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Sensory lights are at the heart of any sensory room. Providing stunning effects and creating either calming or stimulating environments, these lights can benefit users with a wide range of sensory disorders such as autism and Down syndrome. By using the correct sensory lighting, you can improve focus and attention whilst creating a fun and relaxing environment for users.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Multisensory rooms are immersive environments which have been specifically designed to develop the user’s senses. They include specialist sensory equipment which can either stimulate the user’s mental activity, provide a relaxing environment or promote interaction.
The term Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a term used to describe a range of neurological conditions that affect muscle control and movement, and often include cognitive and sensory impairments too. This condition surfaces following damage to the brain either before or after birth. This damage can be due to an infection caught by the mother during pregnancy, a premature or complicated birth, a bleed in the baby’s brain, or mutations in the genes that effect the brain’s development.
ADHD (short for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is a group of symptoms which typically includes impulsiveness, hyperactivity and a lack of attentiveness. These things tend to be picked up at a young age – they are often highlighted when a child has a change of circumstances, such as beginning school. Continue reading
Bubble tubes are a key piece of sensory equipment that play a vital role in sensory development and feature in a wide number of sensory rooms or environments. Bubble tubes create constantly moving color changing bubbles which can both sooth ad catch the eye. We have a range of controllers – these are our iRiS Talkers. Continue reading
