Sensory rooms can be found in a growing number of public venues, from airports to football stadiums. The sensory room at Madison Square Garden in New York City, for example, boasts beanbag chairs ...

The lack of accessible spaces for his family inspired Perkins to begin building the kinds of rooms his daughter would thrive in. In 2018 he officially launched his company, The Sensory Room, which ...

The Still Waters Sensory Room at St. Joseph Church in Maplewood, N.J., is seen March 16, 2025. The first-of-its-kind sensory room at the church welcomes neurodivergent parishioners.

Though The Sensory Room specializes in schools, Perkin’s company has also built rooms for a Broadway theater and an airport, and three in evangelical churches.

In 2018 he officially launched his company, The Sensory Room, which builds high-end, durable sensory rooms from start to finish and trains people on how to use them.

A family and aides use the sensory room in the church building for the Desert Valley Ward, Desert Ridge Stake, in Mesa, Ariz. Rebecca Barlow is the ward disability specialist for the Desert Valley ...

MAPLEWOOD, N.J. (RNS) — From organ blasts and incense to forced hugs and hand shakes, for folks who struggle to process sensory input, houses of worship can quickly feel anything but holy.