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Multi-sensory rooms have long been used to promote relaxation, calming, focus, communication and improvements in response. However, a multi-sensory room does not provide a quick solution or fix. It is designed to isolate the user from any distractions, and focus their attention on a wide range of sensory 'experiences'. Repeated exposure to these experiences can help to ground and generate responses from those who otherwise have trouble responding in a typical clinical home or school setting.

The effects of a session in a multi-sensory room can last from a few minutes to a few days and lengthen with an ongoing program. Typically, an individual will spend anywhere from 20 minutes up to 1 hour in a multi-sensory room several times each week.

Research has shown that multi-sensory rooms can make a real difference to the quality of life for a person with special needs.

In 1997, the Journal of Intellectual Disability Research published research that showed how rooms full of lights, textures, sounds and smells could relax people with severe and profound intellectual disabilities. The equipment was also shown to reduce aggression in patients.

Other research, such as that on the behavioral effects of long term multi-sensory stimulation published in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology in 1998, has continued to underline the benefits of multi-sensory environments. And in 1999, the White Top Research Unit at the University of Dundee, Scotland, carried out extensive research which showed that multi-sensory rooms can benefit a wide range of clients, including children with disabilities, special needs, autism, and mental health issues as well as the elderly.

One of the best ways for a person with special needs to get the best out of their environment - and to communicate with ‘the outside world' - is through stimulation. Experience has shown that only by interacting with their environment can patients achieve maximum learning, pleasure and development.

Arrange a sensory experience today!

-Vestibular

-Visual

-Smell (Olfactory)

-Proprioception (deep pressure)

-Tactile/Touch/Feel

-Auditory

Visit the room with your child or we can arrange for a Junior Therapist to accompany your child through his/her visit.

Contact Jill Puertas for more information at 314-761-4751 or email jillpuertas@makeitclick.org.