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The Sensory Room: Helping Students With Autism Focus and Learn

Imagine a safe space where students with autism can go to calm their bodies and then get back to the business of learning.

May 3, 2017

This is part of our Schools That Work series and features key practices from Meriden Public Schools in Connecticut. See how the district redesigned its special education services.

Interested in learning how to create your own sensory room? Check out Sensory Room 101.

Schools That Work

Meriden Public Schools

Public, Urban
Grades K-12
Meriden, CT

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