{"id":65,"date":"2021-03-26T10:56:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T10:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/calaiswoodschool\/?page_id=65"},"modified":"2022-09-13T14:54:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T13:54:26","slug":"multi-sensory-rooms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/calaiswoodschool\/our-school\/areas-and-resources\/multi-sensory-rooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi Sensory Rooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-219 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/calaiswoodschool\/uploads\/sites\/12650\/2022\/09\/13145401\/multisensory-room-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/calaiswoodschool\/uploads\/sites\/12650\/2022\/09\/13145401\/multisensory-room-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/calaiswoodschool\/uploads\/sites\/12650\/2022\/09\/13145401\/multisensory-room-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/public\/calaiswoodschool\/uploads\/sites\/12650\/2022\/09\/13145401\/multisensory-room-rotated.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">The multi-sensory rooms were designed following the idea of the \u2018Snoezelen\u2019 activity promoted in Holland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">The word \u2018Snoezelen\u2019 is a combination of two Dutch words meaning to \u2018sniff\u2019 and \u2018doze\u2019. Snoezelen is an activity that takes place in an attractively lit room where soft music is heard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">The term Snoezelen is no longer used as \u2018Multi-sensory room\u2019 is a more appropriate description. Multi\u2013sensory rooms have several functions;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Eliminate stimuli that the child finds aversive<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Gradually increase the child\u2019s tolerance of particular stimuli.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Reduce distractions and provide a calming environment.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Enable staff to identify which stimuli provide the most pleasure and interest \u2013 It may be possible then to use the Sensory environment to:<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Promote understanding of cause and effect<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Develop assertiveness and confidence<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Facilitate engagement, interaction and communication<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Promote exploration and play.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Multi-sensory rooms provide a relaxing and calming environment where staff can support pupils, identifying strengths and the development needs of individuals, consolidating existing skills, and developing new skills in a motivating and stimulating way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">In Calaiswood School many pupils benefit from using the Multi-sensory rooms and the activities within them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">We use Multi-sensory rooms for individual or group activities, during leisure time, to relax, or as 1:1 sessions where activities are more structured and designed to develop specific skills. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">\u00a0There is equipment to provide visual, auditory, tactile, kinaesthetic and olfactory stimulation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Multi-sensory environments have bubble tubes, special lighting with a projector to cast slow-moving images or colours around the walls, and a mirror ball with spotlight and fibre-optic sprays.\u00a0 There may be other lamps, music or sound equipment and aromatherapy materials.\u00a0 A variety of tactile items can be provided, such as cushions and vibrating pillows or mattresses, as well as massage chairs.\u00a0 Panels with a variety of textures such as rough surfaces, stiff bristles, smooth or contoured mirrors, beads, or soft and squashy objects are often also included.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">In order to let the children know what is going to happen next we use a variety of strategies including photos, symbols and symbolised strips. Participants learn to use the equipment as independently as possible, using switches and other controls to turn lights on, off, or to change colour and pattern.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">There is a box of supportive equipment for low tech sessions. Children are able to control the equipment or just simply explore it in different positions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">There are options for parents at home to create their own Multi-sensory room, but as some equipment is very expensive, you may choose to go for a low tech version and gather some resources from different websites\/catalogues available:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.senteq.co.ukwww.rompa.com\/\">www.senteq.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rompa.com\/\">www.rompa.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The multi-sensory rooms were designed following the idea of the \u2018Snoezelen\u2019 activity promoted in Holland. The word \u2018Snoezelen\u2019 is a combination of two Dutch words meaning to \u2018sniff\u2019 and \u2018doze\u2019. Snoezelen is an activity that takes place in an attractively lit room where soft music is heard. The term Snoezelen is no longer used as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/calaiswoodschool\/our-school\/areas-and-resources\/multi-sensory-rooms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Multi Sensory Rooms<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21556,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-65","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/calaiswoodschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/calaiswoodschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/calaiswoodschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/calaiswoodschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/calaiswoodschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/calaiswoodschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/calaiswoodschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions\/220"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/calaiswoodschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/calaiswoodschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}