2022 FIFA world cup Qatar: stadium with a room for people with cognitive and learning disabilities

• First 'sensory room' installed at 2022 World Cup venue, Khalifa International Stadium
• Room designed to help those with cognitive and learning disabilities
• "It’s about accepting different people"

The Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy (SC) is “building history” as it strives towards making the 2022 FIFA World Cup™ the most accessible sporting event in history, according to a prominent activist.
Mariam Ali Al Rashdi, Founder and CEO of the Doha-based Ontario Center for Special Education (OCSE), dedicates her life to promoting understanding and providing equal opportunities to all.
During the recent Accessibility Forum in Doha she explained how her organisation worked alongside the SC to install a ‘sensory room’ at the Khalifa International Stadium, in order to deliver something truly groundbreaking for the World Cup.
“Qatar is building history,” Al Rashdi said. “It is beyond a room with bubble tubs. It has never happened in the history of the World Cup that they have a room for people with cognitive and learning disabilities