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Here are three tailored ideas for using the Cowley Owl Fireworks Lab app in special education! 1. Visual Engagement:…
Here are three tailored ideas for using the Cowley Owl Fireworks Lab app in special education! 1. Visual Engagement:…
iPad/iPhone and Android apps in special education September 2024 – Richard Hirstwood Apps have been around for a long time…
The new term is here, and it’s time to start thinking about creating an environment that will best support…
This blog offers ideas to help you make the most of resources that you have, or can easily acquire,…
Fancy a visit to Flying Tiger? You should! There’s a great selection of cheap and cheerful sensory resources in…
Usually this blog offers ideas to help you make the most of resources you have or can easily acquire…
We really need hard evidence to support importing new teaching technologies into the classroom. The trouble is, there is little…
To offer more explicit multi sensory learning experiences, we first need to examine how the learner receives and processes sensory…
Are you ready to return to the classroom for a great start to Autumn 2023? Here are our top tips…
Sensory Engagement – the role of portable sensory environments The development of our sensory systems is essential to explore and…
Sensory Engagement – the role of the multisensory room What is the role of the senses in our lives? From…
Visual tracking Everybody talks about visual tracking with some of our PMLD learners, is but what does it really mean?…
Why is multisensory learning important? Part 2 What is the role of the senses in our lives? From conception to…
This blog offers ideas to help you make the most of resources that you have, or can easily acquire, to…
Why is multisensory learning important? Part 1 What is the role of the senses in our lives? From conception to…
Are you ready to head back into the classroom for a great start to 2023? Here are our ten top…
We are fast approaching December, the final month in a very long half-term and of course, the last month in…
Many people will show you how to make fabulous sensory things on the cheap, but sometimes we need that real…
The Senses and Outdoor Teaching Areas In the final blog in this series, we consider the use of sound…
We all know that colour can affect our lives quite profoundly. Coloured lighting is being used more and more in…
The Senses and Outdoor Teaching Areas Following on from our previous blog, we now offer some more ideas that…
This blog offers ideas to help you make the most of resources that you have, or can easily acquire, to…
The Senses and Outdoor Teaching Areas When creating sensory outdoor teaching spaces, it is worth remembering the many sensations we…
This blog offers ideas to help you make the most of resources that you have, or can easily acquire, in…
Take one – make five! This blog offers ideas to help you make the most of resources that you have,…
Sensory Outdoor spaces The ‘multisensory environment’ whether indoors or outdoors, is a place where we can increase or decrease a…
Take one – make five! This blog offers ideas to help you make the most of resources that you have,…
A tall column of water hosting a myriad of colour changing bubbles, a visually captivating effect with sound, vibration and…
The most successful sensory room designs are those based on the needs of the learners who use the space. Here’s…
In the 1970s Carl Delacato (in his work as an educator with children who had all kinds of difficulties) had…
Steve Briggs, a previous Principal of Beaumont College, Lancaster was an inspiration to many, including myself. I listened to him…
“Trailing strands of cascading colour” is a very romantic way to describe fibre optics, but the effect is visually stunning.…
Speech, language, and communication needs (SLCN) run through the autism spectrum from one ‘end’ to the other. They are like…
In order to ensure that technical equipment is being used well and kept in good working order, it may be…
When trying to get learners with autism or a visual loss to really focus on you or the activity, it’s…
Ultraviolet light or UV light is the most effective way to make fluorescent or white objects glow. How bright will…
If I said to you that I was going to construct a studio in your school, centre or home, what…
Flo Longhorn has done it again and it’s fabulous here is her latest apps list dated September 2021 Read on……
Communication Passports – Part 2 (Resources) A communication passport is mainly aimed at non-verbal PMLD learners, but it could…
Communication Passports – Part 1 Communication is a basic need. Without it, life has less meaning. With most of our PMLD…
Autism Baselines There are so many tick lists out there, they are all over the internet. Many of these sheets…
Vision For Doing Although the name suggests that this is a visual assessment, it is so much more. If you…
Soft matting and wall padding have been a feature of many rooms for a number of years. The addition of…
Learning to look at things from the child’s point of view is going to help us to get play and…
Sound or hearing stimulation is as important as visual stimulation. Creating vibrations with music can have a big effect on…
This is a fun way to project colourful images onto walls, ceilings and floors, even umbrellas. Although it could be…
Switching systems will enable the student to turn electrical appliances on and off via switches, which are designed to accommodate…
Hearing is one of the most important senses we have. People without the ability to hear often say that they…
White rooms The design of the white room is unique; it’s a space where students can relax, escape, recuperate and…
It is common to hear that we ‘do visual stimulation’ with students with visual impairments, and it will prove to…
In order to communicate and/or to learn to use a language, the learner must have: Sensory Abilities: Adequate Hearing and…
Here’s a great idea from Carol Allen – ‘Gofindit cards.’ A brilliant very sensory indoor or outdoor scavenger hunt! Each…
Sensory Room Design Get the catalogues and you will note that there are hundreds of products you can use. The…
We really need hard evidence to support importing new teaching technologies into the classroom. The trouble is, there is little…
How to use this vital tool with pupils with difficult behaviour. Since the dawn of multi-sensory rooms, light rooms or…
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