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Helping Hearts and Hands

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Public or Private Behaviours

By Helping Hearts and Hands

Sorting activity to teach students what behaviours are okay to carry out in public versus behaviours which should be done in private. Should accompany any teachings surrounding toileting or sexual education. All pieces provided do not have to be

Subjects:

Special Education, Other (Specialty), Life Skills

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Not Grade Specific

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Activities, For Parents

$4.00

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Showering Step-By-Step Visuals

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A basic step by step visual for showering independently. Program copyright Erin Ruck of Helping Hearts and Hands Images used with permission from: Mayer-Johnson 2100 Wharton Street Suite 400 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 Phone: 1 (800) 588-4548 Fax: 1

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Special Education, Health, Life Skills

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Task Cards

$3.50

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Communication Boards for in the Home

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Six communication boards that cover such things as toys needs, food needs, emotion expression, outside toys/playing needs, problems and solutions. Child can use the images to create a sentence to express their needs, wants, feelings etc. Program

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Problem Solving

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Not Grade Specific

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For Parents

$10.00

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How Do I Blow My Nose

By Helping Hearts and Hands

Step - by - step visual modeling how to blow your nose. Program independently created and copyrighted by Erin Duncan of Helping Hearts and Hands Ottawa 2016. All Images copyright of…. Mayer-Johnson 2100 Wharton Street Suite 400 Pittsburgh, PA

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Special Education, Life Skills

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For Parents

$3.00

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All About Dogs - Social Story Book

By Helping Hearts and Hands

Social story book that focuses on how dogs can be different, how to approach them to pet them how there is no need to be afraid of dogs. Program independently created and copyrighted by Erin Duncan of Helping Hearts and Hands Ottawa 2016. All

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Special Education, Life Skills, Early Intervention

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Not Grade Specific

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Scripts, For Parents

$10.00

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Individual - Calendar File Folder Activity

By Helping Hearts and Hands

All-in-one calendar file folder activity. Designed for those students who always want to be the calendar helper but has to share - they can sit at the carpet and follow along with calendar time on their own OR use it is a quiet calm-in activity for

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Special Education, Life Skills, Classroom Community

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Not Grade Specific

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Activboard Activities

$8.00

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How To Close a Door - Social Story Book

By Helping Hearts and Hands

Social stories book reviewing what is okay to do with the doors around the school building. Great for students who enjoy opening and closing the doors repeatedly or slamming. Program independently created and copyrighted by Erin Duncan of Helping

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Special Education, Life Skills, Classroom Management

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$20.00

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What If I Don't Want - Stopping Your Work Before You Are Done - Social Story

By Helping Hearts and Hands

Social story reviewing how it can sometimes be difficult to stop doing your work in class even when you are not finished or if you don't want to. Program independently created and copyrighted by Erin Duncan of Helping Hearts and Hands Ottawa

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Special Education, Life Skills, Character Education

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Scripts

$4.00

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Seasonal Cubby Dressing Visuals

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Program includes 4 strips per page to cover the student's arrival and departure as well as the student's getting ready for recess and getting undressed after recess. One set of strips covers getting dressed in snowpants etc for the winter. The other

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Special Education, Life Skills, Classroom Management

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Not Grade Specific

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Task Cards

$4.00

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Student Visual Schedule - By Block

By Helping Hearts and Hands

Assorted different options for laying out a student's schedule block by block for their desk. Includes 7 different options for laying out the block and LOTS of different activities that can be part of their schedule. Program independently created

Subjects:

Special Education, Classroom Management

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Not Grade Specific

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Classroom Forms

$20.00

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Asking a Friend to Play at Recess - Social Story Package

By Helping Hearts and Hands

Three page package that reviews the importance of asking a friend to play, a script on how to ask a friend to play with smaller hand-held script cards for prompting. Program independently created and copyrighted by Erin Duncan of Helping Hearts

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Life Skills, Classroom Management, Classroom Community

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Not Grade Specific

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Scripts

$5.00

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My Calendar - Activity Book

By Helping Hearts and Hands

Student can either circle the date, season, weather etc OR they can place individualized pieces into the open spot on each page. Weather pages include 1 page with 4 basic weather options while the other page offers 9 more diverse weather choice

Subjects:

Special Education, Life Skills, Character Education

Grades:

Kindergarten, 1^st, 2^nd

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Activities, Activboard Activities

$17.00

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Dressing for the Weather Activity Board

By Helping Hearts and Hands

A one page file that teachers or parents can circle what the day is, season is, weather is and the type of clothing they should be wearing inside and outside. Program independently created and copyrighted by Erin Duncan of Helping Hearts and Hands

Subjects:

Special Education, Life Skills, Character Education

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Not Grade Specific

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Task Cards

$3.00

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Food Group Sorting

By Helping Hearts and Hands

Two different sorting boards which can be used for sorting food items by food groups. Food groups are colour organized just like the Canada's food guide. One board illustrates the different food groups and includes the food group label, the second

Subjects:

Special Education, Life Skills, Character Education

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1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

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Activities

$8.00

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My Mouth is For - Social Story Book

By Helping Hearts and Hands

Social story book that reviews things that is okay and not okay to do with our mouth large focus on biting but generic to cover school and other social stories and includes biting of self or others. Program independently created and copyrighted by

Subjects:

Special Education, Life Skills

Grades:

Not Grade Specific

Types:

Scripts, For Parents

$8.00

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How To Express My Feelings

By Helping Hearts and Hands

A board listing the I feel... when you.... because model for expressing feelings. Provides examples for each area to assist the student in creating their own phrase that would be appropriate to the situation. Program independently created and

Subjects:

Special Education, Life Skills, Character Education

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Not Grade Specific

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Activities

$3.50

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Spitting - Social Stories Book

By Helping Hearts and Hands

A social story book that reviews things that are not okay to do all related to spitting. Pages are not in the correct order in the file but they are numbered on each page so they can be ordered in the correct order once they have been printed,

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Special Education, Life Skills

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Not Grade Specific

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$14.00

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How the Weather Affects Your Environment - Activity Book

By Helping Hearts and Hands

Activity book that includes simple phrases and images discussing different types of weather and how it affects the world around you. Includes activities such as match the activity to the type of weather you would do the activity in as well as

Subjects:

Earth Sciences, Special Education

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Not Grade Specific

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Activities

$30.00

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Glasses Social Story

By Helping Hearts and Hands

Social story to help students understand that people wear glasses and what is appropriate behaviour towards other peoples glasses.Program independently created and copyrighted by Erin Duncan of Helping Hearts and Hands Ottawa 2019.All Images

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Special Education, Life Skills, Character Education

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Not Grade Specific

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Scripts

$14.00

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Let's Talk About Canada

By Helping Hearts and Hands

Canadian information book - talks about the provinces, the levels of government, reviews the map, national anthem etc. Program independently created and copyrighted by Erin Duncan of Helping Hearts and Hands Ottawa 2016. All Images copyright

Subjects:

Canadian History

Grades:

2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th

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Study Guides

$40.00

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Over 10 years experience working with children, youth and their families with special needs.

MY TEACHING STYLE

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MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Completed three year Child and Youth Work Diploma at Algonquin College in 2005. Currently completing Bachelor of Professional Arts with a Major in Human Services through Athabasca University.

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

I am a mother of two children a boy (who is also high-functioning autistic) and a girl living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada who loves to make work about play. When I am not playing with my kids or completing my coursework I am creating new and fun ways to teach my very unique students the valuable skills they need to grow and become a productive member of society. My products focus on academic, behavioural, daily living, health/hygiene skills as well as occupational and speech therapy support. Check out my website for my information on my services at: www.helpingheartsandhandsottawa.com You can follow me on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/HelpingHeartsandHandsOttawa/ or on twitter at https://twitter.com/HelpingHeartsON