Learning to be Buddies

Learning to understand and manage children’s behaviour

Entries Tagged as 'disabilities'

Using social stories

April 16th, 2009 · No Comments

(Following on from previous post)

A Social Story: When I want to play with Blocks
I like to build with blocks. But sometimes other children are playing with the blocks.I won’t get mad. I will just ask to play. 
I will look at the child who is playing with blocks. I will try to smile. I will say [...]

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Tags: autism · behaviour management · communication · disabilities

Facial Expressions, Body Language and Empathy

April 11th, 2009 · No Comments

Billy was building a road out of blocks.
“Hey, Billy! Can I play?” Tim said eagerly.
Billy smiled, “Sure, you can play!”
“What can I do?” Tim asked.
Billy pointed to the end of the road, giving Billy a toy car. “Just sit over there.”
“Okay!”  Tim said as he sat in the indicated space and started running his [...]

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Tags: ADHD · Uncategorized · Vision impairments · autism · behaviour management · communication · down syndrome · hearing impairment

Aprilnews

March 30th, 2009 · No Comments

My latest Learn to be Buddies news
A website, a card game, an edublog, a focus on supporting children with disabilities and ways you can be involved.
I have been neglecting my blog as I have been working on my website.  Make sure you visit www.learn2bebuddies.com.au to see what I have been doing in my absence . 
When [...]

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Tags: Uncategorized · communication · disabilities

Useful information for parents and teachers of children with Hearing Impairments

March 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

Each of the following links will take you to a different website. 
Cooperative, confident and friendly: Enhancing the social skills of preschoolers
This is a great Pdf document that give some simple hints and tips when working with children with a range of different disabilities, including hearing impairments.  They first identify the challenges the child may face, [...]

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Tags: behaviour management · hearing impairment · web resources