For grown-ups
Museums often publish a sensory map so families know which rooms are loud, dark, or bright. SensePals flips that around: your child makes their own map. They survey each room with five simple icons — Loud · Dark · Changing lights · Touch things · Quiet break — plus two of their own (I liked it, I needed a break). Over a few rooms, a picture of what works for them appears.
How to use it together
- Add each room as you go (type it, or tap a suggestion).
- Tap the icons that fit — there are no wrong answers.
- Open “My map” to see their profile in their own, first-person words (“I like a heads-up before a loud room”).
- Print it and share it before the next visit — a plan your child authored.
Careful by design
SensePals uses only plain, behavioral, first-person language. It never uses clinical words, never scores your child, and never suggests a diagnosis. The point is agency — a child learning to notice and name what helps them, and to ask for it.
What it's good for (and what we don't claim)
SensePals builds self-awareness and self-advocacy (CASEL). It is not a diagnostic tool, a therapy, or a medical device, and it makes no such claim.