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Dance then
Your body had a partner once. Now your mind is in charge. Your body learnt very quickly to support your head, and does this so instinctively that the overwhelming connection betwee...
The experience of practitioners who have worked with autistic children in Sensory Rooms. Part 6
TFH are advocates of the Sensory Room and the first five parts to this extended blog testify to their usefulness. But very little in this world, save love and perhaps the bicycle, is an unall
The experience of practitioners who have worked with autistic children in Sensory Rooms. Part 5
practitioners described the SR Room as an effective teaching and learning environment and some considered this its main purpose.
The experience of practitioners who have worked with autistic children in Sensory Rooms. Part 4
This is the fourth instalment of our discussion of the work of by Dr. Katy Unwin, Dr. Georgina Powell and Dr. Catherine...
The experience of practitioners who have worked with autistic children in Sensory Rooms. Part 3
This is the third instalment of our discussion of the work of by Dr. Katy Unwin, Dr. Georgina Powell and Dr. Catherine J...
The most sophisticated, radical, powerful gift
Max Porter claims that: Play is the most sophisticated, radical, powerful gift.
Weighted Blankets - Case Study
According to the research, weighted blankets are an effective way to provide deep pressure touch for those who are over-stimulated or anxious, which is almost everybody in acute mental healt
The experience of practitioners who have worked with autistic children in Sensory Rooms. Part 2.
Researchers believed that there were distinct properties that SRs have that are beneficial The most important was that the child had control over their environment.. This was felt to reduce
Sensory Rooms & Behaviour, Attention and Mood
Sensory Rooms benefit behaviour, attention and mood. Almost all practitioners believed that the Sensory Room could lead to a reduction in Repetitive Motor Behaviour (RMB). Many of the practit
All shook up, vibration in the sensory room
Many years ago, I visited the DeHartenburg Institute in the Netherlands, the birthplace of Snoezelen, the original senso...
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