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Ideas:
∗ playing with kinetic sand/gel balls
∗ Play Dough
∗ water games/toys (indoors)
∗ calming bottles
∗ swinging (rocking chair)
∗ sound tubes
∗ shaving cream and soap foam play
∗ scented items (soap, bags, candles)
∗ “heavy work” activities (pushing and pulling a heavy box around the room)
33. ADAPTATION OF ENVIRONMENT
Adapting the environment to prevent the child from engaging in challenging behaviours, opportunities for irritation/stress/meltdowns. Some ideas:
∗ dividers to divide the field of view;
∗ removing attractive/ irritating objects from the field of view (e.g. favourite book/ tablet, etc. is not visible during learning)
∗ noiseblockingearpads;
MANUAL FOR TEACHERS, PARENTS AND OTHER SPECIALISTS TO PREVENT
AND COPE WITH CHILDREN’S CHALLENGING BEHAVIOUR 23
Table divider in the classroom
Divider in the classroom.
