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Milestone Monitoring
🔹Gross Motor Milestones
🔹Stages of Development
Social Stories
🔹School and Learning Routines
Back to school
Going to kindergarten
Taking the bus to school
Fire drills
Transitions between activities
Changes to the day are okay
Summer vacation
Winter break
🔹Feelings and Self-Regulation
I can share my feelings
Separation anxiety
Being angry and calming down
How to calm my body
Deep breathing
Using a calming corner
It is too loud — what can I do?
Wearing noise cancelling headphones
🔹Social Skills and Friendships
Being a good friend
Making friends
How to ask someone to join play
Turn taking
Giving personal space
Treating toys with respect
Diversity and getting along
Bullying is not okay
🔹Safe Behavior and Self-Control
Hands out of my pants
Holding hands and staying with an adult
🔹Family Changes and Life Events
New baby in the family
When someone dies
When parents divorce
Moving to a new home
🔹Community and Daily Outings
Car rides
Busy bags for waiting times
🔹Mealtime and Healthy Habits
Eating at the table
Trying new foods
Healthy food choices
🔹Hygiene and Self-Care
Washing my hands
Brushing my teeth
Going to the dentist
Getting a haircut
Wearing clean clothes and keeping clothes on
Using the potty
Wiping after using the bathroom
🔹Rest and Comfort
Being quiet during rest and nap time
Wearing and keeping my shoes on
Speech Milestones
🔹 Developmental Milestones by Age
🔹 Speech and Language Topics
Strategy Consult Notes
🔹 Self-Regulation & Sensory Support
🔹 Behavior & Guidance Strategies
🔹 Social-Emotional Development
🔹 Communication & Learning
🔹 Daily Living & Independence Skills
🔹 Motor Development
🔹 Environmental & Classroom Support
Coloring Sheet Package
🔹 Emotions
🔹 Hygiene Practices
🔹 Positive Behaviors
🔹 Calming Strategies
🔹 Transportation
🔹 Animals
🔹 Play Choices at Childcare
🔹 Early Childhood Songs
🔹 Following Rules
🔹 Activities at Home
🔹Holidays
Visual Supports
🔹 Daily Living & Self-Help Visuals
🔹 Schedule & Transition Visuals
🔹 Choice & Independence Visuals
🔹 Behavior & Expectation Visuals
🔹 Self-Regulation & Emotional Awareness Visuals
🔹 AAC Communication Board Visuals