The Advanced Padding Blog

With a focus on safety and patient dignity paired with the goal of reducing trauma, hospitals across North America continue to utilize padded rooms and other spaces for their patients.

With the goal of providing local residents with caring and compassionate homes, the Supportive Therapeutic Enhanced Program Services (S.T.E.P.S.) operates a number of community homes in a small community in rural Ontario. Their program is very therapeutic, offering...

The term padded room, at one time, seemed to be exclusively used for mental health and/or psychiatric facilities. While these are still in use, the truth is, the applications for which these kinds of rooms are now used has expanded exponentially. What were once...

While things seem to be equalling out as of lately, there is no denying that there still remains quite a bit of stigma surrounding padded rooms in schools and other educational institutions. There are some unfortunate stories that have rightfully made their way across...

The consensus is in and despite a few bad experiences, sensory rooms, when utilized properly and under guided supervision, have been proven to be beneficial. The evidence seems to point unanimously at the improvement of both patients and students who use these rooms under the correct circumstances.

Despite being a somewhat controversial topic, the truth is, much research has been done over the past couple of years that has gone a long way to help improve the negative stigma around padded rooms inside schools.