The Sparkle Ceiling 4 Tile Kit creates an immersive overhead visual feature that can become an integral part of a professionally designed sensory room or multi sensory environment.

In passive mode, the fibre optic stars change colour slowly and progressively through the spectrum. This creates a gentle, constantly changing visual effect without requiring the user or member of staff to operate a controller.

Because the lighting is positioned within the ceiling, it also provides an alternative visual focal point for people using floor mats, soft play equipment, positioning equipment or other sensory resources below.

For schools exploring sensory room ideas, ceiling based sensory lighting can be particularly useful because it creates a substantial visual feature while keeping walls and floor areas available for other sensory room equipment.

The Sparkle Ceiling 4 Tile Kit is supplied as a passive colour changing system as standard, but additional Mike Ayres Design control options can be added where greater interaction and control are required.

An optional double Easy Switch wall plate can be added at additional cost. This provides convenient control of the lighting, allowing the lights to be switched on and off and the colour to be changed.

The ceiling lighting can also be configured for use with the Mike Ayres Design Switch4 WiFi Base Unit Wireless Controller, creating additional opportunities for interactive control within a wider sensory environment.

Switch4 control is available on request, with price on enquiry.

Adding interactive control can support activities involving choice, anticipation and simple cause and effect, allowing a user's action to produce an immediate change in the surrounding visual environment.

• Controllable visual sensory input: The fibre optic points create a clear and engaging overhead visual stimulus. In passive mode, colours change gradually, while optional controls allow the visual environment to be adjusted more deliberately.
• Supports sensory modulation: Carefully planned sensory lighting can help practitioners adjust the amount and character of visual stimulation within a room. The Sparkle Ceiling can provide an engaging focal point during activities or form part of a quieter sensory environment intended to support settling, attention and self regulation in the moment.
• Encourages visual attention: The distributed points of light create opportunities for looking, locating and visually exploring different areas overhead, particularly when someone is positioned beneath the installation.
• Cause and effect opportunities with optional controls: When configured with suitable Mike Ayres Design controls, changing the lighting can become an interactive activity. This can support choice making, anticipation, turn taking and understanding that an action can produce a predictable response.
• Useful within occupational therapy environments: The Sparkle Ceiling primarily provides visual environmental input rather than the proprioceptive, vestibular and tactile input commonly used within Ayres Sensory Integration®. Within an occupational therapist led programme, controllable lighting can form part of the wider sensory environment in which individualised, active therapeutic activities take place.
• Preserves valuable sensory room space: Installing sensory lighting within the ceiling leaves walls and floor areas available for bubble tubes, fibre optics, sensory wall panels, soft play, swings and other sensory therapeutic resources.
• Suitable for specialist environments: An effective sensory lighting feature for schools, SEN settings, sensory rooms, therapy rooms, clinics, hospitals and other multi sensory environments.

Where sensory equipment forms part of an Ayres Sensory Integration® intervention, durable functional and adaptive gains depend on the therapist delivered programme as a whole, including appropriate application of ASI principles and fidelity, rather than on an individual item of equipment alone.

Each Sparkle Ceiling tile measures 60cm x 60cm and is designed to fit in place of a standard suspended ceiling tile.

The kit contains four tiles, providing flexibility when planning a sensory room ceiling. When installed together as a square, the four tiles create an illuminated area measuring approximately 120cm x 120cm.

The four tile format makes the Sparkle Ceiling Kit ideal as a feature within a new sensory room, or as an addition to an existing multi sensory environment where an engaging overhead lighting effect is required.

The Sparkle Ceiling 4 Tile Kit is an effective way to introduce fibre optic sensory lighting into a new or existing sensory room.

Combine the ceiling feature with bubble tubes, fibre optics, sensory wall panels, projection equipment, soft play and other sensory room equipment to create a coordinated environment offering varied opportunities for visual exploration, interaction and sensory engagement.

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Mike Ayres Design specialises in durable sensory equipment and professionally designed sensory environments for schools, healthcare settings and specialist facilities throughout the UK.