As part of the drive to support students within their own Learning Community, and expand the provision on offer, a new Sensory room has just been completed at Okehampton College for the use of all students in the Learning Community. The room and redecoration was provided by the college, and the funds for the specialist equipment were raised by Community Lynx. The whole Learning Community is extremely grateful to those charities, namely the Mary Budding Trust and the United Okehampton Charities for their extremely generous donations which enabled such a fantastic resource and support mechanism to be available for all children in the Learning Community.
The Sensory room includes equipment that provides both hyper sensory and hypo sensory support and interventions as well as supporting students with proprioceptive therapies. In essence the room can be used to stimulate or calm the senses and provide a deep pressure therapy. This is achieved through a range of light and sound technologies as well as bean bags and boxes of resources.
This has the potential to support a broad range of students from the whole Okehampton Learning Community. Students with a range of sensory related needs, ranging from severe to mild will benefit from the theraputic support this fantastic resource offers. Not only will students from primary schools be able to use this resource at the College, but also staff can use it as a tool for assessing need and put in place a programme of support that can take place both in the sensory room and back intheir individual primary schools.
The Sensory room includes equipment that provides both hyper sensory and hypo sensory support and interventions as well as supporting students with proprioceptive therapies. In essence the room can be used to stimulate or calm the senses and provide a deep pressure therapy. This is achieved through a range of light and sound technologies as well as bean bags and boxes of resources.
This has the potential to support a broad range of students from the whole Okehampton Learning Community. Students with a range of sensory related needs, ranging from severe to mild will benefit from the theraputic support this fantastic resource offers. Not only will students from primary schools be able to use this resource at the College, but also staff can use it as a tool for assessing need and put in place a programme of support that can take place both in the sensory room and back intheir individual primary schools.