Building Emotional Control Skills

Equipping Learners to Stay Calm, Think Clearly, and Re-Engage

Emotional Control training teaches autistic, ADHD, and other neurodivergent learners to notice rising feelings and return to calm—an essential executive-functioning skill that supports planning, working memory, and flexible thinking. By practicing deep-breathing, counting, and brief sensory breaks while they’re already relaxed, students build a toolbox they can rely on when real frustration strikes, whether it’s a tricky math problem or a playground dispute.

Why use Emotional Control training?

• Fewer meltdowns and quicker recovery. Proactive regulation instruction can shrink escalation length and intensity by 40 – 60 %, a game-changer for classrooms supporting ADHD and other executive-function challenges.
• Better academic engagement. Learners who self-soothe return to tasks faster, adding valuable on-task minutes and boosting assignment quality across subjects.
• Foundation for broader executive skills. A regulated brain handles working memory, planning, and cognitive flexibility more effectively, accelerating overall executive-function development.

What you’ll unlock inside BIP Visualized:

• A step-by-step overview of how to use this evidence-based strategy
• A quick Self-Assessment learners can complete to see whether impulse-control support is right for them.
• Ability to customize images and descriptions to individualize for your learner
• Printable visual resources perfectly aligned with the strategy for easy teaching and generalization
• Power to add this and other visual strategies to build a custom-made BIP tailored to your learner’s needs

Start your free trial today to access the Building Emotional Control Skills strategy and create a personalized, team-friendly visual Behavior Intervention Plan in minutes.