The Sensory Learning Center Program

Recently, one of my friends took her son to a Sensory Learning Center and talked to me about their experience.  She said that just after a few days of the intervention she saw improvements in his balance. Now, three weeks out she is also hearing him say spontaneous things instead of mimicking. I personally saw her son walk with more balance and swing sitting straight up. I have been so impressed with her son’s results; I decided to also look into this for my children too.

The Sensory Processing Center says that this is “not a treatment”, instead they say that it is “an approach to developmental learning” that uses light, sound, and movement “to better integrate sensory messages”. People that benefit from this approach include people with sensory processing disorder (that are sensitive to light, sound, and motion), people with Autism, people with birth trauma, people with speech delays,  people with delays in motor skills, people with ADD/ ADHD, people with behavior problems, and people with irregular sleep activity patterns.  

It is a one-time intervention that has lasting benefits. The benefits include improvement in vision, understanding, focus, processing time, sensitivities, sleep, speech, memory, body awareness, motor planning, and social skills. Results from this approach actually are seen immediately and significant results happen in the first twelve days and continue through days, weeks, months, and even years to come.

Before a person begins this program, there is an assessment form to fill out. Once the assessment form is complete, a listening profile and visual field measuring photocurrent are taken. These assessments help customize the program and will continue through the intervention to track improvement. After a customized program is created, the person will spend two thirty minute sessions each day for twelve consecutive days. During those sessions, the person receiving the intervention will lay on a bed and head phones will be placed over the ears. As the bed moves and music plays, different colors of light will light up the room. This will engage the person’s visual, auditory, and vestibular systems all at once and cause them to work in an integrated way. Once the twelve day treatment is complete, the individual goes home with a portable light to continue the program twenty minutes in the morning and evening for eighteen days.

Currently, there are 33 locations that provide this approach, 31 of them are in the United States. It cost about $3,000. If you are interested in more information, check out their website at:   http://sensorylearning.com/index.php  .