“An Xceptional multi-sensory Xperience in Armagh City”

The sensory Xperience offers an Xclusive, innovative, multi-sensory environment, spread across a variety of differing spaces. We are confident that our range of specialised equipment will benefit all people with additional needs, regardless of age or ability.

A purpose built multi-sensory space, located in Armagh City centre.

The sensory Xperience invites you to explore our exciting, new multi-sensory rooms, designed to provide benefits to people of all ages who present with additional needs. As a family run project, we provide a friendly, user focused, and easily accessible resource, that caters for individuals, families and groups. With our multi-sensory centre being the first of our kind in Armagh, we are happy and proud to be providing something new, and very much needed, for an important section of the community.

Our multi-sensory centre offers users access to a number of different rooms and areas, spread across our 2,000 sq ft premises. The sensory Xperience provides a safe and secure space that is welcoming, stimulating, educational and relaxing. Our environment has been carefully and thoughtfully designed to cater for the additional needs of both children and adults. We also offer something a little extra for the parents and carers with a designated section for them to enjoy.

We have personal and life experience in the area of additional needs and disabilities. The sensory Xperience was created because of our two amazing sons who both have a range of additional needs, including sensory issues. The boys are a little like chalk and cheese, and have their own individual likes, but they both absolutely love The sensory Xperience.

We have also recently began developing our own range of sensory equipment and resources. Please see the "Sensory Equipment" tab on our website for further details.

  • A sensory room, or multi-sensory room, is an environment that can help stimulate, develop and relax the senses. It can help self-regulate the users’ behaviours which will help with focus and can aid with interaction and social skills.

    Sensory equipment has been shown to improve language, cognitive and motor skills and helps people develop and engage senses.

  • A Multisensory room can engage children who can learn through play. From following bright lights, shapes and patterns with their eyes to pressing buttons to make the sensory room change colour or even change colour to music. Users will become interested in their environment. Also due to the flexible functionality of the multisensory room it can also be used to calm and de-stress.

  • The concept of a Sensory Room (also know as a Multi-sensory room) is quite simple, place a person with special needs in a pleasant environment where the distractions of the outside world are completely absent, present them with, music and attention grabbing moving colours and shapes and then add the ability for the person to actually make things happen that are so dramatic that they cannot be missed and you have the building blocks of real progress.

  • Sensory integration is a term that has been used to describe processes in the brain that allow us to take information we receive from our senses, organize it, and respond appropriately.

    We are working in partnership with an Occupational Therapist that also is a sensory Integration specialist.

Services we proudly offer:

  • Book individual or small group slots to hire out our brilliant new multi-sensory rooms. Our variety of exciting rooms are suitable for all ages of people with additional needs. Parents/carers are given free admission. Contact us to book or find out more.

  • A more tailored service that we provide at various times during the week with our schedule being updated regularly. These include a variety of stimulating activities that I have planned by utilising my resources and training as a sensory practitioner with guidance provided by an Occupational Therapist (OT)

  • We will also be catering for parties or special occasions for people with additional needs. We also are incorporating #everythingorganised in our party events, so if you book a party with us we do as much of the organising as we can, little jobs such as collecting the balloons, collecting the cake, etc.

  • We can accommodate all ages of students with special needs on field trips. Schools and colleges can choose from a variety of multi-room settings, or we can lead sensory activities, handle a messy agenda, or plan unique events. Our safeguarding credentials are all in place.

  • Community groups and organisations can reserve our multi-sensory rooms to simply explore, or for a more tailored Xperience we also run more focused workshops and activities while we can also host community events.

  • We can offer day care sessions and activities for groups with disabilities and additional needs. As with all of the services we offer this is available to people of all ages along with their carers or support workers. 

Our Rooms:

  • The Green Room

    This is the first of our rooms you will encounter on your visit. Named simply due to its colour, The Green Room contains our specially selected, extensive range of equipment. This space has been designed to enhance sensory stimulation, produce a calming effect, and it covers multiple senses. Some equipment here includes a supersized interactive bubbletube, fiber optics, sound activated LED sensory panel, infinity light mirrors, giant piano keypads, projectors and various tactile boards.

  • The Calming Room

    Realising that new experiences can sometimes be daunting for some, The Calming Room offers a small, quiet and discreet place to escape for a few moments of privacy, quiet time and calm. With much less light than our other areas and with only limited visual stimulation, in here we will have a blackout tent, a beanbag, weighted blankets, a soothing projector, mini infinity light mirror, fiber optics and various fidget toys.

  • The Interactive Room

    Located right in the centre of The sensory Xperience, is our most exciting, and most high tech room. Within the four white walls of The Interactive Room, which covers 200 square feet, we use a state of the art interactive projector equipped with the latest software technology, in order to simulate an array of vivid environments and provide a variety of immersive, stimulating activities sure to suit all ages and abilities.

  • The Blue Zone

    The Blue Zone is about the same size as The Green Room, and is an open planned multi-sensory room. Our equipment in this room includes a lot of equipment that is used by occupational therapists in providing therapeutic sessions and sensory integration activities. Visitors can avail of sensory circuits, sensory play sessions, and messy play in this area. The Blue Zone can also be used for welcoming school outings, group community events, pre-school and after school activities.

  • The Party Room

    The Party Room is set for hosting parties and special occasions, exclusively for people with disabilities and additional needs, their siblings, friends and schoolmates. Our parties are “everything organised” in that we will assist with as much organising as we can, such as collecting cake, balloons, etc, we provide party bags and a free gift is available for the birthday celebrant.. This room will also be used for hosting workshops and carer events.

  • Carers Corner

    The final area of The Sensory Xperience consists of a small seating area where parents/carers can enjoy some light refreshments and gives visitors a chance to chat. The area also includes a small information station containing leaflets from organisations offering help and support to families and carers including details of various and wide ranging benefit entitlements. This area sits adjacent to both The Blue Zone and our Party Room. Take a seat!

Want to make a booking today?

The sensory Xperience is the perfect place for anyone to stimulate their senses, relax, have fun, and find comfort in a safe and inviting space.

Opening hours:

Monday - CLOSED

Tuesday - 11AM to 4PM

Wednesday - 11AM to 4PM

Thursday - CLOSED

Friday - 11AM to 4PM

Saturday - 11AM to 4PM

Sunday - 11AM to 4PM

Opening hours may vary from time to time. Please contact us for details.