reading – Group by Group

Once a week Joy travels to a regular elementary school in the district to work with Ms. Alice’s students. Alice is such a creative teacher and she and her staff work hard to provide a variety of sensory experiences for her students. One of the coolest things she has done is to turn her office space into a mini sensory room!

She had a swing mount attached to one of the ceiling beams and ordered a platform swing and net swing. Her students get so excited when its time to go “swing”! On their tummies and moving the swing around with their arms they are working on neck extension, shoulder stability, palmer sensitivity, and visual tracking while picking up objects such as letter cards that are increasing their academic skills.

For reading time, the students go into the “cave” that Alice made with plastic tarps that are taped together and inflated with a fan. Her students just love this!

Here is what the opening looks like.

Alice and Robin—–you guys are AWESOME!!!

This is what Jeannie says about the Fine Motor Group:

The best thing about The Fine Motor group is the fun. The students really enjoy and have fun participating in the reading portion and in the making of the final product. All of the students are involved and engaged in the reading activity by taking turns reading using the adaptive communication device. The students then become engaged in the art project that produces a product that corresponds to what they have just read. This gives more meaning and understanding to the book.

The way their faces light up when they finish their project and get their “ta da’s” makes it all worthwhile.

One other thing that makes the group special and increases the collaborative effort is our vision teacher, Melissa. She works

with one of the students in the classroom during the Fine Motor group and her support has been invaluable! Thanks Melissa 🙂

Group by Group

Sensory, Fine Motor, and Language groups for children with disabilities

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Sensory Room part 2

The Fine Motor Group