Planet Montessori’s 15 Must-Have SPED Materials for Kids with Special Needs

Planet Montessori’s 15 Must-Have SPED Materials for Kids with Special Needs introduces essential resources to enhance the learning experience for children with special education needs. Planet Montessori has assembled a list of 15 vital materials in the Sensorial Category, specifically designed to support and advance the educational development of these students.

What Makes These Materials Unique?

Planet Montessori's SPED materials are specifically tailored to address the sensory needs of children with special requirements. From tactile experiences to visual cues, these materials offer a multi-sensory approach to learning, allowing students to engage with concepts in a way that best suits their individual learning styles. By incorporating these materials into educational programs, educators can create a dynamic and inclusive learning environment that supports the holistic development of each student.

Top 15 Must-Have SPED Materials in the Sensorial Category

1. First Fabric Box - SPM020

The First Fabric Box is a tactile material that helps kids develop their sense of touch and fine motor skills. It contains a variety of fabrics with different textures for sensory exploration. It encourages sensory exploration, texture, and pattern recognition, fine motor skills, language development, and creative expression. It provides a foundation for understanding and describing textures and patterns, which is useful in many aspects of learning and daily life.

2. Tasting Exercise - SPM029

This activity allows students to explore different tastes and textures, helping   them develop their sense of taste and enhancing their sensory perception. It focuses on taste awareness, mindful eating, and exploring the diverse world of flavors and cuisines. It's an excellent tool for sensory development, culinary education, cultural exploration, and instilling a love of food and taste.

3. Pressure Cylinders - SPM039 

Pressure Cylinders are a hands-on material that encourages students to experiment with pressure and develop their tactile discrimination skills. These materials provide a tactile approach to understanding and describing pressure sensations, which is essential to many facets of learning and cognitive development.

4. Rough and Smooth Boards with Box - SPM040

These boards provide a contrast between rough and smooth surfaces, allowing students to explore texture and develop their sense of touch. The first board introduces the contrast between rough and smooth. The second board helps to coordinate finger movements and builds dexterity. The third board introduces the graduations of texture from fine to coarse.

5. Smelling Bottles - SPM041 

Smelling Bottles contain various scents for students to identify, helping them improve their olfactory senses and sensory memory. This promotes sensory exploration, aromatic discrimination, language development, and sensory perception refinement. These materials provide a sensory-based approach to understanding and describing scents, which is important in many aspects of learning and cognitive development.

6. Sound Boxes - SPM043 

Sound Boxes help students differentiate between various sounds, enhancing their auditory discrimination skills and sound recognition. This fosters auditory discrimination, language development, fine motor skills, and auditory perception refinement. These materials give an auditory-based approach to understanding and describing sound qualities, which is vital to a lot of learning and cognitive development.

7. Thermic Tablets - SPM046 

The Thermic Tablets provide a temperature-matching activity for students to develop their sense of touch and thermic discrimination. It promote thermal discrimination, sensory exploration, language development, and thermal perception refinement. These materials provide a sensory-based approach to understanding and describing temperature sensations, which is critical for many aspects of learning and cognitive development.

8. Guessing Box - SPM052 

The Guessing Box is a mystery sensory activity that challenges students to use their sense of touch to identify hidden objects. The child learns to identify objects through the sense of touch. The child imprints the forms of the object into memory and learns to coordinate visual and tactile sensory input.

9. Wooden Rainbow Stacker - SPM053

The Rainbow Stacker is a colorful and interactive material that helps students develop their fine motor skills and color recognition. This is a versatile Montessori material, perfect for fostering creative play and developing fine motor skills in children. Introduce the concept of colors and sizes to your child with the Wooden Rainbow Stacker.

10. Brown Stairs - SPM011 

Brown Stairs are a visual and tactile material that assists students in understanding size gradation and developing their sense of order. It fosters size discrimination, visual discrimination, fine motor skills, problem-solving, and language development. It provides a foundation for understanding size and dimension, which is essential for a variety of learning and cognitive development.

11. Baric Tablets - SPM003 

Baric Tablets provide a weight discrimination activity for students to enhance their sense of touch and develop their fine motor skills. The Baric Tablets introduce and refine the concept of the basic sense. While blindfolded, the children endeavor to discern the weight of the tablets, the lightest weight to the darkest color wood being the heaviest weight. 

12. Color Resemblance Task - SPM014

The Color Resemblance Task helps students differentiate between shades of color, improving their color perception and discrimination. The Color Task provides an excellent opportunity to introduce vocabulary so that the child may learn the names of each of the colors and the associated descriptive terms.

13. Pink Tower - SPM030 

The Pink Tower is a classic Montessori material that assists students in developing their visual discrimination and size comparison skills. This series of cubes develop visual discrimination of size in three dimensions. Exploration with this material prepares the child for mathematical concepts in the decimal system, geometry, and volume.

14. Cylinder Blocks - SPM026 

Cylinder Blocks provide a challenging visual and tactile activity for students to explore different shapes and sizes. The Cylinder Blocks provide the first stage (introduction) of experiences in visual discrimination of size. Grasping of the knobbed cylinders indirectly prepares the child for writing by developing the three-finger grip.

15. Geometric Cabinet - SPM022 

The Geometric Cabinet includes various geometric shapes for students to explore and match, promoting their shape recognition and spatial awareness. The cabinet fosters visual discrimination by enabling children to identify and differentiate between various geometric shapes. Working with the geometric insets educates children about spatial relationships, sizes, and angles.

Planet Montessori’s 15 Must-Have SPED Materials for Kids with Special Needs in the Sensorial Category offers a wide range of hands-on activities and experiences to support the unique learning needs of individuals with special education requirements.

By incorporating these materials into educational programs, educators can create a supportive and engaging learning environment that maximizes learning opportunities for all students. Experience the difference with Planet Montessori's specialized SPED materials tailored to meet the diverse needs of children with special requirements!

Should you require additional materials, feel free to send us your specific needs, as we boast an extensive range of over 38 manipulative materials classified under the Sensorial and Practical Life Categories.

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