Discover sensory-friendly solutions for daily life.
We help people, businesses, and organizations adopt sensory-friendly solutions. Learn about sensory sensitivity and sensory overload. Find easy ways to enjoy sensory-friendly living at home, school, work, in your community and when you travel. Discover simple ways for your business or organization to offer sensory-friendly experiences to your customers and clients.
Our short documentary showcases real-life sensory-friendly events and locations. Learn from people who share their stories of everyday sensory challenges and their solutions.
“I think that idea of it’s a spectrum really takes away this kind of idea that you’re sensory sensitive or you’re not.”
–Maggie Higgins, Education & Outreach Coordinator, Saint John Arts Centre.
What We Offer
Newsletter
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At Home
Find help to manage sensory challenges at home with your family.
At School
Get resources to handle sensory challenges at school.
At Work
Adapt to sensory challenges at the home office or workplace with sensory-friendly tools.
Things To Do
Discover sensory-friendly things to do in the community.
For Businesses
Learn how to offer sensory-friendly experiences at your event or location.What We’ve Done
2020 was a challenging year. Like everyone else, we tried to help in any way possible. So we reached out and connected with people, businesses and organizations around the world, and forged new partnerships. Together, we found small and big ways to make the world more sensory-friendly, inclusive and accommodating.
Sensory Friendly Solutions: Podcast
Download, subscribe and listen to the world’s first podcast about sensory challenges and sensory-friendly solutions in everyday living.
Hear conversations with international experts, parents and people with their personal sensory challenges, all champions who bring sensory-friendly solutions to life around the world.
Partnerships
Collaboration is in our DNA as a social enterprise. Here are some examples of our 2020 partnerships:
- Created a sensory-friendly dining experience with Autism Resources Miramichi and #RisingYouth at a Jungle Jim's Eatery.
- Tested an online sensory-friendly self-assessment tool and training with the Social Enterprise Hub to transform their building into a welcoming and comfortable space.
- Launched a free, downloadable guide: A Better Dining Experience for Seniors with Hearing Loss, with New Brunswick Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services Inc.
- Conducted an applied research project with New Brunswick Community College,"Community Resources before and after COVID-19" for people with hidden disabilities.
- Provided 3 education sessions, in partnership with our podcast guests, to Sensory Integration Education for their first virtual conference, which had over 2300 attendees from around the globe.
Sensory Friendly Finder
Launched in 2019, our Sensory Friendly Finder is the first global sensory-friendly directory.
We are working diligently to improve the real-time information about sensory-friendly experiences we map and list for you.
Look for our Sensory Friendly Finder’s re-launch in 2021 with listings of sensory-friendly events and locations worldwide.