Strategies Showcase by Adrianna Dyksman

Instructions

dyksmana — 2025-10-21 20:49:10 UTC

Welcome to our Strategies Showcase Padlet! Please follow the instructions below to complete the activity. If you have any questions, please ask your instructor for help. • Create a post with your unique strategy for supporting children with sensory impairments. • Include an image or video that illustrates your concept. • Provide constructive feedback on your peers' ideas by upvoting, commenting, and using the star rating.

essential oils

2025-10-22 00:40:52 UTC

I have a friend who has a hard time with some of the cooking smells we sometimes get in the classroom. So his mother gave us some different essential oils that she knew he liked. We could just rub a small amount on his wrist, and he would smell it when needed (Bryer)

Weighed stuffed Raccoon.

2025-10-22 00:43:34 UTC

We use the weighted raccoon to calm children who are emotionally dysregulated. sometimes even during nap time. Some children need the weight to fall asleep.

Targeted Approaches

2025-10-22 00:44:56 UTC

I currently have a child who gets overstimulated and wants to climb around and pull stickers off the walls. We have been allowing her to play on top of the play structure we have inside the classroom. and provide sticker books to help her through the over stimulation of being around the other kids. -Sienna

Calming Space

2025-10-22 00:45:44 UTC

Creating a calming space filled with natural textures, like soft furs, smooth stones, or gentle water sounds can help ground their senses. Weighted blankets can bring comfort and security. Dez

2025-10-22 00:46:24 UTC

Movement Maps

In our classroom, we introduced “Movement Maps”—visual floor guides that help children navigate sensory regulation through choice and play. Each map is a large, laminated path placed on the floor, marked with symbols representing different sensory stations: a quiet tent with soft textures, a jumping spot with mini trampolines, a breathing corner featuring pinwheels and glitter jars, and a rhythm zone with drums and scarves.

Fatiha

noise cancelling headphones and communication boards

2025-10-22 00:47:11 UTC

In my class I use noise cancelling headphones for students that do not like the loud sounds when we are doing music and movement. I also use communication boards for children that are mostly non-verbal. I noticed we are learning sign language while doing this.

illuminated sensory ball pool

jpp99vczb4 — 2025-10-22 00:47:15 UTC

I seen this strategy at the school in the support room where a EA brings in kids one at a time to help calm them and regulate themselves in a sensory room. this is the first thing they go for once in the room the pool. mandy

2025-10-22 00:48:02 UTC

Using weighted blanket one of my old kids hated being dressed had to resort to sleepers being backwards but loved water play another hated loud noise but placed hands on speaker to feel vibration

Facilitates Self-Regulation

2025-10-22 00:50:06 UTC

Helping the child actively learns to correlate a feeling with an action. This develops important self-advocacy and emotional regulation skills. Chona

Yarn and feathers

2025-10-22 00:57:31 UTC

the boy I work with doesn't like most sensory Items but what calms him down is arn and feathers, he likes ripping the threads out of the yarn and pulling the fluff off the feathers, he likes to make little thread balls and throw them in the air, he likes watching them fall. it calms him down and regulates him, especially if we're laying down and listening to nursery rhymes in our sensory room.

-Garrett

Calm corners

s1014024_2 — 2025-10-22 00:58:48 UTC

Spaces for self-regulation are fantastic with books and sensory toys. A small space where the child feels safe. Often, just lying down and cuddling a small teddy helps them, or a small box with sensory toys, or simply lying down and looking at a book. Photos that show different emotions help a lot in this type of spaces too. (Photography is the calm corner I have in my toddler room.)

violeta

Group Activities

2025-10-22 01:01:43 UTC

During group activities with sensory disabilities child, I always make small adjustments so every toddler can join in. That might mean using big gestures, sitting close to a child, or simplifying an activity to match their needs. I believe that every child can learn, they just need the right support and opportunities. Anju

Sensory Blackout tent

2025-10-22 01:01:49 UTC

My son with ASD had a thing where he would bury himself in blankets, pillows, and it was a hassle cleaning them up multiple times a day, so I bought this and this has been his favorite place to hang out for the past year. I believe this helps him regulate and retreat from our crazy home.

-Alex B

Social and Emotional Learning: Using tools like emotion cards, regulation cubes, or social skills training videos to help children understand and communicate their internal feelings (interoception) and social cues.

2025-10-22 01:06:47 UTC

Shivani