Special Needs

Weighted balance ball provides an outlet for excess energy, reduces fidgeting, and increases concentration. An original weighting feature prevents the ball from rolling, keeping it in place when not in use. Anti-burst, slip-resistant high quality material is latex-free. Includes pump, 2 stoppers, and measuring tape.

• Includes 13 mini-books to be assembled and read multiple times
• Mini-books teach essential social skills related to manners at home, school, and in the community
• Simple illustrations allow students to color and personalize their own books
• Includes completion certificates and blank mini-book pages

What does a harmed child look like? It's the little girl on the playground who has mysterious bruises on her legs. It's the three-month-old baby boy who arches his back when you try to hold him. It's the four-year-old who bites and hits when asked to clean up. These are the faces of traumatized children.

As an early childhood professional, you play a key role in the early identification of maltreatment and unhealthy patterns of development. You are also the gateway to healing. In Reaching and Teaching Children Exposed to Trauma, you will find the tools and strategies to connect with harmed children and start them on the path to healing.

Dr. Sorrels offers practical strategies that caregivers need to help these littlest victims.

• Connecting with a harmed child using games, music, gentle touch, and play
• Meeting children's sensory needs throughout the day: morning arrival, group time, meal times, outdoor play, and naptime
• Creating a sensory-rich classroom environment with easy, simple ideas
• Teaching a traumatized child self-regulation skills and impulse control using visual cues, rehearsal and role play, games, and scripted stories
• Coaching and supporting social skills: turn taking, sharing, joining in play, empathy, and conflict resolution
• Communicating unconditional love and acceptance to children from hard places

• Includes 13 mini-books to be assembled and read multiple times
• Mini-books teach essential social skills related to school routines
• Simple illustrations allow students to color and personalize their own books
• Includes completion certificates and blank mini-book pages

• Makes the perfect travel gift
• Great for tactile stimulation and anxiety
• Lightweight and comfortable

• Manufactured with Antimicrobial Protection against the spread of common bacteria; FDA approved and successfully tested to reduce up to 99.9% of common bacteria including E. coli, listeria and S. aureus.
• Provides an outlet for children with high energy or sensory seating needs like ADHD or Autism.
• A generous amount of space around the rim prevents finger or hand pinches.
• An anti-tip safety ring on the gently-rounded base prevents tip-overs and falls.
• Low profile allows for easy stacking and storing.
• Great for training on an unstable surface to improve balance, proprioception, stretching, aerobics, mobility and reflex. Can provide a full body work out to strengthen core and leg muscles by engaging muscles not often used.
• Great for standing desks too! The rocking motion can help strengthen one's core and help improve balance and posture with daily use.
• Very little maintenance needed; easy to clean and has antimicrobial protection. Will never deflate and no additional parts are needed.

• Maximum load weight is 250 lb.

• Made in USA and satisfaction guaranteed with a lifetime warranty.

Bouncy Bands for Elementary Chairs are made with heavy-duty rubber.

• Loops are molded on both ends of the Bouncy Band. They install to the chair in seconds!
• Chairs can be lifted, moved and stacked, while the support pipes and bands stay secured.
• Note: The heavy-duty band and support pipes are free of latex and pthalates.

Bouncy Bands for Elementary Chairs can be used with Kindergarten chairs and they also stretch to fit up to fifth grade chairs. They can stretch to fit chairs that have a distance from 13-17" between the chair legs. If you have a chair that has legs that are smaller than 13" across, we are able to make you custom-sized band at any smaller length at no extra cost. Just mention the size needed in the comments section when you order online.

• Students love being able to wiggle while they work!
• Active students are more productive and spend more time on task when they can move.
• Students with short legs enjoy being able to rest their feet on the Bouncy Band instead of having them dangle all day.
• In addition, students who feel anxious when working enjoy being able to stretch their legs to release their anxiety while they work.
• Chairs can be lifted, moved and stacked, while the 4" support pipes and bands stay secured. Be sure to position the support pipes with the groove at the top for the band to rest inside so that tension keeps the band securely attached to the chair legs.

Weighted balance ball provides an outlet for excess energy, reduces fidgeting, and increases concentration. An original weighting feature prevents the ball from rolling, keeping it in place when not in use. Anti-burst, slip-resistant high quality material is latex-free. Includes pump, 2 stoppers, and measuring tape.