My students need sensory items like ribbon bells, sensory paint, textures balls, and matching texture fish, all of which make interesting sounds and have variety of textures.
Our elementary school special education classroom includes 4 students with vision impairments who also have other disabilities. They are in grades 2 through 5. We would like to provide a sensory rich environment that the students can safely and independently explore.
Our students with vision impairments are eager to experience their environment through touch, sound and movement.
They love to touch a variety of textures, listen and dance to music, sing, and make sounds with the objects around them. A typical day includes learning braille, orientation and mobility (learning to figure out where they are and how to get where they want to go), and compensatory skills, as well as the core curriculum subjects presented to all students.
My Project
Students with autism and visual impairments need fun toys to play with that let them actively use their other senses. Toys that make noise and have various textures make it fun for our students to explore their environment auditorily and tactually!
My students need sensory items like ribbon bells, sensory paint, textures balls, and matching texture fish, all of which make interesting sounds and have variety of textures.
They love to play with toys that are wet, sticky, squishy, soft, crunchy, squeaky, jingly, scratchy, pokey, warm, cold, bright, flashing, stretchy, and/or noisy!
Using all of their senses with these toys helps calm our students and gets the in the mood to learn. The children have so much fun using their senses that they don't know they are learning!
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