July 2016 Newsletter
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New Language Builder Sequencing Cards!
Announcing the newest addition to our Language Builder series! Sequencing is a very important concept for preschool children to develop since it allows children to recognize patterns that make the world more understandable and predictable. Read more on our strategies for teaching sequencing skills or purchase your very own Sequencing Cards from Stages Learning!
Lesson Plan: Sequencing Cards
In our most recent autism and preschool lesson plan, students will use the new Stages Learning Sequencing Cards to review vocabulary words and practice ordering events. Download 12 free sequencing cards from us to use with your lesson.
Watch our Emotion Cards in Action!
The Language Builder Emotion Cards set features a range of actors from 1 to 70 years old, and from a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Half the images are taken against a plain background, showing only the upper body and face. The remaining 40 cards portray people in realistic emotion-provoking situations and activities taken in natural settings and contexts. This educational card set helps children identify and discuss feelings as well as possible appropriate and inappropriate responses to these feelings.
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Exciting News About Our Cube Puzzles & Emotions Cards!
We are proud to announce that our Emotions Cards and two of our Cube Puzzles have received awards. Our Emotions Cards and Fruit Cube Puzzle each received a 2016 Tillywig Toy & Media Award and our Community Helpers Puzzle was named 2016 Puzzle of the Year by Creative Child Magazine.
Autism in the News:
Neurodiversity: the benefits of recruiting employees with cognitive disabilities
Harvard Business School, July 11.
Employers are increasingly finding fresh ideas and insights by recruiting workers with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other cognitive disabilities. Read More ...
Paths to Autism: One or Many? Answers from a new study in Biological Psychiatry
EurekAlert, July 19.
A new report in Biological Psychiatry reports that brain alterations in infants at risk for autism may be widespread and affect multiple systems, in contrast to the widely held assumption of impairment specifically in social brain networks. Read More ...