“I just want him to be happy!”

Who will take care of him when I am gone?

Sensory Enrichment Therapy

It is a program of family-centered games you do for a few minutes daily to stimulate and heal their brain so that they can feel better and do more.

Why not give Sensory Enrichment Therapy a try?

Evidence-based and Clinically Tested

Improvements on CARS by 5 points or more

In randomized controlled trials children in the enrichment group were 6X more likely to make clinically significant gains in 6 months, compared to standard care alone.

Improvements in Short Sensory Profile

The children in the Sensory Enrichment group also demonstrated greater reductions in their atypical sensory responses (+11.4 points) compared to the children receiving standard care (+2.9 points), as determined by the Short Sensory Profile.

Improvements in IQ (Leiter-R)

After six months, the children in the Sensory Enrichment group showed greater gains in their I.Q. scores (+8.4 points), compared to the gains showed by children in standard care alone (+1.5 points) after six months, as assessed by the Leiter-R test.

Improvements in Receptive Language

In addition, children in the Sensory Enrichment group improved their receptive language, as assessed by the Reynell Developmental Language Scales, by 7.42% in six months, compared to children in the standard care group, who improved by 3.63% during that period.

- Woo, C. C., and Leon, M. (2013). Environmental enrichment as an effective treatment for autism: a randomized controlled trial. Behavioral Neuroscience. 127, 487–497.

- Woo, C. C., Donnelly, J. H., Steinberg- Epstein, R., and Leon, M. (2015). Environmental enrichment as a therapy for autism: a clinical trial replication and extension. Behavioral Neuroscience. 129, 412–422.

- Aronoff, E., Hillyer, R., and Leon, M. (2016). Environmental enrichment therapy for autism: outcomes with increased access. Neural Plast. 2016:2734915.

10-15 Minutes per Day

The hardest part of this program is to find a way to make it fit your daily routines. Don't worry, within weeks, your family member is probably going to be the one asking for their enrichment activities if you forget.

You will have 3 to 5 games on your worksheet. each game takes about a minute to complete.

This is because we are not doing any training.

What we're doing is giving them a new experience, which only takes a few seconds to process.

All you need to do is help them have fun with it, so that they engage with the new experience.

Evidence-based and Clinically Tested

Brain Plasticity

Brain plasticity refers to the ability of the brain to change its structure even after development is complete.

Early researchers believed that neurogenesis, or the creation of new neurons, stopped shortly after birth.

Neurons that are used frequently develop stronger connections. By developing new connections and pruning away weak ones, the brain can adapt and rewire itself.

Environmental Enrichment

Environmental Enrichment is the stimulation of the brain by its surroundings.

There are 3 components to environmental enrichment: Social enrichment, Activity enrichment and Sensory enrichment.

At Mendability, we focus on Sensory

Enrichment because this is where there is the most clinical evidence showing an impact on brain development and brain function.

Sensory Enrichment Therapy

Sensory Enrichment Therapy is a subset of Environmental Enrichment, focusing on the sensory and motor experiences that have been shown to be effective in clinical studies.

We translated these protocols into short, hands-on activities families can do at home, using simple household items.