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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Country Cottage, a local assisted living and memory care community in Montgomery, Alabama, opened their Snoezelen Room on May 11. "Snoezelen" comes from the Dutch verbs "snuffelen" (to seek and ...

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 ...

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.

NORWALK — Kerry Rice took off her shoes at the classroom door. She walked into the dimly lit space, gazed at its sterile white walls and blacked out windows, and listened for any hint of sound.

A therapy with a name that sounds straight out of “Sesame Street” has stepped in to help Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia patients improve their memory and response to their environment, while staving ...