The Salt Lake Tribune (6/1, Schencker) reports that in Meredith Dyer's fourth-grade class at Adelaide Elementary School in Bountiful, Utah, "about one-third of the students sit on large, colorful fitness balls instead of chairs." According to Dyer, the balls help students who had trouble paying attention in class. Dyer is one of "at least hundreds of...teachers nationwide" who have switched from using only hard chairs in their classrooms to medicine balls for seats, "saying it helps their kids to shake off excess energy, focus, and improve their posture." The Salt Lake Tribune points out that a "study published in the American Journal of Occupational Therapy in 2003 found the balls could help kids with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) stay seated and write more clearly."
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