Whole-school sensory impairment resources

Sensory Ideas for the BFG. The dream catching lends itself to sensory jars and bottles. Aimed at special school.

I recommend someone from your setting attends the story massage course. It is fun, positive touch which encourages interaction. For special school pupils. Picture for Queen’s crown.

Psychometric and neurocognitive assessments are important when assessing need. But what about individual strengths? My background is in neuroscience although I also work as an Assistant SENCo within my local school. I wanted to design a useful tool so assessing neurocognitive strengths would be easy for individuals without a neuroscience background. Once these are found then designing bespoke intervention becomes an easier task. While some neurodiversities can make certain tasks more difficult, they can equally be of benefit in other areas. Neurodiverse minds have a great many strengths and schools need various tools to help them recognise what they are for each individual. The NSC is a non-diagnostic tool that can help professionals working in schools identify where the neurodiverse strengths are for each individual student. Neurodiversity assumes everyone everywhere has neurodiverse strengths. The ethos behind the NSC is that it is down to each professional within every school to do everything reasonably possible to search for these strengths and attempt to develop them in a proactive and positive way in order to develop the students learning abilities. I hope people find it useful.

►What’s Included?◄ You will receive: -Pastel Visual Schedule, pictured above (roughly 6 x 10 inches), -Over 250 common activities/tasks/objects found in the home and school setting (in PDF format and 1.5 x 1.5 inches with 20 pictures to a page) *Product is 300 pixels per inch (ppi), ensuring crisp quality when printed. ►How to Use◄ Struggling to get your child to comply to even the simplest requests, such as getting dressed in the morning or eating all of their dinner in the evening? Then this product is for you! Children of all ages who have difficulty completing tasks will benefit from this daily routine visual schedule. This visual prompt aids in keeping your child or student on task and behaving appropriately by providing them with simple, concrete reminders of the next task they will be required to complete. It is helpful for children who struggle with attention and hyperactivity, as well as children on the autism spectrum who struggle with rigidity and changes to their routine. Use the pictures provided in this download to map out your child’s schedule by cutting the individual pictures out, placing velcro on the back of each of them, and placing the pictures on the board, based on your child’s routine. Once a task is completed, allow your child to remove the picture from the board. Do this until each task has been completed. This visual schedule can be adapted for use in the home and school environment. It is roughly the same size as an iPad, so it is compact enough to transport in order to assist in generalizing behavior across multiple settings, such as going to the grocery store or running errands. ► Terms of Use ◄ This artwork is copyrighted by Roots To Growth. This purchase is strictly for non-commercial use only. You may print and use in your home, business, or public place but may not resell, reproduce, distribute by electronic means or profit in any way from the design. Unlimited amount of copies can be made for your personal use.

►What’s Included?◄ You will receive: -All three variations of the break cards (three breaks, five breaks, and ten breaks) in both pink and blue colors (six break boards total) -1.5 x 1.5 inch watercolor tokens in various colors to be used in conjunction with the break cards *Break cards are roughly 8 by 4 inches and 300 pixels per inch (ppi), ensuring crisp quality when printed. ►How to Use◄ Finally, a productive way to deal with your child or student’s short attention span! Children who have difficulty expressing themselves or completing tasks often require assistance in the form of visual prompts. These visual prompts aid in keeping your child or student on task and behaving appropriately by providing them with simple, concrete reminders. Break cards are particularly helpful for students who struggle to maintain attention to tasks. Select a predetermined amount of time that your student or child needs to engage in a task before they can take a break. As soon as the time is up, allow them to take a break. Once the child takes a break, one token is removed from the break card. When all tokens have been removed, no more breaks can be taken. These cards can also be adapted for use in the home environment. They are compact enough to transport in your purse in order to assist in generalizing behavior across multiple settings. ► Terms of Use ◄ This artwork is copyrighted by Roots To Growth. This purchase is strictly for non-commercial use only. You may print and use in your home, business, or public place but may not resell, reproduce, distribute by electronic means or profit in any way from the design. Unlimited amount of copies can be made for your personal use.

►What’s Included?◄ You will receive: -Calm Card, pictured above ( roughly 8.75 by 5.5 inches), -20 calming pictures (in PDF format and 1.5 by 1.5 inches with 20 pictures to a page) *Product is 240 pixels per inch ( ppi), ensuring crisp quality when printed. ►How to Use◄ Are temper tantrums and sensory meltdowns making even the most mundane tasks a headache? Fret no more! Children who have difficulty expressing themselves or completing tasks often require assistance in the form of visual prompts. These visual prompts aid in keeping your child or student on task and behaving appropriately by providing them with simple, concrete reminders. Calm cards are helpful for children who struggle to maintain control of their emotions. They are particularly helpful for children with sensory processing disorders or emotional disorders. Allow your child or student to select up to three calming activities from the pictures provided in this download. When sensory breaks are needed, allow the child to engage in the predetermined calming activities. This card can also be adapted for use in the home environment. It is compact enough to transport in your purse in order to assist in generalizing behavior across multiple settings. ► Terms of Use ◄ This artwork is copyrighted by Roots To Growth. This purchase is strictly for non-commercial use only. You may print and use in your home, business, or public place but may not resell, reproduce, distribute by electronic means or profit in any way from the design. Unlimited amount of copies can be made for your personal use.

►What’s Included?◄ You will receive: -All four color variations displayed in the thumbnail, -1.5 x 1.5 inch watercolor tokens in various colors, -And 60 pictures of reinforcing toys/activities to work for (in PDF format with 20 pictures to a page) *Product is roughly 6.9 x 3.5 inches and 300 pixels per inch (ppi), ensuring crisp quality when printed. ►How to Use◄ Do you find yourself repeating the same request three or four times before your child or student complies? Fret no more! Children perform better on tasks whenever an incentive is provided, which is where this product comes in! The gist is this: tokens can be traded for access to a variety of rewards (including activities or inexpensive items) in return for good behavior. Allow your child or student to assist in selecting a reward. This allows for optimal reinforcement, and will also facilitate the development of self-monitoring behaviors. Reward good behaviors more frequently when first implementing this product into your daily routine. As your child becomes familiar with the process of the token system, you can stretch the amount of time between delivery of tokens for good behaviors. This product can be adapted to suit any need. For example, a child who struggles to complete their nightly routine can use the token system while performing each step of this routine (one token for taking a bath, one for putting on their pajamas, and one for brushing their teeth). It can also be used for academic routines, such as homework completion (for example, the child receives one token per 5 math problems completed, or one token per correct spelling word). For children with special needs, such as Autism, this token system can be used to facilitate communication or peer interaction (for example, earning a token when making appropriate eye contact or when using appropriate verbal and non-verbal communication). For children with ADHD or inattentive behaviors, tokens can be provided when they remain seating or focused during instructional time for a pre-decided amount of time. ► Terms of Use ◄ This artwork is copyrighted by Roots To Growth. This purchase is strictly for non-commercial use only. You may print and use in your home, business, or public place but may not resell, reproduce, distribute by electronic means or profit in any way from the design. Unlimited amount of copies can be made for your personal use.

►What’s Included?◄ You will receive a behavior calendar (in PDF format), which can be reproduced for all of the students in your class. Only one calendar is needed for the entire school year. ►How to Use◄ A behavior calendar is a behavior tracking tool that offers an alternative to the time-intensive behavior charts that are commonly utilized in classrooms today. A few factors that make this behavior calendar so practical include: -This calendar provides a list of inappropriate behaviors and common locations, as well as a key for each of these items, allowing you to quickly and efficiently track the behaviors of each of your students. -Behavior charts that utilize a color system to indicate inappropriate behaviors (for example, a green color indicates “great” behavior, yellow indicates “needs improvement,” and red indicates “bad” behavior) often do not provide enough details regarding behaviors that need improvement. Younger children may forget or be unwilling to tell their parents exactly what negative behaviors they engaged in when only a color or vague description is provided. This behavior calendar provides specific feedback to parents and children, which allows more efficient communication between parents and teachers. Additionally, it provides more detailed RTI data for teachers regarding students who engage in frequent inappropriate behaviors and the locations that those behaviors commonly occur. -If a clip-down or color system is utilized to track behaviors, this calendar can be adapted to include this data. Teachers can allow students to fill in their color at the end of the day, in addition to the details provided by the calendar key. -Because this calendar is labeled by weeks instead of months, teachers only need to print one sheet and make enough copies for each of their students to last the entire school year. This eliminates the hassle of printing out a different calendar each month. ► Terms of Use ◄ This artwork is copyrighted by Roots To Growth. This purchase is strictly for non-commercial use only. You may print and use in your home, business, or public place but may not resell, reproduce, distribute by electronic means or profit in any way from the design. Unlimited amount of copies can be made for your personal use.

3 powerpoints which include a variety of lessons and activity. Coursework support activities to prepare students LA.A Brief and case studies are included for ease but are available for free on the Pearson website.

Print onto A4, chop in half to A5. Keep a supply for pupils who just can’t draw a test tube.

Useful for less able students who struggle to draw axes and identify where to put the numbers. Don’t be put off by the formatting on the preview, it downloads and prints off fine.

This is a list to draw upon when preparing for a transition meeting of a child or young person with multiple needs and of any age. It is not intended that you discuss everything on the list but highlight the relevant statements as part of your meeting preparation and perhaps number the statements in an order you think most appropriate.

A range of strategies to use with Hyper and Hypo-sensitive students or activities that support students to engage with movement and Physical Education.

Resources for anyone working with children focusing on attention and listening skills. Attention Autism intervention created by Gina Davies. Files include planning for stages 1-4 and progress tracking for stages 1-4. Files also include and overview of the intervention

This NEW bundle includes x5 worksheets and is all about linking skills together for students that need support and support across subject areas. Perfect as stand alone lessons or to complement existing programmes. Five worksheets titled - Celebrate with, Think and Talk, Game It, Ready, Steady …, Create & Display It. Lots of practical, active, creative and visual tasks to have at your fingertips. For other worksheets and booklets for students needing adapted material or more support, look through Supporting Learning resources.

Worksheets to help you with a coconut tasting activity. Colouring pages header sheets and activity sheet that you can use if you are doing a coconut food tasting session. Print out and stick in workbooks and help promote discussion on the subject of coconuts. Good for young people and people with learning disabilities.

A great resources for SENDCOs who are making the transition from IEP’s to more developed outcome based provision mapping.

Eleven very simple but effective playdough mats for developing fine motor skills and the imagination while exploring the topic of occupations/jobs.

Introduce primary and secondary colours with these colouring pages.

Primary and secondary colours introduced in a fun way with stars. Worksheets for your to printout and use to help introduce a group big or small to the idea of colour and understanding that there are primary colours and secondary colours and with mixing primary colours you can make secondary colours. Extra copies created with the different spelling of colour and color. Great for young people of people with learning disabilities.

Worksheets to help introduce people to primary and secondary colours with ways to help people understand mixing primary colours can create secondary colours. Interesting ways of introducing colour and mixing colours in to your session. I have created worksheets you can print out and use, extra copies created with the spelling difference of colour and color. These sheets can help people in the understanding of colours from young people to adults with learning disabilities.

Alphabet worksheets to help with basic language. A to Z of letters with an image starting with that letter, can be used as colouring pages or as a way to help learn basic letters. Two sheet for each letter one with image and letter and the other with image letter and the name of the image. Can be used to help with image recognition and as a fun session on words and images. Great for people with learning disabilities and for young children

This pack contains several different versions for 'Danger awareness’ These packs are used for many of my private clients with these being the most populour at the moment. Easy for children with disabilities too understand. Each card shows a clear action for the situation at that time and will assist the user to use the appropriate action.

Use this Classroom Accommodation Chart to keep track of all of the needs for each of your students. Just print out one for each of your students and keep it with your IEPs. Its a one stop shop for all of the accommodations that should be offered to your students with special needs!

8 Individual Gymnastics Lesson Plans to be taught to students with SEN (Mild Learning Difficulty). The 8 sessions can be spread over a whole term and look at steadily increasing the complexity of Gymnastics week on week. Each session includes a resources guide.

A social story with spaces to add your own photos. We make one for the class and also make individual ones for children with SEN or Social and Emotional needs who we feel will need more support with the transition to next year. Use to prepare children for their new teacher, new classroom etc.

These feeling charts have been created to be an interactive, frequently-used, classroom resource. The more students utilize the charts, the more the classroom as a whole and the student as an individual, will benefit. Students better understand their own emotions when they learn to identify what they are feeling; and proceed to learn how to cope with those emotions. This, in return, allows for a positive classroom environment with less confusion and more understanding between students and teachers. -There are 24 feelings included: aggressive, angry, annoyed, bored, calm, cold, confident, confused, disappointed, embarrassed, excited, friendly, frustrated, funny, grumpy, happy, hot, hungry, hurt, lazy, motivated, nervous, overwhelmed, proud, quiet, sad, scared, shy, sick, silly, surprised, tired -One large feelings chart. Three miniature feelings charts. -All emoji faces are labeled with their emotion.

The file included is an updated/new IEP template which is renamed ‘Pupil Learning Passport’. It is used successfully in conjunction with face-to-face parental meetings once per term. We allocated 20-25 minutes each for the Autumn term parental meetings and 10-15 minutes each for the Spring and Summer term meetings, although longer may be needed depending on the nature of the outcomes, progress made as well as the individual circumstances surrounding the pupil . Pupil Learning Passports (PLPs) can be used for SEND, LAC and disadvantaged pupils. What does it do? Outlines personal details and SEND category/categories Links to SEND ranges Outlines the pupil’s strengths, achievements and interests ( pupil discussions are held once a year prior to the first parental meeting). Outlines external agencies involved Outlines background information (status, medical and external agencies) Incorporates pupil voice - ‘barriers to learning’ and ‘I learn best when’ States outcomes and learning targets (Autumn, Spring and Summer) Outlines provision (intervention, resources, strategies and what I can do at home to help Tracks attainment and progress data Reviews outcomes Incorporates parent views Includes details of transition Why is it more effective? One document that is updated each term for one year and the follows the pupil into future year groups One document that tracks pupil progress for their whole school career from Reception to Y6, or whenever they join your school In-line with the SEND Code of Practice 2015, incorporating parent and pupil voice and views Sections are written in conjunction with the pupil It combines IEPs and Pupil Passports removing the need for two separate documents Links directly to SEND Provision Map Saves teachers time having ‘tick box’ options in various sections All relevant information needed for referrals is in one place All relevant information in one place to ensure all staff involved with the child is aware of provision, needs, resources and strategies Acts as a transition document (class to class/teacher to teacher, across Key stages and to new schools) Overall, it replaces a lot of singular documents and creates one meaningful and multi-purpose document for SEND pupils.

How to advocate and action complaints

Information, guidance and strategies on dealing with behaviour that challenges

Activities to try at home and school for those on the Autistic Spectrum around Appropriate Touch

Information for parents and carers of children, young people or adults on the autism Spectrum

A visual one page recipe to make Lemon Yoghurt Muffins. It has visual images to assist in easy reading of this recipe. It was created for students with special needs (SEN) but can be used as a valuable resource for early years literacy. This notebook is designed for the students to use it as a visual sequence when cooking. They have all the ingredients and utensils needed and then an easy to follow recipe. It has an inbuilt shopping activity so that the cooking can be integrated into a shopping program. Within the shopping part which encourages literacy skills, students can choose what they will buy and then make their own shopping list by either writing it or sticking the associated visual onto their shopping list. There are also some integrated literacy skills to match the ingredients as well as a writing sheet. There are two recipes one which using real lemons which need to be grated and squeezed and then an easy to make recipe where the cook uses bottled lemon juice.

Numeration 1 - 20: Activities to develop understanding of numbers from 1 to 20 This is activity to develop an understanding of the numbers from 1 to 20. There are activities for matching the numerals and finding the numerals with varying levels of difficulty. There is an activity for counting groups of objects up to 20. There is a pre-writing activity for tracing the numerals. This has an associated worksheet. It was developed for special needs but would be a great activity for early years students.

Useful for parents/carers and SENCOs as well as other professionals to gauge if a child may have sensory issues which may need addressing via interventions.

Audience: BlindSquare Event and BlindSquare Enabled Event Attendees, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, Visually Impaired and Blind BlindSquare App Uers, and BPS Project Teams **Objective: **Introduction to the BlindSquare Event and BlindSquare Enabled Events. A reources answering common questions related to the BlindSq Event App purpose, App features, App settings, for accessing BlindSquare Enable Events. Questions & Answers What is a BlindSquare Event? What is a BlindSquare Enabled Event? What is the BlindSq Event App for? What Phones are compatible with BlindSquare? What do you install the BlindSquare Event App? What are the best settings to use on in the BlindSq Event App for indoor beacon navigation. How do I install the Beacon Monitor, a tool for beacon installers. How do I use the BlindSq Event?

Simple to use spot the difference cards for younger and SEN students. Practice spotting the difference between common punctuation and maths symbols. Simply laminate, shuffle and cut out.

Here is a collection of recipes for home made play doughs plus lots of variations and ideas for topic related activities. Also included are activities that can be used to develop skills for assessment against the Early Learning Goals. This resource is also suitable for use by practitioners working with pupils with special educational needs.

This item describes how to resource and deliver the story of Jasper’s Beanstalk in a multi sensory and inclusive way. It is designed to be used with a group of up to seven learners of primary school age with profound and multiple learning disabilities. working at P1-3, who may also have physical and/or sensory impairments. This activity encourages uses of visual, auditory, olfactory and tactile senses and engages with visual, linguistic, kinaesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal and naturalistic learning styles. Also included are sample Learning Objectives and examples of assessment opportunities for the descriptors of Pscales P1 -P3ii . This activity has many opportunities for assessment against the Routes for Learning tool.

**PSHE - Mindfulness - One Full Lesson KS1, KS2 and Suitable for SEN: SLD, MLD, ASD, ADHD ** Introduction to Mindfulness Starter Activity Main Medication Activity Plenary

**Collection of 5 Sensory Stories ** Science, English, Literacy - Environments and Habitats SEN PMLD, SLD, ASD A collection of five detailed sensory stories/activities created for a PMLD/SLD class. Suitable for ASD too. 1: A Woodland Habitat Story 2. Polar Habitats, Sensory Exploration 3. Pond Habitats, Sensory Exploration 4. Deserts, Sensory Exploration 5. Rainforests, Sensory Exploration These activities can be used on multiple occasions and are very well received by students and staff.

Geometry (Number, Position and Direction, Shape and Form) An introduction to 2D and 3D shapes – 8 Students, 4 Adults KS3 - SEN, MLD, SLD, EYFS One detailed lesson including all resources – PPT, Worksheets and Lesson Plan Created for a mixed ability KS3 maths group: Moderate to Severe learning difficulties, some physical difficulties and in some students high sensory needs.