Sensory Integration Education

In response to a great deal of demand, we’ve created a  new short course: Understanding Sensory Processing and Integration for Parents and Carers.

Aimed at parents, carers, foster families, adoptive parents and adoption agency staff, this compact, online course employs plain English; easy-to-understand examples; animations and illustrations; fun quizzes; and interactive elements. It includes ideas on how to accommodate a child’s sensory needs at home, as well as signposting many useful resources. The course also outlines what help qualified sensory integration therapists can offer.

What you will learn

• In this course, we will start with an explanation of the different senses. You will probably know about the 5 senses, touch, hearing, taste, smell and seeing. We will tell you about these senses and two more that inform our brain about movement. We will then look at different sensory integration difficulties.
• There are different types of difficulties that people present with as a result of inadequate sensory processing. We will explain what these are and the types of day to day difficulties that people may experience because of these sensory processing and integration difficulties.
• We will then look at strategies that you can use at home, these strategies are suggestions of activities and adaptations that you can try at home.

Please note that these strategies cannot replace the advice from an SI-trained therapist that has assessed your child.

At about an hour in length, Understanding Sensory Processing and Integration for Parents and Carers would make a great resource for therapy clients or a continuing professional development training session for adoption/foster agency staff. As well as being available directly to individuals, you can purchase the course in multiples of five to pass on access codes to clients or staff - contact us if you'd like to arrange this.

We want as many people as possible to better understand sensory processing, so we’ve priced the course to simply cover our administration and hosting costs. At only £5 this course is highly accessible and also includes free membership to SIE for the people registering on the course.

Find out more about this new resource for parents and carers here.