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With last month (June) being Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month, we at Experia USA strongly believe the productive conversations of the campaign should continue into the rest of the year and beyond. In this post, we’ll provide advice on talking to someone with Alzheimer’s and communicating with dementia patients.
Please meet IRiS, your multisensory room assistant. As you enter a multisensory room, you might just be greeted with a visual delight such as bubble tubes, fiber optics, projected images on the wall, interactive boards, and other interactive pieces of equipment that stimulate, calm, and integrate the senses.
It’s a term we hear quite often, and getting Sensory Integration Disorder or Sensory Processing Disorder explained properly can be quite hard work. Most of us who work with children toss it around freely, almost like a ball. And, I'm convinced we carry these challenges into adulthood.
A multisensory room may be one of the most delightful, engaging and calming environments you can experience. The lights, sounds, and feel can transport even the most withdrawn individual to a place of peace, calm, and interaction. In this blog, we'll look at the history of multisensory rooms, and answer your questions on where to put a multisensory room.
If you walk into a multisensory room, you will more than likely see some very attractive, color changing strands - fiber optic strands. These spaghetti-like strands full of light can take on the form of a variety of presentations and are very useful for stimulating both vision and touch. Fiber optics can be used to entice individuals to interact with their sensory room environment. They can be used with a variety of individuals, but in particular seem to be effective for those with neuro differences such as Autism, ADHD, sensory integration dysfunction, learning differences, and Alzheimer’s. And we know that fiber optics benefit sensory integration and sensory processing enabling those with sensory challenges to engage with their environment.
When you think of mindfulness, you may think of a full mind. Perhaps it reminds you of someone highly intelligent such as an engineer, neuroscientist, astrophysicist, or the “You May Be Smarter Than a Fifth Grader” friend. These are indeed people with full minds, but they are not necessarily mindful individuals. In general, someone who is mindful is someone we think of who is present, who notices, who remembers. And, mindfulness may improve attention.
With the school year coming to an end, investing in sensory equipment for schools is an excellent way to make learning facilities more inclusive for years to come and put leftover budget dollars to good use.
We'll explain what multisensory solutions are, why it's so important that schools invest in them, and we'll also reveal our top 5 sensory solutions for schools.
This past month, April, is recognized as Autism Awareness Month, which is dedicated to celebrating differences and raising awareness about living with autism. As we step into the coming months, it's important to continue the awareness-raising done in the past few weeks.
Who doesn’t love a bubble tube? Those eye catching tubes with the colorful bubbles floating to the top. Bubble tubes draw attention and can be highly beneficial for those with ADHD and similar attention deficits. They are a key component in a sensory room but can also be used in a bedroom, office, waiting room, classroom or clinic.
Bubble tubes have the ability to calm or stimulate and encourage interaction. There is something so compelling about a bubble tube! More often than not, it is the center of a multisensory room experience.
Sensory Processing is the ability to integrate and modulate sensory information efficiently. Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) or Sensory Integration Dysfunction is the inability or poor ability to process, interpret, organize, and modulate. This challenge may present itself as under responsive, over responsive, or sensory seeking. You may notice someone who does not respond efficiently to his or her name being called (sensory under responsive). Or, perhaps you know someone who does not like to be touched (sensory over responsive). And we all know that special person who is touching, shouting, or perhaps jumping, and cannot seem to get enough input (sensory seeking).
