Project Brief:

<aside> 💡 Build / Evaluate “Multi-sensory” room

• The Goal: To Develop technologies / solutions for Ability Project Multi-sensory Room for spaces on 3rd floor, 370 Jay Street (316 Ability Project spaces / multi-sensory room for mindfulness)
• Update / develop technologies for Multi-sensory room in Dental school
• Create LED cloud (or other) relaxing ceiling lights
  • extend / test what we did at dental school with more colors, or a way to control the colors
  • Attach lights under couch
• Star lights
  • Create mount / display for them
  • Build more
  • Program lights
• Design / collect relaxing sounds or visualizations
  • Placement of screens / audio
• Design interactive pillows / weighted blanket that are easy to clean </aside>

What is a Multi-sensory Room?

A sensory room is a space of any size, designed to help an individual with sensory processing disorder develop coping skills and regulate their brain’s response to stimuli. In some cases, a sensory space can be a whole room, or it can simply be a space set aside in a corner of a larger room. The contents and design of a sensory room or space can and should be tailored to the needs of the individuals using it, because each person with a sensory processing disorder will have different sensory needs.

Sensory Rooms: The Complete Guide

Precedent Research

1. NYU Dental School

• Egg chair with leds

• Weighted blankets

• Projector (interactive coding works of starry visuals & zodiac signs)

• Bubble tube (budget related questions - $999/ea)

  Sensory bubble tubes are a key piece of sensory equipment that play a vital role in sensory development and can feature in a wide number of sensory rooms or environments. Bubble tubes create constantly moving colour changing sensory bubbles which can both sooth and catch the eye, developing visual skills.

• Star suit

About Our Technologies

1. Golisano Children’s Hospital

How to Create a Multi-Sensory Room: The Full Experience

• Consider the audience of the sensory room

  • Elderly seniors with dementia
  • People who are physically disabled (cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, traumatic brain injuries)
  • Children with learning disabilities
  • People with autism or microcephaly
  • Children with challenging behavior
  • People with brain injuries
  • Mental health patients
  • People with physical or mental disabilities
  • Those who are in occupational therapy
  • People with sensory processing disorders (SPD)

• Key elements to include in a sensory room

  • Lighting & Electric
  • Sound insulation
  • Color of walls, ceilings and floor
  • Floor coverings & weighted clothing
  • Possibility for interaction, play and learning
  1. Lifestyles for the Disabled Sensory Room

  Sensory Room in Staten Island NY - Lifestyles For The Disabled

  Design Plan - Multi-sensory Project on 3rd Floor, 370 Jay St

  Questions for next week:

  • Launch by the end of the semester and invite NYU participants - Good idea?
  • Installation design
  • what is the budget
  • what is the scale (start with one small piece?)
  • A whole service design planning
  • Reach out to possible co-workers

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