Memory and standing balance after multisensory stimulation in a Snoezelen room in people with moderate learning disabilities.

Accessible Summary: Multisensory stimulation improves attention, which can also improve memory and standing balance of people with learning disabilities, even at a high age.Improved standing balance and body awareness may help reduce falls in people with moderate learning disabilities.Therapeutic tr...

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Publicado en:British Journal of Learning Disabilities Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 270 - 279
Autor principal: Toro, Brigitte
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Dec2019
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        atl: Memory and standing balance after multisensory stimulation in a Snoezelen room in people with moderate learning disabilities.
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        au: Toro, Brigitte
        affil: Azienda Pubblica di Servizi alla Persona, Levico Curae, Cento don Ziglio, Levico Terme Italy
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          Memory
          Sensory Stimulation
          Intellectual Disability
          Interns and Residents
          Human
          Convenience Sample
          Television
          Outcome Assessment
          One-Way Analysis of Variance
          T-Tests
          Task Performance and Analysis
          Mindfulness
          Neurophysiology
          Brain Physiopathology
          Motor Skills
      ab: Accessible Summary: Multisensory stimulation improves attention, which can also improve memory and standing balance of people with learning disabilities, even at a high age.Improved standing balance and body awareness may help reduce falls in people with moderate learning disabilities.Therapeutic treatments could be more effective if preceded by multisensory stimulation. Background: The Snoezelen room provides a multisensory environment for people with learning disabilities. Method: Thirty‐five residents were recruited from a convenience sample of people living in a residential centre. A repeated‐measures, within‐subject design was used to evaluate the participants during three conditions: a) Snoezelen room, b) control period and c) watching television. The outcome measures were digit span memory tests and Romberg balance tests. One‐way repeated‐measures ANOVAs and paired‐samples t tests were performed on the data. Results: ANOVA results show that there was a significant effect over time in the amount of digits remembered and in balancing ability between the three conditions (p < .0005). T tests confirmed that the Snoezelen condition was responsible for the significant improvements in memory and balancing ability. Conclusion: Participants performed significantly better with memory tasks and balancing skills after having attended multisensory stimulation in a Snoezelen room. This may be due to improved mindfulness, which is correlated with improvements of concentration, learning ability and motor skills caused by neurophysiologic changes of the brain.
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