09/01/2026
What if we stopped asking, “How do we get this student to participate?” and started asking, “What can we change to create access?”
During a body parts lesson, Miss Savannah noticed something about Lorelai: she seeks sensory input through her feet.
So instead of working around that need, the team worked with it.
Lorelai felt the brush, had her foot painted, and made a footprint while learning about a body part. Then the lesson naturally moved into communication.
Miss Marissa modeled “yellow” on her Tobii Dynavox AAC device using TD Snap. And then Lorelai showed us that she understood. She reached up and selected “yellow” herself. 💛
What might look like a simple sensory activity was actually so much more:
🦶 Sensory input
🧠 Learning through experience
🎨 Connecting an experience to a concept
💬 AAC modeling
🗣️ An opportunity to communicate
✨ A student actively participating in her learning
The lesson didn't have to change. The pathway to the lesson did. This is Therapeutic Education.
We don't believe students should have to fit the way we've always taught. We believe we can change the approach to create access.
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