Special Needs

Do you have a child in your early childhood classroom who:

• Climbs on top of furniture and jumps off?
• Covers his ears when children are singing?
• Refuses to touch clay, paint, or sand?
• Often falls down and skins her knees?
• Refuses to play on outdoor playground equipment?

If so, it is possible the child is having sensory processing problems. How can you help children with these problems so they can enjoy learning and grow in positive ways? Sensory Integration helps you identify children who have difficulties with sensory processing, and it offers simple, easy-to-use solutions to support the sensory needs of young children in the preschool classroom. Easy-to-implement solutions include adaptations and activities for children with different types of Sensory Processing Disorder. This book has a bonus chapter with instructions for creating low-cost items to help children with sensory issues.

Chapters cover concepts such as:

• Explaining Sensory Integration and Sensory Processing Disorder
• Defining sensory avoiders, seekers, and under-responders
• Designing the environment to support the sensory development of all children
• Helping preschoolers with sensory processing problems
• Providing practical solutions to meet the needs of individual children during daily routines
• Building and creating low-cost items such as a tire swing, sand pillow, and incline board to give children opportunities to get the sensory input they need

Kids stay calm and focused while sitting as these seats give them an outlet for excess energy in the classroom, during meals, and at homework time

• Allows children who have trouble sitting still to quietly move while working enabling them to stay on task and be more productive
• Unique antimicrobial material offers a proven barrier against multiple dangerous pathogens including E. Coli, Staphylococcus, and many other bacteria, fungi, and molds
• The protective barrier between you and the harmful microbes will never wash out
• Flexible nubs on one side and smaller bumps on the other give a choice for just the right amount of tactile stimulation to calm kids
• Portable alternative to balance balls with the same benefits
• The ergonomic disc causes the body to stabilize itself – improving posture
• An Easy-inflation pump is included, and firmness can be customized to contour exactly to each child's needs
• 13”/33cm diameter is a great fit for a kid's seating while being large enough to grow as the child does
• Effective on chairs, benches, or directly on floors
• Safety tested

Clean, coarse Therapy Play Sand for indoor sandtray therapy professionals, play therapy trays, sensory activity tables and in-home or office applications. Sand, the boundless medium kids love getting their hands on! Watch as kids create a world full of wonder and meaning with play therapy toys while developing fine motor skills, intellect, visualization and social conduct.

Sandtastik Therapy Play Sand is tested and certified by toxicologists from the prestigious labs at Duke University in Durham, NC and proudly wears the ACMI ‘AP' seal – the industries foremost trusted institution for approved children's arts & crafts products.

• 100% Pure, Soft Feldspar Sand • White Color • Contains Natural Sparkling Grains •

Sandtastik Therapy Play Sand is made from soft, feldspar rock and crushed to a granular size range of 0.3 to 0.85 mm. This range conveniently allows for both kids to freely create indoors and professionals and parents to control airborne annoyances with ease.

• Includes 13 mini-books to be assembled and read multiple times
• Mini-books teach essential social skills related to self-regulation and keeping calm
• Simple illustrations allow students to color and personalize their own books
• Includes completion certificates and blank mini-book pages

Larger than classic Boinks Fidgets, Super Boinks Fidgets are easier for small hands to manipulate. Fidgety fingers slide the marble back and forth in this tight tube of fabric to soothe anxiety and stress in the classroom, theater, airplane, office or anywhere one needs to keep quiet hands.

Fidgeting stimulates neural responses to produce an increase in blood circulation in the brain and extremities, so it can ease the symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder, ADD, ADHD, obsessive-compulsive disorder, dementia and autism.

• Includes 13 mini-books to be assembled and read multiple times
• Mini-books teach essential social skills related to self-regulation and keeping calm
• Simple illustrations allow students to color and personalize their own books
• Includes completion certificates and blank mini-book pages

• Includes 13 mini-books to be assembled and read multiple times
• Mini-books teach essential social skills related to manners at home, school, and in the community
• Simple illustrations allow students to color and personalize their own books
• Includes completion certificates and blank mini-book pages

• Includes 13 mini-books to be assembled and read multiple times
• Mini-books teach essential social skills related to communication
  
• Simple illustrations allow students to color and personalize their own books
  
• Includes completion certificates and blank mini-book pages
  

• Includes 13 mini-books to be assembled and read multiple times
• Mini-books teach essential social skills related to feelings and emotions
• Simple illustrations allow students to color and personalize their own books
• Includes completion certificates and blank mini-book pages