We are delighted to be able to add some new equipment to our Sensory Room and Quiet Space.
We recently purchased a Boundex? Cuddle Box™ from Tumbl Trak (UK). The Boundex Cuddle Box was developed by Eileen Richter, MPH, OTR/L, FAOTA, to engage young children and foster their innate drive to develop and use their bodies by providing a unique sensory motor activity with Sensory Lycra.
The Boundex Cuddle Box is a steel frame wrapped in foam and several layers of lycra. The overall impact of the Boundex Cuddle Box lies in the exceptional sensory motor experience it offers a child. In simple terms, the following support-to-development is observed as the child moves on the apparatus:
- Triggers the child's drive to explore and challenge gravity using the total body.
- Elongation, activation, strengthening and grading core muscles of the body.
- Develops strength and stability of the shoulders, arms and hands through grasp, weight bearing, and weight shifting.
- Promotes 3 dimensional, refined movement of hands through expansion and gradation.
- Develops strength and stability of the pelvis, knees and feet through weight bearing, expansion, weight shift, and gradation, which leads to 3 dimensional, refined movement.
- Facilitates stability with mobility throughout the body (no fixing/holding or compensatory patterns)
- Vestibular, somatosensory integration is promoted with each action for improving balance and coordination.
- Increases depth and variability of respiration/encourages vocalization.
- The child's movement actively facilitates integration of primitive reflexes allowing the emergence of 3 dimensional motor patterns.
- The child's movements develop controlled gradation of multiple muscle synergies, i.e. top/bottom, left/right, front/back, diagonal/rotational.
