Project Description
Sensory Room
RECIPIENT: Theresa Stender, Century Junior High School
AMOUNT: $1,500
GRANT OVERVIEW
A sensory room is a special room designed to create a space in which students can de-escalate when over stimulated by the environment of a regular classroom. Through special lighting, music, and sensory objects, students with limited communication skills and sensory/processing integration disorders can reduce anxiety, and engage in self-regulation so that he/she can return to the classroom.
“The swing relaxes me.”
-8th Grade Student
“The sensory room helps develops our student’s individual senses through movement, tactile, audio and/ or smell.”
-Sensory Room Teacher
“Bouncing on the yoga ball, helps my body feel better.”
-9th Grade Student
