Home design is moving beyond aesthetics and toward spaces that actively engage the senses. Here's what experts expect to see ...

Teachers can set up hands-on exploration to promote young students’ ability to calm themselves when emotions are running high ...

Sensory stimulation is the input and sensation you receive when one or more of your senses is activated. This type of stimulation is important for infant development and can be used to improve the ...

Sensory overload is often about uncertainty and how long the brain has to stay engaged—especially in autism and ADHD.

Sensory deprivation is associated with striking crossmodal neuroplastic changes in the brain. Following sensory deprivation (for example, blindness or deafness), there is functional recruitment of ...

Kanner, in his ground-breaking “Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact” (1943), described numerous examples of atypical sensory processing in his case studies of autistic children, as well as how ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) — The first Sunday of every month will now be Sensory Day at the Hattiesburg Zoo. For those unfamiliar, Sensory Day is an event where the zoo makes extra effort to reduce ...