Welcome to Autism Explorers!
A community group within Norfolk to support SEN families, providing fun themed
Sensory Saturdays with child-led play and skills development, autism friendly trips for all
and support for parents and carers.
Skills development through engaging-play!
Fine Motor
Offering a variety of child-led fine motor activities designed to challenge and build on existing abilities. Through activities like crafting, malleable tasks, or small-object play (for example: tasks that develop coordination and hand strength), children practise skills that contribute to independence and brain development.
These experiences help children grow their control, dexterity, and coordination, skills that support important everyday tasks such as writing, feeding, and self-care.
Gross Motor
At every session, Autism Explorers emphasises gross motor development to build independence, confidence, and coordination.
Through movement-based play, children are encouraged to develop balance, strength, body awareness and motor coordination — all fundamental for physical independence and overall well-being.
Speech, Language and Communication
Autism Explorers offers experiences designed to make sense of visual and verbal communication, while encouraging friendship-building, social interactions, and emotional regulation.
By creating a supportive, inclusive environment where communication is encouraged, whether through guided group activities, child-led play or gentle prompting, children can practise and develop their language, interaction and expressive skills in a way that feels natural and safe.
Personal, Social and Emotional
Autism Explorers fundamentally aims to be a nurturing, sensory-aware community for SEN children and their families.
By providing a welcoming, accepting space, with supportive volunteers, structured but flexible activities, and opportunities for social interaction, children feel safe to explore, build friendships, and engage at their own pace. This helps support emotional regulation, social confidence, self-expression, and a sense of belonging.
Play, Cognition and Learning
Every session at Autism Explorers is thoughtfully themed and designed to stimulate curiosity, imagination, and cognitive growth.
Through a combination of sensory-informed play, creative activities, group games, and evidence-based strategies (like child-led or guided play), children are encouraged to learn through doing: exploring, problem-solving, experimenting and discovering. This supports not only present-moment enjoyment, but long-term learning, attention, focus and developmental progress.
About us
Autism Explorers is a community-driven initiative that aims to create a nurturing environment for children with SEN. Our team of experienced professionals is committed to providing innovative and impactful programs to support the growth and development of every child.
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Location
Autism Explorers
Sensory Saturday: Jubilee Community Centre, Long John Hill NR1 2EX
FREE PARKING!
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Comments
Went to the session on Saturday with my 5 year old daughter. She loved it. Lots of well thought out, low key activities that she could choose to move between. All the staff/volunteers were lovely and spoke with me on our Autism journey and suggested ideas we could try. Was also great to see so many girls there. Will definitely be going again.
Highly recommend autism explorers. My boys had the opportunity to attend a stemex session where they both had access to age and ability appropriate activities despite them being 7 years apart and having very different needs. We can’t wait to work with autism explorers more and visit some of the stay and plays!
Thank you again
Esmae has resently joined the group
I would highly recommend Autism Explores.
The one to one care is excellent to be treated as individual is so important
I just wished that there was more centres like this. Keep up excellent work you all do
I highly recommend Autism Explorers! Lilli, Emma, Charlie and the rest of the team go above and beyond for the children and parents. Each session is themed with unique activities suitable for any mix ability group. Their knowledge and support knows no bounds, thank you all so much for everything that you do! We always look forward to the next session. From Megan & Esmae <3 xxxxx
An extremely supportive group to not only my granddaughter but my daughter too. The team have been patient, knowledgeable and fun when it comes to learning in a different way. Thankyou for your time. x
My little one attended the Stemex session today and had an amazing time. He was given things to do that met his abilities and the time to do them. Thank you so much to all for this opportunity.
I would recommended Autism Explorers a million times over for any family with an autistic child. Lilli and her teams knowledge is so valuable and they pour so much time and love into the group. They continually work hard to make sure that each individual child has an interest within their time there and always recommend resources and advice for those with concerns or worries. Lilli is such a valuable person and has so much pride in what she does. I can only see this group continuing to grow in strength with the more it grows. Congratulations Lilli on such a wonderful community group! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!