HAZLETON – Jeanmichael Pacheco Santiago is alone on a swing in the dark, but when the lights go on he steps off and shakes hands with visitors looking around the newest feature at Hazleton Area ...

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 ...

Parker Hoesel, a second grader at Webb Elementary School, demonstrates a trust fall inside the school’s sensory room while Doug Adams, the school’s behavioral interventionist, watches. Webb was able ...

Emma E. Booker Elementary used to have a sensory room, but after roughly 20 years, it had become outdated and limited. Now, with outside support from a local business, the school has a fully renovated ...

As students climbed, bounced and jumped their way around the brightly colored sensory room at Denville's Riverview Elementary School, Principal Tina Theodoropoulos beamed at how far the project had ...

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 ...

GRANDVILLE, Mich. (WOOD) — October is National Sensory Processing Awareness Month. A West Michigan family and Hope Network are sharing the importance of making spaces more inclusive. Originally from ...

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Emma Morse, a senior biology major, likes the room‘s low chairs, where she can read and not be bothered. Her college's library is too chaotic, she said, and she feels more comfortable sitting closer ...

Michigan sports, be it collegiate or professional, are important to Fredi Bello, affectionately known as “Fredi The Pizzaman.” If you step inside his Melvindale pizzeria, which bears his nickname, you ...

Sensory rooms are designed to allow anxious students to blow off steam and calm down. They're often intended for children on the autism spectrum, but proponents say they can benefit any agitated ...