Sensory Motor Supports

There are typically 2-5 kids per Kindergarten through second grade class alone, whose focus would benefit from sensory motor equipment.  Kids who have trouble sitting still may wobble their desks, rock their chairs, spring out of their seats, are unable to attend to seated academics and/or prevent other students from attending to their work.  The circular Disc O' Sit is a semi-inflated rubber cushion with bumps for lots of sensory input can literally give a child some wiggle room.  The child can get the feeling of movement while staying seated at his desk.  This can prevent the child initiating more disruptive movement options such as getting up out of his seat.  In addition to decreasing disruptive behaviors, opportunities to wiggle or use a hand or pencil fidget actually help children to stay focused on academic tasks.  OT has been loaning wiggle cushion, t-stools, pencil fidgets, and in-hand fidgets to classroom teachers with the feedback that they could use more because there are many kids in the younger grades that still struggle with seated attention.  These equipment interventions directly impact the targeted students by helping them to calm, attend to task and decrease their disruptive behaviors, which in turn, indirectly help all the other students in class to attend to their work.