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Mrs. Kikawa from Bellevue, WA is requesting other through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help my kids with their Sensory Overload

My students need Body Sox, a Spin Toy, and Balance Disk.

  • $355 goal

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I teach special needs students, grades 3-5. They are a wonderful bunch of kids that are amazingly diverse. They learn differently from each other and from other kids. But, they are learning to read, enjoy games, recess and lunch the same as their typical peers.

Several of my students live with autism which causes them to experience movement, light and sounds in varying ways - different from how you and I experience these things. And sometimes these sensory experiences can be downright painful or upsetting.

There are many sensory-feedback strategies, but I have experimented with activities and devices and found a few things that really help my students. What helps these kids cope is to use their gross motor muscles to create action and movement. It is amazing how a few minutes playing on a swivel toy, for instance, can provide a child with fun and, importantly a way to calm themselves. After such "play," they can go back to the work of school and be more successful. My students need help with managing their sensory needs. They experience movement, light and sounds differently. These activities and tools will help them cope when their senses are overloaded or they have more energy than they can manage alone.

Seeing the world as a child with autism sees it is hard, even for the child's parents or teachers. But we do know strategies that can help them have better, happier experiences. Please support my students in this by helping us purchase these sensory activity tools. You will be helping them every day.

Mrs. Kikawa
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Bilibo Spin Toy • Abilitations, Inc. $25.99 1 $25.99
Abilitations® Body Sox™ Medium Size 47" Tall • Abilitations, Inc. $63.99 1 $63.99
GymSpin Balance Disk • Abilitations, Inc. $139.99 1 $139.99

Materials cost

$229.97

Vendor shipping charges

 $23.00

Sales tax

 $14.95

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.75

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$291.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$63.88

Total project goal

$354.88

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $354.88

13 Donors

-$342.35

Donations toward project cost

-$291.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$51.35

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$12.53

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