How a sensory room helps

Sensory rooms or quiet spaces are designated areas where autistic people can use to stim or retreat to when feeling overstimulated. The space itself is designed to aid in a person’s key life skills, chiefly with their communication, coordination, self-organisation and sensory-management.

Sensory rooms:

• Help to create a safe space away from overstimulation.
• Provide opportunities for engagement in prevention and crisis de-escalation strategies, as well as a host of other therapeutic exchanges 
• Promote self-care, self-nurturance, resilience & recovery.

The development of a sensory room in Tallaght University Hospital Emergency Department would complement the ongoing work within the hospital on developing awareness of autism amongst staff.