There’s nothing better in January then reorganizing your materials. A year ago, I took some time to organize my Speech cabinet into Speech Kits. You can see my Same and Different Kit here:
I’ve been practicing for 15 years, so I’ve accumulated ALOT of toys, materials and odds and ends.
Most of the materials in this kit are designed to complement Michelle Garcia Winner’s Social
Thinking® Curriculum. To learn more about the Social Thinking® and the vocabulary listed below please refer to her website: www.socialthinking.com.
To organize my cabinet, I started by getting all of the same type of storage boxes so that they stacked easily. I typed out the materials in the kit, labeled it Social Skills and then used contact paper to secure the sheet to my container. These are the materials in my Social Skills Box:
1. Balanced Weight Scale from Learning Resources. To work on conversational turn taking and balanced conversations.
2. Jello Brain Mold I purchased from Target after Halloween to work on Flexible Thinking© and also the ideas of different kinds of Social Smarts©.
3. A Rock and a Flexible Brain© purchased from Social Thinking®.
4. Mini Magnifying glasses purchased at a party goods store to focus on looking for social clues or being a Social Detective.
5. Giant Body parts purchased at the dollar store to focus on Whole Body Listening concepts and Thinking with your eyes©.
6. Magnetic Poetry Emotion Faces. I like these because it breaks it down to what are the eyes feeling/what is the mouth feeling.
7. Shoe NotePads to go with Jenna Rayburn’s In your Shoes Pragmatic Download as well as other perspective taking in your shoes activities.
8. Chalkboard paper thought bubbles I purchased at Michaels.
Here’s to an Organized and Happy New Year!
