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The Right Calming Sensory Lights for Your Sensory Room

At the heart of every sensory room are calming sensory lights. Sensory lights provide stunning effects and help to create stimulating environments for all needs

7 Sensory Overload Symptoms to Look Out For

How to identify key signs of sensory overload.

Five Ways an ASD Sensory Room can Help Children

Though difficulty with sensory integration can be a developmental hurdle for those with ASD, a sensory room for an autistic child can help them facilitate communication, engage with sensory skills, and develop motor skills, among many other benefits.

Our Top 5 Sensory Solutions for Schools

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.

4 Best Autism Communication Tools

If you know or care for someone with autism, you’ll understand how difficult it can sometimes be to communicate with them.

Understanding the Different Types of Stimming

What is stimming? Also known as self-stimulatory behavior, different types of stimming are a common occurrence in people with autism and sensory processing difficulties.

4 Ways to Navigate Autism and Routine when Social Distancing

All over the world, people’s regular routines have been disrupted in impactful ways, due to the restrictions in place to reduce the spread of coronavirus.

Environmental Control in a Multisensory Room

Multisensory rooms and products are of huge benefit to individuals with autism, ADHD, Alzheimer’s and other limited abilities.

World Autism Day: Understanding Autism

World Autism Day is a day dedicated to celebrating individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), improving our understanding of autism, and encouraging world autism awareness.

The Different Kinds of Autism Explained

Autism is not an illness; it is a developmental disorder that affects one in fifty-nine individuals.

Teaching Emotional Intelligence

What is emotional intelligence (EQ)? It's is the ability to connect with other people successfully. By understanding our own feelings we can understand others

Our Top 10 Sensory Activities for Autism

Why use sensory activities for autism? According to a leading autism charity, The National Autistic Society, around 700,000 people are on the autism spectrum

7 Calming Strategies for Autism

Each child responds differently, and so it's all about trying different autism calming techniques and finding out what works to calm sensory overload in autism.

Autism and Multisensory Rooms

Sensory rooms for autism can be extremely beneficial. Featuring a combination of sensory room items for autism, including lights, selected auditory systems, and specialized furniture, it can provide the perfect space for developing communication skills and thought processes.

Benefits of Sensory Fiber Optics Integration

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.

How to Recognize Common Early Stages of Autism

Our aim is for parents to feel as educated and equipped as possible to spot the early stages of autism. To spread awareness of the condition and discuss signs of autism in babies and how to recognize them.

Preventing Meltdowns in Children With Autism

We've all been there. You head into the grocery store and right when your cart is full and you're waiting in line, your child goes berserk! They can't stay one more minute in the checkout line and right when their voice hits a decibel that can crack a mirror, you realize you can't stay there either.

What Causes Stimming in Autism

Stimming is a behavior typically displayed by people with autism and sensory processing difficulties. It can present in a number of ways, including verbal and auditory stimming – discover the different types of stimming in our previous blog post. So what causes stimming?

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.

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.

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