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benefits of a sensory room

an exciting interactive environment for individuals or groups

Products to be used under the supervision of a professional/responsible adult at all times

Hand Wall - Page 228

Bubble Tubes - Page 11

WHAT A SENSORY ROOM CAN DO FOR YOUR SCHOOL

Within a busy school environment, a Spacekraft Interactive Multi-Sensory
room can provide a calm, dedicated, engaging and exciting space to work
with individual learners, or small groups of learners, who have a wide range
of complex learning needs. As it’s easy to control the amount of sensory input
and stimulation on offer at any one time within the sensory room, school staff
are able to set up the space to meet each learner’s specific needs.
What motivates and engages the learner? What is their understanding of
cause and effect? What touch or which switch makes each sensory room
activity accessible to them? Which visual effects might visually engage
them? SpaceKraft Interactive Multi-Sensory Rooms have a wide range of
equipment, switch, touch and noise-making access, and different modes of
switch access (momentary, latched and timed options) so that each pupil can
enjoy motivating activities and experiences in the sensory room that meet and
develop their cognition and communication.
DEVELOPING INDIVIDUAL SKILLS
A sensory room will give you...
• An environment that can be adapted to meet the individualised
learning needs of a wide spectrum of pupils with profound,
severe and complex learning difficulties, including those with
autism and those with significant visual difficulties.
• A defined space that enables you to control the sensory input for
each child, so that individuals are not over-stimulated and will be
more able to engage with, and focus on, tasks and activities.
• A range of motivating equipment to engage learners in planned
activities to develop understanding of cause and effect, choice
making, switch skills, visual focus and tracking.
• Different visual effects that can both help you to assess a child’s
vision and provide visual activities that will motivate them to use
and extend their visual range.
• A space that encourages shared and intensive interaction
between you and the child, as you share the experience together
and enjoy each other’s company.
• If necessary, a place to relax and calm.
WORKING WITH A GROUP
Imagine the scene: a small group of children in the sensory room with some
of their education staff. The bubble tube is bubbling blue or green (changed
regularly by the children using individual switches or 8-way SpaceMaster
Controller). Images of woodland, or a range of greens and blues, is being
projected onto the wall. A yellow Superbeam introduces shafts of sunlight to
the scene. A tray of real water and pebbles is introduced so the children can
‘paddle’ in the woodland stream.
This is a sensory drama session, made even better by the intimate nature of
the sensory room – a defined, quiet space where the only sensory input is that
which is carefully planned to engage your learners and create an enjoyable
shared experience with a unique atmosphere. Sensory stories and poems can
also be enhanced in the sensory room, using sensory room equipment and
effects together with other objects to make these stories and poems accessible
and meaningful for pupils with complex needs.

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