I mean… I get it! My room is FILLED with sensory rich equipment and environments, including sensory bins and tunnels, and a trampoline and an exercise ball and a spinning chair, squishy toys, bubbles, blocks & puzzles, YOU NAME IT.
🌟 And around here? We are child-led, so the therapy room is often a child’s favorite place to be (but we definitely have our hard moments and days!!)
But working in a school and watching this happen all day, has got me thinking… how can we make the classroom environments more child-led and sensory/movement rich and motivating for these students?? 🤔
I NEED to know your thoughts & experience ⬇️
#occupationaltherapy #schoolbasedot
2 months agochampion_rehab
I believe this is where collaboration between therapists and teachers becomes so valuable. Both perspectives matter.
7 months agolife.as.elise
Ugh so true and a barrier I feel like I have every day as a fellow school based OT! Also would love any suggestions because no matter how many times I try to share that there is so much research on benefits of movement based activity within the classroom I always get excuses 🙄
7 months agodr.daniellefallprevention
Change the seating system in the classroom. Just the other day I was looking on TJ Maxx or Marshalls and they had something online that you could attach to a couch to allow you to swing your foot back-and-forth as a sensory regulation tool. I couldn’t believe it. If it’s being sold for the consumer for their home, why is it not in the classrooms?
8 months agogeneekapt
This is the collaboration schools need. OTs helping shape the whole environment 💚
8 months agoneurofitvr
Such an important conversation — bridging the sensory-rich OT environment with classroom carryover is key to lasting impact for kids!
8 months agopots_occupational_therapy
Such a real challenge! 🙌 When kids go from a sensory-rich, choice-driven space to a highly structured classroom, the shift can feel huge. Curious to see how others are approaching this too! 💙
8 months agoelfinnegan4
General classroom teacher here 👋 been working on incorporating these in my classroom in collaboration with our school OT @rmohney3! I do brain breaks between every subject, sensory pads on seats, weighted blanket and vests, heavy work by carrying heavy objects to other teacher rooms, wall presses and sits, balance board in a corner, handwriting putty warm up, fidgets
8 months agokiakahamama
One of the aides laughed at me when I gave my students stickers during our OT sessions🤦🏻♀️
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