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...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...

...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...

...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...

...because "fine" is a word that ends conversations. That gap between having an emotion and being able to name it carries a clinical term: alexithymia. Peter Sifneos...what any of it was like from the inside. Alexithymia is not an absence of emotion, and the research is unambiguous on that point. People who score high on...

...managing the intense emotions that come with caregiving....caregiving. DBT teaches emotion regulation and distress...difficult-to-manage emotions. The therapy focuses...distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal...distress tolerance and emotion regulation modules...making it worse. Emotion regulation skills...and shift intense emotions before they escalate....

...choreographed lyrics into American Sign Language by emphasizing concepts and emotion rather than word-for-word translation." ASL has its own grammar and syntax....grammar and syntax. Facial expressions carry grammatical weight, not just emotion. A raised eyebrow can turn a statement into a question. The tilt of a head...

...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...

...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,...

...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?...

...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...

...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...

...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...