The Mary Rice Centre for Special Education today inaugurated its upgraded ‘multisensory room’.
Speaking to Highland Post, school headmistress Adreena Kharshiing said that the multisensory room is a specially designed environment that allows users to develop their senses, completely relax or access a wide range of sensory experiences for therapy, learning or fun.
She said that the multisensory room is an interdisciplinary space with specialized equipment used by people of all ages and all abilities for relaxation, focused work stimulation, physiotherapy, communication and stress release.
Stating that it is also used for specific work, such as a teaching tool for children with additional needs, she informed that the room can be used with individual children or in small groups with each session structured according to the needs of the child.
“These multisensory environments offer people with cognitive impairments and other challenging conditions the opportunity to enjoy and control a variety of sensory experiences,” Kharshiing said, adding that a sensory room is a space designed to help an individual with sensory issues learn to regulate their brains’ negative reactions to external stimuli by developing coping skills for these experiences.
She added that these can open up a whole new world for individuals with cognitive, physical and other impairments, providing a stimulating environment and can increase concentration and focus attention, and develop reactive senses of hearing, sight, smell, touch and taste.
Others present at the occasion include representatives of the Ratan Mohini Devi Singhania Charitable Trust, Java Chakravarty, the branch manager of the Small Industries Development Bank of India, M Basu, the secretary of the Society for the Welfare of the Disabled, among others.
