Sensory Blog
Sensory News from Experia
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A Multisensory Room For Back To School
This year as the school year begins at Ingleside Primary School in Ingleside, Texas or the Robert Driscoll Elementary School in Robstown, Texas, the children will have the privilege of spending time in a quality multisensory room, as part of their routine. The multisensory rooms are designed specifically for each...
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Multisensory Room For Down Syndrome
Down syndrome. Perhaps you know someone diagnosed with the extra chromosome 21: those irresistible individuals with knowing eyes, loving hands, and huge hearts. So what is behind down syndrome and how can we best maximize the gifts and help with the challenges? Aside from early intervention and special education, can...
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A Multisensory Room For Fighting Depression?
It's all the rave these days - how to be happy. Seems quite simple, right? Just be happy. But it's not, and if you just take a peek at the news, with depression on the rise, not only will you find plenty of unhappy people, but it may seem almost...
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Sensory Diet for Autism
You may be familiar with the term sensory diet - using sensory items for autism to feed the sensory system with sights, sounds, smells, taste, touch, and motion. A sensory diet for people with autism is designed to suit the specific sensory needs of their nervous system. As the number...
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How to Clean a Bubble Tube
A sensory room bubble tube is made from high quality, durable materials. Bubble tubes feature a state of the art operating system which is both reliable and powerful, and when they’re looked after correctly they can last you many years. However, neglecting a bubble tube’s cleaning routine can cause it...
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Sensory Processing Disorder and Stimming
We are sensory beings. And the way, quality, and efficiency of perceiving sensory information can directly affect our behavior, motor skills, and self-image. An individual with SPD (sensory processing disorder) can seem as if they are neurotypical one moment and the next moment they can be unresponsive, irritated, or overly-excited...
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How to Choose the Right Sensory Package
Multisensory rooms are big investments with invaluable benefits, and with so much choice of equipment and set up it can be difficult to know where to start when it comes to designing a sensory room. That’s why we’ve put together a selection of multisensory room packages which we will guide...
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How to Fix a Bubble Tube
Experia USA’s bubble tubes use the best quality materials available - our tubes have the highest clarity of any acrylic tube and the air pumps we use are among the best in the world. Although our bubble tubes are designed with durability and longevity in mind, accidents do happen! If...
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Calming or Interactive Multisensory Room Equipment?
With so much multisensory room equipment available, if you step into a multisensory room, what you witness is outstanding. The lights, sounds, music, tones, textures, feel, and scents can be pleasurable, calming, alerting, and have been known to raise endorphin levels. And, for individuals who are challenged by their sensory...
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Alzheimers Disease and the Benefits of a Multisensory Room
This month we acknowledge brain awareness to bring understanding and support to those suffering from Alzheimer's, dementia and brain diseases. And, there is no better time to do this, especially with today’s offering of supportive resources and sensory activities for dementia patients. Alzheimer's disease is the sixth leading cause of...
