Having a sensory environment can really immerse people of all ages into a full sensory experience, helping those with various abilities. Anything from a single sensory product, a full sensory room, or a sensory corner can provide this experience.
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What is a Sensory Corner?
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Lighting, Equipment and Bubble Tubes for Sensory Rooms
Designing a sensory room can be a lengthy process, and many areas need to be considered to produce the best possible environment for the user. Experia USA supply a selection of specialist lights, mirrors and bubble tubes for sensory rooms. These will help you to create the most immersive, beneficial experience for your individual requirements.
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Sensory Garden Ideas for Children
A sensory garden is just how it sounds – a garden to stimulate the senses. These gardens can vary considerably in size, varying from a full large garden to a small area of a garden. However, whatever the size, all sensory gardens are alike in that they immerse young minds in their senses. Ranging from different textures to touch, scents to breath in, or colors to gaze at, these gardens can be beneficial for a range of requirements.
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What is Quality vs Economy Equipment
It's quite simple. If you’re looking for equipment for your home, school, child, parent or family member, you just Google it. But what a consumer may not realize is whether they are getting a quality or not-so-quality made product. Will it last? Will it do what I need it to do? Has it been safety tested? Whether you are shopping for ball pits, swing equipment or sensory room equipment, you may want to do some investigating before you purchase. Here are 5 tips to help you make a smart decision about your special needs equipment choices.
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Choosing the Right Sensory Lights
Lighting For Your Sensory Room
Sensory lights are at the heart of any sensory room. They provide stunning effects and help to create calming or stimulating environments, promoting interaction and development for users with a wide range of sensory disorders. By using the correct sensory lighting, you can improve focus and attention whilst creating a fun, relaxing and safe space.
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Where Can Sensory Rooms Be Used?
What are Sensory Rooms?
A sensory room is an environment specially designed to provide a sensory experience to individuals of various abilities. These rooms offer amazing benefits to users, regardless of their age or ability. Each sensory room is different and can be designed and adapted to particular abilities, spaces, and budgets. Whether living with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Dementia, Dyslexia, or more, sensory rooms have been shown to provoke positive changes in mood, cognition, and well-being in a vast range of diagnoses. The benefits of a sensory room are endless.
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Creating a Sensory Soft Play Room
MAKING A SOFT SENSORY ROOM
Creating a soft sensory room can engage users by providing space to engage with their environment and react to its stimuli. This is especially important for young children, allowing them to "use their creativity while developing their imagination, dexterity, and physical, cognitive, and emotional strength." A sensory soft play room should be soft by nature, so that the user can feel as if they are in a comfortable, safe space where they can focus on playing, interacting and learning.
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Top Five Sensory Exercises in a Pool
Sensory pools can have outstanding benefits for those who have sensory developmental problems. With the help of sensory pool equipment, regular pools can be transformed into an amazing sensory environment. Placing individuals in an environment with moving colors and shapes, therapeutic music, combined with a sensation of weightlessness, can be advantageous for a range of sensory abilities.
Children learn largely through play, and so sensory exercises designed with play in mind can be fun as well as educational and therapeutic.
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Maintenance of Bubble Tubes for Sensory Rooms
Bubble Tube Maintenance
A Bubble Tube is a fantastic piece of sensory equipment, which can both calm the user down and reduce the likelihood that they will exhibit unwanted behaviors. A lot of specialist schools, nurseries and healthcare facilities use bubble tubes for sensory rooms, as their ability to help individuals de-escalate can improve their learning environment. This can lead to more productive activities and exercises, and a better experience for both students and teachers.
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What is Sensory and Motor Integration?
What is sensory integration?
Sensory integration refers to the process of receiving information through our senses, and organising this information. Sensory motor integration is the relationship between these sensory skills and the motor system. Both the sensory and motor systems are integrated, with the systems communicating and coordinating with each other. This works to allow individuals to be able to take in sensory information and interpret it to make a relevant motor action.
