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Autism Reality Experience Training
The Autism Reality Experience is an innovative and inspirational training session designed to give participants a virtual experience of living with autism. This is a very practical, hands-on experience that gives participants a greater insight into autism and helps us see the world from an autistic person’s perspective.
Trying to understand what someone with autism is going through is extremely difficult unless you are on the spectrum yourself. But there is hope for those on the autism spectrum and others trying to understand and offer support for those living with autism.
Major advances are being made to not only help treat autism, but to understand what it is and convey how teachers, caregivers and parents can better meet the needs of people with autism. One of these advances is a high-tech intervention called the Autism Reality Experience, that provides a realistic tangible experience of what it is like to have autism.
Invented by Training 2 CAREs UK and Autistic people, the Autism Reality Experience really is as true to life as currently possible and is changing the landscape of understanding Autism. Autism Reality Experience training is creating greater awareness about autism and breaking down barriers and stereotypes associated with it. And there is no better way of gaining this awareness than walking in the shoes of the persons on the autism spectrum, understanding the daily issues they face and recognising that these are often caused by our lack of knowledge from their point of view.
Already commissioned in the UK by the NHS, Care Providers, Universities and Colleges, Police, Ambulance, Schools, Families and many more the Autism Reality Experience continues to develop and give a greater empathy and understanding.
Autism Reality Experience Training
- The training course gives delegates an experience of what it is like to have Autism and then an in-depth teaching session that helps participants to really improve knowledge.
- Participants will be able to use their own experiences going through the Autism Reality Experience to build greater empathy and understanding for what it might be like for autistic people, which will in turn help them to come up with simple yet transformative changes to make the world a more inclusive place for all.
- Th environment is carefully crafted to replicate the sensory experiences and challenges often encountered by individuals with autism. Participants are equipped with various devices and props that alter their sensory perception, simulating some of the experiences common to those on the autism spectrum.
- Participants are asked to take part in practical tasks requiring dexterity, amid flashing lights and loud noise whilst wearing heavy gloves and glasses that reduce vision, at the same time needing to remember a specific piece of information.
- The Autism Reality Experience is suitable for everyone including professionals and families. This training course is ideal for businesses such as: Airports, Hotels, Entertainment Venues, Shopping Malls, Health and Social Care Providers, Schools, Colleges, Universities, Police, Fire, and more.
Immersive Reality experience – VR Without The Headset!
What is Immersive Technology?
Immersive Technology extends or creates a new reality around a user, so whichever way they look they will see content. Content is digital – either computer generated imagery (CGI) or 360 degree video, and can be laid over the real world as augmented reality (AR) or replace the real world as virtual reality (VR). This technology is developing quickly and driven by world leading companies, including Sony with its PlayStation VR and Microsoft with its HoloLens. The scope for immersive technology is phenomenal.
Inclusive Learning Experiences
Immersive Reality spaces allow students to practice everyday tasks, processes and events in a safe, guided environment, building confidence at every stage.
We understand the importance of differentiated learning and know that the ability to change both the teaching environment and content to the specific students’ needs is the key. We believe that anyone, regardless of ability, should be able to interact with an Immersive Reality space and our supplier has harnessed hardware from Microsoft and sensory specialists to deliver this. It’s completely accessible and works with any switch. It’s also controlled by movement, touch, gesture and sound. Making learning fun and exciting, while developing hand-eye coordination and tracking skills.
How Virtual Reality Learning Environments Benefit SEN Students
Virtual reality offers an array of wondrous opportunities when it comes to making learning more accessible for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities. The experience has the ability to improve quality of life, enhance social participation, strengthen life skills, and, most importantly, provides a unique, interesting and motivating experience.
With outstanding full 360-degree video, ultra-high-resolution images and truly interactive computer-generated scenes, the space provides a fantastic resource for SEN students to learn. Bridging the gap between imagination and real life, the shared space allows the user to experience the world from the safety of their school, whilst providing another dimension for teachers to engage with their students.
At the heart of the Immersive Reality space, you will find superb curriculum-rich content designed to inspire and excite. It’s a unique space that maximises learning by allowing students to truly experience a subject. Discover outer space, visit the Serengeti, and walk through the icy-cold arctic to learn in a stimulating and memorable way. This mind-blowing experience makes learning any subject exciting and thrilling, ensuring information is retained more effectively. The shared virtual experience promotes group participation and the development of key life skills – including tracking, cause and effect, colour and shape recognition, as well as important social interaction skills. The skills are developed in a safe and non-threatening environment, ensuring the children feel at ease.
Not only can individuals explore the wonders of the world in an immersive space, but they also have the opportunity to experience activities, such as paragliding or visiting a farm. These activities can seem daunting to some SEN students, so our rooms can help them prepare for future situations, by developing empathy and understanding in a controlled, safe environment.
Our Immersive Reality spaces allow the user to have full control of the environment in a variety of exciting ways. These include touch and movement control, gesture control, wireless Xbox controller, as well as the incredible Xbox Adaptive Controller created by Microsoft. The touch and movement control allows intuitive interaction, the Xbox wireless controller brings a familiarity to a huge range of users, and the Xbox Adaptive Controller allows those with limited movement to control the space. The freedom of movement gives the children a sense of control of their environment, and ensures the space is available to all, regardless of their age or ability.
The benefits of an Immersive Reality space for SEN pupils are extensive – it strengthens their life skills, encourages inclusion, and allows them to gain a sense of control and independence, all whilst providing an enjoyable and memorable experience which reduces anxiety and stress.
What’s inside an Immersive Reality Space
Key features in one of our Immersive Reality Spaces
Sensory Pods typically consists of a comfortable chair, cushion, or mat, as well as various sensory equipment and features, such as:
- Soft Wall and Floor Padding
- Calming LED Lighting
- Visual projections or Bubble Wall
- White Noise or Calming Music
The purpose of a Sensory Pod is to create a safe and predictable space where an individual can retreat to when they feel overwhelmed, anxious, or overstimulated. By controlling the sensory input and providing a relaxing atmosphere, a Sensory Pod can help an individual calm down, refocus, and self-regulate their emotions and behaviour.
Sensory Pod Typical Lay Out
Sensory Pods are a revolutionary solution for neuro-divergent individuals who struggle with sensory overload and overwhelming emotions. By providing a safe and comfortable space where an individual can regulate their senses and emotions, a sensory hub can improve their well-being and communication, and enhance their experiences in socializing, exploring, traveling, shopping and more.
Full range of complete sensory rooms carefully crafted to meet the entire spectrum of specific needs and abilities, and to make a real difference to the users’ lives. These sensory environments were designed following decades of experience and collaboration with some of the best health professionals in the world.
Benefits of Sensory Room:
- Improves Focus: For people who have difficulty focusing – which is especially common for those with ADHD – sensory rooms can help to improve focus with the use of specific sensory equipment. The equipment is designed to encourage the person to concentrate on the activity they are doing at that moment. This creates skills which they can then use in real world situations where they need to remain calm and focus on what they are doing.
- Develop Communication Skills: Some people with Autism or a similar disability can be quite withdrawn and have difficulty communicating. Interactive sensory rooms can develop verbal and non-verbal communication by engaging them with sensory equipment. There is also specific equipment that focuses on sound and can help people learn vocalisation.
- Encourages Socialising: Sensory rooms do not have to be used alone, so the person can use it with other people to encourage socialisation in a calm and controlled environment. The room can be designed with groups in mind, and might include equipment that will encourage interaction between users. Some of the socialising skills a person can learn in a sensory room include understanding how their actions have an affect on other people.
- Relieves Stress: Sometimes the world can be quite stressful for someone with an intellectual disability, and a sensory room gives them a place to go where they can find a calm moment. The sensory environment is designed to be absorbing, so if they are feeling overactive or distressed they can just relax into it. The room is also a controlled environment, which will make the person feel more comfortable and allow them to open up and interact with their surroundings.
- Improves Balance & Movement: The use of various sensory equipment can help children with physical difficulties like Cerebral Palsy to improve their balance and movement abilities. Sensory rooms help to develop visual processing abilities, and fine and gross motor skills, which then helps the person to carry out day-to-day tasks more effectively.
Sensory Voyager – Mobile Option
- Plug-in and play: only one 13amp plug socket is required to light up the trolley.
- Uniquely Portable: fits perfectly through doorways and has handles to easily push along corridors.
- Wipe Clean: specially designed for easy cleaning, perfect for infection control environments.
Widgits are small images that accompany text to help provide context and visual support for someone who needs extra help with reading and writing. Adding Widgits to signs, interpretation, guidance and documents empowers more users to understand some or all of the messages that are being conveyed.
Widgit uses symbols to support people who have communication, language or learning disabilities. Widgit Symbols add visual support to the printed word, opening up the world of information to those otherwise excluded from it.
Widgit Symbols are used all over the world, supporting 17 languages, and increasing the accessibility of written text. The complete Widgit Symbol Set consists of more than 11,000 symbols, which provide a clear visual representation of over 40,000 words and phrases. The symbols are simply-drawn, colourful, and each illustrate a single concept in a clear and concise way.
The Widgit Symbols are used to support information and communication with people of all ages, worldwide – in education, health, public and private services.
1. Symbols are permanent (spoken words disappear).
Spoken words are transitory (they disappear once spoken) and for some students with poor auditory memory or who struggle with attention and listening skills, this means that they are unable to recall information or instructions. Symbols are permanent and so can be used to support language in the classroom and act as a reminder for all the tasks, vocabulary and information required. Symbolised instructions and learning intentions can help students remember what they need to do to complete a task independently and successfully. A symbolised vocabulary mat can provide hints and tips for extending vocabulary in topic and writing tasks, where the student has forgotten the words introduced within the lesson.
2. Symbols allow time to process information.
Information from the Visual Teaching Alliance tells us that our brains process visual information much faster than other input channels. Symbols can help students process the information received much faster, while making the connections they need to complete tasks. A symbol can help a student from becoming distracted when they are having to take in too much verbal input. As words disappear when spoken, a symbol provides a permanent reminder and therefore allows a child time to process the information.
3. Symbols prepare students for transitions.
Symbols provide visual information that can support a student to know what to expect and what will happen next. For some students, anxiety, frustration and dysregulation can be caused when routines change or unknown situations are encountered. Visual timetables and First and Next Boards can help provide structure and reassurance, as well as motivation to complete activities.
4. Symbols help students grasp the nuances of language.
English is a complex language to learn with multiple meanings for words spelt and / or pronounced in the same way. Symbols added to text can help students comprehend what they are reading.
5. Symbols help build confidence and independence.
Symbols help to make things clearer for individuals. They can increase independence by providing key information in a simplified but organised structure, without the need for repetition. Symbol-users are able to:
- find equipment
- navigate environments
- follow sequences (like hand washing or teeth brushing) themselves
- read and understand text
- be responsible for collecting school equipment for each day
- recognise what is happening next in a day / week through visual timetables
- provide the means of retelling / recounting information
6. Symbols only include relevant information.
Symbols can be accessed by anyone at any age, and from any background or country. The simple representations of vocabulary and concepts mean that they can be understood irrespective of culture, helping everyone to easily access written information. They do not include any superfluous information, but are clear and concise.
7. Symbols convey information without tone.
Symbols, like words on a page, can not be misinterpreted by the addition of gestures, facial expression or tone of voice. Information is therefore conveyed in a neutral, stress-free manner. A request that is communicated via a symbol contains no tone, anger or disapproval, etc. For some young people who are Demand Avoidant, they are more responsive to symbol requests than those made by people. Symbols have no background information which require interpretation (as photographs can do), and so a clear, concise, non-judgemental message is portrayed.
8. Symbols help reduce anxiety and stress.
Symbols provide visual information that can support a student to know what to expect and what will happen next. For some students, anxiety, frustration and dysregulation can be caused when routines change or unknown situations are encountered. Whether using symbols to present visual information on what will happen in the lesson, what will take place during the day, where they will be going or how long they have left, symbols can help to ease feelings of anxiety or stress.
9. Symbols help all students.
Symbols are helpful for both students and the wider society when creating accessible information and ways to communicate. Find out more about how organisations and companies throughout the UK are becoming Symbol-Friendly Organisations.
Medii AI is co-designed to support individuals with learning disabilities and autism in managing their health and well-being. Medii is a transformative evolution in healthcare with the integration of AI-driven functionalities designed to bolster accessibility, personalised education, and self-management.
These technological augmentations facilitate autonomous health monitoring, alleviate medical communication anxiety, and foster proactive engagement with healthcare services.
Key Features of Medii AI
Smart Monitoring
Continuous and customizable health tracking with early risk detection.
AI Companion
AI-powered health assistant for personalized data-driven insights and support.
Data-Driven Insights
Summarized analytics for faster clinical decisions and deliver accurate assessments.
Streamline Care
Coordination Connects patients, healthcare providers, and community teams for improved health outcomes.
Continuous Co-Production
Co-designing with patients and healthcare professionals for user-centric solutions.
Gamified Engagement
Interactive health challenges and rewards for better patient engagement and adherence.
Secure Video Consultations
Encrypted, real-time communication between families and health care professionals.
Digital Hospital Passport
A consolidated repository of critical medical, personal, and communication needs tailored for hospital encounters.
Medii System
A powerful tool for healthcare professionals to enhance patient care and streamline clinical workflows. Medii System is clinically informed, mobile-accessible platform that helps hospitals deliver safer, more coordinated care for individuals with
learning disabilities, autism, and complex needs. Available in Arabic and designed for accessibility. Medii bridges gaps between inpatient, outpatient, and community settings.
- Customizable Trackers: Adapt health tracking for diverse patient needs and conditions.
- All-in-one Dashboard: Unified view for clinical decision supports and telehealth capabilities.
- AI Assistants: From summarizing health data to providing easy read documents within seconds.
- Seamless Integration: Working towards EHR systems for streamlined patient management
Medii App
Track what matters, crush your health goals, and access your medical information instantly with Medii. Medii App helps bridge the gap between health and education for students with learning disabilities, autism, and complex needs. Used in partnership with families and schoolteachers, the app enables better tracking of daily routines, mood, sleep, and medication, empowering students to manage their own wellbeing with support.
- Personalized Tracking: Create personalized health tracking for tailored patient care.
- Caregiver Mode: Monitor multiple accounts and support family members’ health effortlessly.
- AI Companion: Deliver actionable insights, mental support, and medication education for patients and caregivers.
- Motivating Rewards: AI-powered 3D game with gift cards, enhancing patient well-being and supporting caregivers.
Medii App: your digital diary for Health and Well-Being.
Safespaces are custom-made, robust, and padded environments designed to support individuals with complex needs, such as autism, epilepsy, or challenging behaviors. These safe, low-stimulation spaces help reduce risk and promote independence, providing a secure setting for sleeping, play, therapy, or calming down. Safespaces are used in homes, schools, and care settings across the world to enhance safety and quality of life.
Who are Safespaces for?
Safespaces are designed for adults and children who may be unsafe in an ordinary room or bed. We supply products for people with complex needs, including learning disabilities, autism, epilepsy and behaviours of concern.
What difference do our products make to the people using them and their families?
- enable children and adults to stay at home when this doesn’t seem possible
- allow the user and their family to sleep, often for the first time in years
- assist individuals to manage their own behaviours or reduce medication
- provide a cosy therapy and sensory space
- allow families to go on holiday with a familiar safe bed
- in hospitals our high sided beds enable people with complex needs to access medical treatment in a safe environment
- can provide a temporary bed for respite care
Safespaces for schools
The Safespace provides a calm, low stimulation environment, an asset in busy classrooms. Safespaces can help where there is a wide range of needs amongst students.
The Safespace is extremely versatile and enables schools to:
- Meets students individual needs
- Deliver a sensory diet
- Promote inclusion
- Supports behaviour self-management
- Reduce restrictive interventions
- Easily adapt the school environment
A low stimulation, calming environment
A Safespace provides a low stimulation area, which students can use to settle in, or have quiet time in a busy classroom. Students can use the Safespace as a means of managing their own behaviour, by requesting time in it when they recognise their stress levels are rising.
Therapy and sensory space
Safespaces are used as one to one therapy spaces and as safe areas in which to enjoy sensory equipment. Time in a sensory Safespace can be offered as part of positive reinforcement. The mesh roof, viewing panels and optional white wall allow for the use of projectors and sensory lighting. We can provide sensory lighting, soft play shapes and furniture, in order to create a beautiful and safe, sensory environment.
Crisis management
Many schools offer parents the option for a Safespace to be used as part of a crisis management plan for their child. It can help reduce the incidence of crisis situations and be used as part of a restraint reduction plan. It can offer a less restrictive option than manual ‘holding’ to prevent physical injury to others. This can mean that relationships with staff members are not damaged by the use of more restrictive practices. The Safespace may be positioned in a classroom to allow a rapid response to incidents and enable the pupil to return to the group more quickly.
Versatility and Practicality
A Safespace is made to measure and our team will design your Safespace to suit the space available, this may be in a classroom, corridor or hall. It can be installed with minimal disruption to the classroom, avoiding the need for structural building work and so reduces costs. It can be dismantled and moved to where it is most needed, for example, when a student or class moves to a new room. This is a key reason why many schools have chosen a Safespace instead of room padding.
Safespaces for healthcare
Specialist beds for healthcare settings
We offer a range of innovative solutions with soft, flexible sides designed for individuals who are at risk of falling out of bed or hurting themselves on hard bed surrounds.
Why choose Safespaces beds?
- Easy-clean designs to meet strict hygiene requirements
- Extremely tough and versatile – ideal for multiple users
Voyager®: A safe, easily transportable travel bed
The Voyager® travel bed provides a low stimulation, safe sleep environment designed for holidays, respite care and trips away from home. It has flexible walls and a soft floor, providing a comfortable and safe environment that reduces the risk of injury from hard surfaces, providing peace of mind for parents and carers. It is particularly useful for those with autism and who find change difficult, as it provides a consistent calm area that can be transported in the boot of a car, or taken as hold luggage on flights. The Voyager® packs away into 2 transport bags and can be assembled in approximately 15 minutes.
Who is the Voyager® suitable for?
The Voyager® is designed for adults and children with complex needs including autism, epilepsy, behaviours of concern and learning difficulties. This can include those who are uncomfortable in unfamiliar surroundings or are used to a Safespace® at home.
Key Features
- Soft, flexible sides to prevent injury
- Calming low stimulation environment ideal for sleep
- Quick and easy to assemble
Improve Sleep
- The Voyager is ideal for sleep as it provides a low sensory space that minimises stimulation helping the user to settle and sleep for longer periods.
- It also provides a safe environment for those who continue to wake at night.
Stress-Free Travel
- The Voyager is supplied in 2 holdall bags and can be easily transported in the boot of a car, or taken as hold luggage on flights.
In today’s fast-paced world, moments of calm matter more than ever. Calmr is designed to help individuals feel supported, relaxed, and in control—wherever life takes them.
These thoughtfully designed products combine innovation and comfort to support wellbeing, reduce stress, and create a sense of calm in everyday moments. Whether at home, work, or on the move, Calmr helps bring balance back into your day.
Super sensory weighted wear to soothe your body and calm your nervous system. Wrap a Calmr hug around you and feel your mood calm and your body melt.
Benefits of Calmr® Wearables
- Gentle deep pressure support: Helps soothe the nervous system and reduce feelings of overwhelm or anxiety.
- Discreet and wearable: Designed to blend into everyday life while providing constant, calming input.
- Sensory-friendly materials: Soft, breathable fabrics with no harsh seams or irritating textures.
- Supports focus and regulation: Can help with concentration, transitions, and emotional balance throughout the day.
- Freedom to move: Comfortable designs that don’t restrict movement or independence.
The Cape – The Heavyweight Hug: for at home, at work, at school.
Key Benefits:
- A weighted, wearable pause button for your nervous system. The Calmr Cape is a hug when you need one: the ultimate sensory support for stressed minds, exhausted bodies and dysregulated nervous systems. With the impact of a weighted blanket, but in a wearable form, for work, at home or for grounding yourself for yoga/Pilates.
- Within one minute of wearing a Calmr Cape, the thousands of microbeads activate pressure receptors in your skin. That signal tells your brain – you’re safe. Touch is the oldest calming tool we have: it triggers serotonin, lowers cortisol, and helps you shift from fight-or-flight to rest-and-recover. Lower cortisol makes everyday stress easier to manage. We invite you to feel calmer.
The Scarf – The All-Rounder: for every day.
Key Benefits:
- Immediate Stress Relief: Utilising hypoallergenic glass bead weighting, The Snug™ delivers gentle pressure that promotes relaxation and reduces anxiety – in a ‘wear all day’ way.
- Ergonomic Design: Designed to replicate the feeling of body work; just like how massage therapists use manual therapy to help with relaxation, improve sleep, lower heart rates, and enhance mood, our wearables offer similar benefits.
- Helps with: Reducing anxieties and stresses. Feeling grounded at home or for yoga or Pilates. Connecting body and mind. Comforting and relaxing. Postural support. Muscle relaxation for tense shoulders. Feeling secure. Offering something soft to touch/stroke. Overthinking and feeling “wired”. Lack of concentration. Relaxing your body. Regulating your nervous system.
The Snood – The Perfect Commuter: on the road, in the air.
A way to feel grounded and calm while you travel. The Calmr Snood is the commuter-friendly weighted wearable – for on the road, in the air. It’s a lightweight, portable snood with little pockets of subtle weight for offering optimal pressure to your neck and shoulders when you’re on the move. Like soothing hands on your shoulders when you need to feel grounded and come back to your body.
Key Benefits:
- Immediate Stress Relief: Utilising hypoallergenic glass bead weighting, The Snug™ delivers gentle pressure that promotes relaxation and reduces anxiety – in a ‘wear all day’ way.
- Ergonomic Design: To replicate the feeling of body work; just like how massage therapists use manual therapy to help with relaxation, improve sleep, lower heart rates, and enhance mood, our wearables offer similar benefits.
Who Are Calmr® Wearables For?
Calmr® wearable products may support:
- Autistic individuals
- People with ADHD
- Individuals with sensory processing differences
- Anyone who benefits from deep pressure or proprioceptive input
Calmr® wearables are not medical devices, but supportive sensory tools that can be part of a personalised regulation or wellbeing routine.