Neurosensory tools (2) - sensory modulation
The sensory modulation category concerns tools and resources that help regulate children’s sensory responses by modulating or adjusting their sensitivity to sensory stimuli.
These tools are designed to help children manage sensory sensations that may be too intense or overwhelming, or on the contrary, that can be attenuated.
Tools to reduce environmental distractions, encourage active engagement and create an environment conducive to concentration
Balance cushions
Balance cushion
Dynamic balance cushions provide dynamic, stimulating seating. They are designed to encourage subtle, regular body movement. This can help stimulate the vestibular system (sensory system linked to balance and movement) and maintain attention by promoting motor engagement.
Ray-Lax chairs
Floor relaxation chairs are designed to improve posture, and reduce stress and anxiety. They offer lumbar support, improve concentration, and are versatile for a variety of activities.
Chair bouncy band
A chair bounce band is an accessory that attaches around the legs of a chair, creating an elastic surface on which the legs can bounce.
Pedal exerciser
This pedal exerciser is ideal for promoting attention and concentration while improving health.
Channels energy and increases concentration level
Helps to reduce stress and anxiety
Learning tool
Tones up your legs and arms muscles
Improves blood circulation and heart rate.
Swinging stool
Designed with a rounded bottom, these stools wiggle and wobble with a motion that keeps the core engaged while strengthening posture. The innovative stool allows one’s knees, hips and back to find comfortable and ever-changing positions.
It can provide an outlet for children with high energy or sensory seating needs like ADHD or Autism.
Wiggle feet sensory cushion
Wiggle feet sensory cushion lets you move silently while working, while deep relaxing pressure promotes the ability to stay focused on the task and be more productive.
Excellent for bilateral coordination, improved balance and stabilization.
- Posture: Balance cushions enable children to sit more dynamically by engaging the postural muscles. It promotes greater upper body stability, which can contribute to a more upright and balanced sitting posture.
- Sensory regulation: Balance cushions provide tactile and proprioceptive stimulation. Children may feel a slight instability and need to make micro-movements when sitting on them, which can be beneficial for those who need extra sensory stimulation to concentrate.
- Agitation : For children with a tendency towards restlessness or constant movement, balance cushion can offer a constructive alternative. By allowing them to move while sitting, it can reduce restlessness and promote greater tranquillity.
- Active engagement: Allowing children to move their legs and feet while sitting can promote motor engagement and help release accumulated energy. This can be particularly beneficial for children who find it difficult to sit still for long periods.
Sound-absorbing headphones
Sound-absorbing headphones are used to reduce noise or distracting auditory stimuli that can disrupt children’s concentration.
They help create a calmer, more peaceful environment, promoting concentration, relaxation and stress reduction.
- Improving concentration: By reducing noise distractions, sound-absorbing headphones can help to improve concentration and to focus on a specific task. This can be particularly useful for children who need to concentrate in noisy or busy environments.
- Stress and anxiety relief: For some people, excessive noise can lead to stress, anxiety or irritability. By providing calm sensation and auditory stimuli reduction, sound-absorbing headphones can help relieve stress and anxiety, promoting mental and emotional well-being.
Liquid motion hourglass
Liquid motion hourglasses, also known as sensory hourglasses, are devices that contain a mixture of colored liquids and small particles in suspension. When turned upside down, they create a fascinating and soothing visual effect as the particles move slowly through the liquid.
- Sensory regulation: Sensory hourglasses Sensory hourglasses offer soothing, steady visual stimulation. Watching the particles move slowly through the liquid can help calm the mind and reduce anxiety, by providing a pleasant and predictable sensory experience.
- Stress management: The visual and hypnotic effect of liquid hourglasses can help relax and soothe stressed individuals. By focusing attention on the slow movement of the particles, you can promote relaxation and release tension.
- Concentration and attention: Liquid motion hourglasses can also be used as concentration tools. Watching the moving particles closely can improve concentration, focus and attention. This can be beneficial for children with attention or concentration difficulties.
- Emotions management: Liquid motion hourglasses can help regulate intense emotions. By using them as a calming tool, they provide a visual focus and a calming activity that can help soothe emotions and promote better management of emotional reactions.
Fidgets
Fidgets are tactile sensory objects that children can manipulate discreetly while concentrating on a task. These can include objects such as spinning tops, stress balls, cubes or knotted ropes. Fidgets provide light sensory stimulation that can help channel energy and promote concentration.
Tangles are sensory toys made up of connected segments that can be twisted, bent and transformed into different shapes.
Fidget boinks are sensory toys consisting of a flexible plastic tube that can be compressed and propelled to create fun movement.
Therapeutic Putty are malleable pastes used to develop hand and finger strength as well as a sensory, emotional or attentional regulation tool.
The infinite fidget cube, also known as the magic cube or infinity cube, is a toy made up of several connected cubes that can be twisted and bent to create different shapes and patterns.
- Stress and anxiety relief: Handling a fidget can help reduce stress and anxiety by providing a comforting soothing activity for the hands. Manipulating the flexible segments can help channel nervous energy and promote relaxation.
- Sensory stimulation: Fidgets offer pleasant tactile sensory stimulation. Smooth and textured textures can be explored with the fingers, providing a stimulating tactile experience. This can be beneficial for children with special sensory needs, or for those seeking discreet sensory discreet sensory stimulation.
- Improving concentration: Fidgets can be used as concentration aids, particularly for children with attention or concentration difficulties. Their manipulation offers a discreet motor activity that can help channel excessive energy and promote concentration.
- Developing coordination and dexterity: Handling a fidget requires precise, controlled movements of the hands and fingers. This can help develop hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills and finger dexterity.
- Relieving the need for movement: Fidgets offer an unobtrusive motor activity that can satisfy some people’s need for movement. By manipulating them, they can satisfy their need to move while remaining engaged in a task or activity.
Proprioception stimulates the proprioceptive system, which provides information on body position and movement.
Heavy thigh or heavy neck cushion
The heavy cushion, also known as a weighted cushion, is a specially designed cushion that contains weighted materials, such as beads or grains, to create a sensation of pressure and weight.
- Reduced anxiety and stress: The gentle pressure exerted by the heavy cushion can promote relaxation and help reduce anxiety and stress. The sensation of weight can provide a sense of security and comfort, which can help to calm the nervous system and promote relaxation.
- Sensory regulation: The heavy cushion can provide proprioceptive stimulation, which is a form of deep sensation that helps to regulate the sensory system. The pressure of the cushion can help increase body awareness, improve balance and promote better emotional regulation.
- Concentration and attention: By providing a sense of weight and stability, the heavy cushion can help improve concentration and focus. This can be beneficial for children or adults who have difficulty paying attention for long periods.
- Reduced agitation: For some people, the weight of a heavy thigh cushion can help reduce agitation and hyperactivity. It can provide calming sensory stimulation and a feeling of ‘heavyness’ that can help channel energy and promote a sense of calm.
- CONCENTRATION
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Tools to reduce environmental distractions, encourage active engagement and create an environment conducive to concentration
Balance cushions
Balance cushion
Dynamic balance cushions provide dynamic, stimulating seating. They are designed to encourage subtle, regular body movement. This can help stimulate the vestibular system (sensory system linked to balance and movement) and maintain attention by promoting motor engagement.
Ray-Lax chairs
Floor relaxation chairs are designed to improve posture, and reduce stress and anxiety. They offer lumbar support, improve concentration, and are versatile for a variety of activities.
Chair bouncy band
A chair bounce band is an accessory that attaches around the legs of a chair, creating an elastic surface on which the legs can bounce.
Pedal exerciser
This pedal exerciser is ideal for promoting attention and concentration while improving health.
Channels energy and increases concentration level
Helps to reduce stress and anxiety
Learning tool
Tones up your legs and arms muscles
Improves blood circulation and heart rate.Swinging stool
Designed with a rounded bottom, these stools wiggle and wobble with a motion that keeps the core engaged while strengthening posture. The innovative stool allows one’s knees, hips and back to find comfortable and ever-changing positions.
It can provide an outlet for children with high energy or sensory seating needs like ADHD or Autism.Wiggle feet sensory cushion
Wiggle feet sensory cushion lets you move silently while working, while deep relaxing pressure promotes the ability to stay focused on the task and be more productive.
Excellent for bilateral coordination, improved balance and stabilization.
- Posture: Balance cushions enable children to sit more dynamically by engaging the postural muscles. It promotes greater upper body stability, which can contribute to a more upright and balanced sitting posture.
- Sensory regulation: Balance cushions provide tactile and proprioceptive stimulation. Children may feel a slight instability and need to make micro-movements when sitting on them, which can be beneficial for those who need extra sensory stimulation to concentrate.
- Agitation : For children with a tendency towards restlessness or constant movement, balance cushion can offer a constructive alternative. By allowing them to move while sitting, it can reduce restlessness and promote greater tranquillity.
- Active engagement: Allowing children to move their legs and feet while sitting can promote motor engagement and help release accumulated energy. This can be particularly beneficial for children who find it difficult to sit still for long periods.
Sound-absorbing headphones
Sound-absorbing headphones are used to reduce noise or distracting auditory stimuli that can disrupt children’s concentration.
They help create a calmer, more peaceful environment, promoting concentration, relaxation and stress reduction.
- Improving concentration: By reducing noise distractions, sound-absorbing headphones can help to improve concentration and to focus on a specific task. This can be particularly useful for children who need to concentrate in noisy or busy environments.
- Stress and anxiety relief: For some people, excessive noise can lead to stress, anxiety or irritability. By providing calm sensation and auditory stimuli reduction, sound-absorbing headphones can help relieve stress and anxiety, promoting mental and emotional well-being.
Liquid motion hourglass
Liquid motion hourglasses, also known as sensory hourglasses, are devices that contain a mixture of colored liquids and small particles in suspension. When turned upside down, they create a fascinating and soothing visual effect as the particles move slowly through the liquid.
- Sensory regulation: Sensory hourglasses Sensory hourglasses offer soothing, steady visual stimulation. Watching the particles move slowly through the liquid can help calm the mind and reduce anxiety, by providing a pleasant and predictable sensory experience.
- Stress management: The visual and hypnotic effect of liquid hourglasses can help relax and soothe stressed individuals. By focusing attention on the slow movement of the particles, you can promote relaxation and release tension.
- Concentration and attention: Liquid motion hourglasses can also be used as concentration tools. Watching the moving particles closely can improve concentration, focus and attention. This can be beneficial for children with attention or concentration difficulties.
- Emotions management: Liquid motion hourglasses can help regulate intense emotions. By using them as a calming tool, they provide a visual focus and a calming activity that can help soothe emotions and promote better management of emotional reactions.
- TACTILE STIMULATION
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Fidgets
Fidgets are tactile sensory objects that children can manipulate discreetly while concentrating on a task. These can include objects such as spinning tops, stress balls, cubes or knotted ropes. Fidgets provide light sensory stimulation that can help channel energy and promote concentration.
Tangles are sensory toys made up of connected segments that can be twisted, bent and transformed into different shapes.
Fidget boinks are sensory toys consisting of a flexible plastic tube that can be compressed and propelled to create fun movement.
Therapeutic Putty are malleable pastes used to develop hand and finger strength as well as a sensory, emotional or attentional regulation tool.
The infinite fidget cube, also known as the magic cube or infinity cube, is a toy made up of several connected cubes that can be twisted and bent to create different shapes and patterns.
- Stress and anxiety relief: Handling a fidget can help reduce stress and anxiety by providing a comforting soothing activity for the hands. Manipulating the flexible segments can help channel nervous energy and promote relaxation.
- Sensory stimulation: Fidgets offer pleasant tactile sensory stimulation. Smooth and textured textures can be explored with the fingers, providing a stimulating tactile experience. This can be beneficial for children with special sensory needs, or for those seeking discreet sensory discreet sensory stimulation.
- Improving concentration: Fidgets can be used as concentration aids, particularly for children with attention or concentration difficulties. Their manipulation offers a discreet motor activity that can help channel excessive energy and promote concentration.
- Developing coordination and dexterity: Handling a fidget requires precise, controlled movements of the hands and fingers. This can help develop hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills and finger dexterity.
- Relieving the need for movement: Fidgets offer an unobtrusive motor activity that can satisfy some people’s need for movement. By manipulating them, they can satisfy their need to move while remaining engaged in a task or activity.
- PROPRIOCEPTION
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Proprioception stimulates the proprioceptive system, which provides information on body position and movement.
Heavy thigh or heavy neck cushion
The heavy cushion, also known as a weighted cushion, is a specially designed cushion that contains weighted materials, such as beads or grains, to create a sensation of pressure and weight.
- Reduced anxiety and stress: The gentle pressure exerted by the heavy cushion can promote relaxation and help reduce anxiety and stress. The sensation of weight can provide a sense of security and comfort, which can help to calm the nervous system and promote relaxation.
- Sensory regulation: The heavy cushion can provide proprioceptive stimulation, which is a form of deep sensation that helps to regulate the sensory system. The pressure of the cushion can help increase body awareness, improve balance and promote better emotional regulation.
- Concentration and attention: By providing a sense of weight and stability, the heavy cushion can help improve concentration and focus. This can be beneficial for children or adults who have difficulty paying attention for long periods.
- Reduced agitation: For some people, the weight of a heavy thigh cushion can help reduce agitation and hyperactivity. It can provide calming sensory stimulation and a feeling of ‘heavyness’ that can help channel energy and promote a sense of calm.
