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 ...

Lennie Latham has worked with children with sensory issues for more than 15 years without seeing a state-of-the-art multi-sensory environment (MSE) room quite like the one she now manages — and that ...

Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso announced a $9.25 million investment Tuesday to build new sensory rooms for ...

It started as a Christmas surprise, but for one Massachusetts mom, it quickly became something much bigger: a space where her daughter could feel calm, creative and completely herself. When Milene ...

Winter sensory bins have saved countless gray January afternoons in my house. When the temperature drops and everyone’s stuck inside, these simple setups have given my kids something tactile and ...

Children who are sensitive to sensory overload will have a new quiet space at the Birmingham Zoo. The room, which can be found near the main entrance, is named “Libby’s Sensory Room” in honor of Libby ...

Where most people simply saw a school storage closet, Stacey Nelson saw a place where special needs elementary school students could get transformative care. Nelson applied for and received a $4,500 ...

Percy Losardo never used to attend Mass. The 14-year-old with autism struggled to sit still in the pews when he was younger, which caused his mother, Lark, to frequently take him outside to walk.

Milene Andrade tells PEOPLE she wanted her daughter to have “a space in our home to fully express herself” — and now she heads straight there every day Ashley Vega is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She ...