My feelings and how to help me

Speech and language therapy

﻿Hello everybody, my name is Emma. Welcome to today's lesson. I'm looking forward to today's session, and I hope you are too. I can't wait to get started. But before we do, just a quick reminder, we here at Oak, are here to support any approaches you might already be using, and any work, you might have already been set. We know this lesson is going out to so many different children and families. So, if you're not sure, or have any questions, please do contact your child's school, or usual speech and language therapy team. In today's session, we're continuing with our communication passport, and thinking about your feelings. We're going to be exploring the feeling of anger. And thinking about how people can help you when you're feeling angry or very upset. So, for today's session, you're going to need some paper and some writing equipment. You'll also need some colouring pencils or pens, a camera if you have one to hand, some scissors, some glue, and some old magazines or newspapers. Before we begin, find a quiet place where you won't be disturbed for the lesson. Turn off any distractions or notifications that you might have running on your device, and then make sure that you and your adult are seated comfortably. When you're ready, let's begin. Okay, let's do some talking and thinking about your feelings and how to help you. As we know, a communication passport is a fantastic resource, that helps pass important information onto people who are helping you. Over the last few sessions, we've worked on adding all of this information to your communication passport, and we're nearly done. Today, we're focusing a little bit more on feelings. And thinking about specific strategies, to help you when you need to calm down. As we know, emotion words describe how a person feels. They're words like happy, sad, and angry. We experience feelings and emotions in our bodies, as well as in our minds. We often show how we're feeling with our face, how we move our body, and how our voice sounds when we speak. So, for our first activity, we're going to look at some pictures, and have a think about how the people are feeling. If you need to take your time, pause the video on each page, to discuss how you think the person is feeling with your adult. How do you think this boy is feeling? How do you think this lady is feeling? How do you think this man is feeling? Now it's time to pause the video, and look through some of the magazines that you gathered together. With your adult, point out some more people who you think are feeling angry? What clues are you picking up on when you're looking at pictures to help you decide, how these people are feeling? When you finish, come back to the video and press play to continue. Now it's time to have a think about how your body feels when you're feeling angry. You need to think about how your face looks, how your body looks and feels, and what your voice might sound like. You can draw an outline of a body a bit like this. And you can write or put pictures to show each of these things, to anyone who's reading your communication passport. Pause the video to complete this page for your communication passport with your adult. When thinking about strategies or things that can help you feel happy, when you're angry. They fall into two categories. Self-regulation are strategies that you know, how to use on your own. They're the kinds of things, that you know how to use independently to help calm yourself down. Mutual regulation is when other people are involved to help you, for your strategies. Or give you help, in order to be able to calm down Here I've included a couple of headings to help you think about what helps you to regulate and calm down, when you're feeling angry or very upset. Pause the video on this slide to have a read through the things I've included. Have a think about, what works best for you. We're going to use this information to help make a calming plan. Here you can see I've taken three things that really help me, when I need to calm down. Going for a walk, and removing myself from the situation, is one of my independent self-regulation strategies. When I'm really worked up though, sometimes I need help from an adult. And it really helps if they can bring me a glass of water, and remind me to do five wall press ups. Here I've included some pictures to explain those things to anybody who's reading my communication passport. You can use this as an example, or go back to the previous slide, and have a think about some of the things that help you to regulate when you're feeling angry. Gather up some pictures, and write explanations. It's really important, everybody who's working with you, knows and understands what your calming plan is, so that they're able to help you in the best possible way. Remember, if you can, make a few copies of your communication passport. It's really important that you're sharing this with school, other carers, and people who help you. And in particular, making them aware of your calming plan, included in your communication plan. Make sure everybody knows where to find your communication passport, and then remind them, to regularly check for updates. Encourage everyone to use this communication passport as a helpful tool when working with you. Well, that brings us to the end of today's lesson. But a really big well done, on all the new information that you've added to your communication passport today. Don't forget to share this progress with school. And if you'd like, you could ask your parent, or carer to share a picture of your work on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter by tagging @Oaknational so I can see your progress as well. Well, all that's left for me to say is thank you. But take care, and enjoy the rest of your learning today. Bye-bye.

My feelings and how to help me

My feelings and how to help me

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