Dan Peterson School celebrates building addition
Special needs students from north Utah County now have greater opportunities, thanks to an expansion of Dan Peterson School in American Fork. [ read the entire article ]

Snoezelen Stimulates Change
A soft light travels through a cylindrical tube, slowly flashing as it glides, different colors emitting brightly. Meanwhile, fiber optics light mirrors as music blares from an iPod. [ read the entire article ]

Snoezelen Room stimulates students' development
Aaron, 8, is a classic study in the beneficial effects of "Snoezelen" environments. Last year, the Grade 3 student had limited speech. This year, with the opening of a new Snoezelen Room at St. Luke Catholic Elementary School, Aaron is not only speaking words, but spontaneously expresses his own ideas in complete sentences. [ read the entire article ]

Engaging Dementia Patients Using all the Senses
WALTER ADAMS SITS in a dimly lit room. A pillow in his chair quietly vibrates. The 76-year-old man stares intently at a blue panel with rivulets of sand dripping down it in soothing cascades. [ read the entire article ]

A Touching Tribute to the Alexanders
At the opening ceremonies for the new Alexander Pavilion at St. Peter's Hospital, Mayor Fred Eisenberger joked about renaming the city Lincville or Alexanderville. [ read the entire article ]

Have You Ever Snoezelened?
The rooms are environments that use sensory stimulation like sounds, touch, lights, pictures, and smells either for a calming effect on agitated patients or to stimulate patients who have withdrawn. [ read the entire article ]

You’ve Got the Equipment, Now How Do You Launch the Program?
Among the black lights, bubble tubes, glowing fibre optics and soft music, the last person you’d expect to see is 87-year-old Edith Lynch. [ read the entire article ]

A Room Comes Alive With Color and Sounds
This is the Snoezelen (SNOO-zuh-len) room for residents with severe dementia. Donna Hoskins, associate director of nursing, says its effects are intended to stimulate the primary senses with music, soft tactile objects, lighting and fragrances. The stimulation, nurses find, blunts the anxieties of even the most regressive residents and helps them relax. [ read the entire article ]

Snoezelen Therapy Calms and Relaxes Patients
Parents of young children understand the calming power of Margaret Wise Brown’s soothing prose in Goodnight Moon. Paired with Clement Hurd’s illustrations, the timeless classic has lulled the fussiest child into a relaxed state. [ read the entire article ]

Extended Family
Back in the 1980s, Dr. Joseph Wong became troubled by the fact that many frail Chinese seniors were ailing in isolation, in need of care and connection, and often stymied by a language barrier. [ read the entire article ]

Therapy Room Uses Sights, Sounds, Smells to Help Autistic Adults
Snoezelen is a multisensory therapy room developed in the 1970s by two Dutch therapists to reduce apathy and agitation by providing a space that appeals to all the senses and allows the client to make choices nonverbally. Snoezelen also has been used for those with dementia, post-traumatic stress disorder, intellectual or mental disabilities or even to boost relaxation and creativity among highly stressed corporate executives. [ read the entire article ]

Therapy Site Helps Anxious Kids Regain Calm
A strange-sounding therapy of flashing lights, music, water bubble tubes and other fascinating sights and sounds is helping young psychiatric patients learn how to contain agitated, aggressive, angry or anxious minds. [ read the entire article ]

GoodWill Multi-Sensory Room Has Therapeutic Results For Participants
Goodwill Columbus has installed a state-of-the-art multi-sensory room that offers a therapeutic experience for individuals with mental retardation, autism and dementia. [ read the entire article ]

Multi-Sensory Environments Provide Relief, Escape
A room with bean-bag chairs on the floor and psychedelic light patterns reflecting off the walls might seem like a rec room circa 1968. [ read the entire article ]

Program Offers Special ED Students Life Lessons
Ironically, Bryan De Sousa and the rest of the staff in the school’s Planning for Independence Program (PIP) spend most of the time trying to stretch the boundaries of their students. [ read the entire article ]

Snoezelen Therapy Comes To St. Joseph's Villa
St. Joseph's Villa hopes to improve the quality of life for hundreds of seniors, with a new form of relaxation and stimulation therapy. [ read the entire article ]

New Monarch School For Children With Autism Opens
When Bellefaire JCB's Monarch School for Children with Autism opened in 2000 in a former cottage, converted bedrooms served as classrooms. Storage closets became art and music rooms, and corridors were narrow with multiple turns. Every space, from the gross motor area to the lunchroom, was make-shift. [ read the entire article ]

Service For Disabled Children, Families Opens
A quality of life service for disabled children and family members opened the doors to their new location Thursday evening.
Located at 2702 First Ave., Tangible Alternatives is a new group seeking non-profit status that specializes in massage, music, art, and movement based activities. The group of volunteers had been operating for two years as a travel-based program. Their new location not only provides a space to work, but also establishes a headquarters to those who need assistance. [ read the entire article ]