My students need equipment to meet their varied sensory needs - weights for pressure and work, pencil toppers for oral stimulation, and inflatable seats for movement.
$375 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
The best teaching strategies and most meaningful lessons are lost if students cannot attend to them. By satisfying students' sensory needs, we can help them overcome this first, most important hurdle to learning.
We are a class of students in grades 3-8 with special needs including autism, epilepsy, intellectual disability, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and specific learning disability.
We love video games, especially Super Mario Brothers and Call of Duty. We love sports, especially soccer and football. We love music, especially hip hop and bachata. We participate in our school's dance team, skateboard club, art gallery, and drumming team, as well as local football and soccer teams. We learn a curriculum of functional life skills intended to enable us to live as independent adults. We attend a public charter school in which all students receive free lunch and 40% of students qualify as English Language Learners. Our mission includes focuses on leadership skills development, community service, and parent involvement. Our school is unique because many staff members have children who attend our school and several staff members are former parent volunteers.
My Project
These materials will help us learn more in every content area and help us learn how we can help ourselves. Many students with special needs have extraordinary sensory needs and cannot attend to lessons until those needs are met. These materials will help meet those sensory needs, enabling students to learn more standard content, like math and humanities, as well as to find which strategies work for them so that they can use those strategies in future learning environments. The Balance Disks will go on our chairs to help us get needed movement when we need to remain seated to participate in a lesson. Cuff Weights and Lap Pads will help us get hard work and deep pressure input. These can help calm us when either our bodies or our emotions are getting out of control. The Pencil Toppers, Sensory Stones, and Tangles give us tactile input and an outlet for fidgeting which can help us use other classroom materials more appropriately and keep our hands away from other students’ belongings.
When a student's sensory needs are not met, behaviors can arise which can cause turmoil in relationships with both teachers and peers.
These include small things, like talking out of turn or leaving a seat without permission. They can also include bigger things, like destroying property and physical fights. Students who display these behaviors aren't bad students, they just have unmet needs. Let's help meet their sensory needs so they can show us the loving and creative students they really are!
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