Engaging in sensory activities provides several benefits for both seniors and individuals with special needs. From enhancing cognitive function to reducing anxiety and encouraging meaningful connections, these experiences can significantly improve quality of life. Our Multi-Sensory Activity Kit is designed … Read More
Tag Archives: Special Needs
Calming Kits – Tools and Resources for Calm Down Corners and Quiet Spaces
Calming Corners are fast becoming an essential classroom space for managing feelings and emotions. A calming corner gives students a safe, soothing place to go when they are feeling overwhelmed or upset. With our exclusive, specially designed calming corner bundles … Read More
8 Skills For Special Needs Students To Build In The Classroom
My name is Margaret Stacy and I am a K-2 self-contained ABA/iGoal teacher in a low income, high poverty school district. The school that I am currently based out of also experiences a high trauma rate. I have 10 students … Read More
How Achilles Kids Can Inspire Special Education PE Classes
Two years ago, I was working at a summer day camp where I began talking to a co-worker about programs that we used with our students. I told her that I was a runner and I used the programs through … Read More
Media Center Activity – Therapy Dog for Students
Thursday afternoons have gone to the dogs at Boston Middle School in Laporte, Indiana. Well, actually only one dog! Her name is Newdle and she is a licensed therapy dog. Newdle is part Newfoundland and part Standard Poodle. Her owner, … Read More
How to Use Storytelling Yoga in the Classroom
If you have an extra 15 minutes you can accomplish three things in your classroom: Calm yourself and your students Engage them in a story Become more physically fit You can accomplish all of this through Storytelling Yoga. It combines … Read More
Activities to Support Dementia Awareness Week
Raising Awareness About Dementia It is so important to bring awareness to dementia related diseases because there is not yet a cure, but early diagnosis can help improve the life of people with dementia and their families. Alzheimer’s is the … Read More
Friendship Circle Fitness Program for Special Needs
The Friendship Circle is a non-profit organization that brings together children, teens and young adults with and without special needs for a wide range of educational and social programs in a Jewish environment. One of the many programs run by … Read More
3 Ways to Engage Students in Your Special Education Classroom
Now that the school year is well underway, whether you are a new teacher or a 30+ year veteran teacher, you are certainly learning a lot about your students and what is or is not working for you, your students, … Read More
Classroom Management for Special Education Teachers
Today’s KISS – Keep It Simple Strategies – Classroom Management for Special Education teachers. For discussion purposes, we’ll assume you are a Resource Room teacher at the Elementary level. You are that miraculous person that takes the challenged children each … Read More
