🌈 Sensory-Friendly Business Program

Helping Businesses Create More Welcoming & Inclusive Communities

A sensory-friendly business is more than a business that turns down the lights or lowers the music.

It is a business whose staff better understand autism, disabilities, sensory needs, communication differences, and how small changes can make a big difference for an individual and their family.

Rockin’ The Spectrum works with businesses, schools, nonprofits, and community organizations to help them become more welcoming, understanding, and prepared to serve individuals with disabilities and their families.

Because inclusion belongs in our entire community.

💙 Why Become Sensory-Friendly?

For many individuals and families, everyday activities like going to a restaurant, visiting the dentist, shopping, or attending an event can be challenging.

Sometimes a few thoughtful changes can make all the difference:

Small changes can create a much bigger sense of belonging.

🤝 How the Program Works

We work directly with your business or organization to identify realistic changes that fit your environment, staff, and the people you serve.

Depending on your partnership level, support may include staff training, sensory tools, visual supports, environmental recommendations, on-site walkthroughs, follow-up support, and recognition through Rockin’ The Spectrum.

Each higher partnership level includes all benefits from the previous level.

🌈 Choose Your Partnership Level

💙 Sensory-Aware Partner — $200

Start With Understanding

Includes:

Focus: Awareness & Education

💙 Rockin’ Sensory-Friendly — $350

Start Making Changes

Includes everything in Sensory-Aware Partner, plus:

Focus: Small Changes + Staff Confidence

The Sensory-Aware Partner decal recognizes participation in awareness and training. Full Rockin’ Sensory-Friendly Location designation begins at the $1,000 Community Inclusion Partner level.

💚 Sensory-Ready — $600

Tools + Practical Support

Includes everything in Rockin’ Sensory-Friendly, plus:

Focus: Practical Tools + Support

💜 Community Inclusion Partner — $1,000

Full Sensory-Friendly Designation + Implementation

Includes everything in Sensory-Ready, plus:

Focus: Full Implementation + Recognition

💎 Premier Inclusion Partner — $1,500

Advanced Support + Deeper Integration

Includes everything in Community Inclusion Partner, plus:

🌟 Elite Community Inclusion Leader — $2,000

Lead the Way in Community Inclusion

Includes everything in Premier Inclusion Partner, plus:

After the first included annual renewal, the standard annual renewal fee applies.

Ongoing Support

For partnership levels that include ongoing support, questions are welcome by email or phone as your team puts its training and sensory-friendly strategies into practice.

Additional staff training, on-site visits, new materials, and expanded consultation are priced separately unless included in your selected partnership level.

➕ Additional Services

Annual Partnership Renewal — $150

Additional Sensory Kit — $100

Staff Re-Training — $150

Chamber/Community Presentation — $150

Customized Consultation — Custom Pricing

📅 Getting Started Is Easy

1. Complete the Application

Tell us about your business, select the partnership level you’re interested in, and let us know which days and times generally work best for your team.

2. We’ll Contact You

A member of our team will reach out to discuss your selected level, answer questions, and find a date and time that works for both teams.

3. Reserve Your Date

Once a date is agreed upon, a 25% non-refundable deposit is required to reserve your date, unless scholarship assistance covers the full cost.

If you need to reschedule and give us advance notice, your deposit can be credited toward a new agreed-upon date and time.

4. Complete Your Partnership

The remaining balance is due 3 days before your scheduled training or service.

Then we’ll work with your team to put your selected partnership level into action.

💜 Scholarship Assistance

We want businesses and organizations to have opportunities to take meaningful steps toward inclusion.

Scholarship assistance may be available for: Businesses  Nonprofits Schools Community organizations

Assistance may be made possible through grants, sponsorships, donations, and community funding. Awards depend on need, available funding, and program availability and are not guaranteed.

Deposits After Scholarship Assistance

Your 25% non-refundable deposit is calculated from your remaining cost after scholarship assistance is applied.

For example, if your package costs $600 and your scholarship covers $400, your remaining cost is $200. Your deposit is $50, with the remaining $150 due 3 days before your scheduled training or service.

If assistance covers the full cost, no deposit is required.

Your date is confirmed once any required deposit has been received and Rockin’ The Spectrum has confirmed your booking.

📍 Find a Rockin’ Sensory-Friendly Business

Businesses and organizations that complete the applicable training and program requirements at the Community Inclusion Partner level or above can receive full Rockin’ Sensory-Friendly Location designation and a listing in our directory.

Our recognition represents a business’s participation in Rockin’ The Spectrum’s program and its commitment to creating a more welcoming experience.

We want families to walk through the door and know:

“They took the time to learn about families like mine.”


🌈 Ready to Get Started?

Whether you’re taking your first step toward greater awareness or ready to become a community leader in inclusion, we’d love to work with you.

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💙 Your Partnership Supports More Than Your Business

Your participation also helps Rockin’ The Spectrum continue providing programs and services for individuals with autism and other disabilities—including those with higher support needs—and their families.

Program income helps support:

Your partnership helps us build a community where more individuals and families have a place to belong.

Questions?

📞 Call or text: 224-538-9736
📧 rockinthespectrum@yahoo.com

Inclusion • Compassion • Acceptance • Belonging