Alternative Seating & Desks

Engineered solutions to make students more productive — trusted by schools across the country.

Field-Proven Solutions For Every Classroom

  • Sensory Rooms

    Specialized environments designed to support sensory needs and regulation.

  • Classroom Adaptation

    Flexible seating and desk solutions that fit any learning environment.

  • Individual Support

    Targeted products to help individual students thrive and stay on task.

Rifkin offers field-proven solutions trusted by schools across the country. Whether you’re adding a sensory room, adapting a classroom, or aiding individual students, our products help you keep students engaged, comfortable, and focused.

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Stimulating, Energy Absorbing Alternative to Conventional Hard Surface Chairs

Evaluated in therapeutic settings. Put through its paces by people who know.

  • Schools serving exceptional students
  • Classrooms for typical children
  • Clinical and therapeutic settings

Kate Muro is an occupational therapist in the Hatboro-Horsham School District in Montgomery County, Pa.

Observation has provided all the proof she needs that AlertSeats™ benefit children. “We’re all about data,” she says. She has seen the results in students with a range of disabilities including attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, cerebral palsy, autism, low muscle control and Down Syndrome.

Why Choose AlertDesks™

Versatile • Durable • Adaptable

  • Work/ Play Surface features a high quality finished birch plywood top plus an optional add on/removable magnetic whiteboard overlay
  • Continuously adjustable height and angle top on all models

Student is shown seated on an AlertSeat™ size small/medium model S/M-38. See www.alertseat.com

Standup Adjustable Desks

  • Accommodate those who benefit by being on their feet while they work or study
  • Excellent alternate to seated learning
  • Adjustable height and angle work/play surface
  • Two sizes: For K-3; For Grades 4-12

Standing desks may help students be more attentive.

“Preliminary results show 12 percent greater on-task engagement in classrooms with standing desks, which equates to an extra seven minutes per hour of engaged instruction time.”

Vital Record, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, April 22, 2015

Standing desks can provide physical benefits, according to an international professional journal:

“Standing desks could benefit children’s control of fine motor tasks.”

Gait & Posture, July 2016, Vol. 48.

AlertDesk™ Accessories

  • Magnetic Rubber Strips included to secure work to slanted surface

  • Optional Removable Magnetic White Boards for all models attached with industrial Velcro

  • Optional Book and Work Bag attaches to all models on right or left

  • 2” wide by 1” deep Removable Pencil/Utility Tray
Download The Case Study PDF

AlertDesk™ Models

  • AD-3 Standup Desk Short (grades K-3)

  • AD-2 Standup Desk Tall (Grades 4-12)

  • AD-4 Pediatric Wheel Chair Desk

  • AD-5 Standard Wheel Chair Desk