Keeping calm

At school my girl is a bit stressed at the moment.  One of things I've done is to create a 'calm' folder on her homepage which you can see here.

Inside the calm folder are a range of toys and items which help to calm her.  

It has been written into her IEP targets that staff will work on encouraging her to recognise when she is getting stressed and make an active choice from this folder before it escalates too far.  I like the idea of her learning to self-regulate her own behaviour and emotions and learning about her own sensory needs and preferences.  We will expand the calm folder over time to include other strategies we know she likes such as 'squeeze' and massage.