What is a sensory room? A sensory room or sensory integration room is designed to provide calm, focus, and comfort to people with sensory processing problems, which often includes people with autism ...

Creating spaces in your home that make you feel good is how most of us decorate, right? We are often drawn to items that make us feel happy, that exude positive energy and stimulate peace. If not any ...

Milene Andrade tells PEOPLE she wanted her daughter to have “a space in our home to fully express herself” — and now she ...

Design lovers can appreciate the effect atmosphere has on wellbeing. The value of an aesthetically pleasing, accommodating space is dialed up further when it comes to sensory rooms, which are ...

WEEPING WATER, Nebraksa (Lincoln Journal Star) — The note in Katrina “K.T.” Bescheinen’s desk was scribbled with ideas and spur-of-the-moment inspirations, a blueprint for a dream. A vision, as her ...

Maplewood, N.J. • Incense. Organ blasts. Forced hugs and handshakes. For folks who struggle to process sensory input, houses of worship can quickly feel anything but holy. That was the case for Lark ...

The “no reentry” rule that’s applied at most major venues can make a family coping with sensory needs think twice about whether they go to an event like a professional football game. The Philadelphia ...

MAPLEWOOD, N.J. (RNS) — From organ blasts and incense to forced hugs and hand shakes, for folks who struggle to process sensory input, houses of worship can quickly feel anything but holy. That was ...