Sensensory integration

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Sensensory integration

• By Christel Resborn,
• Louise Skovlund Pedersen
• and Mai-Britt Bundgaard
• Odense Denmark

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UL GAMES

• UL GAME (UL2009) from the 17 23 august 2009,
  was an international project in Odense for
  persons with social disabilities.
• There has been around 1000 participants from 12
  different countries.
• There were all kind of activities and ball games
  doing the week and several professional experts
  participated.
• The participants lived in tents in the UL City.

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• The school of Occupational Therapy in Odense had
  a tent with sensory activities with different
  kind of stimulation and a coffee/ garden like
  environment
• two ball chairs too relaxing
• stress les music
• a rocking chair
• dried lavender to give a calming smelling sense
• tables outside with fruit, tea, coffee and board
  games
• 4 sense stimulation boxes
• lots of flowers as a frame around the tent gave a
  positive effect that made it cheerful, attractive
  and good stimulation.

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• The purpose with the tent was to create a place
  where the participants could achieve well-being,
  feel satisfaction and to do different kind of
  activities and just to experience oneself.
• We wanted to achieve this by the following
  activities in the tent Sense boxes, ball chairs
  (Sensit), coffee/garden environment, board games
  and talk.

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• The Garden environment has a calming effect on
  people.
• It gives a possibility for rest and just to be
  present with oneself and to reload.
• The Idea is to break old patterns and bad habits
  and begin to use and enjoy oneself

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Taktil sense

• Taktil sensing is about the outer touch of the
  skin as pressure, surface structure, temperature,
  pain and movements in the hair and skin.

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Bodytouch can work as calming and relaxing. It
is the fundamental meaning for emotionalle and
social development,
The touch information we receive by being touched
and by touching objects gives us the feeling of
experience and understanding for objects in our
surroundings.
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Limbisk

• The limbisk system is the part of the
  nervoussystem that brings the emotional
  behaviour.
• The basic of neurobiological is feelings and
  emotional memories as
• Happiness
• Fear
• Anger
• Sadness

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The bassis for the feelings is to be suitable for
the situation. The limbiske system receive well
modulated impulses from the senses, and the
impulses is well modulated before it gets
received as an appropriated emotional reaction.
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Anette-Louise

• For her, the participation has been about meeting
  people from other drop-in centers and look for
  some of the people she encountered the year
  before.
• Annette-Louise sees the sense integration tent as
  being in heaven. It is so wonderful relaxing and
  all her problems disappear. The Lavender smell
  take her thoughts back to her grandmother and
  Dalai Lama.
• She thinks it is life-affirming and motivating to
  sit in the chair and she gets to think about that
  she wants to learn

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Anette

• UL Games means a lot to Annette, it has been
  discussed and prepared for a long time.
• Some of the users got really scared by the
  thought of participating in something as big as
  the UL Games, but after being informed about the
  activities 14 of the users wanted to participate
  in the UL Games.
• They have participated in archery, badminton,
  table tennis, bowling, darts, krolf a mix of
  crocket and golf, swimming, and team sports. They
  have really enjoyed being at the UL Games.
• Annette said it was amazing to be in the sense
  integration tent, listening to the music and the
  smell of lavender.
• When she was sitting in the chair listening to
  the music she felt like she was taking a journey
  into her soul where thoughts and feelings moves
  away from the UL.
• She only wished she had known about the sense
  integration tent from the beginning of the games
  instead of the last day

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