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 ...

A day at the Dollywood Family Amusement Park is filled with enough sights, sounds and colors to overstimulate anyone ⁠— especially those with autism. That’s why Dollywood safety manager Judy Toth, who ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

SILOAM SPRINGS -- Northside Elementary School installed a sensory room over the December break to give students a place to take a break. The room is often used with special needs students who have ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ATHENS, Ala. (WHNT) – Students in Limestone ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Take a walk down Northeast Portland’s Alberta Street and you’ll find Hidden Oasis, a calming sensory room that is the exact antithesis to the ever-busy and bustling ...