The Saskatchewan Ministry of Education has complied a number of resources for fostering an inclusive environment in the early years. Resources include handbooks, online modules, and videos.

The Early Learning Portal provides current information on these initiatives, easy access to early years documents, resources and learning opportunities created to support those working with young children and their families in Saskatchewan. We encourage educators working with children in the early years to access the portal for information.

This guide covers the age range 6 years to 18 years. It also encompasses all students with reading difficulties, including those who have specific learning difficulties (dyslexia) as well as those who have made generally poor progress in reading and may or may not have additional general learning difficulties. Information here can be applied to students from disadvantaged backgrounds, minority groups and to students with reading difficulties for whom English is not a first language. While the full range of literacy involves more than just reading, the focus here is particularly on reading skills: the ability to decode and understand text.

This Module focuses on the entire school population and highlights partnerships between general education and special education faculty that result in the creation of a 'collective responsibility' and shared high expectations for all students (est. completion time: 2 hours).

These Kindergarten to Grade 12 resources include lesson plans, activities, videos and inspiring speakers designed to decreases bullying, improve student attitudes and perceptions of people with disabilities, and result in student initiatives to improve classrooms, schools and communities. The resources support Saskatchewan curriculum including literacy, Social Studies, Science and Health and Career Education, as well as key skills such as leadership, teamwork, communication and inquiry. The RHP newsletter can be accessed in English or French.

This report covers language development from entering to proficient for listening, speaking, reading and writing.

What You’ll Learn
Snapshot: What Executive Functioning Issues Are
Executive Functioning Issues
Signs and Symptoms
Other Issues That Can Co-Occur With Executive Functioning Issues
Possible Causes of Executive Functioning Issues
How Executive Functioning Issues Are Diagnosed
How Professionals Can Help With Executive Functioning Issues
How You Can Help Your Child With Executive Functioning Issues

Executive Functioning Issues: Strategies You Can Try at Home.

Quick and practical advice to help children with executive functioning issues.

Looking for some basic courses in conversational American Sign Language? Check out these self-paced free courses developed by the Oklahoma School for the Deaf, taught by their ASL Specialist.

Courses being offered are:
American Sign Language I
American Sign Language II

Contents
Preface ..........................................................................................................................................................1
Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................1
Policy:............................................................................................................................................................3
Guidelines .....................................................................................................................................................5
Roles and Responsibilities.............................................................................................................................7
Procedures....................................................................................................................................................8
APPENDIX A: Inclusion and Intervention Plan (IIP)....................................................................................10
APPENDIX B: Areas of Development..........................................................................................................11
APPENDIX C: Areas of Development and Support Information.................................................................13
APPENDIX D: Saskatchewan Ministry of Education Documents and Supports .........................................14
APPENDIX E: Sample Parental/Guardian Agreement for Student Placement in a Functional Integrated
Program.......................................................................................................................................................15

This site is a list of the Community Mental Health and Addictions Services in the province of Saskatchewan organized by Health Region.

It is important to think about all of the things in our life that we can be grateful for. So often we tend to focus on the negative things in our life and forget about all the blessings we have each and every day. Our blessings do not need to be huge to make us appreciate our lives. They can be as small as: a smile from someone, hot chocolate, our pet greeting us at the door, a cozy blanket, a visit from a friend.
Focusing on the good things we have in our life, instead of the challenges we face, can change our perspective to being more positive. When we have a positive outlook on life, life is automatically better!
Some things we can do to help us see the positives in our life are:
- Write in a Gratitude Journal - Take a few minutes each day to write down 4 or 5 good things about your day.
- Write a letter - Think about someone who is important in your life. Write down all of the things that you appreciate about them. Then deliver the letter to that person and enjoy their reaction.
- Visit Someone you Appreciate – Spend some time with someone you like and let them know all the reasons why you like them.
- Use Your Manners – Being polite to others by saying “Thank you,” “Sorry,” “Your welcome” or “That was nice of you” can drastically change how others feel about you, and thus make you feel better about yourself. Being kind to others is as important as being kind to ourselves.
- Take a Gratitude Walk – Go for a walk and make a special effort to appreciate everything you see, hear, smell, taste and touch.

The following is a journal for gratitude. It can be printed off for students to fill out. It includes gratitude, happiness, being grateful, etc.

"This page pulls together lots of tools and resources to help you get the most out of Microsoft's inclusive tools for the classroom."

The High Way Home is an interactive website by the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse and Addiction. Students make choices about whether they would use alcohol or cannabis at a party and then plan for a way home.
The website offers a quiz at the end of the journey.

Immediate mental health counselling and crisis intervention for all Indigenous peoples across Canada (available in some Indigenous languages). Toll-free: 1-855-242-3310.

Phone and chat counselling is available in English and French. On request, phone counselling is also available in:
Cree
Ojibway
Inuktitut

The purpose of us feeling anxiety in our bodies is so that we will ‘DO SOMETHING’ to try to eliminate the event, situation or thing that we are worried about. This is a primitive and basic survival instinct that we still have deeply embedded in our brains. The problem is…we don’t need to run away from saber tooth tigers anymore!

However, instead of having the idea of “I need to get rid of this feeling” we need to change it to “whatever is happening right at this moment, I CAN HANDLE that.”

What we need to do is learn about anxiety and how it works in our bodies and then break anxiety down into small pieces, and take it step by step. It may start with learning about how anxiety works and feels in our bodies; the sensations we get from anxiety. Starting with what happens in our brain and body when we are anxious. Then we need to learn what we can do with those sensations to lessen them and our anxiety. Then we work on our anxious thoughts and work to change the dialogue we have in our heads about anxiety. Essentially we break anxiety down into small chewable bites. This is in order to give you some success.

CoordiKids is happy to offer the series of downloadable tools for teachers: The How Do You Feel? Curriculum for teaching self-regulation to children.

How Do You Feel? is a curriculum designed for elementary school teachers. The kit is geared toward helping children ranging in ages from 4-12.

What’s Included: The How Do You Feel? Curriculum from CoordiKids
- The “How Do You Feel?” Chart
- 6 Lesson Plans
- Visual Aids
- Worksheets
- And more!

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