Special Needs & Inclusion

4 years & up. Teach children social skills that will benefit them for the rest of their lives. This series of Learning to Get Along® books shows children appropriate ways to act (such as following rules and taking turns) when they are with their friends, at school, or in other social situations. The skills children learn from these books will set them up for success in their eventual academic, personal, and professional lives.

18 months & up. Children hold the soft colorful bugs as they go walking on field trips or nature walks. It's a simple way to keep children together and safe. Features ten soft bug bodies with a cushioned grip and a handle on each side, totaling up to twenty handles. Walking Rope comes in a vinyl bag with zipper. Measures 13.5 feet long. Machine washable.

Grades 1 & up. Ideal tools to explore shapes, sizes and the relationships between area and volume. Explore and compare volume using any wet or dry material. Removable base and stopper for easy filling. Set includes 15 pieces.

Record daily reading minutes at the touch of a button. Features programmable countdown timer with alarm, cumulative timer of multi-session reading, digital clock and more. Battery is replaceable. Color may vary.

6 months & up. Encourage little ones to enjoy reading with these delightful cloth books. Each book is interactive with soft textures, crinkles, and sounds. Each book presents appropriate activities that promote curiosity, self-discovery and fine motor skills. Contents may vary.

2 years & up. This 26 piece Braille alphabet set features double-sided pieces with uppercase letters on one side and lowercase letters on the other. Great for incorporating into learning environments to strengthen communication and language development. Each has Braille symbol that represents each letter in the alphabet. Made from sustainable rubberwood.

PreK & up. Make learning sight word fun with these brightly colored Sight Words String Ups. With this set of important early vocabulary words children will develop literacy, fine motor skills, dexterity, hand-eye coordination, and color recognition. Simply set a sight word on your child's tray and have them spell the word out using the provided letter beads. Encourage children to identify the colors they are working with. This set includes: 218 printed sight words, over 280 letter beads (.875"), four trays, 100 chenille stems, and a teacher resource guide.

Grades PreK & Up. Students learn through touch and the Sensory Literacy Kit gives you great resources for tactile literacy activities. The kit includes The Phonic Pebbles help children recognize and understand 44 phonemes through tactile engagement, reinforcing letter-sound relationships in a multisensory way. Also included is a set of Sight Word String Ups which combines fine motor development and sight word recognition with over 200 sight words! The Sight Word String Ups encourage children to physically string together words, promoting both hand-eye coordination and finger dexterity, which are essential for writing skills. Combining play-based learning with phonics and sight word recognition makes reading practice more enjoyable, increasing retention and motivation in young learners.

3 years & up. Your children will be amazed as they shake and watch this Sensory Glitter and Sparkle Storm Set. Turn them over to observe the sensory glitter storm. This set provides a great calming activity for children as they watch the swirls of glitter move up and down the large glass cylinders. This activity promotes mindfulness, color recognition, and curiosity. Encourage children to identify the colors they see in the cylinders. This includes three cylinders containing gold, silver, and blue glitter in clear liquid. Each tube measures 5.5"L and 2" in diameter.

2 years & up. This set of 24 wooden tiles represents 12 different emotions that children can learn to identify and recognize. Additional learning takes place when children match the emotions with the emotions on the board.

2 years & up. Refresh your sensory materials with these sustainably made Tactile Matching Stones! Invite children to explore sequences, patterns, matching, categorizing and more. Children will experiment through a variety of activities like stone tracing, line drawing, stacking, and dough stamping. Tactile Matching Stones are versatile and provide opportunities for children to enhance their cognitive and fine motor development. This 24 piece set includes an activity guide and storage bag. Surface clean with a damp cloth. Pieces measure approximately 2"D.

The Devereux Early Childhood Assessment Clinical Form (DECA-C) is designed to be used by early childhood mental health consultants and other mental health professionals with select children, ages 2 through 5, who are already showing significant behavioral concerns. The DECA-C is a 62-item scale that can be completed by either teachers or parents in about 15 minutes. The DECA-C contains all of the strength-based resilience items and scales found on the Devereux Early Childhood Assessment for Preschoolers, 2nd Edition (DECA-P2), but also assesses social and emotional concerns, including: aggression, attention problems, emotional control problems, and withdrawal/depression.

3 years & up. This Waterworks Play Kit is a great way to introduce children to water properties and makes a great addition to any water table. Encourage children to splash around and explore how each piece reacts with water. For extra STEM learning create an activity to teach children about buoyancy using these exciting pieces. This kit includes boats and corks for floating, sea animals for swimming, funnels, tubes, measuring cups, pipettes, plastic tubes, and a storage container. Items in kit may vary slightly from those pictured.

Recommended for beginner writers by teachers, this pencil grip ensures correct finger positioning, provides maximum control and is perfect for both left and right-handed users.

5 years & up. Create macaroni masterpieces, flowers, insects or decorate a frame, the possibilities are endless. One pound of assorted macaroni shapes in various colors. Made in the USA.

3 years & up. Lay a solid foundation for literacy. This comprehensive Word Work Set includes 10 levels of literacy exercises that gradually increase in difficulty. Each level emphasizes a different aspect of letter recognition, sound recognition, and/or word-building skills. The kit comes with 6 sets of lowercase magnetic letters that each span the whole alphabet, which creates a multisensory learning experience that engages bodies as well as brains.

3 - 5 years. Teachable Touchables® Texture Squares is a fun, hands-on way to encourage young learners' awareness of their sense of touch. As children enjoy examining and talking about the squares--scratchy, slippery, silky, or soft--they are building their descriptive vocabulary. Includes 20 pillows and patches (10 different pairs), drawstring storage bag, and an activity guide. Each textured pillow or patch measures 2" - 3".

Grades K - 2. The added double-sided feature make this hundreds board unique. Recessed squares feature numbers printed on the front and a plain grid for patterning and graphing activities on the reverse. Includes 100 numbered white tiles, 25 transparent red tiles, 25 transparent blue tiles and activity guide. Board measures 12" x 12".

Set it and go! This super simple timer offers unique visual and auditory indicators, including a warning alarm. Operates easily with just 2 dials: total alarm time and warning time. Total alarm time can be set from 5 minutes to 2 hours, in 5-minute increments. Counts down until the colored light glows, and the alarm sounds. Adjust the volume or turn off the sound for visual timing. Measures 3.25"L x 3.25"W x 4.75"H. Requires 3 AAA batteries, not included.

8 years & up. Specially designed wiggle seats help calm and focus those who have a hard time sitting still. Allow children or adults to quietly move while working, enabling them to focus, stay on task and be more productive. Flexible nubs on one side and small bumps on the other can easily be felt giving a choice for just the right amount of tactile stimulation. Ergonomic disc causes the body to stabilize itself improving posture. Easy-inflation pump is included and firmness can be customized to each child's needs. Effective on chairs, benches, or directly on floors. 13" diameter comfortably fits an older child or adult.

3 years & up. The Soft & Flexible Wobble Seat allows children to move while sitting, releasing pent-up fidgety energy, enabling them to focus in the classroom and at homework time. Kids can rock back and forth, and all around, as the continuous movement increases blood flow to the brain, improving concentration. The Soft & Flexible Wobble Seat provides a quiet outlet for excess energy without distracting other students. Includes a pump so firmness can be customized exactly to each child's needs. Comfortable heavy-duty vinyl seat is easy to wipe clean. For use on hard surfaces and carpets. Wobble Seat measures 14.2"L x 14.2"W x 11.4"H and holds a maximum weight of 500 lbs.

4 years & up. Even children have obstacles to overcome and this book set is actually honest, light, and direct. With issues ranging from asthma, diabetes, autism, Down's syndrome, handicapped, blind and poor eyesight. Each book has a desire for all children to learn and play, and to be accepted for themselves as other children are. Titles may vary.

Your Journey Together (YJT) is a strength-based curriculum designed to promote the social and emotional well-being and resilience of vulnerable children and their families. Help to improve parenting skills with this research-based and trauma-informed curriculum designed to build resilience in children and their families. It focuses on empowering parents to promote safe, trusting and healing environments - all key elements of a trauma-sensitive program. While this resilience-building parenting curriculum is designed for families with young children (infants, toddlers, preschoolers) many of the concepts apply to families with children of all ages. It shows parents how to use ordinary, everyday routines, activities and interactions as resilience-building opportunities. YJT is listed on the Parenting Curricula Review Databases for Head Start and Early Head Start programs.

4 years & up. Perfect for those working with children who have sensory processing disorder (SPD), this set has everything you need to understand and support children with SPD as well as build a sensory-friendly environment for all children. The set features "Wired Differently: A Teacher's Guide to Understanding Sensory Processing Challenges," a 2.5 pound weighted lapdog, three textured fidgets, four liquid visual timers, flexible wiggle seats, mindfulness activity cards, and more! Chair pictured in image is not included. Contents may vary.