Zones of Regulation

Executive Functioning

Join www.teacherspayteachers.com  for free and download this free executive functioning poster which highlights each specific executive functioning skill. 

Interoception – Our 8th Sense

The interoceptive system and our interoceptive awareness are how we recognise internal sensations, like hunger, thirst, itch, needing to use the toilet, our emotions."

To emotionally self-regulate successfully, we need to be aware of our body sensations. This pack takes you through the process step by step.

Making Sense of Sensory Behaviour

This booklet is designed to help us become more aware of the effects of sensory information and how it may impact on life skills and behaviour. 

Making Sense of Your Sensory Behaviour

This booklet has been designed to allow you to look at your own sensory world, to let you be more aware of your sensory likes and dislikes. 

Understanding The Spectrum – A Comic Strip Explanation

Understanding a diagnosis of ASD will help support an individual in understanding how to emotionally self-regulate. 

Free Visual Support Downloads on Pinterest

CALM DOWN CORNER: Self-Regulation Classroom Behaviour Management Mindfulness Kit

The Calm Corner Toolbox invites students to use self-regulation coping skills and calming strategies when they are feeling upset, sad, impulsive, distracted or worried in class.

Emotional Regulation BODY MAPPING (Recognising Body Reactions to Feelings)

These interactive emotional body mapping worksheets provide a way to increase body awareness and emotional regulation skills. 

Emotions Feelings Teaching Resources Ks1 Ks2 Behaviour Display Lego Theme

A4 emotions posters – 9 posters each with a standing Lego person

18 Feelings Posters with Body Language and Facial Expressions

18 Feelings Posters in Colour and Black and White that show how a person's body language and facial expressions change with different feelings and emotions. 

Heavy Work Poster- Classroom

Proprioception activities such as heavy work have been shown to improve attention and concentration, improve body awareness, and regulate arousal levels. Heavy work can be calming for students with autism or sensory regulation difficulties.

Informal Assessment of Communication Skills

This pack provides activities that enable an informal assessment to be made of a child’s emotional literacy.

Self-Control to the Rescue! Super Powers to Help Kids Through the Tough Stuff in Everyday Life

The self-control superhero is back! This time, they've come prepared with simple strategies to tackle the difficult emotions and challenges of everyday life, this guide will help children stay on track and save the day! 

Self-Regulation Interventions and Strategies: Keeping the Body, Mind & Emotions on Task in Children with Autism, ADHD or Sensory Disorders

Keeping children bodies, minds and emotions on task just got easier with this book from self-regulation expert Teresa Garland. Featuring more than 200 practical and proven interventions, strategies and adaptation for helping children gain more control over their lives.

Sensory strategies: Practical ways to help children and young people with autism learn and achieve

Student Movement Breaks

5 minutes to move will support students to learn and succeed. This resource can be used for the classroom, or to support the learning needs of individual students. A blank template is included to make your own movement breaks as well.

The Kids' Guide to Staying Awesome and In Control: Simple Stuff to Help Children Regulate their Emotions and Senses

Packed with simple ideas to regulate the emotions and senses, this book will help children tackle difficult feelings head-on and feel awesome and in control! 

The Zones of Regulation

The Zones of Regulation is a curriculum geared towards helping students gain skills in consciously regulating their actions, which in turn leads to increased control and problem-solving abilities. Using a cognitive behaviour approach, the curriculum's learning activities are designed to help students recognise when they are in different states called "zones," with each of four zones represented by a different colour. 

Zones of Regulation coping skills

A visual to support students to recognise their feelings and find ways to manage their feelings. Cut them out, mount with feelings on one side and strategies on the other. Included are Ship cards, Car cards, Princess cards, Cinderella cards, blank coping skills boxes to customise

Zones of Self-Regulation Book - visual supports

Zones to Self-Regulation book for Behaviour Management. These tools are individually accessible for students to use.

Kent Autistic Trust

Wendy Boorman, Family Support Officer

SMIRA

“Selective Mutism, sometimes called Situational Mutism, is an anxiety-based mental health disorder which usually commences in early childhood. Those with SM speak fluently in some situations but remain consistently silent in others. They may have a blank expression or appear ‘frozen’ when expected to speak. With early intervention the prognosis for recovery is good, but in some cases, it may persist and last right through a child’s school life and sometimes even into adulthood. It is important to understand that those with SM want to speak, but find themselves physically unable to do so due to their anxiety.”

Introduction to the Zones

DJ learns the Zones of Regulation from Cornerstone Christian School counsellor Mrs Miller.

The Birthday Party

“The 18-minute film describes the signs of autism in children. The message of the film is that the same signs can show themselves in different ways. Because of these differences, signs can be often get missed. On the other hand, behaviours seen in children with autism can be seen in children without autism too. But when particular behaviours are found together they form a distinctive and enduring pattern of SIGNS.”