About This Aid
Mungo supports students during intensive practical activities such as laboratories, workshops, fieldtrips and professional placements. These environments can be sensory rich and unpredictable. Mungo helps you manage your sensory threshold so you can focus on your learning and professional requirements.
Section 1: Activity Preparation
Before any session you should prepare your sensory shield. Use the Equipment Checklist to remember items like earbuds or cotton glove liners. You must contact those running the session well in advance to check safety protocols when using sensory aids. Use the Advocacy Scripts section to communicate your needs clearly. A default script is provided to help you ask for a quieter space and a paced spoken delivery. This is useful when you need instructions to be given slowly and clearly to aid your processing. The Visual Schedule allows you to map out time blocks to make the session feel predictable.
Section 2: Using Advocacy Scripts
The Scripts function is designed to assist communication when you are experiencing high sensory load. You can save custom headings and detailed scripts for specific situations. Each script has a copy button. Tapping this icon copies the text to your clipboard so you can paste it into a WhatsApp or text message to a tutor or peer. Using the paced delivery script lets others know that while you are capable you simply need instructions delivered at a speed that allows for sensory processing time.
Section 3: Live Activity Support
During the activity use the toolkit for grounding. The Emergency Break Message communicates a need for space without the need for verbal speech. The noise masking tool creates a deep brown noise floor to block industrial or lab sounds. The Digital Fidget Pad provides relaxing visual bursts and gentle vibration feedback to help you stay present if you feel overwhelmed.
Section 4: Reflection and Resilience
Reflection helps you build strategies for future sessions. Use the Success Log to record small wins as they happen. This data is automatically added to your Resilience Journal. You can also map sensory trigger locations. All this data can be copied and shared with yourself or a specialist support mentor. Reviewing these logs in a support session helps identify patterns and refine your sensory management plan.
Glossary of Sensory Terms
Use these terms to explain your challenges to lab tutors, technicians or placement providers.