Communicating with children using smells.

Nathan Motylinski - Monday, November 16, 2009

I came across this article a few days ago and thought it was of great interest. A school in England has started using scents as a clever way of communicating to children with multisensory impairments.

Sofia’s world is largely a dark and silent one. As a blind and deaf child of 9, her sense of smell is one of the few means by which she can interpret the landscape.And what she is smelling today, on a small, laminated square, is the seaside. The ozonic scent of salty air, wet sand, seaweed and ocean spray has been replicated and impregnated on to a scrap of paper.

I find this absolutely fascinating and truly inspirational. Read more here

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By Roland Helby on September 10, 2010

Instead of giving kids bottle of liquid perfume you can make solid perfume for them and it is not expensive.You may feel like a little chemist but it is not difficult.

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