Fiber optic lights and a color-changing bubble tube sound like something you'd find in a "new age" meditation room, but they're scoring big points in a memory support wing at Messiah Village in Upper ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The room’s walls are painted black. So is the ceiling. The only light came from fiber-optic ropes and tall tubes filled with bubbling water, changing from ...

WATERLOO – For people of a certain age, the cozy, all-enveloping chair resembles Mork from Ork’s egg from the TV show “Mork & Mindy.” Actually, the chair is designed to reduce extraneous noise and ...

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 ...

A new guide has shed fresh light on the positive impact multi-sensory environments can have when caring for people with dementia. The guide contains advice about different materials and tools that can ...

YORK, Pa. — A York organization is helping vulnerable children manage their emotions with a therapeutic multi-sensory space. York Builders Association (YBA) and Children's Home of York (CHOY) ...

Many of Chileda’s students with cognitive and behavioral challenges, also struggle with moderate to severe sensory issues, and a new fundraising campaign hopes to help them regulate those feelings. A ...

People with special needs will soon find some relief when Western Springs opens its first multi-sensory room November 17. The addition to the Grand Avenue Recreation Center is the product of a ...

Research released at the Inside Out Festival in London has shed new light on the positive impact multi-sensory environments can have when caring for people living with dementia. Academic experts Dr ...

ELLISVILLE, Ill. – Pathfinder Church in Ellisville has opened Play Differently a brand new Sensory Room for kids with autism and other special needs to celebrate National Autism Month. Play ...