The latest excitement at the Boys and Girls Club in Portage is a room designed to calm people down. Club Director Adam Clough knelt in the darkened room, lifted a giant plush caterpillar from the ...

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 ...

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

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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 ...

CRAWFORD COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) — The Devereaux Memorial Library celebrated the opening of its new sensory room with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday afternoon. The room is designed to provide a ...

CINCINNATI — Cincinnati Zoo employees want everyone to be able to enjoy a day at the zoo. The zoo’s calming room, which opened this week, provides a quiet place for people with sensory sensitivities ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – With bright fluorescent lights, loud announcements and crowds of people bustling from one gate to another, the airport can be a bit of a sensory overload for some people.

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Sensory rooms, once the domain of special-needs students, particularly children diagnosed with autism and Asperger’s syndrome, are going mainstream. Through the use of objects like lights, rocking ...