• Rationale for Equipment• E mail for a copy of this specific document, it was not part of the

PowerPoint…

Design Matters• Use a rectangular room if possible, i.e. 16 by 20, 18

by 22, 12 by 16, etc.• Room color: white off/white to act as a screen, light-

ish carpet, white ceiling…all combine to act as the projection screen• Room must be able to go to complete darkness and

have dimmable lighting• Control center: one switch to one piece of equipment,

to allow each piece to be turned on separately

• Mirrors mounted in a corner, opposite the way the entrance door opens• One ceiling electrical outlet for the motorized mirror

ball, should be last switch on control panel

Uncluttered & Organizing Designs

This: Not This:

“Therapist-Interruptis”• Is a disease process : It is when a practitioner

interferes with the user’s ability to have time, quiet, left & right brain conversations, and processing, by over directing, talking too much, moving too much and basically pushing to hard…it’s born out of TLC and Responsibility…

• The cure is: quiet observation, waiting, waiting, and using Therapeutic Presence , and only use supports that the individual requires and in synchrony with the users rhythms, tempos and requests…

• ©Lmessbauer 2007

Sensations with the environmentUsing…

Vestibular System

Vision Auditory

Head/Neck Movement

MSE Practitioner utilizes the moving visual image to motivate head and neck rotation to stimulate the vestibular system, adding in

music; The individual need not focus on the image as it is automatically picked up be the peripheral system…

All components influence one another.