Classroom Demographics and Structure
📌 Chloe's current resource room serves students with Other Health Impairments (OHI), ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and Emotional Disabilities.
📐 The new classroom space is approximately three times larger than her previous one, necessitating creative structuring for individual work areas.
📚 Students use an individual cubby system to retrieve necessary materials like reading binders, social skills folders, and data binders before moving to their designated tables.

Sensory and Alternative Seating Solutions
🧘‍♀️ Hokey stools (or wobble stools) are utilized for students who need to wiggle, allowing them to move quietly without falling or disrupting others.
💡 Fluorescent lighting is softened using lighting covers in a soft blue hue, which, along with the predominant blue and green color scheme, aims to create a calm and natural atmosphere.
🔗 Room dividers are strategically placed throughout the room—four in total—to successfully break up the large space into distinct work zones for various activities and group sizes.

Sensory Regulation Spaces and Tools
🤸 A sensory swing (funded via a grant) is a highly successful tool, featuring a visual arrow to indicate the correct swinging direction.
🤫 The calm down corner is used frequently for sensory or regular breaks, and also facilitates role-playing and social skills practice.
🗄️ Fidgets are organized in green buckets, clearly labeled with photographs inside and out, promoting student responsibility for tidiness.
🏃 A trampoline is used twice daily by one student on the autism spectrum and also serves as a reinforcer for completing expected work.

Key Points & Insights
➡️ The classroom design focuses on creating "rooms within a room" to manage the large space and cater to diverse individual needs.
➡️ Visual supports, such as labeled cubbies with photos, empower students to manage their materials independently.
➡️ Students use a set schedule, but breaks are permitted as needed; upon leaving their main area, staff determine specific calming techniques (soothing, high-energy, or kinesthetic activities) required for the student upon arrival.

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