Category: Daily Living
Hello,
I
am hopefully going to be teaching students with autism starting next month, and I'm trying to get things around that will help me keep control of the classroom easier. I have been told that some of the students are "Runners" which means they bolt out of the classroom or building without warning. I have been looking at putting a portable motion detector in my room near the door so I can hear when a student gets close to the door and can stop them before they run out. Has anybody used motion detectors in a building and which did you use? I have found some atradioshack, the website at least, but would like to get a demonstration or something, or hear from people who have used them. Any help would be absolutely amazing!
Thanks!
Jenna
Jen, what did you end up going with? How has it worked out?
I'm curious to know, (if you care to share), what type of facility you are working in and what your vision level is.
I'm curious because one of my first job interviews after losign my sight was for a position working with autistic children.
It was the most humiliating experience I've had to date. It was a pretty low level job that i was more than qualified for (at least on an education level) and most of the people they tended to hire had less experience and education than myself.
But I was absolutely ridiculed and talked down to because of my sight loss. I was caught completely off guard and unprepeared for such attitudes as the organization had a stellar reputation.
Hey. Have you thought about getting a gate for the door that you can swing open, it with the detector might work well. So they cant flee out as fast with the gate up.
I wonder how those things work
Yes; not heard of them myself :)
gates? I'm guessing she means the type you use to keep young kids from going up or down stairs or in or out of certain rooms
No one has said spisifically what they were wanting to be defined so I have not explained. A gate is and waste hi object you put in a door way to keep kids and pets from going threw the door way. You can get some that have a swing door in it with a difficult latch opener so you don't have to cliam over it each time you want to go threw the door.
You just open the latch. You keep this up at all times. I have seen in day care centers where they have half doors. The top and the bottom of the doors are seperate parts so you can keep the lower end closed, keeping kids inside the door, but the top open, so you can view another room or people outside the room can view in.
This people, is a gate.
HTH
If your asking about motion detectors. It uses a beem of some kind that will set off an alarm, beeping, when someone passes threw the signal. It is kind of like a door bell or a meddle detector that goes off when you walk threw it... It is electric so you won't step on or over anything. It is kind of like an envisible layzer.