Sensory Garden Playground

The Sensory Garden Playground is the first-ever, strategically designed area of play encompassing sensory integration and universally accessible playground equipment/features where all people can gather to play, build, and improve their foundations in social, academic, physical, communication, and processing skills while immersed in a journey using their senses and abilities.

Boasting a multi-dimensional scope in providing leisure, educational, and therapeutic opportunities, the Sensory Garden Playground is a completely accessible, public facility highlighting a transitional entrance area with interactive, sensory-engaging artwork; a wheelchair-friendly tree house; a centralized gathering space; multiple age-appropriate play spaces and play equipment; a fragrance garden filled with fruits and herbs; a sound garden tuned to the soothing pentatonic scale; and a water sensory play area.

This playground will be constructed in 2013 in DuPage County, Illinois.

- Sarah O’Donnell