Sensory Team Therapeutic Swing Sensory input is a natural calming drug for the brain, we all need it to stay calm, focused, and feel “put together,” children with Sensory Integration Disorder need more of it & more often… Vestibular input is the strongest of the brain stem sensations and lasts the longest in the brain …
Sensory Team Sensory Environments The purpose of a sensory environment is to provide stimulation, and yet be calming. It aims to provide a “failure-free” experience, allowing pleasurable stimulation without the need for verbal abilities or requiring specific outcomes. The focus is to help the user of the environment to gain maximum pleasure from the sensory …
Sensory Team Multi-Sensory Approach A Multisensory approach helps pupils tap into their learning strengths to make connections and form memories, and it allows them to use a wider range of ways to show what they’ve learned. Multisensory teaching takes into account that different pupils learn in different ways. It helps meet the varying needs of all pupils—not …
Sensory Team Multimedia Room Our Media Suite contains innovative technology which engages and inspires our students across the curriculum. We have a green screen studio and a floor projection system, both providing exciting and motivating activities for all ages. All students have the opportunity to take part in short films which are related to topics …
Sensory Team Dough Disco Dough Discois a fun activity which combines the use of play doughwith a series of hand and finger exercises designed to improve fine muscle control. The movements develop children’s fine and gross motor skills, hand-eye coordination and self-esteem. It involves moulding coloured dough in time to music and performing different actions such …
Sensory Team MSI & Intervenors The MSi provision team focus on the education of children with Multi-Sensory Impairment (deafblindness) at Fairfield School. The legal definition for deafblindness in Britain is: ‘A person is regarded as deafblind if their combined sight and hearing impairment cause difficulties with communication, access to information and mobility. This includes people …
Sensory Team Resonance Board A Resonance Board is a thin, flexible sheet of wood that gives tactile and auditory feedback whenever the child moves. When the child kicks the board, there is a sound and a vibration. This feedback encourages the child to repeat the movement, and eventually to experiment with other movements as well. …
Sensory Team Soundbeam Soundbeam is an award-winning ‘touch free’ sound device which uses sensor technology to translate body movement into music and sound. It gives children and adults the opportunity, regardless of their impairments or disability, to play music individually or as a member of a group. At Fairfield School pupils across the whole school …
