Sensory integration describes the ability of the brain to sort, filter and proces the sensory input and is crucial for our daily well-being.
How can balls improve daily well-being?
All products from Protac contain sensory stimulating balls. Their movement and dynamic touch pressures on the body stimulate the muscle-and-joint-sense and the sense of touch. This strengthens the body awareness and provides peace of mind and body.
Peace and quiet in school – also for restless children
Sensory seeking behaviour occurs when the brain lacks input from the body. These signals come from the proprioceptive sense, which informs the brain about movements in the body, muscles, and joints. It is often beneficial to move, but it’s not always appropriate to move, for example, in school, where some children find it challenging to sit still.
Even though restlessness disrupts the entire class, it is important to understand that it is not explained by consciously bad behavior. Very often the behaviour can be explained by the theory of sensory integration and remedied with sensory stimulating aids like Protac MyFit®.
Using sensory stimulation helping aids not only helps the restless child to better concentration and less reprimands but also makes room for better teaching with fewer interruptions and leads to increased well-being for the entire class.
Both well-being, motivation, learning ability and joy of participating in everyday and school-related activities are affected by sensory processing difficulties. With this knowledge in mind, Ann Nielsen covers the effects of using the sensory stimulating Protac MyFit® ball vest for children with sensory seeking behaviour.
The participating children are between 6-12 years old and represent 25 ordinary schools in Denmark. The children have used the ball vest every morning and have continued to use it during the day if they wanted to.
The thesis conclude that Protac MyFit® have a calming effect on the children and strengthens the awareness and concentration of the children. What is even more important is that the children felt better at ease and a significant increase was seen in the children’s beliefs in their own abilities.
Link to more information on the thesis
The baseline of the thesis is Ann's own master project showing e.g. that
- Every 5th student in the first grades have a sensory disturbance, that can explain both anxiety, unrest and lack of concentration
- 70% of these children have a sensory seeking behavior
Our experience and numerous cases show that many sensory seeking children benefit from using a sensory stimulating helping aid and that focus on sensory integration is a natural and efficient way to calm down the learning environment in the class rooms. For the individual child, a balanced sensory system leads the way to well-being, better concentration and improved learning.
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Products
The chair has sensory stimulating balls in the seat, in the back and in the unique wings designed to embrace the child providing a sense of calmness and relaxation. The chair has a calming effect and helps the child to increased concentration and body awareness and can be used in both classrooms and sensory rooms.
The sensory stimulating ball vest that provides deep touch pressure every time the body moves. The ball vest is specially designed to increase body awareness and concentration during activities.
The sensory stimulating wrap stimulates the neck, shoulders and chest. The wrap is discrete and comfortable to wear, while promoting calmness and relaxing around the neck.
The sensory stimulating cushion can be fastened to a chair in the classroom, day care centre or at the dining table at home. The ball cushion alleviates motor unrest and strengthens the concentration.
The knee blanket with sensory stimulating balls is placed on knees and thighs to avoid motor unrest and increase concentration.
Nobody can concentration during daytime, if they do not sleep at night. Protac Ball Blanket®has helped many children to better sleep and increased well-being
