Sensory Street Kids Melissa & Doug Band In A Box Giveaway

I introduced Lea Keating and Sensory Street Kids to you in a previous post. Lea also has a blog, called La La Language, in which she writes about sensory activities, SPD, and what is going on with Sensory Street Kids.

Lea would like to invite you over to her blog and get your input or questions. If you didn’t read my previous post, let me go over the main points of what Sensory Street Kids is. Lea founded Sensory Street Kids out of a need to provide her newly diagnosed with SPD son a quality and appropriate play group.

She needed the play group to be appropriate for his sensory needs. She needed it to encourage socialization with other children and to help him developmentally. When she couldn’t find one on her own, Lea turned to her son’s therapists and developed a curriculum for him.

This led to play groups designed around the curriculum, and eventually, to forming Sensory Street Kids. Sensory Street Kids is now provides in several states around the country. Parents and therapists can join the Sensory Street Kids team by becoming licensed providers. Once licenses through Sensory Street Kids, Lea provides them continuous support and resources within the Sensory Street Kids community. This includes and advisory board of specialized therapists, her website and the La La Language blog.



Lea, on behalf of Sensory Street Kids, is providing one Melissa and Doug Band In A Box set to one lucky reader of my blog. If you don’t win here, don’t worry, there will be opportunities on other blogs. I will list them on the Winner announcement post.



This giveaway begins now and will end July 18, 2010. You must be 18+ and a US resident to enter. When the winner is posted, you need to email me to claim your prize, tammy@learningfelt.com. If you leave your entry as Anonymous, please include your email in order for me to verify that the correct winner is claiming the prize.

Main Entry: Follow the La La Language blog, then come back here and leave a comment telling me what name you are following with. (If this rule isn’t followed, no additional entries will count).

You can get extra entries by doing any or all of the below. Each entry needs to be a separate comment.

1 Extra Entry - Follow @taless on Twitter and leave your twitter id in a separate comment
* 1 Extra Entry - Twitter this giveaway and leave your twitter name in a separate comment (You can get up to one extra entry by tweeting each day and leaving a comment here each day.)
1 Extra Entry - Follow my blog and let me know in a separate comment
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1 Extra Entry - Write a post on your blog linking to my blog, and let me know in a separate comment

Sensory Street Kids Is A Hit

I have started doing some work for Lea Keating of Sensory Street Kids. She has hired me to help with her website and her blog, La La Language. Lea has a son that was diagnosed with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) at the age of 16 months. She founded Sensory Street Kids to fill a need that was missing in her community.

After searching for the right play groups and social environments for her son, Lea became frustrated. They weren’t meeting the needs of her son. That was when she consulted with professional therapists in designing a program that would meet her son’s needs and other special needs children.

Soon, she was offering this program in libraries and day cares. It was benefiting both special needs children and typically developed children. Sensory Street Kids was born and has been providing sensory based language/music classes for three years.

It didn’t take long before Lea was being contacted by parents and professionals around the country. They had heard about her and Sensory Street Kids on Twitter and wanted to know how they could bring Sensory Street Kids to their community.

That was when Lea put together a licensing program for Sensory Street Kids, and now parents and professionals can sign up to join her team. Parents and professionals can become Certified Sensory Street Kids Instructors. They can open their own Sensory Street Kids center in their community. Sensory Street Kids now has centers in Miami, Springfield, Washington. For more information on this, you can visit the Sensory Street Kids website.

Lea has also developed a blog to go along with her website. It’s called La La Language and provides articles on sensory activities, tips, and upcoming events for Sensory Street Kids. You can leave comments on her blog if you have questions or follow her on Twitter, http://twitter.com/sensorystkids.

Lea is also competing in the 2010 Startup Nation Leading Moms in Business. You can vote for her by visiting this link, http://www.startupnation.com/leading-moms-in-business/contestant/8852/index.php. I encourage all of my readers to go over there and show your support.