Sensory World

We launched Sensory World in 2006 to fill the gap in provision of age-appropriate, educational and fun websites for adults with learning disabilities.

It is a free, inclusive, exciting, innovative and relevant site to visit.

Based around a virtual house, visitors can easily navigate from room to room to find different activities and things to do, for example, health and safety in the kitchen, or planning your weekly meals and budget.

There are over 3,000 visits to the site each month, many from overseas. Feedback is regularly left and we are now developing Sensory World to meet people’s needs and wishes for further activities to be added. The site now allows “personalisation” for some of the activities, so that work can be saved from one session to another. As an exercise is completed, so a certificate can be printed off.

A sensory garden has also been added, following the great success of the sensory room page. Users can look at the different seasons of the year, and what happens as the year progresses.

Support workers often use the site to help with budgeting exercises, meal choices or health and safety around the home.

Visit www.sensoryworld.org

“The sensory room was my favourite, it looked really nice in there!”
Service User

“What a brilliant site. My son concentrated on the screen for quite a while.”
Parent

“A fantastic site. Looking forward to any new developments.”
Care Worker

“Absolutely fabulous. A big thank you for enabling learning within a fun role for all those with a learning disability. Fantastic, and it’s free!”
Care Worker