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Helping you with Impulse Control Skills:
How adults can help you What you can do to help
yourself
▪ Help you notice times when you do ▪ Prep4Best: take a minute before
stop and think – what helps you to do you go somewhere or start
this? The more you do this, the easier it something - take some breaths so
will get to repeat it (we know that just you don’t rush into a task. Get into
noticing something more will create a habit of this so it becomes your
more neural firing and strengthen the ‘neural habit’.
neural circuits).
▪ Whilst you are taking some
▪ It will help you if someone talks breaths, think through how you
through times when you find it easier would like the thing you are about
and times when it is harder. to do turn out. Do you need
anything to make sure it goes
What’s different when easier? What’s well?
different when it’s harder? Are there
any physical, sensory or emotional ▪ Do a ‘premortem – what might go
needs not being met which makes it wrong? How could you prevent
harder? Are you hungry? Tired? that from happening? Is there
Rushing? With people you want to anything that could help?
feel important amongst? With people
where you need to feel you are part ▪ When doing a piece of work or a
of the group? (The blue and green task, chunk it into smaller parts
Needs Cards can help explore this). and do ‘stop and check after each
part.
▪ In study and learning, it will help if an
adult shows you the common mistakes ▪ Always stop and check after 10
before you start. This will make it more minutes – get into a habit of this.
likely you will notice early before you
make them.
▪ The adult should highlight common
mistakes and show them to you visually
(don’t let them just talk them through
as that may be harder for you to
process and remember).
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