Area 2 recognised the importance of working with children and young people to maximise use and development of the senses.
Examples of targeted outcomes of this area include:
- Using vision effectively.
- Visual stimulation or visual development.
- Tactile or haptic perception and development
- Fine and gross motor skills.
- Engaging with surroundings.
- Vestibular development – sense of balance, head/ eye-coordination, visual scanning.
- Proprioceptive and kinaesthetic development – sense of movement (sense the position of our body when moving through space, as well as to describe the movement of individual body parts in relation to one another).
- Olfactory development – sense of smell (e.g. smells to support sensory stories / identify food; identify danger such as smoke).
- Auditory skills – listening skills, hearing and making sense of what is heard, being able to listen to audio at increasing speeds to support learning.
- Managing sensory overload, reducing sensory stimulation, working with tactile selectiveness