Working with Calm Down Cards

These are my Visual Support Self-Management Cards. They have become a fantastic addition to my ever growing calm down area!

These Support Cards I made a little bit bigger than the size of an index card and I placed a couple of useful visuals on them to use with my students in my Special Ed Classroom.

Using these cards in my class has been a life saver, students have learnt new skills such as requesting “a break”, “help” how to “wait” and the “first and then” strategies. These easy to use visual resources are portable and adaptable to individual needs!

Class Support Cards

They have provided structure in my support plans and I’m able to document their success running in conjunction with my Behavior Management’.

What I’ve included :-

Why I use them

• Wait Cards – Help students learn patience and understand when they need to wait for a turn, activity, instruction, or reward.
• Break Cards – Support self-regulation by providing students with a visual way to request a break when needed and what they can do.
• Help Cards – Encourage functional communication by helping students appropriately ask for assistance.
• First, Next, Then Cards – Visual sequencing tools that support routines, transitions, task completion, and understanding expectations.
• Token Reward Cards – Positive behavior support tools that allow students to earn and track tokens toward a chosen reward.
• Reward Symbols (Visuals) – Visual representations of rewards and motivators that can be used with token boards and behavior management systems.
• Extras – Cute Break, help, wait visual schedules with write your own support instruction Cards.