Using my Words not my Feet Social Story Curriculum

Using My Words Not My Feet is an English social story that names frustrations involving requests, schedule changes, and noise. Its 2014 text contrasts kicking with expressing feelings in words and includes asking for a break, a breathing passage, a ten-point recap, and instructional guides.

Publisher identified in the materials: Special Learning.

Material context: The story text relies on using words to explain feelings and request a break; its wording does not offer a script for another communication method.

The story acknowledges feeling frustrated or angry and gives examples such as wanting an unavailable item, facing an unwanted task, a changed schedule, or a loud space. Later passages describe explaining feelings, requesting a break, and taking ten deep breaths.

A ten-point recap repeats the story's sequence. The accompanying instructional booklet offers role-play examples with an adult or dolls, as well as discussion of story review and reinforcement.

What is inside this resource?

• Frustration around requests and unwanted tasks
• Schedule changes and loud surroundings
• Words for feelings and requests for a break
• Ten-deep-breath passage and ten-point recap
• Adult and doll role-play examples in the guide

Material details: 4 PDF files, containing 78 pages in total including front matter. This is a digital download; purchase does not include printed copies.

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