Special Needs
ADD & ADHD materials & information
Read about important developmental milestones for young children from every aspect from social, emotional and physical development. Striving to provide the most current, up-to-date information on special needs, early interventions and ideas and materials for educational instruction.
Learn about various special need interventions and how to implement them in the classroom for children with a wide-range of special needs. Purchase helpful materials created specifically for young learners that apply different kinds of early childhood intervention approaches like ABA-Based Interventions (Applied Behavioural Analysis) Discrete Trail Training (DTT) Pivotal Response Teaching (PRT) Applied Verbal Behaviour (AVB) and Picture Exchange Communication Systems (PECS).
Offering materials to help with social skills training in areas like role-playing, ways to settle conflicts, develop concentration, self-regulation, listening and engaging in conversations, entering new group situations, transitioning from one activity to the next, coping with frustration and in developing greater self-awareness. Social stories are a great way to teach special needs children about varying social situations.
Special need students deserve 'very special attention' and in every teacher's desire to help a special needs child, there are ways to make a difference! Keep learning, keep trying, challenge yourself every day to learn and experiment with new ideas and strategies for teaching! Put your whole heart into teaching, be flexible, be patient and it may be that the positive impact you've made on a child may last a lifetime!
