The document discusses how people often like routines and schedules but that change is inevitable. It describes how people can feel differently about changes, from excited to uncomfortable or terrible, and that while people cannot stop change from happening, they can learn to accept changes by looking for them, acknowledging them, staying calm and flexible, and practicing catching changes.

1. Change Happens
a story about the unexpected
by Kim Singleton, MS, CCC-SLP

2. Often, people like to have
routines or schedules.
• They might have a routine or schedule for waking up.
• They might have a routine or schedule at school.
• They might have an afternoon routine or schedule.
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3. I am a person so I might have routines.
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4. Often, people like things to stay the same.
• They might like the pattern of
things.
• They might like knowing what to
expect.
• Routines and schedules might
help people feel comfortable.
Do I feel comfortable when I know
what to expect?
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5. Sometimes things change.
• A change is when something is
new or different. (Change is also
coins or money.)
• New and different changes always
happen.
• People cannot stop change.
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6. People feel differently about change.
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7. Sometimes a change might feel exciting.
• A vacation is sometimes an exciting change.
• A birthday is often an exciting change.
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8. Sometimes a change might feel annoying.
• Clean-up time is sometimes an annoying change.
• Bedtime might be an annoying change.
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9. Sometimes a change might feel
uncomfortable.
• A new or different food
might be an
uncomfortable change.
• Even a surprise might
be an uncomfortable
change.
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10. Sometimes a change might feel terrible.
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11. People cannot stop change.
• Changes always happen.
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- it looks different.
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12. People can learn to “catch changes”
and be flexible.
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- what looks different?

13. How can I catch change?
1. Be alert and look for change.
2. When a change happens, say
“I got a change!”
3. Try to act relaxed and calm.
Try to be flexible and accept the change.
4. Maybe move a penny (the other kind of
change) to a pocket or a special place.
5. See how many changes I can catch.
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- what looks different?

14. Lots of people catch
change and are flexible.
• I am a smart person and I am learning this too.
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The End