What is a sensory room

The sensory room is a magic room for relaxation, removing stress and relaxation. In this room there is a unique equipment - either a special or made by his own hands - allows a psychologist to work gently with his wards, carry out prevention and even treatment of the nervous system and sensory organs.  Sensory rooms are of different types, but they all have one single goal - to help gain personal harmony and harmony with the outside world, restore mental balance, strengthen the nervous system. Depending on the task and methodology of the sessions, the sensory room is equipped with frameless furniture modules and light music, aromatic sensors, massage and interactive equipment.

Sensory room equipment

Previously, many people knew such a thing as a “psychological unloading room”, but scientific thought went on. The desire of people to receive psychological assistance and the charge of positive energy forced to introduce the latest scientific achievements in psychological practices, from which sensory rooms were born. Research in the field of light and aromatherapy, musical and color effect on the human psyche made it possible to combine all the knowledge and results gained in one specially equipped room, which gives a comprehensive and amazing result.

  The main equipment of the sensory room

1. Audiovisual equipment, decorative light panels and electronic control devices.
2. Positional equipment, which includes frameless furniture - mats and upholstered chairs, pillows and experimental modules that adapt to the shape of the human body that relieve physical and mental stress and reaching maximum relaxation.
3. Equipment and panels developing sensory sensations-giant balls, massage small objects.
4. Mirror elements with fiberoptic backlit, helping to stimulate tactile and visual receptors.
5. Sound tactile panels for children's sensory rooms allow you to create interesting voluminous paintings, using their own intention or according to the already worked out scheme.
6. Amazing fountains of light from LED cords. A magnificent solution for a dark sensory room combined with a starry sky and relaxing music.

Sensory room visual effects

The lighting system in the sensory rooms is the main condition for a favorable environment. Soft muffled light creates a pleasant and calm atmosphere.

1. The upper light should not be bright and beating in the eyes.
2. Reflection and refraction of light, the appearance of “bunnies” on the ceiling or walls - all this is achieved using glass objects that reflect light. It can be garlands, mirror balls that allow you to play with light rays.
3. Unusual lighting effects create fluorid wallpaper and paintings, plasma-shara, changing light paintings on the walls. At home, you can turn on an ordinary projector, or, if you turn off the light, or muffled light, display changing pictures to the monitor screen, which will create a similar positive effect as from expensive equipment.

Musical accompaniment of the sensory room

For musical accompaniment, it is not necessary to use expensive devices. Enough ordinary music center or computer with stereo columns. What music is most suitable for relaxation in the sensory room?

1. Classic calm works.
2. Special mixes for relaxation.
3. Meditative music.
4. Sounds of nature: rain drops, the sounds of the sea, the sounds of the forest, the singing of birds and the screams of dolphins.
5. Bell ringing.
6. The ringing of crystal or metal pendants for relaxation. You can direct the fan on them, which will create the sound of the wind and force the pendants slightly glance.

Aromatherapy in the sensory room

The ideal addition to relaxation and rest will be aromatic oils that have a different purpose: tonic, stimulating immunity and relaxing. Aromariners, aroma lamps or aromatic pendants with dry herbs will do their job - they will change the mood, improve the emotional state.

For toning the body, aromas that improve performance that give a surge of strength and energy are suitable:

• grapefruit;
• orange;
• bergamot;
• lemon;
• limonnik.

For relaxation, use the smell that eliminates the depressive state, neurosis and overexcitation:

• mint;
• lemon balm;
• lavender.

Essential oils are suitable for stimulating immunity:

• eucalyptus;
• anise;
• chamomiles;
• tea tree;
• coniferous oils.

Work in the sensory room

The sensory room is designed to give a sense of safety and serenity, calm and joy. A comprehensive impact on the nervous system and feelings is necessary for people with problems in development and social adaptation after prolonged stress with disorders of psychoemotional balance, during rehabilitation in the post -traumatic period.

Work in the sensory room involves conducting medical sessions under the supervision of a specialist, a program for the sensory room is created.

The space of the sensory room can be divided into two halves: a relaxation and activation unit.

Relaxation block in the sensory room

The relaxation unit is equipped with dry pools, phonograms and colored discs. The sessions begin with a person’s immersion in a dry pool that helps to completely relax muscle tissue. Gradually changing colors of balls, colorful paintings on the walls, soothing music immerses the visitor into the atmosphere of peace. This procedure creates the desired mood, the therapist at this time begins his work.

Activation block in the sensory room

Activational block with a dry pool for active games, interactive equipment, sensory panels and mobiles creates a feeling of a holiday, all around attracts attention, supports attention and interest in the surrounding reality. The effect is enhanced by mobile constructions that stimulate activity, so necessary for children for the full development of motor skills.

Classes in the sensory room - three stages

1. The introductory part with the scum and ritual of greeting.
2. The main relaxation.
3. Summing up with a ritual of farewell.

Three parts of the ritual create an emotional multisiceur environment, performing tasks:

• prevention of emotional stress;
• coordination of movements of body parts in the perception of sound, rhythm and color;
• removing a sense of anxiety with switching;
• creation of positive emotions;
• overcoming an aggressive state and getting rid of fears;
• in children, the development of interaction with each other;
• in children, improvement of attention and memory, the development of original thinking.

Classes are held in the group of no more than 5 people.

Sensory room, photo

Sensory room for children

The children's sensory room is definitely different from the room for adults both in their appearance and in filling, and in set tasks.

Hearing or vision impaired perceptions of the child, in the usual environment, such children cannot get a full stimulation of the substitution resources of the body.

Leading teachers appreciated amazing results that gives children the use of a sensory room with its integrated influence. Active and hyperactive children easily calm down in the relaxation zone, can sit in a quiet dark corner inside a flickering LED fountain. Relaxation exercises on the water mattress relieve stress, soft lighting and a soothing melody relax.

Children with loss of attention and reduced interest in the active block of the sensory room receive a charge of energy, activate the emotional background.  Funny exercises and classes surrounded by bright colors and changing pictures, funny game consoles arouse interest in cognition and training.

Autical children begin to play with water and sand with interest, they listen to various sounds, which helps to find a thread of contact with such a child enclosed in themselves. Many classes in the sensory rooms require the joint action of children or a child with an adult, causing positive emotions.

The school of the future cannot be represented without relaxation rooms for relaxation and restoration after training loads. The sensory room at the school is an infrequent phenomenon, and it did not become a widespread obligatory part. While projects of sensory rooms in correctional schools, schools in orphanages and boarding schools are being developed and are being implemented, where they are most in demand. Soft floors and walls, the lack of a sense of danger inside the room relieves a neurosis and correct behavior.

Light and dark sensory rooms

The project sensory room for our intense world with its frantic running and constant stress is important for children, whose fragile psyche is incapable of confronting their own external influences. Absorbing, like a sponge, the entire environment, the child needs to relieve excessive stress and negative influence.   Both types of sensory rooms - light and dark - positively affecting the mental state, develop motor skills, and help to aggravate the perception of reality.

Bright sensory room

In light sensory rooms, the equipment is significantly different from the dark ones. Dry pools for active games, trampolines and giant bright balls, swings and tunnel modules with sports elements - all this helps the child learn to quickly and correctly respond in non -standard situations. Classes in a bright sensory room are a positive game that carries a huge energy positive charge. In a kindergarten or school, it is the bright sensory rooms that are most often equipped. Based on such a solution in entertainment centers, attractions with stairs, soft trampolines and nets, and plastic balls are installed for children. These rooms give parents the opportunity to calmly enjoy shopping while the child is engaged in and playing such a room.

  Dark sensor room

The sensory dark room has a different direction of action. The purpose of such a room is to restore the emotional state and relaxation. Dark rooms are more often arranged with a healing and correctional goal. They can be found in boarding schools for children with developmental disabilities.

Equipment of sensory dark rooms:

• decorative light panels;
• soft massage modules;
• light cords and fountains;
• interactive modules.

The sensory sensations when the child examine such a room restore his inner balance, remove the negative. The new skills of self -control and getting rid of aggressiveness are achieved by a sense of the magical world of such a room, especially with the general effect of music and aromatherapy. Especially important are classes in a dark sensory room for children with visual impairments, and light bright spots in the dark stimulate visual receptors, eye muscles and nerve endings.

Project for creating a sensory room

It’s just that without a goal and task it is impossible to create a sensory room, you need to know for sure its purpose.

The main tasks of the project Sensory room

1. Development of emotional perception.
2. The development of mental processes.
3. Relaxation.
4. Education of children.

Tasks of the sensory room

Sensory rooms can be specialized for work in kindergartens, schools, hospitals, health centers, and can be part of the house where you can relax, is fenced off from all problems, get a charge of energy, can be for children or adults, but all these rooms decide The same tasks.

1. Reduce anxiety, gain confidence and tranquility.
2. To help reduce vegetative-vascular reactions or neurotic disorders in people of different ages.
3. Stimulate weakened and poorly functioning sensory organs.
4. Relieve chronic pain.
5. Become an assistant for rehabilitation after surgery or vice versa, prepare the patient for it.
6. Create a good emotional background.

At home, such a room will become a wand for a child for a child when he wants to be alone or have fun with friends.

Sensory room to help children

1. Will reduce excess activity and relieve stress.
2. It will help to cope with obsessive children's fears.
3. Improve memory and attention.
4. Stimulates sensory sensitivity and fine motor skills.
5. Reduce fatigue.
6. Will reduce aggression and conflict.
7. Will prompt in the knowledge and study of the world.
8. In games with children, he adapts the child to the children's team in the garden or elementary school.
9. Calm and improve falling asleep.
10. Activates creative potential, identify talents, develop the imagination.

For an adult, the sensory room equipped at home will help to take a break from working stress, to be in their inner world, where no one interferes with dealing with thoughts and feelings, normalizes pressure and leve breathing.

DIY sensory room

Having once visited the sensory room, I want to return there again and again. Why not arrange a relaxation area of \u200b\u200bthe house?

There are several solutions:

1. Take advantage of the finished project of the sensory room.
2. Make the project yourself and assemble from finished equipment.
3. Arrange a sensory room with your own hands from improvised materials.

Each of these decisions has the right to exist.  To begin with, you need to find a free space in your apartment or house and allocate a separate room for the creation of the sensory room.  Then the issue of light is resolved: will the dark room be dark? This is important for choosing final equipment. This:

1. Devices of muffled light.
2. Light consoles and light garlands.
3. Mirror elements for refraction of light.
4. Fluorescent coatings for walls and ceiling.
5. Projectors.
6. Special soft modules are frameless poufs and chairs.

Part of the equipment can be made independently or use original solutions as observation in muffled light behind water bubbles in a transparent electric kettle with backlight. A little music, a little aromatic candles and relaxation is provided.

An ordinary fan that creates air flows will also help, inflates colored tapes, which produces a relaxing effect.

Slighted aquariums with bright fish, soothing music on the computer produce no less positive effect.

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