Velcro
Velcro
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Using Velcro...
Provides tactile stimulation
Supports students who are overly-stimulated, energized, or in need of a sense of touch
Discretely allows student to utilize coping strategy
Implementation
Implementation
Overview
Place a line of velcro underneath a student's desk.
The student must be taught how to appropriately use velcro.
The velcro may be one sided with the felt for students to use as a calming strip
Both sides of the velcro may be placed to allow for a small variation of a fidget to attend to focus.
Core Components
Pre-taught expectations
Used by student
easily accessed
Calming area
At desk
Proactive Implementation
Providing all students with a Velcro strip on their desk and explicitly teaching the students how to use the strip for coping is the proactive approach.
Responsive Implementation
Responsively implementing a Velcro strip on a student, group, or class's desk may be introduced to help support increased focus or ease of frustration.
BUcket Fits
BUcket Fits
Connection
If the need is connection then the class may be trained to support each other with prompting students to use the velcro when they see a peer struggling.
Skills Training
If the need is skill building then the student may teach the use of the Velcro strip to a younger student in a mentor role.
Awareness
If the need is awareness then the student may be prompted with a secret signal to use the Velcro.
Emotional Regulation
If the need is regulation then the student may use the Velcro any time they feel dysregulated as a co
Consider Factors Prior to Start
Student factors-
Gender, race, function, topography, family dynamics, interpersonal relationships
Contextual factors -
Resource availability, classroom instruction, physical space, time, technology
Intensifying or Fading During
Duration
Frequency
Feedback
Reinforcement
Goals
REMINDER
Make a note to document when you're starting this intervention.
After 10 consecutive school days of implementation, use collected data to determine the intervention's effectiveness.
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