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• Educational practitioners (teachers, teaching and learning assistants, SENCOs)
• Social care practitioners working with children and young people with disabilities
• Parents

The workshop will include:

• An introduction into how sensory strategies are used in everyday life
• Looking at the seven sensory systems and their functions (visual, auditory, smell and taste, touch, proprioceptive and vestibular systems)
• Neurodiversity – individual differences in sensitivity/reactivity
• Noticing the issue(s) and finding suitable strategies
• Discussion of case studies and real-life examples

At the end of the session, attendees will be able to understand and analyse sensory processing needs, and apply their understanding of sensory processing needs to design sensory-friendly inclusive activities and spaces. These may assist with resolving and avoiding challenging behaviour patterns such as meltdowns, aggression or even self harming.

Reviews for the workshop have been excellent, with participants highlighting that they particularly valued:

"The practical strategies introduced - very easily applied to practice, took complex ideas and simply explained. Use of personal experience was a good teaching strategy to help make content understood."

"Learning more about the "why" people with sensory needs can act the way they do."

Please email any enquiries to the CPD administrator - cpd@uos.ac.uk