Dec 12, 2019, East Dover, DE, Shore News: Model Classroom Grant Helps to Create “Sensory Zone” at East Dover Elementary School https://shorenewsnetwork.com/2019/12/16/115242/ Completing its tour of schools that earned the 2018 Model Classroom Grant, OceanFirst Foundation representatives visited East Dover Elementary Dec. 6 to see the school’s Sensory Zone. The story of how the Sensory Zone came to be is a unique one. How so? Let’s just say it involves J-Woww of Jersey Shore fame. We’ll explain. East Dover is a fully-inclusive school with 13 self-contained classrooms and a robust special education population. Principal Matt Gray has worked closely with special education teacher Peggy Kruger to maximize the school’s resources and consider its use of space, particularly as it relates to meeting the sensory needs of students. … Connections were made. The organization J-Woww worked with to design her space, KultureCity, was more than willing to work with East Dover and help fund a new model space. Meanwhile, Peggy and Matt were working alongside district representatives to design their application for a $10,000 Model Classroom Grant from OceanFirst Foundation, which ultimately ended up being a successful effort…. The intimate but terribly outdated and underutilized space has been completely transformed to better serve special needs students and the entire student body, not to mention staff members, who frequently stop in to recharge or unwind. A mini-entry serves as a de-escalation area. … Popular Toms River restaurant Rivoli’s closed in 2016, but reopened as Riv’s Toms River Hub, and in the process introduced “Chase’s Friends Zone,” a sensory space for families with autistic and special needs children. The restaurant also worked with KultureCity and consulted with East Dover leaders while visualizing and designing the space. “It’s a wonderful thing to watch the community take this idea and expand on it,” said Gray. “This is about serving children of all needs, and it’s so important that these sensory initiatives become widespread and sustainable.”…
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Childhood Lost
Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.
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What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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