This paper aims to identify the characteristics practitioners consider essential to effective multisensory rooms and the barriers they experience when trying to realise the potential of such rooms.,The paper presents semi-structured interviews with 27 multisensory room practitioners from a range of backgrounds followed by analysis to identify key characteristics and barriers.,Eleven positive room characteristics were identified. The three deemed most significant were that the rooms are dark, activity associated and uninterrupted spaces. Two negative room characteristics were identified: inaccessible design and broken equipment. Ten barriers to effective multisensory room practice were identified and grouped according to themes of logistics, suboptimal usage and practitioner capabilities.,The research focuses on a small self-selecting sample, coded by one person acting independently of any institution. This is an under researched area which would benefit from further more rigorous investigation.,This research enables practitioners to remove barriers to effective multisensory room practice and to focus on the characteristics most significant in generating benefits for room users. Understanding of the essential characteristics and potential barriers to effective practice will allow practitioners to better exploit limited resources of time, money and staffing.,Past research into multisensory rooms has focused on specific user groups or specific multisensory environments. This research examined multisensory room practice across both a range of environments and a range of users, giving an original overview of current multisensory room usage in the UK.

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多感官室：有效实践的基本特征和障碍

本文旨在确定从业者认为有效的多感官房间必不可少的特征以及他们在尝试实现此类房间的潜力时遇到的障碍。本文对来自不同背景的 27 名多感官房间从业者进行了半结构化访谈，然后进行了分析确定关键特征和障碍。确定了 11 个积极的房间特征。三个被认为最重要的是房间是黑暗的、活动相关的和不间断的空间。确定了两个负面的房间特征：难以接近的设计和损坏的设备。根据后勤、次优使用和从业者能力等主题，确定并分组了有效多感官房间实践的十个障碍。研究侧重于一个小的自我选择样本，由一个独立于任何机构行事的人编码。这是一个研究不足的领域，将受益于进一步更严格的调查。,这项研究使从业者能够消除有效多感官房间实践的障碍，并专注于为房间用户带来好处的最重要特征。了解有效实践的基本特征和潜在障碍将使从业者更好地利用有限的时间、金钱和人员资源。过去对多感官房间的研究集中在特定的用户群或特定的多感官环境。这项研究检查了一系列环境和一系列用户的多感官房间实践，给出了英国当前多感官房间使用情况的原始概述。