Sensory Friendly Solutions for Businesses

Make customers and clients feel comfortable at your event or location. There are simple things your business or organization can do to include more people. A better customer experience means new and returning clients.

Small sensory-friendly changes have a large impact.

Find helpful podcast episodes and blog posts below.

Sensory Friendly Solutions Self-Assessment Quiz

How sensory-friendly is your event or location?

Take our simple, nine question, Sensory Friendly Solutions Self-Assessment Quiz to find out.

Get a report with changes you can make to create a sensory-friendly experience at your event or location.

Small sensory-friendly changes have a large impact.

Make people comfortable. Keep your customers and clients coming back for more.

55+ Travelers: Arriving & Thriving Audio Conference

Learn how tourism, arts and culture can deliver exceptional sensory-friendly experiences for the growing ’55 plus’ traveler market.

Listen to exclusive podcast conversations, for free, with leaders in tourism, tourist attractions, along with arts and cultural organizations who know how to make simple sensory-friendly changes that create exceptional experiences. You will also hear from travelers themselves and organizations who understand the needs of the 55+ market.

Resource: Sensory Friendly Tourism Checklist

More and more people are looking for sensory-friendly experiences in daily life, in their communities, and when they travel. There are simple things you can do to help your event or location become sensory-friendly and make more people comfortable.

Resource: Restaurant Guide for Seniors

Did you know at least a third of the population over 65 years of age has hearing loss that is disabling? There are a few easy changes restaurants can make are key to ensuring seniors enjoy dining and become regulars.

Resource: Sensory Friendly Halloween

Hallowe’en is a sensory-rich experience that can easily become overwhelming for many children. Learn about sensory-friendly trick or treating to make Halloween fun for all children.

Resource: Sensory Friendly Santa Claus Parade

Did you know that adding a quiet zone to your Santa Claus Parade will help children and adults alike enjoy the experience? In a few easy steps you can make your parade sensory-friendly.

Resource: Sensitive Santa Events

Creating a Santa Claus visiting event that helps all children enjoy Santa is easy with this guide. Making Santa, “Sensitive” and sensory-friendly ensure smiles and joy all-around.

Business-Related Blog Posts

Two young business women running their sensory-friendly business.

How to Get Started With Your Sensory-Friendly Business

Are you like many other businesses? You want to increase your customer base. You are interested in being more accessible. Inclusion is important to you.

Young family sitting on beach towel at sensory-friendly beach.

Make your Beach Sensory-Friendly

Many people enjoy visiting the beach. However, did you know that some families avoid the beach? The crowds of people, loud noises and lack of

Graphic stating, "The Andy Warhol Museum's Virtual Sensory-Friendly Workshop!"

An Art Museum Hosts a Virtual Sensory-Friendly Workshop

Picture this: You join a Zoom call. You first see a gallery of new faces. You hear scattered chatter in the group. People interrupt one another. They apologize for their

Employees sitting at sensory-friendly work event.

How to Create a Sensory-Friendly Event

Sensory-friendly events are becoming mainstream. More people identify as having a sensory-sensitivity, and seek them out. To be inclusive, people, businesses and organizations must learn

Young blind woman walking with cane visual aid.

Sensory Preferences: Yours, Mine, & Ours.

There are simple changes you can make so that an event or location is sensory-friendly. When thinking of common sensory-friendly changes, consider dimming bright lights,

Young boy and swim instructor during sensory-friendly swim lessons.

How to Create Sensory-Friendly Swim Lessons

As summer camps and outdoor swimming pools begin opening for the summer in the Western Hemisphere, it important to include as many children as possible

Two senior women sitting at a coffee shop.

How Sensory-Friendly Is Also Senior-Friendly

Did you know that a sensory-friendly event or location is also senior-friendly? Make a few sensory-friendly changes and your business or organization is also welcoming

Two women walking wearing masks bumping elbows during COVID..

Sensory Overload and COVID-19

Have you considered the effect of COVID-19 on sensory overload? For instance, face masks, physical barriers, constant hand washing or sanitizing and social isolation are

Business-Related Podcast Episodes

Dr. Peggy Bown & Laura Caswell – Reimagining Sensory-Friendly Events and Locations

Dr. Peggy Bown, Dentist, Peggy Bown Dentistry and Laura Caswell, Director of Education, Neptune Theatre share how patient-first dentistry and relaxed theatre performances are more alike than different. Both seek to make people feel safe and protected by becoming sensory-friendly.