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Dr Lelanie Brewer

Highly Experienced Clinician and Academic

  • Paediatric Occupational Therapist.
  • Advanced Practitioner in Sensory Integration.
  • Extensive work in the NHS, charity, and private sectors.
  • Qualified as an OT in South Africa.
  • MSc in OT from Brunel University, London.
  • PhD from Newcastle University's Population Health Sciences Institute.
  • Senior Lecturer and MSc OT Programme Lead at Northumbria University (prior to 2018).
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Email: [email protected]

Beth Smithson

Highly Experienced Clinician With International Experience

  • Paediatric Occupational Therapist.
  • Advanced Practitioner in Sensory Integration.
  • Roles in the NHS, special schools, mainstream schools, community trusts, and NGOs overseas.
  • Worked with a Vietnamese NGO for two years, educating staff in sensory integration theory and sensory-based interventions.
  • Worked with children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) in mainstream schools and students with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) in a specialist secondary school.
  • Operational Lead for Children's Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy at an NHS Trust.

Email: [email protected]

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Established in 1994, Sensory Integration Education is a UK not-for-profit organisation working with allied health professionals, education and health experts, academic researchers and families to improve awareness, understanding and the treatment of sensory integration and sensory processing differences.