Course Overview

Jessica Kirton, Occupational Therapist and Advanced Sensory Integration Practitioner shares easy and effective strategies to support children with sensory modulation challenges with dressing difficulties. 

The course is designed for parents and families, with quick and easy things to help when sensory integration issues make dressing a stressful experience. The course will give parents a selection of strategies that can be adapted to their child's preferences and straightforward explanations of the evidence-based sensory principles that underpin them. Within the course, the lecturer, Jessica Kirton, will cover an overview of each sensory system, their neurology and their impact on getting dressed. Jessica will discuss how each individual sensory system works and how the presenting difficulties can be placed into a cluster of challenges, e.g. sensory modulation or praxis. She will then explore sensory modulation and particularly look at tactile sensitivity, which significantly impacts getting dressed. Jessica will provide an overview of the theory and evidence base for the tools you can use to detect the problem areas within dressing for your child. Lastly, she will discuss how to identify, implement and evaluate the solutions for dressing difficulties covering a wide range of ages and stages of development. 

Learning Outcomes:

  • To understand the eight senses, how children can over or under-respond to sensation and how this impacts getting dressed. 
  • To have the tools to observe and identify your child's pattern of difficulties and how this may impact their ability to dress. 
  • To learn a wide range of strategies, activities and environmental adaptations that could support a child to dress.
  • How to modify, adapt and scaffold activities and strategies based on your child's individual needs and preferences to enhance success. 

Course curriculum

    1. How to use this course

    2. Meet the course leader, Jess Kirton

    1. Welcome

    2. Which dressing course? Sensory Modulation Pathway or Praxis Pathway

    3. What we are going to cover in this course

    4. What we are not going to cover in this course

    5. What do we mean by sensory modulation and how does it relate to dressing

    1. Interoceptive System

    2. Proprioceptive sense

    3. Tactile system

    4. Vestibular sense

    5. Auditory system

    6. Visual system

    7. Olfactory system

    8. How much does each sense impact my child's ability to dress?

    1. Model of Sensory Integration

    2. Checklist

    1. Tactile Hyper Responsivity

    2. Identifying tactile hyper-responsivity

    3. Auditory hyper-responsivity

    4. Visual hyper-responsivity

    5. Vestibular hyper-responsivity

    1. Identifying Solutions |Tactile Hyper-responsivity

    2. Auditory hyper-responsivity

    3. Visual hyper-responsivity

    4. Vestibular hyper-responsivity

About this course

  • 45 lessons
  • 1 hour 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.

Reviews

5 star rating

Anna Jowett

Anna Jowett

Lots of good information and useful techniques to try

Lots of good information and useful techniques to try

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