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Using and Making Sensory Bottles with Students with PMLD
Turn empty pop bottles into sensory resources that help students with PMLD track, reach, relax and start to learn cause and effect.
- 42 minutes
- 8 modules
- 0.5 CPD hours
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Match a sensory bottle to the skill a student is working on
- Make sound, visual, tactile, weighted and smell bottles from recycled containers
- Use bottles to encourage locating, tracking, reaching and early cause and effect
- Introduce touch gradually for a student who is tactile defensive
- Involve students in making the bottles during art or sensory sessions
About this course
Students with PMLD learn through their senses, and the resources that reach them don't have to cost much. An empty pop bottle, a handful of rice or glitter and a secure lid can get a reaction that an expensive toy doesn't.
Taught by a teacher with 26 years' experience of PMLD, this course shows you how to decide what a student needs to work on and build the bottle to match. Bottles with bells and pasta inside clatter when they topple, so a student with a visual impairment can find them. Weighted ones can be rolled along an arm or leg to build body awareness, colour-of-the-day bottles help mark the days of the week, and smell bottles bring a sensory story to life.
One young woman who couldn't bear anything touching her hands was, in time, picking up and squashing bottles covered in the black and white pattern she loved.
- For early career teachers, parents and 3 other roles. Early years and special.
8 modules
Open in order
- 5 min
Introduction
- 7 min
Auditory – skittles/instruments
- 9 min
Visual – glitter/sequins (with and without water)/colour/photos/aquariums/UV
- 6 min
Texture – rough/smooth/bumpy/squashy
- 5 min
Proprioception: weighted
- 6 min
Smells
- 4 min
Relaxation
- 5 min
Wrap up