This section offers strategies, games, and printables to teach communication, understanding hidden social rules, perspective taking, emotional awareness, and coping skills.

While designed to address different specific ages and disabilities, levels of development often overlap so trying many activites may help find the best fit for each individual.

Faceland
A game for young children, it divides the face into distinct areas and links visual combinations to emotions. Fun games with hundreds of real faces reinforce the ideas.

Social Skills Toolbox
Includes specific lessons, graphic organizers, and workbooks to address the communication and behavioral skills that impact socialization.

Emotions Color Wheel
Offers a powerful visual tool to help one group feelings, and accurately label and define emotions.

Social Emotional Skills
Provides classroom activities, card sets, and worksheets to enhance perspective-taking skills and expand emotional vocabulary.

Feelings Journal
Designed for teens and young adults, this printable book helps recognize emotions through photographs and face clues and relates these emotions to everyday experiences in a journal format.

Communication Skills
Includes strategies, social articles, and graphic organizers to improve conversational skills, language strategies in the classroom, games, and teacher resources.

Social Behavior
Includes explicit break-downs of the hidden rules that underlie social interactions, strategies and social articles to address social behavior, visual tools to identify feelings and emotions in self and others, songs and games, teacher resources, and more.