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Ms. HERRING from Snow Hill, NC is requesting other through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Wiggle, Jiggle, but no Giggle!!!

My students need 8 Sit'n' gym ball chairs to use in place of traditional chairs to increase their attention and focus.

  • $344 goal

This project expired on March 22, 2010.

This project expired on March 22, 2010.

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Ms. HERRING Greene Central High School
Snow Hill, NC Grades PreK-2

Children and adults with autism, as well as those with other developmental disabilities, may have a dysfunctional sensory system. Sometimes one or more senses are either over- or under-reactive to stimulation. Sensory integrative dysfunction is a problem in the capacity to regulate response to sensory input in a graded manner that disrupts ability to achieve and maintain and an optimal range of performance necessary to adapt to challenges in life and may produce varying degrees of problems in development, information processing, and behavior.

Sensory integration focuses primarily on three basic senses--tactile, vestibular, and proprioceptive. For the means of this project, I am concentrating on the proprioceptive system. The proprioceptive system refers to components of muscles, joints, and tendons that provide a person with a subconscious awareness of body position. It also allows us to manipulate objects using fine motor movements, such as writing with a pencil, using a spoon to drink soup, and buttoning one's shirt. Some common signs of proprioceptive dysfunction are clumsiness, a tendency to fall, a lack of awareness of body position in space, odd body posturing, minimal crawling when young, difficulty manipulating small objects (buttons, snaps), eating in a sloppy manner, and resistance to new motor movement activities. Implications: A child may be over- or under-responsive to sensory input; activity level may be either unusually high or unusually low; a child may be in constant motion or fatigue easily. Gross and/or fine motor coordination problems are also common and may result in speech/language delays and in academic underachievement.

Sensory Balls are used as a form of therapy to enhance students’ sensory stimulations. By replacing traditional chairs with large sensory balls, students will be allowed to sit using the sensory ball and bounce while completing assignments or during highly stimulating or challenging lessons to lower behaviors as rocking, spinning, and hand-flapping. Students would be allowed to transition with ball to inclusion settings like art, music and media. Due to the durability of the balls they will be recycled for several years to come. Goals of the project are to improve my students’ ability to process and integrate sensory information and to provide a basis for improved independence and participation in daily life activities, play, and school tasks. Data toward goals will be collected through behavioral checklists and anecdotal recordings in various settings in the child’s environment.

Your help will ensure that my students are given the same opportunities to learn and prosper like typically developing students. You will make it possible for my students to be on level playing ground by incorporating sensory balls into their daily routines. By bridging this gap between regular and special education my students have hope for tomorrow.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

Never Before Funded 8 students impacted
Ms. HERRING Greene Central High School Grades PreK-2

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Snow Hill, NC View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

Never Before Funded 8 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sit ‘N Gym Plus Set • Nasco $58.95 4 $235.80

Materials cost

$235.80

Vendor shipping charges

 $23.58

Sales tax

 $10.02

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.54

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$281.94

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$61.89

Total project goal

$343.83

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