A little change can be a big challenge for Adam Mansell. The Portland boy, who turns 11 Wednesday, has multiple medical conditions including cerebral palsy and autism. Even everyday transitions such ...

Jeannette Urbanczyk, a 96-year-old woman who suffers from dementia, was confused and agitated Wednesday morning, as she yelled "help!" for no reason and poked the chest of Rebecca Walpole, manager of ...

Memory care residents Rosalee Devlen and Beatrice Dean entered a room on the second floor of Cayuga Ridge Extended Care on Wednesday and were met with ultraviolet designs on the walls and floors. The ...

With both hands, a young girl clasped a glass tube as bubbles within it rose to the top. Her eyes tracked them in the dark room. A boy lay on a foam mattress and kicked his feet when fiber-optic ...

Ulster-Greene ARC's Wall Street Day Services has opened a Snoezelen Room to benefit autistic adults regionally. Snoezelen is a multisensory therapy room developed in the 1970s by two Dutch therapists ...

New situations can cause major distress for children with autism—and going from home to a hospital can be particularly nerve-racking. So to help calm children with developmental disabilities and teach ...

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 ...

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 ...

The L'Arche community in Halifax has opened one of the first Snoezelen rooms in Nova Scotia, designed to bring a calming respite for people with disabilities. Like the Danish idea of hygge, which ...

MIRAMAR BEACH — Tucked away in a corner of the second floor of the Medical Office Building at Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast is what looks, at first glance, like the best playroom ever.