A sensory room, or multi-sensory room, is an environment that can help stimulate, develop and relax the senses. It can help self-regulate the users’ behaviours which will help with focus and can aid with interaction and social skills.

Sensory equipment has been shown to improve language, cognitive and motor skills and helps people develop and engage senses.

What is a Sensory Room?

The concept of a Sensory Room (also known as a multi-sensory room) is quite simple, place a person with special needs in a pleasant environment where the distractions of the outside world are completely absent, present them with, music and attention grabbing moving colours and shapes and then add the ability for the person to actually make things happen that are so dramatic that they cannot be missed and you have the building blocks of real progress.

The Concept of a Sensory Room?

A Multisensory room can engage children who can learn through play. From following bright lights, shapes and patterns with their eyes to pressing buttons to make the sensory room change colour or even change colour to music. Users will become interested in their environment. Also due to the flexible functionality of the multisensory room it can also be used to calm and de-stress.