What’s The Buzz? (Australian) A complete social and emotional literacy approach comprised of 48 lessons over 3 programs and complimented by a deep selection of online resources.
What’s the Buzz? is an evidence-based program now used in more than 130 countries to teach young people social and emotional intelligence. It is based on the S.A.F.E. criteria, which permits maximum opportunity for the skills taught to transfer across into other situations.
The program has become a required text for teachers, counsellors, psychologists, social work and youth workers in training at many Universities worldwide.
Three programs:
Early Learners (ages 5 to 8 years)
Primary Students (ages 9 to 11 years)
Teenagers (ages 12 to 15 years)
Very comphresive website, lots of youtube clips on the program to see what it’s all about also. Visit Website
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Positive Penguins is an award winning, top ranked, fun educational app developed for The app aims to help children understand their feelings come from their own thoughts not the situations. They also have Posters, Activity Sheets, Positive Penguins Lesson Plan, Positive Penguins Worksheet and other resources on their website. Ask Ed (App)Does your child have worries, anxieties and tantrums? Imagine if an app could teach your child to voice their problems, express their feelings and decide on a plan of action. Ask Ed is designed to help children deal with real life problems from the smallest annoyance to a
Play is the Way® is a practical methodology for teaching social and emotional skills using guided play, classroom activities and an empowering language – behaviour education using wisdom, not force. Visit Website Wonder Grove Kids
Also for the educators – 225 Powerful SEL Animated Lessons Model Appropriate Classroom Behavior for Students in Pre-K through 2nd Grade. Visit Website |
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The Zones of Regulation Program. The lessons and learning activities are designed to help the students recognize when they’re in the different Zones (states of alertness/moods) as well as learn how to use strategies to regulate the Zone they are in. In addition to addressing self-regulation, the students will be gaining an increased vocabulary of emotional terms, skills in reading facial expressions, perspective on how others see and react to their behaviour, insight on events that trigger their behaviour, calming and alerting strategies, and problem solving skills. Visit Website |
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Storyboard That – Great for making social stories for your child/student OR use them to create stories if your child are not great at writing down, or stuck on ideas. So many options! Visit Storyboard that
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Secret Agent Society is a social skills training program to help children feel happier, calmer and to make new friends.
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children to help them understand why they feel the way they do and help them challenge their negative thinking.
‘full blown catastrophe’. Ask Ed helps children, parents and teachers work together to tackle social, emotional and behavioural issues. 
Secret Agent Society NDIS Guide. (
The Wonkidos Animated Social Skills are fun, award winning, silly cartoons that teach children important lessons in a fun animated way! Each Wonkidos episode is a short animation modeling correct behaviors that is fun and interactive for all young children. Let the Wonkidos help your child learn important social and life skills for positive social interactions. Visit WonKidos
Social Stories
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Social Stories are highly structured interventions that use stories to explain social situations to children with autism or other special needs. They also help children learn socially appropriate behaviour and responses.
Books for social skills you can purchase – Learn about Bullies, learning to listen, a story about mongering anger, A tale about telling the truth, Sportsmanship, winning isn’t everything, learning about courage and much more. Best of all they have free video clips on all these social skills you can watch. |
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File Folder Heaven offers a wide variety of games and activities that provide children with hands-on opportunities to practice basic skills. Simply put, it’s “Printable, Hands-on, Fun!” |
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Trace Moroney Books – A creator of exquisite children’s books that touch your heart and soul . . . and just make you feel good. Her feelings series, bully and grief are fantastic for kids with special needs to understand. |
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The New Social Story Book by Carol Gray Best-selling book offers over 180 ready-to-use stories that parents and educators have depended on for years, and new sections added are: How to most effectively use and apply the stories; How to improve the lives of younger children; and Social Stories for teens and adults with autism. Developed through years of experience, these strategically written stories explain social situations in ways children and adults with autism understand, while teaching social skills needed for them to be successful at home, school, work, and in the community.
This series addresses topics and issues kids face every day. It gives them the skills to learn more about them and deal with them in the right way. Visit Website |
Sandbox Learning – Social Stories
Offering autism / special needs support, including inexpensive, instantly downloadable PDF files for self-printed booklets, mobile and computer use. Visit Website |
Teachers Pay Teachers 
The Social Express
ConnectAbility offers a visuals engine that is great for creating a quick social story on the fly. There are no downloads necessary. Simply select your template (choose from choice time, rules, schedules, personal stories and more), add Boardmaker images or upload your own images and print or save as a PDF. 
Little World Social Skills (Book set)
Social story apps
Book Creator 
A simple way to make your own beautiful ebooks, right on your iPad. With over 10 million ebooks created so far, Book Creator is ideal for making all kinds of books, including children’s picture books, photo books, journals, textbooks and more.
Stories About Me 
Create their own social stories for their children and students. Blending photos, text, and voice recordings into a talking picture book, children can playback rich media stories of their own personal experiences. Swiping advances the pages and tapping plays the audio; simple as that!
Our Story 2 for iPad (Free) 
Enables young children to take part in fun games which can help develop interests and skills that will be relevant to them when they start to read by creating your own social stories using your photos.
Story Creator – Easy Story Book Maker for Kids (Free) 
Easily create beautiful story books containing photos, videos, text, and audio all in one gorgeous collection. Story Creator truly brings your best stories to life and easily allows you to retell and share your most memorable moments.
Talk’n Photos 
Talk’n Photos is a simple to navigate talking photo album. Completely customizable, this app allows you to add text and voice recording to album covers as well as each entry (picture) within an album. Photos or symbols may be uploaded from your camera, taken with your iPad/iTouch/iPhone or downloaded from a large number of free clip art/photo art web sites.
Alex Kelly’s internationally renowned TALKABOUT books are a series of practical workbooks designed to develop the self-awareness, self-esteem, and social skills of people with special needs. These books can be used at home with parent/carer or your Occupational Therapist, Speech therapist of in any education setting. These really are terrific books, and I’ve only just shown a few here.
Also when you buy a hard copy book you can get the code to download all the activities online so you can print off the worksheets. Google Talkabout books or Alex Kelly books and they are everywhere to buy.
