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Understanding Emotions

Some people with special needs, including people with autism , have problems processing emotional information and may not recognise emotional expressions. They miss the facial expressions that other people rely on to gauge how a person is feeling.
They go through the same stages and challenges as typical people, but it usually takes them longer to get through them.
They may need more help to learn how to deal with the stresses and upsets of everyday life.

They will need to be taught how to recognise specific emotions and this can be challenging.

One tool used for teaching emotions is Social Stories, another is to use a mirror, you can have a person attempt to copy your facial expressions in the mirror.

Thomas the Tank Engiine is another wonderful way of teaching emotions to young children particuarly if Thomas is their special interest . The faces of the characters, are completely static and non-animated. There are no slow progressions from one emotion to another with the characters. They are either happy, angry, tired, scared, or surprised. Also, the emotional state of the character in question is usually reinforced by explicit statements from the narrator, i.e.”Gordon was angry” "Thomas was surprised" etc.

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	Emotions Thumball Define emotions, act them out and relate the feeling to a movie or book character which exemplifies it.	NZ $29.00 incl GST	Qty.
	Moody Bands Moody bands give children an easy way to express emotions without the difficulty of explaining or talking about them up front.	NZ $36.00 incl GST	Qty.
	Brotherly Feelings: Me, My Emotions and My Brother with Asperger's Syndrome It isn�t easy being eight years old and having a brother five years older who other children find weird. They don�t know that when he makes strange jerky movements it�s probably because he is scared. They don�t know that when he doesn�t speak to them it�s because he is nervous of socializing. They don�t realize that he behaves that way because he has something called Asperger�s Syndrome.	NZ $29.90 incl GST	Qty.
	Exploring Feelings - Cognitive Behaviour Therapy To Manage ANGER The Cognitive Behaviour Therapy program Exploring Feelings was designed by the author to be highly structured, interesting and successful in encouraging the cognitive control of emotions	NZ $39.00 incl GST	Qty.
	Exploring Feelings - Cognitive Behaviour Therapy To Manage ANXIETY the Exploring Feelings program can easily be modified so that it can be used with just one child. The activities can also be modified to be age appropriate for an adolescent or adult	NZ $39.00 incl GST	Qty.
	Asperger Syndrome and Anxiety: A Guide to Successful Stress Management On a daily basis people with AS must fit into a world that seems totally foreign to them and this can increase feelings of alienation and anxiety, making life's challenges especially hard to cope with.	NZ $43.00 incl GST	Qty.
	Let's Make Faces! Have Fun Drawing Different Faces for Different Feelings Feelings can be so confusing. Just when kids begin to understand their own emotions, they are expected to understand what other people are feeling, too. This book will help children identify various facial expressions and the feelings behind them.	NZ $42.00 incl GST	Qty.
	My Book Full of Feelings: How to Control and React to the Size of Your Emotions This highly engaging workbook is an ideal way to help teach children to identify, access the intensity of, and respond appropriately to their emotions.	NZ $44.50 incl GST	Qty.
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