By Dewayne Bevil
From Orlando Sentinel
Orlando—The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex has become a Certified Autism Center, a designation earned in conjunction with the International Board of Credentialing and Continuing Education Standards.
To earn this certification, the attraction’s employees had training to better understand autistic or sensory-sensitive visitors. IBCCES also provided more ways it could accommodate visitors and guidance for signs at each exhibit.
“This certification is just one way we are working to ensure that Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is accessible to each of our guests,” Therrin Protze, chief operating officer of the visitor complex, said in a news release….