Zones of regulation

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Hi

So I'm pretty sure I saw a drawing maybe from the queen of illustrations - Eliza fricker or it could of been Laura kerby books. How zones of regulation are really quite annoying and pretty useless for some children. It might not of been those 2 people but I've got a huge stash of books - I could run my own library 😂 maybe I've got confused. Or could of been N fisher.

Yes it's nice if your in that calm zone and everyone can conform.

However if you are triggered potentially in a melt down mode - there is absolutely zero chance you will say "oh I'm in the red zone" as 9/10 you can't even remember what even happened as they see red or don't want to acknowledge what happened as they are embarrassed/ upset.

Did anyone see that illustration? Which person / book was it from? Or was it even Facebook?

Or what is better than zones of regulation?

It "could" be good ZOR - but it could be delivered wrong / very demanding for a pda child so it would be hard to deliver or for them to understand.

I suppose you are trying to prevent the trigger / meltdown and keep everyone happy

Thank you for anyone knows what I'm talking about x

Hi there. I'm trying to work out if this can be delivered sensitively. School suggest asking DC for his 'number' at multiple points during the day, but as he can't bear to discuss feelings, feels stigma following his diagnosis, and is demand avoidant, having different random people ask him to quanitify his feelings several times a day may have the perverse effect of making school even less tolerable. Not sure if this could be done very much more selectively by one attuned person, for instance?

School gave my DD some duplo blocks for the colours and she'll put which one she's in on top. They then know she needs a break/her other strategies and can support this (at least in theory, sometimes they don't have the staff to take her out but that's a separate issue). OP is right though, she'll do blue and occasionally yellow but once she's got to red it won't help.

Five Point scale is widely used in education
( or variations of)
As you say once in “ red” often meltdown time.

Various resources available including a book pack with cards of situations or items and how they make a child feel for sorting in teaching sessions around recognising emotions.

There are some really good personalised versions out there with faces linked to interests e.g. Inside Out, Dr Who, Simpsons etc

https://www.5pointscale.com/

Books for children linked with the 5 point scale
When my worries get too big and
When my autism gets too big