National Autism Resources is happy to announce that we are a vendor for the Texas Supplemental Special Education Services (SSES) grant program. You can use your supplemental funds to obtain educational materials and resources such as textbooks, curriculum, or technology devices. For directions on how to place an order using ClassWallet click here. We are approved to provide educational materials for the following categories:
Sensory (shop now)
We are the sensory experts! Along with the suggestions below take a moment to check out our calming favorites section. Top items from this section include:
- Tranquil Turtle: creates a stunning underwater light effect on any ceiling. Soothing sounds and visuals work together to help kids relax or fall asleep!
- Deluxe Jellyfish Lamp: Use our jellyfish lamp to create a calming visual focal point to help your students relax.
- Sammy the Sloth: our adorable Sloth is ready to provide calming deep pressure to help students relax so they can learn.
- Vibes Earplugs: these earplugs substantially reduce loud noises and background noise. Comes with three sizes of soft silicone tips to accommodate the sensory sensitive.
- Cozy Caterpillar: a giant compression sock for your clients! Provides deep pressure to those who struggle with anger, anxiety, sensory or focus challenges.
Curriculum (shop now)
Some popular items from this category include:
- Practical Practice Reading: this life skills reading series features common reading activities students encounter every day. 70 full color pages include schedules, maps, menus, and more.
- The Five W's Workbook Set: helps struggling readers develop essential reading comprehension skills by practicing the 5 W's - Who, What, When, Where and Why.
- Real Life Math: use these sets to practice math skills and give your students the confidence and training they need to access their community. Your students will enjoy referencing the colorful menus as they solve their math problems. We find students enjoy the word problems in this series because they can relate to them.
- Practical Practice Math: this set is full of reproducible worksheets and activities to help your students learn to understand and solve real-life math problems. Subjects covered in the binders include: comparison shopping, coupons, quantity discounts, budgeting, tax calculations, and more
- Everyday Life Reading & Writing: this series integrates life skills with reading and writing practice. Some of the tasks covered in the exercises include: reading instructions, bills, ads, schedules, websites, and emails.
Social Skills (shop all)
We offer a variety of social skills supports including books, games, and full curriculum. Some popular autism products from this category include:
- Hidden Rules Card Games: these interactive card games are a fun way to teach students important social rules that are never explicitly taught but are necessary to understand and learn.
- Interactive Social & Emotional Binder: has a total of 116 interactive hook and loop cards designed to help teach proper responses related to daily-life social language situations, as well as encourage a better understanding of emotions and feelings!
- Coping Skills Game - through game play students will learn how to build their frustration tolerance when facing academic and social challenges. Teaches essential skills for emotional self-care including how to identify and accept feelings, verbalize needs, and use tools that help curb disruptive behavior. This is a very helpful resource for students with anxiety, anger, and self regulation challenges.
- What Should I Do Now: This social decision making game helps students practice strategies to face difficult social situations.
- The Feels: this interactive set helps young children learn to recognize their emotions and manage them in a safe productive manner.
Speech (shop all)
We've got a variety of picture communication cards, visual supports, and language games that are perfect for home. Some top autism products in this category include:
- Visual Support Starter Set: This set includes all of our most popular visual supports. Use it to decrease frustration and build understanding, communication, and independence.
- Granny's Candies: a favorite of students and therapists for years! This game is designed to develop vocabulary, target WH questions, practice turn-taking, maintaining a topic, and practicing conversational exchanges with peers.
- "Wh" Question Blast-Off: this game keeps all students highly involved in answering their questions and listening to questions and answers from other players. It's great for building conversation skills.
Books/Literacy (shop now)
We have several books that qualify under this category. Of special note our he Interactive reading book series. These books use a picture based system to teach reading. They are all centered around common IEP goals and have been successfully used in classrooms for over 15 years. Set One is our most popular option.
Need more information about the SSES program?
If you live in Texas and need more information you can visit the SSES website, email the program at SSEShelp@region10.org, or call SPEDTex at 1-855-773-3839.
