Sensory Tool Kit Workshop^TM 

(Two-day workshop)

Sensory Tool Kit: SI theory, detective work and hands-on
mock classroom activities (A two-day workshop)

Diana's Tool Chest^TM handbook will be used throughout the workshop as a workbook.

 Day 1 includes:

v      Opportunities for participants to share with Diana and the attendees, the challenges that they are experiencing in their schools, homes and clinics.

v      Updates on research in sensory integration and sensory processing.

v      Experiencing what it is like to have sensory processing challenges, for attendees to better understand those diagnosed with sensory processing disorders.

v      Brain diagrams and case studies highlighting each of the sensory systems and motor planning.

v     Detective work including exposure to the Sensory Processing Measure (SPM).

   Day 2 includes:

v      The evolution of the Tool Chest^TM handbook helping parents, school teams and clinicians integrate sensory processing into the home and educational settings.

v      User-friendly and over-the-counter activities experienced by the attendees for schools, clinics and home.

v      Mock classroom demonstrations with audience participation as students, teachers and therapists.

v     The learning of how to create 'sensory safe' spaces (Womb Space, Mother Space, Kid Power and Brain Power) in homes, schools and playgrounds through exposure to examples others have developed in their communities across the USA and internationally.

Do you need some tools to address SENSORY INTEGRATION, SENSORY PROCESSING, and CHALLENGING classroom behaviors in INCLUSIVE classrooms? The Sensory Tool Kit^TM workshop in-services school administrators, psychologists, social workers, nurses, regular ed. teachers/special ed. teachers, OTs/PTs/SLPs, and parents. Medical and clinic based therapists are encouraged to attend with one another promoting COLLABORATION between the medical and educational communities, using SENSORY INTEGRATION.

IDEA and the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework encourage teachers and therapists to address students' needs in the classroom. The Sensory Tool Kit^TM workshop uses a highly participatory format through mock classroom demonstrations and hands-on lab work.

Participants learn to use the activities from the Tools for Students ^TM video/dvd and the Tool Chest^TM handbook in their classrooms and homes. These are the "over-the-counter" activities that therapists have been using with parents and siblings in medical clinics. This workshop makes them available and user-friendly for all school staff and parents.

Collaboration encourages detective work so that individual TOOLS assist students to address social participation, posture, motor performance, and the various levels of attention needed throughout the day.

Diana Henry, occupational therapist (OT) clarifies how her profession addresses the occupation of the parent, the teacher and the student within the home and school community. She demonstrates how the tools are used to enhance the environment by making it 'sensory-safe' for students, parents and teachers.

The Sensory Tool Kit^TM workshop updates the theories of sensory integration, sensory processing and sensory defensiveness through a user-friendly format. You will learn to identify how YOUR sensory needs as an adult, affect your occupational performance as administrator, teacher, health professional, parent and student and how to take care of them.

You will be provided with the opportunity to use your body as a 'laboratory' by participating in a cardio warm up, using chair balls and Pilates based core muscle work.