Inclusive Design

Encourages collaboration, creativity and age-appropriate activities for multigenerational users at any developmental stage

Encourages imagination, creativity, symbolic thinking, and social dialogue through pretend play

Include artwork that celebrates differences and embraces diversity. Create awareness by including characters of various race, gender, age, ethnicity, culture, and ability

Encourages language skills through motivating, collaborative and reciprocal activities with friends and family

Supports intuitive play patterns so that children can successfully engage in repetitive, active play to develop skills

Enhances play experiences through well-organized, easy-to-recognize areas while avoiding user conflict

Strategically use color, patterns, textures, and pictures as visual cues to help organize activity areas so the environment is easy to understand

Allows diverse users, adaptive equipment, and caregivers access to social and physical play throughout the environment.

Sensory walls, activity panels, and music provide fun and often surprising experiences and encourage learning through discovery and exploration

Offers passive areas for children to observe and understand the play activity prior to participating and helps draw them into active play

Offers quiet or semi-enclosed places, such as under the deck or crawl tubes, where children can seek sensory relief and retreat until ready to engage in play

Offers clear visibility and supervision of activity areas

Reinforces positive interactions between children through dynamic and fun experiences as children work together to engage in the activity

Provides adequate space underneath the panel to allow individuals using mobility devices to comfortably reach play activities while facing forward

Check-in areas within comfortable proximity to enhance the experience of all visitors. If outdoors, shades integrate a balance of sunlight exposure and relief to environmental conditions