Sensory World

There was a neat story in the Dallas Morning News about a non-profit organization, Sensory World, that provides educational, recreational, and therapeutic services for children.

They provide services for all abilities.

However, they specialize in providing services for those with autism, Down syndrome, and other special needs.

Here is their SMART acronym model:

• Sensory integration
• Motor Skills
• Academics
• Recreation
• Technology

It appears they don’t provide services for just the child. They take a whole-family approach.

What a wonderful idea. I hope they can get a Recreational Therapist on staff if they don’t already have one.

Read more here: 

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20160104-looking-ahead-farmers-branch-therapeutic-support-center-focuses-on-entire-family.ece 

St. Peter's Catholic School has a new autism and special needs unit

St. Peter’s Catholic School (Mansfield, Ohio) has a new autism and special needs unit.

I’m very pleased to see they will be offering recreational therapy and have a rec. therapist on staff.

It appears they’ll be offering an interdisciplinary approach, including:

Speech and language therapy

Occupational therapy

Physical therapy

Play therapy

And some applied behavior analysis components.

Check it out here:

http://www.richlandsource.com/education/st-peter-s-helping-students-with-autism-special-needs-blossom/article_36bf4486-9ac7-11e5-9c5b-0b84ac3e0b6c.html

And as always – if you need Rec Therapy CEUs, visit my site here:

http://www.dannypettry.com

Music for people with special needs

Share Your Blessings (SYB) Awards up to 1,500 Interactive Music Systems to Families and Organizes supporting individuals with special needs.

This sounds really great.

Read the article here:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/share-your-blessings-syb-awards-up-to-1500-free-beamz-interactive-music-systems-to-families-and-organizations-supporting-individuals-with-special-needs-300132122.html