Pick Your Plan
Free Training
$0
Choose 30 or 60 minutes
Different times available
Topics to choose from
How to not only de-escalate a meltdown but to also turn it into 40 minutes of concentration, within seconds and without talking
How to welcome students in a soothing space and stimulate their brains for attention and learning
Features
Whether you select the 30-minute or the 60-minute format, we will train you live and take time to answer your questions to ensure the training can be applied in your unique classroom environment.
Depending on the size of your team, we would be happy to have refreshments provided by a local provider. Food is usually a nice way to make the session memorable. :-)
Behavior Regulation Training with Coaching for 3 months
$6,000
One-time payment
10 Staff + 50 Students
Features
You can get your team together for a live training session or you can send your team to take the course online when it is convenient to them.
The core content of the course typically takes 3 hours to complete.
The course is also loaded with 10 hours of reference material that you can access at any time.
After completing the online course, we help you translate the training for implementation in your unique setting. For 3 months, we can schedule as many sessions as you need to help your team become 100% comfortable and seeing results.
Too many programs end up collecting dust on a shelf.
We are your partners. It’s in our best interest to see your team do well with it and see students become happier in your classrooms.
• The Multisensory Core Protocol: A powerful way to prime the brain for growth
• Gentle Claw + Smell: Bring calm and induce an elevated state of neuroplasticity
• Bead sorting – No vision: develop mental image, a crucial step for self-awareness and social skills
• Finger gym: Example of a protocol for speech apraxia
• Maze in the mirror: Requires the brain to re-learn something simple and grow new connections
• Art – point and say: Pairing a dopamine rush with speech development
In most settings it makes sense to assign a member of your team to champion and coordinate Sensory Enrichment with the others. This person will receive their own weekly coaching sessions.
6 weeks is usually all it takes for Sensory Enrichment champions to become confident in coaching their peers, but we can extend the coaching where needed.
We never leave you alone. We are partners in this.
There is no extra fee for scheduling additional coaching sessions.
It is in our best interest to train confident and competent educators in bringing improved behavior regulation and academic performance to their students.
It’s like Christmas every month to receive a package filled with Mendability-approved materials to enrich your classroom environment.
There is an extra monthly fee for that service of $40 per classroom.
Full, Progressive, Customized Program and Support for 12 months
$12,000
Annual payment
10 staff + 50 students
Features
Our program director will prescribe a set of Sensory Enrichment activities to do with your students, customized to their current levels and needs.
All you need to do is complete a 25-question survey for each special education student in the classroom.
To keep things simple, the program will be customized to the classroom as a whole and you will do the same protocols with all the students.
Where appropriate, we can also prescribe a custom program to individual students.
Every 3 weeks (or 4 weeks depending on your situation) you move on to the next level of programming.
The program is designed to gradually improve your students’ ability to regulate their own behavior and to process and learn abstract concepts like math.
Every time you get new Sensory Enrichment activities for your classroom, we will coach you on:
• the purpose of each protocol,
• how to dial things up or down for each student to optimize brain stimulation,
• what materials you can use in your classroom.
We never leave you alone. We are partners in this.
There is no extra fee for scheduling additional coaching sessions.
It is in our best interest to train confident and competent educators in bringing improved behavior regulation and academic performance to their students.
It’s like Christmas every month to receive a package filled with Mendability-approved materials to enrich your classroom environment.
There is an extra monthly fee for that service of $40 per classroom.
The best training and coaching happens when we can visit your classrooms and see with our own eyes how your students respond, rather than rely on your descriptions.
There is an additional fee of $1,000 per day + travel expenses ($2,000 within US/CAN).
Sensory Space
Based on size and design
Features
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Highlights Training Package Included
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Full Program and Support Included
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2-day installation
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Customized space (price depends on size and design)
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Burn-out prevention access for staff
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10-year warranty
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Equipment provided
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"Way More fun!"
FAQ
Upon completion, participants will be able to:
- Implement 7 powerful sensory enrichment protocols designed for the classroom to help with behavior regulation, cognitive performance, abstract concepts and social skills.
- Describe how Sensory Enrichment works to stimulate students’ brains.
- Analyze what to expect and what progress should look like with Sensory Enrichment.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of a game session.
- Anticipate some of the challenges that you may face as you implement Sensory Enrichment and discuss ways to overcome these challenges.
- How to stop a meltdown and turn it into a positive experience, without talking.
- How to welcome students into a soothing space and stimulate their brains for attention and learning.
There are also bonuses lessons to help participants:
- Identify the key roles, functions, and physiology of the brain.
- Explain how neurons communicate and describe the impact of brain chemistry on development and behavior.
- Describe the tools the brain uses to grow and repair itself.
- Explain how animal studies support the idea that experiences can change brain structure long after development is complete.
- Implement ideas to help with handwriting.
- Understand why some students are not aware of danger.
- Understand why some students struggle with math.
It depends if you enrolled in our Highlights Training Package or the Full Program and Support Package
With the Highlights Training Package we:
- Ask you about your classrooms and help you implement the generic protocols with your unique students
- Share with you additional protocols that would support your current objectives with your students.
WIth the Full Program and Support Package we:
- Design a progressive program to support your unique students’ brain development.
- Train you on each set of protocols when it’s time to move on to the next stage of the custom program.
- Help you track consistency and progress data.
○ Short baseline questionnaire for each student for customization of the program
○ Introduction of the Mendability Minute into all the participating classrooms
○ Start the customized protocols (after two weeks of Mendability Minute)
○ Protocols are updated every 3 to 4 weeks after this
This is not your typical sensory room.
This diagram represents a series of therapy stations that correlate to specific protocols that have been developed and tested by Mendability. Stations are easily adaptable to deliver multiple protocols.
More than exposing the individual to generic stimuli, Environmental Enrichment Rooms were created and designed by Mendability to trigger the mechanisms of brain plasticity and direct the surge of activity and growth to specific brain functions.
Environmental Enrichment therapy and rooms have been shown in clinical trials to be many times more effective than standard care and standard sensory environment.