Discover and choose sensory-friendly events and locations. Make everyday life more comfortable when sensory sensitivity and sensory overload are a challenge.
Sensory-friendly events and locations are helpful to people of all ages and all abilities.
Small sensory-friendly changes have a large impact.
Find helpful podcast episodes and blog posts below. You can also get a special guide we created with New Brunswick Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services Inc. to help seniors with restaurant dining.
“We wish the Sensory Friendly Finder had been created 20 years ago! Traveling and shopping with our family, including our son with autism was a constant challenge when our children were growing up.
We never knew where we could go out as a family to eat. Would it be a noisy, crowded restaurant? Would our son be able to cope? Would we have to leave our meal half eaten? We wasted a lot of time and money over the years.
Shopping was always a nightmare too; we could not even go shoe shopping with our son. The Sensory Friendly Finder will help families like ours do things that other families take for granted every day.
We are so proud of our son, who is now studying at university. But we truly wish there had been something like this to make our lives easier over the years.”
– Jamie and Elaine Shannon,
New Brunswick, Canada.
Are you surprised to learn that a least a third of the population over 65 years of age has hearing loss that is disabling? Sharing a meal, especially at a restaurant, can be unpleasant and downright avoided by seniors with hearing loss. Hearing aids do not solve the problem. However, a few easy changes that seniors can make, their dining companions can make and restaurants can make are key to ensuring seniors enjoy dining and become regulars.
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