

Strategies for teachers and teaching assistants to help autistic children overcome anxiety and overwhelm in a mainstream school.
Specialist Teacher, Lynn McCann, and Occupational Therapist, Emer Broderick, share clear and practical information for mainstream classroom staff who teach autistic children struggling with anxiety.
We have created this course for teachers and teaching assistants working in busy mainstream environments, just like us. With many years of teaching and mainstream school work experience between us, we know that you need clear, practical and workable information based securely on up-to-date evidence. You need information without jargon to allow you to make the best use of your time and resources.
Understand when and why everyday sensory and learning experiences can become overwhelming for autistic children with anxiety and how to minimise potential hotspots
Identify and adapt potential challenges before things escalate into a meltdown to keep your autistic learners engaged and on-task
Learn evidence-based sensory strategies that work in mainstream classrooms
Autistic children with anxiety may experience heightened stress, fear, and discomfort in the school environment, which can affect their ability to learn, focus, and interact with others. School anxiety in autistic children can manifest in challenging behaviours, such as meltdowns, withdrawal, and avoidance, which can disrupt the learning process, school attendance and hinder academic performance.
Adapting teaching to use strategies to address potential triggers for anxiety can minimise disruptive behaviours and create a positive learning environment.
This is an online learning course that you can access on a laptop or mobile device at any time. We know that time for training opportunities can be at a premium, so we have designed a course you can complete in an afternoon, with the information broken down into smaller stand-alone sections you can pick up and work through throughout the day if that suits you better.
You will also receive a downloadable workbook with all the key information and resources, plus links for onward learning and avenues for support.
This course is aimed at teachers and teaching assistants
The course is best for primary and secondary ages.
Open to all
Using sensory integration strategies as part of the ongoing learning in the classroom is doesn’t need to be time- or resource-heavy. We believe that small tweaks can make a huge difference in terms of how able autistic children are to stay engaged and on task in classroom learning, and our goal is to help autistic learners stay part of what is being learned. We offer lots of strategies and suggestions for resources in the course so that you can mix-and-match to find the right level of support for your students.
Yes! This course is designed for teachers and teaching staff who are new to sensory integration and emotional regulation theory. We break down the most frequently used jargon to give you a solid understanding of the science behind sensory and emotional dysregulation in straightforward language.
You will have 30 days from the date of booking before your course expires. If you need more time, you are welcome to enrol again.
Unlimited Annual Pass holders have ongoing access.
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My Journey into Sensory Integration
I am a paediatric occupational therapist with experience working in both Ireland and the U.K. I have worked predominately with children with ASD, DCD, ADHD, CP, as well as babies with developmental difficulties.
My journey to SI started in 2012. At this time I was working as a paediatric occupational therapist in the NHS in London both in the community and in a child development centre. The number of referrals to our department for children with sensory processing difficulties, many who also had a diagnosis of ASD, was significantly increasing and I started to develop an interest in this area. I completed my SI1 module in 2013 and from there I wanted to learn more about this approach. I worked through the modular pathway to become an advanced practitioner in 2016. I completed the MSc in Sensory Integration in 2018.
How I use SI in my practice
Most recently I have worked in Dublin in a clinic for children with a range of disabilities, seeing children in a clinic setting, in mainstream schools and in a special school for children with a primary physical disability. I am in the process of moving back to London where I will initially work in the private sector. I am also an ementor and a clinical mentor on the SI modular pathway. I use SI principles to guide my clinical reasoning when working with children, their families and their schools. My SI skills enable me to assess, provide intervention and give strategies to children with sensory integration difficulties and helps me to explain these difficulties, which are often misunderstood, to these children’s families and schools.
Why I am committed to supporting others to study SI
I thoroughly enjoyed developing my SI knowledge and skills when working through the modules and found the support from the experts in SI community invaluable. I am passionate about SI and the positive changes it can bring to people's lives. I am also excited about the research that continues to be explored and developed to teach us more about this approach. I really enjoy mentoring and supporting students as they learn about SI and love hearing about people's therapy backgrounds and how they use SI in practice. I am looking forward to ementoring the new cohort of students this term.
You can see a short video from Emer here.My Journey into Sensory Integration
I am a paediatric occupational therapist with experience working in both Ireland and the U.K. I have worked predominately with children with ASD, DCD, ADHD, CP, as well as babies with developmental difficulties.
My journey to SI started in 2012. At this time I was working as a paediatric occupational therapist in the NHS in London both in the community and in a child development centre. The number of referrals to our department for children with sensory processing difficulties, many who also had a diagnosis of ASD, was significantly increasing and I started to develop an interest in this area. I completed my SI1 module in 2013 and from there I wanted to learn more about this approach. I worked through the modular pathway to become an advanced practitioner in 2016. I completed the MSc in Sensory Integration in 2018.
How I use SI in my practice
Most recently I have worked in Dublin in a clinic for children with a range of disabilities, seeing children in a clinic setting, in mainstream schools and in a special school for children with a primary physical disability. I am in the process of moving back to London where I will initially work in the private sector. I am also an ementor and a clinical mentor on the SI modular pathway. I use SI principles to guide my clinical reasoning when working with children, their families and their schools. My SI skills enable me to assess, provide intervention and give strategies to children with sensory integration difficulties and helps me to explain these difficulties, which are often misunderstood, to these children’s families and schools.
Why I am committed to supporting others to study SI
I thoroughly enjoyed developing my SI knowledge and skills when working through the modules and found the support from the experts in SI community invaluable. I am passionate about SI and the positive changes it can bring to people's lives. I am also excited about the research that continues to be explored and developed to teach us more about this approach. I really enjoy mentoring and supporting students as they learn about SI and love hearing about people's therapy backgrounds and how they use SI in practice. I am looking forward to ementoring the new cohort of students this term.
You can see a short video from Emer here.My Journey into Sensory Integration
I am a paediatric occupational therapist with experience working in both Ireland and the U.K. I have worked predominately with children with ASD, DCD, ADHD, CP, as well as babies with developmental difficulties.
My journey to SI started in 2012. At this time I was working as a paediatric occupational therapist in the NHS in London both in the community and in a child development centre. The number of referrals to our department for children with sensory processing difficulties, many who also had a diagnosis of ASD, was significantly increasing and I started to develop an interest in this area. I completed my SI1 module in 2013 and from there I wanted to learn more about this approach. I worked through the modular pathway to become an advanced practitioner in 2016. I completed the MSc in Sensory Integration in 2018.
How I use SI in my practice
Most recently I have worked in Dublin in a clinic for children with a range of disabilities, seeing children in a clinic setting, in mainstream schools and in a special school for children with a primary physical disability. I am in the process of moving back to London where I will initially work in the private sector. I am also an ementor and a clinical mentor on the SI modular pathway. I use SI principles to guide my clinical reasoning when working with children, their families and their schools. My SI skills enable me to assess, provide intervention and give strategies to children with sensory integration difficulties and helps me to explain these difficulties, which are often misunderstood, to these children’s families and schools.
Why I am committed to supporting others to study SI
I thoroughly enjoyed developing my SI knowledge and skills when working through the modules and found the support from the experts in SI community invaluable. I am passionate about SI and the positive changes it can bring to people's lives. I am also excited about the research that continues to be explored and developed to teach us more about this approach. I really enjoy mentoring and supporting students as they learn about SI and love hearing about people's therapy backgrounds and how they use SI in practice. I am looking forward to ementoring the new cohort of students this term.
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