Dec 1

I've been noticing distractors lately, and whether they're actually helpful or harmful. The sped teacher I'm working with dislikes tapping, rocking, anything like that, and mentions it to students when they do it. I tend to allow them if it's not too distracting to others. At what point are students using it to focus versus using them to distract themselves? It's tough to judge. With these students you have several of them going at it at once, which does get to be a bit challenging for an instructor. I'm wondering whether pencil-tapping would be such a big deal if we hadn't made it into one and now everyone does it. What if we gave out koosh balls etc.?