Sensorial Room

"We build knowledge and understanding of the world through our senses, and the quality of learning is directly related to the quality of the experience, instruction, or training the child receives in the early years of his life". Maria Montessori, Educationist  

 What is a Sensory Room?

A Sensory Room is a place where children with disability can explore and develop their senses and skills. The multi-sensory room can have many different features ranging from soft play areas, padded floors and walls and interactive equipment which make dramatic changes to the sensory room environment using sound and lights.

What are the benefits of a Sensory Room?

A Multisensory room can engage children to learn through play; from following bright lights, shapes and patterns with their eyes to pressing buttons to make the sensory room change in colour, light and music. Users will become interested in their environment. Also due to the flexible functionality of the multisensory room it can also be used to calm and de-stress.

There are several benefits to the sensory room:

• ·       It develops and stimulates the child’s senses

• ·       It releases excess energy from hyper active children

• ·       It helps implement focused activities and specialized therapies

• ·       It provides a comforting and fun environment

 Children become interested in their environment. The overactive can be calmed, the inactive become interested. The partially sighted can see the vivid moving colours. Those mobile can chase the slowly moving images. Giving a constantly changing and interesting environment is probably the most pleasant environment they have ever experienced, even if all they can do is lay and enjoy it!

What is the concept of a Sensory Room?

The concept of the Multi-sensory room is quite simple. Place a child with disability in a pleasant environment where the distractions of the outside world are completely absent, present them with, music and attention grabbing moving colours and shapes and then add the ability for the child to actually make things happen that are so dramatic that they cannot be missed and you have the building blocks of real progress.  It really works!!