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I Can Feel It: Sensorimotor Tools for Special Kiddos

My students need sensory processing tools such as fidgets, weighted materials, fine motor development tools, and oral motor tools.

  • $740 goal

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

I teach at a school in which 90% of students receive free or reduced lunch. Many of them are impacted by trauma which affects their learning and the way in which they relate to peers and adults. So many of them have sensory needs. They have been sensory deprived and seek to fulfill their sensory needs through behaviors such as scratching, biting, and kicking. However, they respond to such things as individual attention, pats on the back, and frequent breaks.

What they are in need of are tools to replace the inappropriate behaviors with appropriate behaviors and strategies that fulfull their sensory needs.

My Project

Self-regulation is the ability to adjust or regulate the level of alertness depending on the time of the day and the stimuli presented. For instance the ability to wake up in the morning, become alert and adapt to the school environment and demands placed on the nervous system in the school setting, including attention to tasks, cognitive demands, communication, social and emotional demands, and motor tasks (gross, fine, and visual motor). Then returning home for the evening and preparing the nervous system for rest and sleep. The ability to self- regulate the nervous system involves all of these components, including the sleep/wake cycle.

These materials will help my special kiddos learn appropriate behaviors to get their sensory needs met without having to resort to inappropriate methods.

For example, for the child who has a hard time sitting in his seat, the ergo ball chair will allow him to stay at his seat, but bouncing and using his core muscles. The chewy tubes can replace the need to bite or chew clothing or their friends! Fidgets and toys that allow children to squeeze them, can provide the fine motor movement necessary to build their muscles and a replace behaviors such as pinching and scratching their peers or inappropriate school objects.

My kiddos are students with developmental delays, autism, and array of disabilities that impact their ability to regulate themselves on their own. They need these materials to help them learn how to regulate themselves and to allow them to be included in the general education class successfully.

Ms. Gray
Grades PreK-2

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
CHAIR THE ERGOCHAIR • School Specialty $188.14 1 $188.14
KIT BALL SENSORY BALL PACK • School Specialty $77.38 1 $77.38
JEWLERY CHEWLERY NECKLACE BRACELET YELLOW SET OF 2 • School Specialty $12.77 5 $63.85
RING TEXTURED • School Specialty $7.80 4 $31.20
ORAL PRODUCT CHEW STIXX JUNIOR PURPLE GRAPE • School Specialty $7.80 4 $31.20
NECKLACE CHEWLERY ASST SET OF 7 • School Specialty $29.81 1 $29.81
PUTTY THERAPUTTY 1LB GREEN • School Specialty $22.71 1 $22.71
FIDGET - WEIGHTED PUSHPATHZ SET OF 5 • School Specialty $20.58 1 $20.58
GLOVE SPIKEY GLOVE - 1 EA • School Specialty $4.96 4 $19.84
BALL REFLEX 6M • School Specialty $3.54 4 $14.16
BRUSH SENSORY EACH • School Specialty $2.12 5 $10.60

Materials cost

$509.47

Vendor shipping charges

 $50.95

Sales tax

 $30.57

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.64

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$628.63

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$110.93

Total project goal

$739.56

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $739.56

8 Donors

-$728.98

Donations toward project cost

-$628.63

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$100.35

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$10.58

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