Benefits & Applications
Snoezelen® is for All Ages and Abilities
Snoezelen Multi-Sensory Environments offer a relaxed atmosphere with pleasant surroundings, soothing sounds, captivating aromas, tactile experiences, massage and vibration, vibrosonic sensations, and gentle movement. Interesting light effects and comfortable seating allow your client to self regulate by choosing sensations. Further, the Snoezelen environment provides opportunities for interaction and engagement.
Snoezelen for Early Years
From the moment we wake, we continually experience a huge range of sensory information from the world around us; audible, visual, tactile, olfactory, gustatory, vestibular and proprioceptive as well as interoceptive. The information is fed through our peripheral nervous system, to our central nervous system and then we organize a response to the input. In short, we have to learn how to react to these different stimuli. Read more…
Snoezelen for Challenging Behavior
When people experience life changes, and find it difficult to cope, negative thoughts can build and emotion can be displayed/expressed in ways that society finds hard to cope with and understand. There are many difficult behaviors that services encounter including chewing and eating non-food items, spitting, screaming and shouting, hitting, and swearing. Read more…
Snoezelen and Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy is a profession that concentrates on enabling people to carry out the things that they want to do, or need to do, in their lives. Assessing cognitive ability and physical functioning level, as well as identifying methods of engagement pertinent to the individual, is an essential element of clinicians planning and providing effective care provision. Read more…
Snoezelen for Learning Disabilities
This area of support can be extremely complex. Clients may have a diverse range of need and different diagnoses that impact on how they experience life, the challenges they face and level of support that they require. The combination of these very unique needs can affect cognition and/or physical functioning. Read more…
Snoezelen for Mental Health
Things change around us, both positively and negatively, and we aren’t always responsible or in control of what happens. These things can have a tremendous impact on how we live and feel. Experiencing illness, sudden or prolonged trauma, loss of loved ones, a limb or restriction of functional ability, role, employment or home can impact deeply on thinking patterns, emotions and our behavior may alter as we try to deal with the new situation. Read more…
Snoezelen for Autism
Snoezelen Multi-Sensory Environments provide the tools and a suitable, gradable, and safe environment in which Health and Social Care professionals can carry out assessments and interventions. Treatment and care should take into account individual needs and preferences but also be flexible enough to respond to changing needs as the individual matures or responds to treatment. Read more…
Snoezelen for Brain Injury
Acquired brain injury and other neurological conditions can be devastating to the individual concerned and their families, friends and loved ones, particularly if it is the result of a sudden event. Multi-Sensory Environments, although perhaps not initially a very obvious choice for clinical interventions, can be designed to include equipment that can help a person on their journey of physical and/or cognitive rehabilitation. Read more…
Snoezelen for the Elderly
The term ‘dementia’ describes progressive disorders affecting the brain such as Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies. These conditions present problems with thinking, mood, behavior, and the ability to take part in everyday activity and leisure. If no suitable activities are provided and people living with dementia have nothing to do, they might become increasingly isolated, frustrated, bored and unhappy. Read more…