Here in the Seattle area, many travel-associated businesses and organizations and tourist destinations are deliberately ASD-friendly, with special accommodations for light, noise, and volume of visitors. Here are a few programs that exist and destinations to put on your list:
- Pacific Science Center: Exploration for All: Autism Early Open
- Century Link Field, home of the Seattle Sounders and the Seattle Seahawks, offers a gameday Autism Toolkit for free (information at the top of this page)
- Wings for Autism Travel Rehearsal Program
- The TSA also has a number you can call to arrange special assistance through security through its TSA Cares program
- Seattle Children’s Playgarden
- Seattle Children’s Museum: Sensory Sensitive Early Open
- Seattle Public Library: Sensory Story Times
- Seattle Sensory Garden
- AMC Theaters Sensory Friendly Films
- Hands On Children’s Museum (Olympia) Sensory Friendly Events
- Wiggle Works Kids Sensory Friendly Fun Night
- Pump It Up Sensory Jump Night
- Elevated Sportz: Uplift! night
***please note that inclusion/exclusion does not imply any endorsement or relationship between our lab and these organizations