Senses – they are the Key
Senses are very important for development!
Actually they are the Key to development for Children
Depending on what we want to reach we can use the Senses to help us reach our Goals.
This enables us with healthy, needy and special needs Children. If you have a child in a troubled situation even more use those resources fallowed:
Maybe reading them you will also realize that you should change some things in your surrounding.
In counselling we realize again and again how much we can reach by just considering the surrounding and influence of the surrounding on a Child and Family.
Vision
To excite Primary Colors, high contrast (black, white, red…), visual busy environment, bright lights.
To calm: pastel colors, little contrast, few items (one dominant to encourage organization), dim lights
Hearing
To excite: Quick changes, moderate volume, noise vs. music, new sounds.
To calm: low volume, low contrast or change in beat or tempo, some research points to reggae beats as organizing.
Smell
To excite: Vanilla (excites some), Coffee for many, Lemon, peppermint
To calm: Familiar smell like mommy’s Perfume or close, Oil of clove, fresh baked scent.
Important – do avoid non-natural scents like often in scented candles.
Taste
To excite: New flavors contrasting flavors such as cereal then yogurt then cereal again.
To calm: predictable foods, mouthwash, toothpaste.
Touch
To excite rough (towels), new textures, light touch (almost a tickle) contrasting textures.
To calm: smooth (silk, velvet…), lotion, powder, moderate pressure and deep pressure (massage or holding)
Movement
To excite: Quick change in direction, Quick start/stop, dancing, jumping.
To calm: slow rhythmic rocking or rolling, slow replicate movement.
