Understanding Sensory Processing and Integration in Children

Understanding Sensory Processing and Integration in Children

This 1-hour course will help you better understand the senses and how we process information from our senses. It will introduce you to what sensory issues can look like in a child’s behaviour and engagement and how to support them.

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Course Overview

What you will learn from this course:

In this course, we will start with an explanation of the different senses. You will probably know about the 5 senses, touch, hearing, taste, smell and seeing.

We will tell you about these senses and two more that inform our brain about movement. We will then look at different sensory integration difficulties.
There are different types of difficulties that people present with as a result of inadequate sensory processing.
We will explain what these are and the types of day to day difficulties that people may experience because of these sensory processing and integration difficulties.
We will then look at strategies that you can use at home, these strategies are suggestions of activities and adaptations that you can try at home.
Please note that these strategies cannot replace the advice from a therapist that has assessed your child.

Course curriculum

1. How to use this course
2. 01 Welcome and Introductions to this Course
3. 02 The Senses. How You Make Sense of the World
4. 03 Sensory Processing and Integration Difficulties
5. 04 Strategies to Use at Home
6. Find an SI Therapist
7. Glossary

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7 lessons
1 hour of video content

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Reviews

Understanding Sensory Processing and Integration in Children

Hazel Collette Adams

Very in-depth, yet simple enough to understand short course on sensory processing and integration in children. It was heartbreaking but relieved to learn that some of the behaviors, we get upset with our students are actually difficulties they ...

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Very in-depth, yet simple enough to understand short course on sensory processing and integration in children. It was heartbreaking but relieved to learn that some of the behaviors, we get upset with our students are actually difficulties they have and are only trying to self-regulate. Knowledge is indeed power. Thank for the home- tips/strategies and for putting this short course together.

Appropriate and tied to the subject

Elba Gonzalez Rodriguez

Helpful and instructive

Helpful and instructive

Very well explained

Yvonne Marshall

Nice pace, clear learning

Nice pace, clear learning

Good for basic understanding and support

Pam Anderson

I found the course useful as introductory information for sensory processing and integration. There were some useful strategies for use at home and in the classroom.

I found the course useful as introductory information for sensory processing and integration. There were some useful strategies for use at home and in the classroom.

Autism Specialist

Carla Pasieka

Very informative

Very informative

Appropriate and tied to the subject

Elba Gonzalez Rodriguez

Helpful and instructive

Helpful and instructive

Great course

Jen Mountjoy

This was a great starter course to gain further understanding on sensory integration and the difficulties children may have. The strategies are useful and easy to adopt into everyday practice.

This was a great starter course to gain further understanding on sensory integration and the difficulties children may have. The strategies are useful and easy to adopt into everyday practice.

Informative and reassuring

Amy Adams

OT trained on ASI

Macarena Fernandez

Excellent resource to share with our clients' parents! Thank you SIE for sharing the knowledge to the world, for FREE!! I'll definitely recommend it, and also will use it for my assessment feedback sessions! Many thanks again!!

Excellent resource to share with our clients' parents! Thank you SIE for sharing the knowledge to the world, for FREE!! I'll definitely recommend it, and also will use it for my assessment feedback sessions! Many thanks again!!

Good description of the course content

Pam Lange

Helpful, short, sweet & straight to the point

Helpful, short, sweet & straight to the point