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Sensory play in early years

It is no news to workshop leaders that multisensory play can bring amazing opportunities for early years students to learn creatively with music. Workshop leader and practitioner Sonia Foster outlines why this is the case, and how this method can help those with learning difficulties to express themselves.
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My mother recalls me, as an eight-year-old child, declaring that I wanted to become a teacher when I grew up.’ I had no grasp, of course, of life-long learning or the importance of our senses in education. Throughout my career, an awareness of these has grown, and now I integrate multisensory experiences in my music workshops.

Sensory play-based learning is a unique multisensory experience that engages all eight of our ‘known’ senses using a personalised approach. Touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing are all crucial in this work, as well as movement, proprioception (an awareness of the position and movement of the body) and interoception (feeling or sensing inside the body). It allows us to support families and practitioners by providing opportunities for rich, meaningful experiences.

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