This Give Me Space Social Story teaches emotional regulation, safe hands, and self-advocacy through engaging stories, visual supports, and hands-on activities. With digital resources AND print activities, it’s perfect for fall social skills activities and supports social emotional learning activities for autism, ABA, and preschool classrooms. Use with your IEP goals and ABA ABLLS assessment.

📲 Digital Formats (Boom™ Cards, Google™ Slides, Easel™)
  → 2 social stories: rhyming (10 slides) & simple (14 slides)
  → 10 interactive slides to practice “Give Me Space” scenarios
  → Engaging audio and visual supports for emotional regulation and peer play
  → Great for distance learning, centers, or 1:1 sessions

📄 Printable PDF (140 pages):
  → 2 social story versions in full color & black and white
  → Mini-books for home connection or individual student copies
  → Full social group lesson plan with:
     – Self-reflection sheet
  – Group data tracking forms
  – Send-home congratulatory notes
  → 10 coloring pages with fun “space” rules (e.g., “I’m a Space Saver, not a Space Invader”)
  → Planet posters (color + B&W) with social tips for peer interaction (e.g., Jupiter “You’re big enough to wait your turn!”)
  → “Build-an-Earth” fine motor and writing activity (cut, trace, and build!)
  → Functional communication visuals with Boardmaker™-style symbols (e.g., “I need space,” “Can I play?”, “Safe hands”)
  → Printable token board for reinforcement

Why It Works:

• Promotes self-advocacy, calm behavior, and emotional regulation
• Supports IEP goals around peer interaction and safe hands
• Designed with diverse learners in mind, including AAC users
• Easy to implement for social groups, morning meetings, or individual SEL goals
• Ideal for fall social skills activities, ABA, preschool, and autism classrooms
• Directly supports ABLLS K1 for play and social skills
  Use in conjunction with your ABLLS-R® assessment available at https://assessments.centralreach.com/

🎯 Perfect for:

• Emotional regulation
• Keeping my hands to myself social story goals
• Social stories about emotions
• Social emotional learning activities for autism
• Fall SEL lessons with a fun outer space twist

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For Google™ products

• You’ll need a Google account to access these resources. Your students will need accounts as well if you’re assigning activities.
• After clicking the link, select “Make a copy” to add the file to your Google Drive.
• If your school restricts access, use a personal Google account to access the file and share it with your school account.

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