The social skills story, "Going to Church on Easter," lets kids know what they might expect and how they might be expected to behave at a church service.

Flash cards are a great tool for kids with autism; use them to build a functional vocabulary.  This set of nine flash cards focus in on vocabulary you'd use at the doctor's office. Consider providing sentence frames for your...

A trip to the doctor can be a difficult experience for some pupils. Intended for use with Autistic children, this social story prepares them for a visit to the doctor. Each page contains an image and a different facet of what happens at...

Use this vocabulary development resource as flash cards or with an iPad. Autistic or special needs pupils can review birthday related vocabulary words. Each word is a verb and each associated image shows that verb as it is occurring at a...

Bingo is a super fun game and can be used to reinforce a vast number of recognition skills. These bingo cards are prepared by constructing nine squares, each delineated with raised Wikki Stix or gluedyarn and containing a...

This is one of those great ideas I totally love. Youngsters with visual impairments practice counting and left-to -right sequencing by counting out a set number of edible objects from the left and putting them in a bag on the right. They...

The printing process was a technological innovation that revolutionized the modern world. Your learners with visual impairments can experience this process by creating a print by using letterpress printing. They use cardboard, glue, and...

Bed, blanket, pillows, sleep. Five words associated with Audrey Wood's The Napping House, are introduced in this presentation, which features one word and one illustration printed on each blue page.

House, sleeping, bed, granny, child, dog, cat, mouse, flea. Introduce these vocabulary words before a reading of The Napping House.

Triangle, circle, square, rectangle, oval, star, diamond, heart. Travis the Train delivers eight shapes for learners with autism to identify. Part of a learning unit on shapes.

Part of a unit on the seasons, in this resource Travis the Train introduces autistic learners to the ocean, beach balls, sand castles, pails, shovels, and sea shells. The final pages review the names of the images included in the lesson.

The dog is big. The mouse is little. Using vocabulary words introduced in the previous lesson, kids read, or are read, sentences and examine images that contrast big and little.

Sleeping, dozing, snoozing. Five different ways to say sleeping are introduced in this presentation designed to preparing kids for a reading of The Napping House.

Corn, cornbread, cranberry sauce, family. Introduce learners with autism to 13 vocabulary words associated with Thanksgiving. Each printed word is illustrated and presented against a golden background.

Pumpkins, ghosts, and skeletons. Introduce learners with autism to words associated with Halloween. There are no tricks in this treat.

Bake, cook, eat, serve, travel. Five verbs associated with Thanksgiving are introduced to learners with autism. This is a presentation that features one printed word and an illustration of that word on each slide.

Easter egg hunts are the focus of this social skill story that lets kids know what to expect and establishes expectations for behavior as well.

Prepare kids for Easter egg decorating with a social skills story that explains the process and details appropriate behavior for the activity.

Not only does this social story tell kids what to expect on Mother's Day but it also offers an explanation for why we celebrate moms and includes suggestions for possible Mother's Day gifts.

Flag, fireworks, parade. Introduce learners with autism to nine words associated with the Fourth of July. Each word is illustrated with either a photograph or drawing.

Sculpting is a lot of fun and it stimulates multiple senses at once. Learners observe and then create a fisherman (or any person) out of paper clay. They mold and sculpt their clay until they have shaped a person. They then paint and...

Games are great for practicing any number of basic skills. Here is a set of wonderful instructions for making a braille version of a spinning game, where children win points by correctly reading/identifying the high-frequency words the...

Baseball is an American pastime, super fun to play, and can be made accessible to learners with visual impairments. Instead of taking to the ball field, your class can learn the rules of the game by playing a small three-dimensional...

Did you ever play capture the flag? I did, and it was so much fun! Your learners with special needs, physical handicaps, or visual impairments can play a classic and highly engaging game with a few minor adaptations. The best part is,...