Course Overview

Jessica Kirton, Occupational Therapist and Advanced Sensory Integration Practitioner shares easy and practical strategies to support children with sensory processing difficulties, making going to the toilet a difficult or stressful experience.  The course is designed for parents and families, with quick and easy ideas to reduce the impact of sensory processing difficulties on toileting.  

The strategies in this course are suitable for younger children up to age ten and do not require any additional equipment or resources to put in place.  The course will give parents a selection of strategies which can be adapted to their child's preferences, along with straightforward explanations of the evidence-based sensory principles which underpin them.

What You Will Learn

In this course, we cover:

  • Developing Interoceptive awareness through reminders, prompts and stopping to notice sensations.
  • Increasing awareness of the body and ability to wipe through proprioceptive strategies such as massage, deep pressure and heavy pushing and pulling.
  • Decreasing vestibular sensitivities by supporting a child on a toilet with a ring reducer, rails and back support.
  • Strategies to tolerate touch through different soaps, using gloves to wipe, using different toilet seats and changing the temperature
  • Reducing noise and light to make a sensory-friendly bathroom environment
  • Blocking out smells with different scented and unscented products or use of ventilation.

Course curriculum

    1. How to use this course

    2. Meet the course leader, Jess Kirton

    1. Welcome

    2. Introduction to the course

    3. What are we going to cover in this course

    4. What this course does not cover

    1. Stop and notice (Interoception) What to do?

    2. Stop and Notice How to do it?

    3. When not to use this strategy?

    4. Theory underpinning Stop and Notice

    1. Reaching and Wiping Games- What to do?

    2. Awareness for wiping- How to do it?

    3. Theory underpinning awareness for wiping

    1. Messy hand worries- What to do?

    2. Messy hand Worries- How to do it?

    3. Theory underpinning strategy for messy hand worries

    1. What to do

    2. Vestibular How to do it?

    3. Theory underpinning Vestibular Strategy

About this course

  • 34 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.