Free webinar: Creating sensory-friendly places for children and young people Welcome to Contact’s free webinar for professionals – we hope you find the content useful and can implement some of the tactics straight away in your setting! If you’ve not heard of Contact before, we’re a UK charity with nearly 50 years’ experience helping families of children with disabilities and additional needs. For any queries or if you need assistance, get in touch with our team on [email protected]. We’re here to help! Your webinar recording The video has been split into chapters to help you locate specific content that’s of interest to you. Chapter names can be seen by hovering your mouse over the video’s progress bar, or via the links below: Part 1: Introductions – including Contact’s support services for families with disabled children Part 2: Co-producing sensory-friendly environments for children and young people in acute health care Part 3: What it means to have sensory processing needs and how it feels when your senses overload you Part 4: Strategies for preventing and dealing with sensory overload/overwhelm Part 5: Simple tactics you can implement straight away in your setting (your proprioception toolbox) Part 6: How to help a child recognise when they are beginning to experience sensory overload Please note that the contents in this presentation are the intellectual property of Contact and shouldn’t be shared. See our T&Cs for more information. Meet the panel Belle Berroyer Belle is an early years professional who lives in Wales with her autistic son. For the past 18 years, her focal point and study has been on sensory processing sensitivity in people of all ages with autism and ADHD. Belle has run workshops for parents and carers, and workplaces across Wales. In 2023, she published her first book – ‘Learning the language of autism through the senses’. Claire Stirland Claire qualified as an occupational therapist in 2005 and has over 20 years of experience working in the NHS with adults and children with sensory processing difficulties. In 2017 she founded Sensory Worx, a leading sensory and specialist therapy service, delivering tailored solutions for developmental, social and learning needs. Claire has extensive experience working with people with complex behavioural and social experiences, and consistently achieves excellent outcomes with families and schools. Mary Mulvey-Oates Mary is Early Years and Participatory Research Manager at Contact. Her projects with Contact include developing sensory-friendly environments with Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, and evaluating the Autism in Schools Accelerator in the North East. About Contact We are a national pan-disability charity with nearly 50 years’ experience helping families with disabled children. More than 540,000 families turn to us every year for our expert and trusted information, advice and support. We are also dedicated to helping practitioners acquire the skills and resources they need to deliver the best possible services for families. Find out more about our training and consultancy for practitioners. Sign up to practitioner updatesInformation, news and offers around the services we provide to professionals working with families with disabled children.Sign up Useful links Practitioners development courses We understand parent carers and we want to help you improve your confidence and skills supporting them Find out more Forum and support group workshops We can help you run your support group or parent forum, extend your reach and grow your membership Find out more Workshops for parents you support You can commission us to deliver a workshop for the families you support on one of our popular topics Find out more Co-production training We know that developing meaningful co-production takes time and commitment – and we can help you get there Find out more Consultancy We can offer a wide variety of bespoke solutions to improving SEND provision and practice Find out more Advice Advice on working with families and more about our enquiry service Find out more ShareCopy URLCopied!Share via EmailShare via FacebookShare via TwitterShare via WhatsAppShare via LinkedIn
Your webinar recording The video has been split into chapters to help you locate specific content that’s of interest to you. Chapter names can be seen by hovering your mouse over the video’s progress bar, or via the links below: Part 1: Introductions – including Contact’s support services for families with disabled children Part 2: Co-producing sensory-friendly environments for children and young people in acute health care Part 3: What it means to have sensory processing needs and how it feels when your senses overload you Part 4: Strategies for preventing and dealing with sensory overload/overwhelm Part 5: Simple tactics you can implement straight away in your setting (your proprioception toolbox) Part 6: How to help a child recognise when they are beginning to experience sensory overload Please note that the contents in this presentation are the intellectual property of Contact and shouldn’t be shared. See our T&Cs for more information. Meet the panel Belle Berroyer Belle is an early years professional who lives in Wales with her autistic son. For the past 18 years, her focal point and study has been on sensory processing sensitivity in people of all ages with autism and ADHD. Belle has run workshops for parents and carers, and workplaces across Wales. In 2023, she published her first book – ‘Learning the language of autism through the senses’. Claire Stirland Claire qualified as an occupational therapist in 2005 and has over 20 years of experience working in the NHS with adults and children with sensory processing difficulties. In 2017 she founded Sensory Worx, a leading sensory and specialist therapy service, delivering tailored solutions for developmental, social and learning needs. Claire has extensive experience working with people with complex behavioural and social experiences, and consistently achieves excellent outcomes with families and schools. Mary Mulvey-Oates Mary is Early Years and Participatory Research Manager at Contact. Her projects with Contact include developing sensory-friendly environments with Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, and evaluating the Autism in Schools Accelerator in the North East. About Contact We are a national pan-disability charity with nearly 50 years’ experience helping families with disabled children. More than 540,000 families turn to us every year for our expert and trusted information, advice and support. We are also dedicated to helping practitioners acquire the skills and resources they need to deliver the best possible services for families. Find out more about our training and consultancy for practitioners.
Your webinar recording The video has been split into chapters to help you locate specific content that’s of interest to you. Chapter names can be seen by hovering your mouse over the video’s progress bar, or via the links below: Part 1: Introductions – including Contact’s support services for families with disabled children Part 2: Co-producing sensory-friendly environments for children and young people in acute health care Part 3: What it means to have sensory processing needs and how it feels when your senses overload you Part 4: Strategies for preventing and dealing with sensory overload/overwhelm Part 5: Simple tactics you can implement straight away in your setting (your proprioception toolbox) Part 6: How to help a child recognise when they are beginning to experience sensory overload Please note that the contents in this presentation are the intellectual property of Contact and shouldn’t be shared. See our T&Cs for more information.
Meet the panel Belle Berroyer Belle is an early years professional who lives in Wales with her autistic son. For the past 18 years, her focal point and study has been on sensory processing sensitivity in people of all ages with autism and ADHD. Belle has run workshops for parents and carers, and workplaces across Wales. In 2023, she published her first book – ‘Learning the language of autism through the senses’. Claire Stirland Claire qualified as an occupational therapist in 2005 and has over 20 years of experience working in the NHS with adults and children with sensory processing difficulties. In 2017 she founded Sensory Worx, a leading sensory and specialist therapy service, delivering tailored solutions for developmental, social and learning needs. Claire has extensive experience working with people with complex behavioural and social experiences, and consistently achieves excellent outcomes with families and schools. Mary Mulvey-Oates Mary is Early Years and Participatory Research Manager at Contact. Her projects with Contact include developing sensory-friendly environments with Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, and evaluating the Autism in Schools Accelerator in the North East.
About Contact We are a national pan-disability charity with nearly 50 years’ experience helping families with disabled children. More than 540,000 families turn to us every year for our expert and trusted information, advice and support. We are also dedicated to helping practitioners acquire the skills and resources they need to deliver the best possible services for families. Find out more about our training and consultancy for practitioners.
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