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Education > Tutoring
Language Skill Activities for Special Needs
...frustrating. Feelings and Colors Associate different feelings and emotions with different colors. Start off with simple emotions, such as "happy,"...different feelings and emotions with different colors. Start off with simple emotions, such as "happy," "sad," "afraid," and "angry." Assign...
Education > K-12
Building Social Skills in Group Settings
...with social relatedness, such as recognizing facial cues, regulating emotions...recognizing facial cues, regulating emotions and performing social reciprocation....disorder often have difficulty with recognizing social cues. More subtly, however,...conflict resolution, empathy building, recognizing social cues, self-awareness in social...
Education > Early Intervention
Ask the Developmental Doc
...social interactive ability. Popchilla–designed to teach skills like recognizing emotions or imitating physical actions. Stories2Learn–allows families...interactive ability. Popchilla–designed to teach skills like recognizing emotions or imitating physical actions. Stories2Learn–allows families to create...
Social Engagement > Friends and Family
He Stopped Mid-Race to Kiss His Mom. Then He Went Back to His Lane.
...laugh is what did it for me," wrote another. "She knows she raised a good son, even if it did come with challenges." The kiss drew the first wave of emotion. The return to the lane drew the second. One small act of fairness, completely unprompted, in a moment when nobody would have noticed or cared if he...
News > Sports
Team USA Snowboarders Take the Gold at Special Olympic World Winter Games Austria 2017
...deserving athletes with all their displays of courage, abilities, and celebrations of triumph for they deserve no less. This will be a delimma; an emotion I consider not a bad thing as it comes from a good place within my heart, that I will struggle with for all the time I cover Special Olympic events,...
Education > Tutoring
Improve Memory Skills Easily
...learning is ASSOCIATION. This is how we learn new material. We make associations with new material to something we already know. We might attach an emotion to the new material. I like to think of this as having an opinion about what you are learning. Did you like the story/selection? Did you hate it?...
Social Engagement > Inclusion
Ten Tips for Playdate Inclusion Among Kids of All Abilities
...Together, discuss strategies that can be used to help facilitate play. What is a facial expression? Make different faces and ask your child to guess your emotion. · How...
Assistive Tech > Apps
Special Needs App of the Day – Pufferfish Apps
...app creator. To date, her company, Pufferfish Apps, has created several apps for kids with special needs (including Visual Routine, Touch Talking, Emotion Cards, and Present A Choice) as well as Learn Your States, a general education app. [Editor's note: Because all of the apps have been released while...
Education > Early Intervention
How Your Child's Triune Brain Develops
...middle, mammalian brain. When they don't communicate properly, we end up "out of sync" and have a hard time feeling safe, learning, and expressing emotion – sound familiar? The Reptilian Brain or Hindbrain The first brain to "come online" is the reptilian brain, also known as the primitive brain or...
Education > Tutoring
Memory and Learning
...kinds of memory? How are memories formed? What types of information are difficult — or easy — for students to learn and remember, and why? How does emotion affect learning, thinking and memory? How about stress? Exercise? These questions and more are being studied by neuroscientists all around the world,...
Assistive Tech > Apps
Special Needs App of the Day: Faces iMake
Faces iMake is an iPad app to create faces with everyday objects, fostering creativity and emotion study, especially for kids with autism.
Special Needs > Autism Spectrum
Emotion, Community…MIRACLE!
Arts and religious programs help children with special needs express themselves, fostering growth, empathy, and community.