Sensory Bible Stories

This wasn't a Christmas story but it did feature some gift-wrapped goodies! Welcome to Sensory Bible Stories. My name is Helen, I live in North London where I lead a small group at my church ( St James Muswell Hill ) which supports children and young people with additional needs to access Bible teaching. When I first started leading this group in 2018 I found it very difficult to source teaching materials for the children who were coming along each week. Children with very limited expressive and receptive language who were unable to access academic activities or engage in more abstract thinking. We enjoyed their company and they seemed to enjoy ours but we wanted to offer something more, an experience of the gospel which was accessible to them. Although I found lots of practical advice and encouragement from various organisations (see ‘useful links’ list), my many hours of googling ‘sensory bible stories’ and similar terms produced little fruit. Lots of otherwise great resources ...

  Welcome to Sensory Bible Stories! My  name is Helen and I live in North London. I’ve  been working with children, teenagers and young adults with autism and learning disabilities for 10+ years, I’ve been listening to and learning about the story of the gospel for 30+ years! I’ve been challenged in the last few years to find ways  to share the wonderful good news of the gospel with children and young people with additional needs. I run a small group at my church in ( St James Muswell Hill )  for children and young people with additional needs who have taught me so much about how to experience the gospel in a tangible way. Anecdotally it seems that children with additional needs, particularly those with a diagnosis of a learning disability and/or autism, are under-represented in the Church in the UK. It's difficult to find statistics to back this up (if anyone has any please let me know) but to give some context there are approximately 351,000 children livi...