Fostering Inclusion With a Student-Designed Sensory Path
When kids collaborated on making a sensory path for their school, what started as an occupational therapy zone became a welcoming, playful space that benefited all students.
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Go to My Saved Content.STEM teacher Kyley Longo-McGarvey loved the idea of creating a sensory path at her school, Myers Elementary鈥攂ut what makes this path extra-special is that her students designed it, in collaboration with their peers in special education. Because of the pandemic, notes occupational therapist Wendy Bush, 鈥淲e鈥檙e seeing more dysregulation in the kids.鈥� So, not only will Myers鈥檚 sensory path be used for kids with sensory needs; it鈥檚 a place where any kid can blow off some steam.
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