Dimi Stathopoulos is an occupational and speech therapist who has a lot of experience working with children with Austim Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and a host of other learning disabilities and difficulties.

The occupational and speech therapist asserts that conditions such as ASD have "become more prevalent in the last 20 years", with only 1 in roughly 10,000 children diagnosed with the condition 20 years ago. Now, that figure is approximately 1 in 100 and is predicted to be as common as 1 in 10 in the future.

As conditions such as ASD have become far more common in society, they have also become commonplace within classrooms. While many teachers may have some or a lot of knowledge of such conditions, knowing how to manage them at the coalface can be a daily challenge for both the teacher and the student if no strategies are in place.

For a while now Stathopoulos has been using a new technology called My Burrow in her own clinic and recommending it for teachers to use in the classrooms. Essentially "a soft stretchy place" for children to crawl into, My Burrow allows children who are experiencing sensory overload, agitation, anxiety and a fear to calm down and, in Stathopoulos's words, begin to "think clearer" and "disconnect between the brain and the body". Campus Review spoke to Stathopoulos about how the product works and what she and others have observed.

Dimi Stathopoulos is an occupational and speech therapist who has a lot of experience working with children with Austim Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and a host of other learning disabilities and difficulties. The occupational and speech therapist asserts that conditions such as ASD have "become more prevalent in the last 20 years", with only 1 in roughly 10,000 children diagnosed with the condition 20 years ago. Now, that figure is approximately 1 in 100 and is predicted to be as common as 1 in 10 in the future. As conditions such as ASD have become far more common in society, they have also become commonplace within classrooms. While many teachers may have some or a lot of knowledge of such conditions, knowing how to manage them at the coalface can be a daily challenge for both the teacher and the student if no strategies are in place. For a while now Stathopoulos has been using a new technology called My Burrow in her own clinic and recommending it for teachers to use in the classrooms. Essentially "a soft stretchy place" for children to crawl into, My Burrow allows children who are experiencing sensory overload, agitation, anxiety and a fear to calm down and, in Stathopoulos's words, begin to "think clearer" and "disconnect between the brain and the body". Campus Review spoke to Stathopoulos about how the product works and what she and others have observed.

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