Regulation • Stimulation • Exploration
Supporting Students’ Sensory Needs Through Connection, Choice and Understanding
By creating an active regulation space filled with robust, wall- or floor-mounted tools for regulation, stimulation, and sensory exploration, we give students consistent ways to meet their sensory needs and support their nervous systems for learning and connection.
Our Regulation, Stimulation, and Exploration tools provide students with safe, accessible pathways to regulate their bodies, express their needs, and engage in learning with greater comfort and confidence.
Benefits for Schools & Teachers
Educators share that SUPERCALM tools help to:
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Support students’ nervous systems, reducing distress and increasing feelings of safety
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Create predictable, attuned learning environments where students feel understood and supported
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Ease transitions and daily routines through grounding, rhythmic, or sensory-aligned input
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Offer proactive pathways for regulation, rather than responding only after a student becomes overwhelmed
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Meet the diverse sensory and regulation needs across special, mainstream, and inclusive settings
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Reduce pressure on staff, as students have accessible tools to meet their needs before challenges escalate
Self-regulation is a complex higher level executive functioning skill. It is defined as the ability to manage your energy levels, emotions, attention, and behaviour. Effective self-regulation supports you to engage in learning, establish and maintain good relationships and maintain wellbeing (Shanker, 2010).
The ability to ‘self’ regulate is developmental the part of the brain where self-regulation takes place doesn’t fully develop until we are approximately 25 years old, hence students at all stages of their educational journey will continue to need some level of regulation support from the adults in their surroundings.
The NCSE Relate framework is a highly recommended, evidence-based guide for schools seeking to embed neuro-affirming, regulation-first supports into everyday practice. Relate places relationships, environment, and regulation at the heart of how schools understand and support student needs, shifting the focus from “behaviour management” to why a student may need support . At its core, Relate encourages schools to: centre student voice and rights, prioritise regulation and neurodiversity-affirming practices, adopt universal design for learning, and reflect on environments and relationships as much as on individual needs. ncse.ie+1
Why schools should read it: Relate helps transform school culture — making the environment more predictable, inclusive, and supportive of all learners. It offers practical, flexible strategies that benefit the whole school community, not just specific individuals, and helps schools respond compassionately and effectively to a wide variety of needs.
