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  • Buffalo Creek Elementary School
  • Houston, TX
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Sensory processing disorders occur when the brain has difficulty receiving and responding appropriately to information it receives. For instance, they might have problems with touch, spacial awareness, vision or how they interpret things that they hear. Children with sensory processing disorders often have autism or another disability too, but sometimes it can occur in healthy children. A sensory processing disorder isn’t an actual medical diagnosis and is not widely known about. Children with sensory issues can be mistakenly labeled with behavioral problems when in fact the problem is physical and comes from the brain and nervous system. Goodall, Susie. “How Sensory Toys Could Benefit Children with Processing Disorders.” NurtureSmart, 15 Oct.2014 Hand fidgets can help manage anxiety, improve attention/ability to focus, or even help children calm down when dealing with a surge of emotions such as extreme anger or frustration. Kozlowski, Christina.” Sensory” AUTISM ARTICLES. 17 Dec. 2017 I would like to use these sensory gadgets to give my students positive ways to mange their stress, and anxiety, so as to allow them to focus on their studies.

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Sensory processing disorders occur when the brain has difficulty receiving and responding appropriately to information it receives. For instance, they might have problems with touch, spacial awareness, vision or how they interpret things that they hear. Children with sensory processing disorders often have autism or another disability too, but sometimes it can occur in healthy children. A sensory processing disorder isn’t an actual medical diagnosis and is not widely known about. Children with sensory issues can be mistakenly labeled with behavioral problems when in fact the problem is physical and comes from the brain and nervous system. Goodall, Susie. “How Sensory Toys Could Benefit Children with Processing Disorders.” NurtureSmart, 15 Oct.2014 Hand fidgets can help manage anxiety, improve attention/ability to focus, or even help children calm down when dealing with a surge of emotions such as extreme anger or frustration. Kozlowski, Christina.” Sensory” AUTISM ARTICLES. 17 Dec. 2017 I would like to use these sensory gadgets to give my students positive ways to mange their stress, and anxiety, so as to allow them to focus on their studies.

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