Learning Differences

Winner of the Counselor's Choice Award! Brothers Braden and Blake are the central characters in the Executive FUNction picture book series. One is quick to turn the smallest setbacks into the biggest life-shattering disasters while the other is...

This book provides activities and reproducible worksheets to help students think about and practice strategies to become more reflective (vs. impulsive). Using cognitive-behavioral theory and techniques, it is intended to provide school personnel with...

A timely and essential resource that addresses a growing national crisis – children’s mental health. Straightforward and substantive, Mental Health from Diagnosis to Delivery showcases how social skills instruction can be applied and...

Winner of the Mom's Choice Award - Gold Medal!  Discover how to address issues at school, at meals and bedtime, with siblings and peers, and out in public when you have a child with ADHD. Learn how to manage challenging behavior from the early...

Winner of the Counselor's Choice Award (Freddie the Fly Series)Winner of the Moonbeam Children's Book Award (Freddie the Fly Series)Winner of the 2024 Autism Live! Award Freddie returns with quite the conundrum, and boy is he one frustrated fly! He keeps...

Winner of the Counselor's Choice Award (Freddie the Fly Series)Winner of the Moonbeam Children's Book Award (Freddie the Fly Series) Freddie learns an important lesson about talking less…and learning to listen. Freddie the Fly likes to talk and...

Winner of the 2021 Counselor's Choice Award! Disorganization in children is common. But teaching children skills to get organized at a young age will set them up for success later in life! Children who learn organization skills tend to be better...

Winner of the 2021 Counselor's Choice Award! Flexible thinking allows people to think about things in new ways or to incorporate new information into a specific plan or idea. Flexible thinkers are often able to come up with more than one solution to a...

Winner of the 2021 Counselor's Choice Award! Self-control is the ability to regulate one's emotions, thoughts, and behavior and to keep one's cool in the face of disappointment. But when children don't get what they want or expect, they often get upset...

"My name is Norman David Edwards, but everybody calls me Noodle. Sometimes I get into trouble because I kinda, sorta, like to put things off. It's not that I don't plan on doing what needs to get done, I just like to choose when to do it." Noodle has a...

Winner of the 2021 Counselor's Choice Award! Blake generally has a good time...until someone interrupts him and tells him he needs to do something RIGHT NOW! He doesn't understand why he has to clean his room THIS SECOND! And he'd much rather be doing...

Winner of the 2021 Counselor's Choice Award! When you're a child, it's not easy controlling your impulse reactions - kids do things before they think all the time. Strengthen executive function skills and empower impetuous young people with a humorous...

Winner of the 2021 Counselor's Choice Award! Problem solving involves many other executive functioning behaviors, including reasoning, attention, planning, initiation, working memory, and self-monitoring. The one thing all of us have in common is that we...

A story about a boy, his bubble wand and being prepared... Lou is feeling a bit nervous, because today he has a doctor's appointment! Lou knows that there are a lot of different doctors out there, but he wonders what to expect. Time to use his bubble...

A story about a boy, his bubble wand and being prepared... Lou has a special opportunity to go out to dinner with his family, but he wonders what is going to happen when he's there! Time to use his bubble wand! Going out to dinner with children can be...

A young child in the grocery store... what could go wrong? Pretty much anything, from shattered jars to crashing carts to sticky fingers. But you don't have to worry about Lou making mischief like that... he knows exactly what to do! Whether he's in a...