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Playground Provides Learning, Safety for Kids with Autism
The academy's Rapaport said if a child starts to feel uneasy, they can sit down and feel the bench, which can help them relax
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Playground Provides Learning, Safety for Kids with Autism
There are also musical bells and large xylophones that produce calming sounds. An enclosed structure provides a place of peace and quiet if a student needs a break from play.
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Playground Provides Learning, Safety for Kids with Autism
One of the most important designs, says Rapaport, is a tower that can spray water on multiple children.
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Playground Provides Learning, Safety for Kids with Autism
This can be an important way for older children with autism to get over their fears of water, which for them can be overstimulating. “Imagine you have a child that won't take a sh…
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Playground Provides Learning, Safety for Kids with Autism
“Now we can have kids go outside and they're standing under a sprayer and they're loving it. Why?
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Playground Provides Learning, Safety for Kids with Autism
Because they're watching other kids do it.” Like the shower, much of the equipment is designed to persuade students to interact with each other, even though they might usually lik…
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Playground Provides Learning, Safety for Kids with Autism
A swing set is designed to permit two kids to swing at the same time, for example. Celia Galion’s daughter Deborah is a 14-year-old who attends Transformation Academy.
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Playground Provides Learning, Safety for Kids with Autism
Deborah has a condition called tuberous sclerosis, which causes seizures, and which brought on her autism at a young age. “Deborah is a very sweet child,” Galion said.
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Playground Provides Learning, Safety for Kids with Autism
“She likes playing. She loves hugs. She's very affectionate and she likes to be loud.
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Playground Provides Learning, Safety for Kids with Autism
And so being outside is great.” Galion said it has been four or five years since she has taken her daughter to a playground.
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Playground Provides Learning, Safety for Kids with Autism
She had resisted taking Deborah because other kids could be mean and she felt like many playgrounds were not safe.
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Playground Provides Learning, Safety for Kids with Autism
But Galion said the new playground at Transformation Academy permits “children to feel like they have a little bit of freedom.”
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Playground Provides Learning, Safety for Kids with Autism
They can play “without having to necessarily have somebody standing right over them to make sure that they’re safe…it’s really, really great for them.”
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Playground Provides Learning, Safety for Kids with Autism
Rapaport said the school plans to open up the playground for everyone in the autism community, even if they do not attend Transformation Academy.
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Playground Provides Learning, Safety for Kids with Autism
Sparks@Play’s Hack said he thinks the playground can help autistic children of all ages develop their independence as they move into adulthood.
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Playground Provides Learning, Safety for Kids with Autism
“Being able to learn how to collaborate and work with other people and use your imagination and try things that you wouldn't have tried otherwise shapes you into a much more confi…
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Please leave the keys near the cheese
Please leave the keys near the cheese
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Police are appealing for witnesses following an incident on the High Street las…
Police are appealing for witnesses following an incident on the High Street last night.
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Pop your clogs
Pop your clogs
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Presidents’ Day in the US
The third Monday of February is known as Presidents’ Day in the United States.
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Presidents’ Day in the US
For nearly 100 years, America honored its first president, George Washington on February 22. That was his birthday.
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Presidents’ Day in the US
But the date was not a national holiday until 1968. That year, the U.S.
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Presidents’ Day in the US
Congress passed a measure known as the Uniform Monday Holiday Act. The measure meant that some public holidays would always fall on a Monday.
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Presidents’ Day in the US
Today, the country honors its first president on the third Monday in February -- and not on Washington’s real birthday.
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