The Vanguard School is a very special place that helps maintain a focus on academics, clinical services and daily living skills enhanced by a highly trained staff that recognizes the different ways that children learn. Recently they came to Exergame to learn more about how they can use fitness gaming with their special education programs. When they came to exergame…
Exergaming, which refers to video games that require physical activity, can be an excellent addition to sensory rooms for a variety of reasons. Here are a few ways that exergaming can be beneficial in sensory rooms: It can provide sensory input: Sensory rooms are designed to provide a variety of sensory experiences, such as lights, sounds, textures, and movement. Exergaming…
Beth Jacob Day School is a highly rated, private, all-girls, Jewish school located in Brooklyn, NY. It has 496 students in grades PK, K-8 with a student-teacher ratio of 10 to 1.
Mapleton Public Schools serves more than 6,500 students in Adams County, just north of Denver, and an additional 2,500 students around Colorado through its online partnership school. They are committed to raising expectations, providing choices for learning and removing obstacles for all students so that they can guarantee that each student “achieves his or her dreams and enthusiastically contributes to…
LEEP Forward Inc. is a place built on best practices utilizing evidence based practices and scientific approaches. They take a holistic view of the child by ensuring they consider all aspects of the child’s development. This is accomplished by working with their multi-disciplinary team including speech, occupational, and physical therapist. They also have social work services, developmental therapist, educators and…
Rio Grande City Consolidated Independent School District is a public school district based in Rio Grande City, Texas. The Special Services department encompasses three unique programs. These programs include Special education, Dyslexia and Section 504. Special Education is an integral part of the total instructional program of the district. A continuum of services is provided to meet the needs of students. The…
Haysville USD 261 is a public unified school district headquartered in Haysville, Kansas, United States. The district includes the communities of Haysville, small southern part of Wichita, and nearby rural areas. The Sensory Room features The Light Wall, known as the T-Wall, which is an interactive touch wall that provides sensory feedback with lights and touch sensors. Multiple games provide…
The Halifax Regional Centre for Education is the public school district responsible for 136 elementary, junior high, and high schools located in the Halifax Regional Municipality in Halifax County, Nova Scotia. The district’s stated vision is “to provide a high quality education to every student every day”. Recently we installed a tWall at one of the their high school locations. This tWall 64 will be…
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) is located in the Charlotte, North Carolina region and provides academic instruction, rigor and support each school day to more than 148,299 students in kindergarten through 12th grade in 175 schools throughout the cities and towns of Mecklenburg County. CMS believes setting high standards for all students creates a greater opportunity for future success – in our…
Somerset Hills School District in NJ is a K-12 School district in the boroughs of Bernardsville, Far Hills, and Peapack-Gladstone. Within this district is Bernardsville Elementary and Middle School. Here they provide academic, social and personal growth with four interdisciplinary levels in core subject levels, including literacy, performing arts, science, Social Studies and more. As part of this interdisciplinary approach they…
The Smithtown School District is dedicated to educating students to develop desired moral, ethical, and cultural values, to stimulate and expand a continual learning process and to cultivate an understanding and appreciation of the rights and responsibilities of American citizens, which will enable them to function effectively as independent individuals in a democratic society. One of the recent developments at…
The Sensory Room features The Light Wall, known as the T-Wall, which is an interactive touch wall that provides sensory feedback with lights and touch sensors. Multiple games provide progressions for users of any ability level, and the game component adds compliance for long-term effectiveness. Hanover Elementary School in Meriden CT is a model of ‘Schools that Work’, as…
