School Located Near Historic Site! Most of the twenty eight classrooms at the Sporting Hill Elementary School in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, have at least one ball chair. Some are manufactured by Newman Adaptive, maker of the AlertSeat™; others come from a competitor. But whatever they are called, teachers see great benefits in using them. Said one…
When Howard Newman invented the AlertSeat™, it was students like the ones at the Jesse J. Kaplan School in West Nyack, New York who were foremost in his mind. The Kaplan School focuses exclusively on students with autism, intellectual disabilities, medical fragility, and multiple disabilities, many of them severe. Located in Rockland County on the…
Massachusetts Charter School Sets and Meets High Standards In the 18th and 19th centuries, New Bedford, Massachusetts was an important whaling center, its fleet known throughout the world. When the industrial revolution came to America, New Bedford was one of the places it took root with thousands of immigrants flocking there for the plentiful…
Manhattan Private School Celebrates Diversity The IDEAL School of Manhattan may, indeed, be “the ideal school.” A private kindergarten through eighth grade academy located on the city’s Upper West Side, the IDEAL School serves 130 students in an atmosphere defined by inclusion and diversity. It is a place where special needs children areintegrated into every…
AlertSeats™ Make An Impact In Variety of Educational Settings “AlertSeats in a Learning Support classroom at the Shippensburg, Pa Intermediate School.” At Archbishop Damiano School AlertSeats™ are considered therapeutic tools by the professional staff who utilize them in classrooms, therapy sessions and the gym to help students with severe physical and cognitive disabilities. Harrisburg Academy, an academically…
Like any school that serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, money is tight at the John Paul II Center. So when the staff at the Shillington, Pennsylvania, school wanted AlertSeats™ for their students, they turned to family and friends for help. During a live auction at the Center’s annual dinner last year, AlertSeats™ were…
AlertSeat™ has been getting notice in educational and therapy circles. Now the entire world will get to see it on YouTube. [pl_video type=”youtube” id=”FYcUCGO4dRw”] The brief, yet comprehensive, production went up on the video-sharing website in December. It shows the innovative AlertSeat™ in classrooms and therapy settings and offers close-up views of the seat’s features.…
Global Focus Energizes Harrisburg Academy Children are children, wherever they go to school, subject to the same impulses and energies that can disrupt a classroom. That’s why the Harrisburg Academy, a private school in Pennsylvania’s state capital that aims to prepare its students “for the globally connected world of the future,” is experimenting with AlertSeats™.…
Minnesota Study Supports Effectiveness More evidence that special education students benefit from stability ball seating comes from Minnesota where a graduate student studied the impact of the seats on students in a classroom setting. Victoria Bill earned a master’s degree in Special Education from Southwest Minnesota State University after submitting a research paper entitled “Effects…
AlertSeat™ Passes the Ultimate Test Kids not only benefit from using AlertSeats in classroom settings, they like them, too. “When you have ants in your pants, you can bounce on the ball,” reported one second-grader. “When you bounce on it, it helps you do your work,” she added. “You can get your wiggles out,” said…