What’s Happening
at SENsations NEST

We use a wide range of holistic strategies and programs to enrich and improve the lives of our pupils and their families.

Attention Autism

Attention Autism is a program designed by Gina Davies to help develop attention and concentration skills. Our pupils love to come together to see what is in the bucket.

Balanceability

Balanceability is a program used to help develop movement, motor planning and coordination. We have two Balanceability trained staff members and it can be extended to support teaching children how to ride a balance bike!

Speech & Language

We have been developing our use of Core Boards to develop our communication skills with the support of our Speech & Language Therapist, Katie. Core Boards are an AAC (Augmentative & Alternative Communication) device that supports and develops language in young learners and “emergent communicators”.

Companion Horse

Billy our Companion Horse is a valued member of the Nest. He has a lovely nature, and our pupils love to feed and groom him throughout the week when the opportunity arises!

Soon we will be posting a timetable of Parent Webinars. We began running these online last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic and are hoping to run them again this year.

Topics included Developing Play Skills, Managing children’s behaviour, sensory processing, and Parent-Child Interaction Skills. We may have some availability for extra places and will post this nearer the time.

We are currently exploring the possibility of adding some new activities to our schedule. These include Hydrotherapy, Art & Music Therapy. We will add more when we can!

Open Day

On Saturday 25th September 2021 we held an open day for families and professionals. We held socially distanced tours, demonstrations of some of our activities and shared our ethos with prospective families, other professionals working with special needs children and people that were keen to learn more about us! It was a great day and one we hope to run again in the future.

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