Sensory rooms are becoming more popular in homes, clinics, and schools. The rooms are designed to assist someone in organizing, calming, relaxing, and seeking out sensory information. The goal of a sensory room is to provide a safe place where someone who has Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) can go when they need to either calm or stimulate their senses. They can…
Art and creativity has been found to be an important outlet for children. Whether budding artists will have their work hanging in a museum or just on a refrigerator, you will know that YOU have made a difference! Thank you for bringing the joy of art into the life of a child with special needs! The arts can level the playing…
Storytelling is as simple as reading a story from a book. If you don’t have that much time, you can always share a story from memory, talk about your own childhood, or even read out loud from your phone.There are innumerable advantages of story telling for kids, especially for preschoolers, kindergarten and young children. Enhances Verbal Proficiency: Reading out stories…
Audio and visual cues creates great level of motivation for all children , be it typical, children with mild level of difficulties or children with special needs. When activities and learning are paired with visual and auditory cues especially in terms of short interesting clippings and songs , it is even more engaging. At Antara, we have a dedicated small…
Activity hub is a corner at Antara where the students get to choose their activities and play/learn. Learning can be extremely fun when associated with goal oriented activities. Students are various activities right from conventional activities (game based ) pallankuzzhi, snake and ladder etc to modern ones like dart board, dominoes etc. Math or English when paired with activity based…