Help me give my students a space to self-regulate! The easy-clean room dividers will break up space into different sensory stations. Each station will support the development and understanding of their senses.
I am a special education teacher in an elementary school in Maine. My students have diverse strengths and needs. Students in my room have intellectual & developmental disabilities, significant trauma, and sensory impairments. Our school strives to teach the whole child supporting them academically, socially, emotionally, and behaviorally. When students are emotionally dysregulated behaviors may occur and learning can be impacted. It is my job to help these children work through their feelings, emotions, and sensory overload. This can be difficult when space and equipment are limited.
The need for sensory rooms is growing.
A sensory room is a safe place within the school for students to go to self-regulate and decompress. Sensory rooms contain a variety of stimuli such as lights, sounds, colors, and smells to help the students engage their senses.
My Project
As a school, we educate and develop the whole-learner. We help our students grow academically, socially, and emotionally. Please help give my students a sensory room where they can go to self-regulate, calm themselves, and cope with sensory overload and emotional dysregulation. While this room is geared to support students with special needs all students within the school would have access to it.
A sensory room is a therapeutic space with a variety of equipment to develop a child's senses through special lighting, music, and objects.
Items in this project will provide students opportunities to develop and understand their senses of touch, smell, sight, and sound in addition to body awareness and spatial orientation. Swings, tunnels, tents with fiberoptic lighting, weighted blankets, noise-reducing headphones, and lavender-scented stuffed animals that can be heated or chilled are among a few items that will find a home in the sensory room.
Students will have scheduled opportunities throughout the day to use the sensory room. Meanwhile, when students are emotionally dysregulated, experiencing fight, flight, or freeze responses, or in crisis, they will have a safe space within the school that provides privacy to cope and calm themselves through a number of supports. A sensory room will enhance the lives of not just students with special needs but all the students in our school.
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Materials cost
$1,064.62
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$53.23
3rd party payment processing fee
$15.97
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$1,163.82
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$205.38
Total project goal
$1,369.20
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$1,369.20
16 Donors
-$1,343.61
Donations toward project cost
-$1,163.82
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