Browse past news stories for The Quest Center in Hollywood, FL.

• School sense - Teachers turn to rooms to calm or stimulate children (Missoulian)
  posted on June 9, 2009 at 05:51:05 am
  Aaliyah Alexander, 9, immerses herself in part of the sensory room at Hollywood Park Elementary School in Hollywood, Fla., recently. Special-education teachers hope spots like this will help calm anxious kids and stimulate nonresponsive ones during the school day.
• Broward Schools To Offer Summer Lunch Program (CBS4 Miami)
  posted on June 8, 2009 at 10:01:26 pm
  The Broward school district is teaming up with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to make sure kids from low income families can still get a healthy breakfast and lunch over the summer. This year 39 select schools will serve free breakfasts and lunches during the months off June, July and August.
• School's sensory room helps disabled students (CBS 47 Jacksonville)
  posted on May 30, 2009 at 01:11:30 pm
  HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) - In this room, unlike anywhere else in his life, Eric Kercado, who is profoundly deaf and has limited vision, is in control.
• Hollywood school's sensory room a hit with disabled students (Miami Herald)
  posted on May 26, 2009 at 10:49:58 am
  In this room, unlike anywhere else in his life, Eric Kercado, who is profoundly deaf and has limited vision, is in control. Sitting in front of a small fan, 6-year-old Eric presses a big round button turning the air on and off, on and off. He smiles as the breeze hits his face. He sinks into a color-changing pool filled with clear plastic balls that vibrate to music, which makes him shake his ...