Translations:Sensory-Friendly Environments/4/en

This article looks at sensory-friendly environments as a shared social consideration rather than a specialised accommodation. The underlying idea is straightforward: sensory comfort varies widely between individuals, that variation is largely invisible, and awareness of it tends to improve the quality of contact for everyone present.

| Understanding=Sensory processing describes the way the nervous system receives, filters, and interprets input from the surrounding environment. Differences in this process are common. They are associated with autism and ADHD, with migraine conditions, with hearing loss and tinnitus, with post-traumatic responses, with chronic pain and fatigue, and with ordinary variation across the general population. Many people who experience sensory strain have no diagnosis and may not describe their experience in clinical terms at all.