Sensory Integration Education

Rosalind has an enviable track record of working to develop national standards of high-quality education.

Rosalind Rogers was on the UK’s Quality Assurance Agency’s group which developed the first Benchmark Statements for pre-registration health courses. She led the development of the UK Standards for Work-based Learning for Speech and Language Therapy and represented the UK professional body, the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, to develop the Health and Care Professional Council’s Standards for Education and Training. She was a Partner for the UK Regulator, the Health and Care Professions Council, the body that upholds standards in order to protect the public.

Fiona has a strong business background with over twenty years of experience in a blue-chip top 100 FTS company.

As a Finance Manager, Fiona Insch was responsible for managing and delivering the Profit & Loss, Management Information and Systems. She was always passionate about the training and development of others - it was a natural progression into delivering Finance Training across the company suite of UK technical finance courses.

This commercial training and development experience was sought after by Ashridge Business School, where she worked in a joint venture to develop future leaders across the organisation's breadth.   Fiona was headhunted into Sensory Integration Education in 2009 to apply her leadership and management skills in developing a professional learning organisation, true to its not-for-profit values, yet efficient and effective with its processes.

She provides wise financial and business counsel to the Board of Directors while also leading the implementation of professional education research and membership decisions. In 2017, this leadership role was formalised at a director level. She has built up one of the strongest operations teams. She leads so positively, and her passionate commitment to the goals of Sensory Integration Education is energising and uplifting to those around her. 

Sylvia's professional background encompasses academia, research, clinical practice, senior public-sector management and project management.

Dr Sylvia Taylor-Goh PhD, MSc, BSc, Cert MRCSLT. She is committed to advancing evidence-based practice - one of the outputs of her PhD, which investigated the clinical reasoning and decision-making of occupational therapists, speech & language therapists and biomedical engineers, is the Taylor-Goh Model of Clinical Reasoning.

She is the editor of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) Clinical Guidelines, a publication that provides evidence-based guidance for 12 clinical areas of the profession. She has worked with the Department of Health, England, to establish a Research Unit and undertake an assistive technology research project. With the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), she assisted the development of ensuring the service user’s voice is heard in clinical guidelines.

She held academic positions at City University and University of London for over ten years and has held External Examiner and Supervising Fellow for Professional Doctorate degrees elsewhere. She is a Recognised Teacher at Sheffield Hallam University. She is working in partnership with a UK university, enabling them to embed her clinical reasoning model throughout their health course’s pre-registration curriculum. As a published author and active researcher, she regularly is an invited speaker at professional conferences.

Her clinical practice, ‘Relational Communication’, provides specialist assessment and intervention for children, young people and adults with complex congenital and acquired neurological disorders. She also works as a medico-legal Expert Witness within this clinical specialism. She is actively involved in many professional societies. She is a member of the RCSLT Policy and Professional Practice Committee, whose role is to consider and make recommendations on professional development, standards, policy and public affairs matters.

Cathy’s clinical background is as a physiotherapist, working initially in musculoskeletal outpatients before moving into paediatrics.

Cathy Maguire has worked in various environments, including acute ward settings, outpatient clinics, child development centres and special schools. Her particular areas of interest include learning difficulties, complex needs, hydrotherapy, posture and gait and looking at SI theory and practice from a physiotherapy perspective. She gained her advanced sensory integration practitioner status in 2014 and sees this landmark as “a real personal highlight and one of the achievements I value most in my professional career”.

Cathy also has a strong background in leadership, which is of great value to the organisation in her role as Culture and Engagement Director. She has an MSc in Clinical Leadership for Allied Health Professionals and understands well the dynamics of managing and working effectively in multi-disciplinary teams and across diverse inter-professional boundaries. Her knowledge of how students learn their ASI knowledge and skills has been honed through her mentoring, e-mentoring and lecturing roles on the SI MSc Pathway. In recent years, she has led and developed the academic e-mentoring team for the online modules and has been pivotal in supporting students to study successfully online and feel part of a strong, inclusive, active community of learners.

Stephanie is a Specialist Occupational Therapist and Advanced SI Practitioner supporting children and young people with Autism.

She consistently uses her knowledge of Sensory Integration theory to guide her practice as part of a trans-disciplinary team consisting of speech and language therapists and occupational therapists. Stephanie found the journey to complete her MSc in Sensory Integration a positive and invaluable part of her career.

As a clinician, Lelanie has worked in the NHS, charity, and the private sector. She has spent most of her career working with children and young people with sensory integration difficulties.

Dr Lelanie Brewer has a background in clinical practice and higher education. Originally qualifying as an OT in South Africa, Dr Lelanie Brewer gained her MSc in OT at Brunel University, London and her PhD at Newcastle University’s Population Health Sciences Institute. She is an Advanced Practitioner in Sensory Integration.

Before joining Sensory Integration Education in 2018, Lelanie was a Senior Lecturer in OT and MSc OT programme lead at Northumbria University. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Beth is an accomplished Occupational Therapist and Advanced Sensory Integration Practitioner.

Beth Smithson's diverse career spans roles in the NHS, special schools, mainstream schools, community trusts, and NGOs overseas.

Beth's journey into sensory integration began with a Vietnamese NGO, where she spent two years educating staff in sensory integration theory and sensory-based interventions. Motivated by positive outcomes, she completed training with Sensory Integration Education in 2016, becoming an Advanced SI Practitioner.

In clinical roles, Beth applied sensory integration with children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) in mainstream schools and students with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) in a specialist secondary school provision. Recently, Beth managed Occupational Therapy services in the NHS, successfully advocating for and embedding sensory processing and integration practice into routine NHS service delivery. Committed to advancing sensory integration, Beth supports others in their learning journeys, empowering clinicians, parents, and schools to advocate confidently for sensory integration practice.