts, step by step, children demonstrating various social skills. Each skill is formatted sequentially, similar to a cartoon strip, with digital pictures of actual children combined with text and cartoon bubbles to denote what the children are saying - and sometimes thinking - as they engage in …
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This book provides a series of lessons to help those who teach students with autism specturm disorders (ASD) to develop social relationships.
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For all teachers and children, here are 160 ready-to-use lessons and reproducible worksheets to help children become aware of acceptable social behavior and develop proficiency in acquiring basic social skills.
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Alyssa est contrariée parce qu?elle a une nouvelle gardienne. Sera-t-elle capable de lui montrer du respect?
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Charlie a un nouveau bébé s?ur! Il doit aider ses parents en faisant plus de choses par lui-même. Il reçoit une belle récompense pour son comportement responsable.
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Mila devient frustrée en travaillant sur un projet. Peut-elle se calmer assez pour le terminer?
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Léo a de la difficulté à écouter les autres. Lorsqu?il manque une bonne partie de son activité préférée pendant le cours, il doit trouver une solution afin d?être plus attentif.
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Beaucoup de jouets à l?école ont des pièces manquantes. Jérémy et ses camarades de classe partent à la chasse aux jouets afin de retrouver les pièces manquantes.
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Ève trouve que les règles l?empêchent d?avoir du plaisir à l?école. Est-ce qu?elle découvrira que les règles en classe existent pour une raison?
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Mallorie a de la difficulté à attendre, surtout lorsqu?elle veut faire du vélo. Est-ce que Mallorie peut apprendre l?importance d?être patiente?
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À partir dune idée simple qui s'articule autour de bandes élastiques, ce livre présente un moyen efficace damener un enfant de six ans à comprendre environnement dans lequel il grandit et les conséquences de ses comportements inadéquats. En interprétant mieux certaines situations, les adultes bénéf…
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Although Louis knows a lot about outer space, the young boy finds himself sent to Principal Goodkid's office to attend Personal Space Camp after his teacher loses her patience with his behavior.
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For in-library use only. Please email fsrc@cw.bc.ca to reserve a time.; Circles LEVEL 2, because it uses a "reality-show" format, is ideal for illustrating more subtle applications of the Circles Rules of Social Distance. LEVEL 2 is an ideal "second step" program for students with moderate to mild …
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For in-library use only. Please email fsrc@cw.bc.ca to reserve a time.; Circles involves categorizing social roles and designating the colour circle with its associated Three "T's", Touch, Talk, and Trust. Video mini-dramas serve as illustrations of common social relationships and display typical …
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A social skills program for elementary students to learn appropriate behaviours during a typical school day. Ideal for students with autism or behavioural disabilities. Includes 53 relevant skills with teacher guidelines and self-monitoring checklists for students. Example skills include getting re…
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1-2-3 Magic allows you to get back in charge of your home and enjoy your kids again by helping you set limits for your children, and by breaking down the complex task of parenting into three straightforward steps:; 1. Controlling obnoxious behavior: Learn an amazingly simple technique to get the ki…
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Learning to Work provides engaging and age-appropriate reading material for older beginning readers. The stories are intended for older students who are not yet reading conventionally for a variety of reasons, including cognitive delays and significant learning disabilities. Along with building rea…
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Social Skill Strategies is a two-book, social-emotional curriculum for use with preadolescent and adolescent students. Teach 57 social communication skills using the reproducible student pages, structured activities, home assignments, and role-playing scenarios.; Book B (403 pages) teaches personal…
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This picture book introduces young readers to the concept of thoughts and how our thoughts are linked to feelings. By helping children explore how our thoughts create our feelings, we also learn to make choices that help us to manage our feelings (e.g., self-regulate based on our personal goals) a…
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Does your child experience high levels of anxiety and BIG emotions? Do they lack the confidence to seek out peers and to see others' perspectives? Do you want to help build social and emotional skills but find yourself so busy managing the meltdowns and behaviors that come from anxiety, sensitivity…
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Why Will No One Play with Me is a groundbreaking program that has helped thousands of children struggling with social skills to make friends, find acceptance, and have a happy childhood.; Every parent wants their child to be okay--to have friends, to be successful, to feel comfortable in his or her…
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This is Social Thinking's premier social-emotional learning package for ages 4 - 7 years. Help children develop foundational social competencies with these five story books and extensive curriculum. The evidence-based materials strengthen perspective taking and self awareness and are used and loved…
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We make a smart guess when we take what we observe and combine that with what we know. We consider the context/situational clues, people, their body language, tone of voice, etc. and make observations about who, what, and where we are. We then combine this information with our general knowledge abo…
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Flexible thinking has to do with being able to engage in a variety of thoughts or experiences while acknowledging that many different paths could get us to our desired destination. Stuck thinking can happen when we only consider our own singular point of view or insist on our own routine. It can al…
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We help students decipher the social cues to share space, flexibly interact, and regulate emotions during the ever changing world of play or when sitting quietly in a classroom. Social executive functioning is difficult for early learners, especially those with social emotional learning challenges.…
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Playing together is an assumed part of childhood, yet do we ever stop and think about the interactive play experience itself? It's anything but simple. For the child whose brain is weak in certain social emotional developmental areas, playing with others can be anything but fun! Plus, interactive p…
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My Friend with Autism is the exceptional result of parent Beverly Bishop?s determination to educate her son?s classmates about autism, thus helping her son fit in at school. A peer narrator explains that his friend with autism is good at some things and not so good at others - just like everyone el…
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Tuka likes to help his friends, but he does not always like hugs. Natti loves hugs! Tuka wants to let Natti know how her hugs make him feel, but he doesn't want to hurt her feelings. Will Tuka be able to help Natti find other ways to show she cares?
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Every child could use help with social skills and making friends. This book provides twenty-one concrete strategies children can use to express themselves, build relationships, end arguments and fights, halt bullying, and beat unhappy feelings. It?s like a toolbox of kid-friendly social skills?just…
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This twisty middle school thriller is One of Us is Lying meets Pretty Little Liars for young readers.; There's been a theft at the middle school! Sasha's bag has been stolen from her locker.; The security cameras on the school's front entrance captured four students entering the building early. Pre…
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A Unique, hands-on SEL game using adorable, squishable characters. It includes 10 squishable, individually wrapped animal characters, 10 character description cards, and 42 situation cards that help children to explore and practice solving social and emotional issues using personal strengths.; Each…
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Young children learn that everybody cries, how crying can help them, and ways they can cope with challenging feelings.; "You cry when you're sad or mad. Crying gets the hurt out." Tears Are Not Forever reassures children that everybody cries and gives them space to cry and experience their "down" f…
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What's happening around us influences our thoughts, feelings, and responses. Social Situation Mapping (formerly Social Behavior Mapping), a core teaching framework within the Social Thinking Methodology, uses visual templates to encourage learners to engage social observation for figuring out what …
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Learning patience can make life easier for toddlers and for everyone around them. This upbeat book offers little ones simple ideas to make waiting less frustrating and more fun--by watching and listening, singing, telling stories, playing games, whispering, and more. Young children learn they can b…
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The Award-Winning Building Social Relationships (BSR) Book is Back and Better than Ever!; BSR-3 is a treasure trove of information and resources. The book contains over 40 instructional strategies, and the appendices alone contain over 50 pages of practical materials, including session plans and as…
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