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Ms. Madden from Milledgeville GA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Sensory Overload!

My students need sensory processing items, such as a weighted vest, weighted lap pads, and tactile pillows.

  • $434 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

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My Students

There are many different ways to treat sensory overload. One way to reduce this tension is for people with symptoms to reduce it themselves. Being able to identify ones own triggers of sensory overload can help reduce, eliminate, or avoid them.

I teach a special education class in a Title 1 district.

My students have autism, significant developmental delays, and cerebral palsy. Some senses may be turned up too high and some turned down too low. As a result, the data that comes in tends to be distorted, and it is very hard to perceive a person's environment accurately.

My Project

Sensory integration activities are the lifeline to providing and achieving the necessary challenges. The inflatable pillow will aid a child to take these extra movements and positions and help give input to the sensory system which in turn helps organize and calm the body. The Fidget Caterpinch has sections with "mushable" liquid. It helps warm up fingers and strengthens intrinsics. The weighted lap pad pillow will will provide increased proprioceptive input to help the child calm and organize and the deep pressure vest is a great solution for the sensory-seeking-pleasure loving -fidgeter.

Having just a few sensory items will help us to begin to develop and build our sensory diet and allow students who are experiencing sensory overload to identify their own triggers which can help reduce, eliminate, or avoid them.

Ms. Madden
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
VEST INTEGRATIONS DEEP PRESSURE MEDIUM • School Specialty $90.24 1 $90.24
LAP PAD WEIGHTED MEDIUM 18'' X 10'' • School Specialty $33.24 2 $66.48
PILLOW TACTILE • School Specialty $47.49 1 $47.49
FIDGET CATERPINCH • School Specialty $17.09 2 $34.18
SEAT INFLATABLE MOVIN SIT JR. • School Specialty $30.49 1 $30.49
RAINSTICK WOODEN 30'' • School Specialty $17.09 1 $17.09

Materials cost

$285.97

Vendor shipping charges

$28.60

Sales tax

$19.73

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.29

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$368.59

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$65.05

Total project goal

$433.64

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$433.64

20 Donors

-$418.87

Donations toward project cost

-$360.09

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$58.78

match offer

-$10.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$8.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$1.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.77

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$0.00

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