Sensory experience helps disabled

By Kim Hilsenbeck

Low lights, soft music, massage and bubbles. These are just some of the features of the new Sensory Room at Marbridge Villa, a long-term care facility, at Marbridge in Manchaca.

Alicia Taylor, a licensed Clinical Social Worker, is the social services director at Marbridge Villa. She along with Life Services Specialists Teresa Nutt and Jameson Miller provided a tour of the room, also called a sensorium, which is part of the facility’s Life Enrichment Center. Built in February with funds from a private anonymous donation, the sensorium is part of the occupational and speech therapy for many patients at the Villa.