Vestibular · Proprioceptive
Trampoline
Bouncing feeds the balance system through the inner ear while the landings press through every joint. It is the fastest way to organise a child who arrives unsettled.
Battambang, Cambodia
Every child’s progress, written down.
Dani Sensory Gym is a sensory integration therapy centre for children with developmental delays and disabilities. Your child plays. A therapist scores the same five areas against a published rubric. You open the chart on your phone — and you can read, before you ever visit, exactly what each score means.
What a guardian sees
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1,977
5
125
Our approach
Movement first, because that is where the brain is listening.
Sensory integration is the idea, set out in the 1960s by the occupational therapist and psychologist A. Jean Ayres, that many difficulties with learning and behaviour come not from intelligence or effort but from a brain that is struggling to organise the signals arriving from the body.
So we start with the body. Swinging, climbing, bouncing and being buried in a ball pit each deliver a different kind of input — balance from the inner ear, pressure through the joints, touch across the skin. A child who is better organised is a child who can attend, wait, and try again.
None of it looks like therapy from the doorway. That is the point: children work far harder at play than at exercises.
Communication
Cognitive
Social
Physical
Large Muscle
Programs
Five ways to move
Each piece of equipment gives a different kind of sensory input. Most children work across several of them in the same plan.
Proprioceptive · Motor planning
Climbing Wall
Pulling up a wall is deep muscle work, and choosing the next hold is planning. Children who avoid new movements often start here, one hold at a time.
Proprioceptive · Spatial · Social
Jungle Gym
A structure with several ways through asks the body where it is and asks the child to share the space. Turn-taking happens here without anyone naming it.
Vestibular · Upper body
Swings & Monkey Bar
Swinging is the classic organising input — slow and rhythmic settles, fast and irregular alerts. The bars build grip and shoulders for everything else.
Tactile · Deep pressure
Ball Pit
Being surrounded is touch from every direction at once. For a child who finds textures hard, this is where tolerance is built — and where colours and counting arrive by accident.
Scoring, in the open
You can read the rubric before you ever visit.
Every score from 1 to 5 has a written description, and there are 125 of them. This is the same rubric our therapists score against — read straight from the centre’s records, not rewritten for this page. Open any program below.
Trampoline
Communication
1
2
3
4
5
Cognitive
1
2
3
4
5
Social
1
2
3
4
5
Physical
1
2
3
4
5
Large Muscle
1
2
3
4
5
Climbing Wall
Communication
1
2
3
4
5
Cognitive
1
2
3
4
5
Social
1
2
3
4
5
Physical
1
2
3
4
5
Large Muscle
1
2
3
4
5
Jungle Gym
Communication
1
2
3
4
5
Cognitive
1
2
3
4
5
Social
1
2
3
4
5
Physical
1
2
3
4
5
Large Muscle
1
2
3
4
5
Swings & Monkey Bar
Communication
1
2
3
4
5
Cognitive
1
2
3
4
5
Social
1
2
3
4
5
Physical
1
2
3
4
5
Large Muscle
1
2
3
4
5
Ball Pit
Communication
1
2
3
4
5
Cognitive
1
2
3
4
5
Social
1
2
3
4
5
Physical
1
2
3
4
5
Large Muscle
1
2
3
4
5
The chart your family gets
A therapist writes the assessment after the session. Nothing reaches you until the office has read it and shared it — so what you open is finished, not a draft.
Alongside the chart you get the therapist’s notes, and a period report that says where your child started, where they are now, and how many sessions that took.
The team
The people who will meet your child
Im Unphiya
Ry Monan
Vanna Noy
Phann Panchiva
Ruth Kim
Jason Lee
Visit
Come and watch a session.
The best way to know whether this suits your child is to walk in and see the room. Here is what a first visit looks like.
- We meet your child and you together, and write down what you are hoping for.
- Your child tries the equipment while a therapist watches — nothing is scored on a first look.
- We agree a plan: which areas we aim at, from where your child is today.
- From the next session onward, every visit is scored and the chart begins.
Battambang, Cambodia
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