Magnolia’s Thrive Center for Success was designed for autistic students down to even the smallest detail.
Inside a former automotive engineering firm, dimmable lights help students who are light-sensitive, a sensory room offers trampolines and marble rolling boards to help them regulate emotions, and an outdoor atrium uses rubberized flooring — not turf — because some students with Pica disorder may try to ingest it.
Outside, a fenced path allows students to practice fire drills on the school’s lawn without the risk of elopement, when children with autism run away after feeling overwhelmed or triggered…