5 Sensory Strategies to Get Squeaky Clean

The course is designed for parents and families, with quick and easy things to help when sensory integration issues make it difficult for a child to wash independently. (30 mins)

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Course Overview

This course is designed for parents and families, with quick and easy things to help when sensory integration issues make it difficult for a child to wash independently.

It focuses on how challenges in sensory discrimination and praxis can make it difficult for a child to recognise whether they are clean or dirty, maintain postural control in the bath or shower, coordinate the movements to wash and plan and sequence the task of washing effectively.

Within the course, the lecturer, Jessica Kirton, will cover an overview of each sensory system, their neurology and their impact on washing. She will then discuss five evidence-based sensory strategies, explaining what to do, how to do it and the theory that underpins each strategy that has been recommended.

Learning Outcomes

To understand why a child struggles to wash effectively and independently.
To identify your child's difficulties with washing in relation to sensory discrimination and praxis challenges.
To understand a selection of evidence-based activities and strategies that could support a child to learn to wash with increased independence.

Course curriculum

1. How to use this course
2. Meet the course leader, Jess Kirton
1. Welcome
2. What we are going to cover in this course
3. What we are not going to cover in this course
1. Tactile Discrimination Difficulties
2. Proprioceptive Discrimination Difficulties
3. Vestibular Discrimination and Postural Control Difficulties
4. Bilateral Coordination Difficulties
5. Motor Planning Difficulties
1. What to do
2. How to do it
3. Theory behind the strategy
1. What to do
2. How to do it
3. Theory behind the strategy
1. What to do
2. How to do it
3. Theory behind the strategy
1. What to do
2. How to do it
3. Theory behind the strategy
1. What to do
2. How to do it
3. Theory behind the strategy
1. What has been covered in this course
2. Take home points
3. Thank you for watching
1. Check your learning
2. Get started
1. Download the course notes
2. Glossary

About this course

32 lessons
0.5 hours of video content

Lecturer

Jessica Kirton

Occupational Therapist and Advanced Sensory Integration Practitioner

I am an Occupational Therapist and Advanced Sensory Integration Practitioner. I have been working as a Children's Occupational Therapist for 11 years in a range of settings including NHS, private practice, special schools, mainstream schools and specialist intervention for early years. I have also completed some voluntary work overseas. I have set up OT services across schools and worked as a Lead OT. I am now a self-employed independent therapist pursuing my dream to set up my own practice alongside working as a lecturer for Sensory Integration Education.