What is a Multi-Sensory Room?
A multi-sensory room is a room that facilitates multisensory stimulation in order to integrate the senses. Rich in sensory stimulation through smell, touch, taste, sight, hearing, and movement activities, multi-sensory rooms are interactive, relaxing, and fun. The stimulating environment helps both children and adults feel calm and focused. This effect improves social and emotional skills, as well as hand-eye coordination and cause and effect.
Who Can Benefit from a Multi-Sensory Room?
Teachers, therapists, and parents can help assess sensory issues in children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) using multi-sensory environment rooms, or MSE's. Also, exposure to the multisensory stimulation can help treat children and adults with SPD and conditions such as ADHD, ADD, developmental disabilities, and asperger's syndrome. As multi-sensory environments are becoming more recognized for their positive benefits, they are now appearing in schools, homes, hospitals, airports, doctors offices, and anywhere populations with SPD may visit.
Conditions that Multi-Sensory Rooms Treat
- Asperger's Syndrome (ASP)
- Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Brain Injuries
- Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Cerebral Palsy (CP)
- Down Syndrome
- Emotional and Behavioral Disorders (EBD)
- Moderate Learning Difficulties (MLD)
- Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD)
- Self Harm
- Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD)
- Visual Impairment (VI)
Turning the Lights Off
Because perceptions become stronger when the lights are turned off, fluorescent and glow-in-the dark items, mirrors, bubble tubes, LED and fiber optic lights, disco balls, and projected images are especially effective in multisensory rooms. Turning the lights off sets the mood and creates a calm and peaceful environment.
Experia's Bubble Tube Acrylic Mirrors
Experia's Bubble Tube Acrylic Mirrors, sold in pairs, complete the sensory room look. In the dark, mirrors help project glow-in-the dark sensory room items as well as lighting elements multiple times. These corner sensory room mirrors can be placed in a corner with a cause-and-effect bubble tube and platform as the mirror centerpiece to create a dramatic, sensory-rich visual effect. The 36 in. x 48 in. mirrors are made with a safe acrylic material that will not shatter like a glass mirror would. Eight drywall anchors are included for mounting the mirrors on drywall.
If your installation is not drywall, consult with your maintenance department or contractor to supply the correct anchors for your type of wall construction.
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