A SENSORY room for passengers with autism spectrum dysfunction (ASD) goes to be constructed at Alicante Elche airport, in order that they will wait for his or her flight in a protected and wellordered area with appropriate stimuli.
It will likely be positioned close to the boarding space and will probably be geared up with supplies designed to minimise any stress that the airport procedures might trigger to a passenger with ASD, in line with state airport firm AENA.
It will embody tactile, luminous and audiovisual components to supply stimuli which can be ‘managed and tailored’ to the sensory sensitivity of every individual, in an effort to ‘step by step adapt’ their tolerance for interactions they’ll have within the airport.
In parallel, the airport is growing a video to point out the route that passengers with ASD will take from their arrival to the boarding gate. The target is to anticipate the completely different phases they’ll encounter in order that they’ll really feel calmer and safer as they go by means of the airport.
This initiative is a part of a plan to enhance the standard of all passengers’ experiences, which encompasses a number of actions designed to fulfill the wants of assorted profiles of individuals, significantly these with purposeful variety.
AENA additionally introduced it had completed soundproofing one other 130 houses close to Alicante Elche airport, as a part of its acoustic insulation plan.
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